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Dr Sprinkle
Postmark
AM 23 JUL 70
12M

JULY 22, 1970

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

On June 16, 1970 (while the Norfolk area was in the midst of a months-long drought) Ted Owens handed me a written prediction...that he would bring about a large rainstorm within a week's time (to save the crops in this area, which were in danger of dying from drought); that he would bring a steady stream of rainstorms into this area, to keep it raining all summer; that he would try to bring a hurricane near enough to this area to cause heavy rainfall in this area; and that he would cause lightning attacks in this area, to prove that it was he causing all this.

Since June 16, 1970...these things above have occurred; the first heavy rainstorm came within five days after Ted Owens handed me the written prediction, and there have been rainstorms once or twice a week since that time. The newspapers told that the crops have been saved. Hurricane Becky just came into life...and this week the Norfolk area is getting rain from the hurricane, days of it. There have been several tremendous lightning storms in the area...and on two different occasions huge oil tanks were struck by lightning, and blew up in flames.

And there was one other thing: Ted Owens handed me a written prediction that he would put over this area an "other-dimensional grid" which would have the function of causing weird, unusual electromagnetic effects in the Norfolk area. Shortly after he gave me this written prediction, a "strange object in the sky" was reported by all of the local TV stations...which told of hundreds of people calling the police and fire department that they had seen a huge, multicolored "halo" up over the city in the night sky.

I certify that the above is a true and accurate statement of fact.

x
Juli Dyer
Mrs. N. Dyer,
Court Reporter
Norfolk, Virginia

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23, 1970...TO ALL CONTACTS --- Multiple Miracle!

have, for the first time, actually brought about a multiple miracle... and needless to say, am tremendously excited about it. It is soundly documented...completely wrapped up. I had a court reporter/notary public keep my letter-predictions in exact chronological order, before each happening. I have also a dozen other responsible people who can testify to it all. Now, here is what happened:

On June 16, 1970, an article appeared in the Ledger-Star newspaper in Norfolk that this area was in a terrible drought...flowers and shrubs were dying, and the crops were in danger of disaster! I immediately that date, sat down and sent letters to the editors of both newspapers, Mr. Maddry, columnist, Mrs. Dyer, court reporter, and others...that I would do the following:
(1) Try to make it rain here substantially within one week from June 16.
(2) Give the area a drenching, soaking and pouring down...more and more rain...not just one rainstorm, etc.
(3) The rainstorms would be marked with my own personal trademark... heavy lightning attacks.
(4) I'd try to bring up a hurricane from lower Florida to this Norfolk area, or near this area...and draw more rain from it to here.
(5) I'd erect a grid, other-dimensional, over this area...and produce weird electromagnetic effects in Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. (This in ltr. a few days later; am just lumping them for you.)

(1) Norfolk then had a crash-bang, knockdown dragout storm five days after my letter on June 16...the 21st. It was marked by a tremendous lightning display.
(2) For the next five weeks...there was a rainstorm at least once a week, sometimes twice or more a week, and it hasn't stopped raining yet!
(3) Lightning in these storms during these five weeks, on two separate occasions, struck oil tanks and blew them up...knocked out power and communications, and generally raised cain.
(4) Yesterday hurricane Becky threw its outer fringes of rainstorms up at the Norfolk area...and for several days, the TV weathermen say, we'll have rain from Becky here.
(5) On June 29 in the evening all the TV stations began buzzing with excitement..."strange object in the sky" as announcers put it. Hundreds of people calling in to the police etc. A multi-colored "halo" had appeared over Norfolk. Next day in the paper was this heading: "Halo In Sky Puzzles Even Weather Bureau." It went on to explain...that there simply was no explanation from anybody, any official source, at all. They tried to fit it into any understandable explanation, but could not. It was simply a UFO. About a week later TV sets in the area went haywire and the words were put across the picture-screen: "This is not your set. It is due to atmospheric interference." This occurred several days in a row.

So there you have it...Oh, and I almost forgot, the papers announced that the crops were saved...but, just think, the mind boggles...five simultaneous "miracles". Would be enough just to call the hurricane bringing up the rain, right? Then add to that that I made lightning strike...add to that that I created a weird EM effect over Norfolk...and the crops were saved...you see?

I'll tell you now...I've accomplished some impossible things before...but this multiple miracle...tops them all, so far.

Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 3141 CHS, Norfolk, Va.

Owens

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Thousands Flee Becky

Blow Due At 9 a.m.

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AM 23 Jul 70
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Jacksonville
Tampa
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BECKY
HURRICANE WATCH

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (UPI) — Thousands of tourists fled inland Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Becky, aiming 75-mile-per-hour winds for a strike this morning at the "Miracle Strip" beaches of the Florida panhandle.

Several thousand persons were evacuated from Santa Rosa Island, parts of Destin, and other low-lying areas Tuesday night. Advance gales and heavy rains began lashing the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane shelters were set up in Panama City, Fort Walton Beach, Destin, and other cities and towns along the 100-mile stretch of Gulf Coast threatened by Becky.

Panama City Beach, an 18-mile stretch of white sand and tourist motels, was in the center of the area Becky was expected to strike around 9 a.m. today.

"We've got about 50,000 tourists along the miracle strip now," a Chamber of Commerce spokesman said early Tuesday, "but most of them are bailing out for higher ground." There was a steady stream of traffic on U.S. 98—the main road through this beach area that draws thousands of summer tourists from Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi—but the Highway Patrol reported no serious traffic tieups.

"People are buying bread, crackers, canned goods, flashlights and milk like crazy," said Zack Bronson, manager of a food store in Destin.

At 10 p.m., Becky was centered about 160 miles south-southwest of Pensacola near latitude 28.0 north and longitude 86.6 west. It was expected to resume its northward movement about 8 to 10 m.p.h.

Panhandle residents were told to expect 6 foot tides and up to 8 inches of rain that could cause local flooding of roads, streams, creeks and bayous.

But despite the weather bu-

binder, finds Owens more fascinating than Jeanne Dixon in his ability to predict the future.

We have written about Owens before. A Norfolk woman reported that he had predicted lightning would strike the Apollo 12 spacecraft. It did.

erview with this uncanny man, ailure. We left his home, turned nie car, and found that the bat-

is a disarmingly intelligent fellow, a small-town hardware dealer, hy to predict events and create towledge funneled into his head

it to the local Chamber of Comis," he added.

is a letter written by a Philadelphiaims that Owens was challenged like a specified place—the bridge lightning struck the bridge.

arrel to make with a man bearing aybe it's the SIs who need their psychiatrist.

orms in the area...and on two different
s were struck by lightning, and blew up

thing: Ted Owens handed me a written put over this area an "other-dimensional he function of causing weird, unusual in the Norfolk area. Shortly after he liction, a "strange object in the sky" he local TV stations...which told of ng the police and fire department that ticolored "halo" up over the city in

is a true and accurate statement of

Chili Dyer
Mrs. N. Dyer
Court Reporter
Norfolk, Virginia

(See Becky, Page A10)

EVEN YOUR WHITE HAIR, AND CUSTOM-FITTED HALO DO NOT ENTITLE YOU TO INSULT ME! LET'S GET OUT OF HERE, DARLING!

JR. IN
JDITY AND
WITH
A DASH
OF
NAGE
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© King Features Syndicate, Inc., 1970.
World rights reserved.

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Lawrence
Maddry
RN:
THE RAINMAKER is at it again.
We're talking, of course, about Ted Owens, one of your Norfolk neighbors whose space people have brought more raindrops falling on my head and yours than Burt Bacharach ever thought of.
At least that's his story.
Now breathe deeply. Your pulse okay? Ted Owens is the 49-year-old former knife thrower with an IQ of 150 - genius starts at 140 - who is the feature subject for an article in the August issue of Saga magazine.
Opening Saga, you will find Owens standing in a drawing like a great Colossus as Boeing 747s fall mysteriously from the sky and New York is thrown into a blackout and a number of other weird happenings unfold.
The writer, Otto O. Binder, finds Owens more fascinating than Jeane Dixon in his ability to predict the future.
ile the Norfolk area was in the midst of a drought) Ted Owens handed me a written prediction that he would bring about a large rainstorm (to save the crops in this area, which were suffering from drought); that he would bring rainstorms into this area, to keep it from drying up; that he would try to bring a hurricane into this area to cause heavy rainfall and that he would cause lightning attacks in this area and that it was he causing all this.
.these things above have occurred; the rain came within five days of Ted Owens' prediction, and there have been rain once a week since that time. The newspapers have been saved. Hurricane Becky just came last week; the Norfolk area is getting rain out of it. There have been several storms in the area...and on two different banks were struck by lightning, and blew up.
er thing: Ted Owens handed me a written prediction that he would put over this area an "other-dimensional" function, the function of causing weird, unusual events in the Norfolk area. Shortly after he gave me this prediction, a "strange object in the sky" was seen by the local TV stations...which told of it, causing the police and fire department that saw it to call it a "multicolored 'halo'" up over the city in
The Seer
Who Sees
Via His SIs
We have written about Owens before. A Norfolk woman reported that he had predicted lightning would strike the Apollo 12 spacecraft. It did.
During our last interview with this uncanny man, he predicted a power failure. We left his home, turned the light switch in the car, and found that the battery was dead.
Coincidence? Owens a disarmingly intelligent fellow with the face of a small-town hardware dealer, claims that his ability to predict events and create storms is special knowledge funneled into his head from space people. He calls them SIs, short for space intelligences.
What concerned us was the weather. About a month ago Owens began writing us predicting a lot of storms for the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area. We've been getting a few. So we drove out to discuss this with him.
He was seated at a kitchen table in his walkup apartment, pulling on a cigar.
"You remember that I predicted storms for this area," he said. "Well, it's happening. The SIs are at work. They've placed a kind of weather grid over this area."
He tossed clippings from The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger-Star in my direction. One concerned the lightning bolt that destroyed a Humble Oil tank in Norfolk a couple of weeks ago.
Other clippings concerned the loss of revenue at the Boardwalk Art Show because of rain. There was one from the Pilot, dated June 22, 1970, with a banner headline: "Tidewater Storm Hits Buildings and Boats."
We asked Owens how the SIs were bringing all this about.
"They construct a weather grid inside my head. It's very difficult to describe," he noted. He was sketching now with a pencil, drawing the Atlantic coastline with little marks like weather bars pocking its surface in the Virginia Beach area.
"The parts shift back and forth in the grid like in an automobile motor; they shift and slide," he confided.
To put this weather pattern into motion, Owens said, the SIs have given him a special gift. "They have
ve is a true and accurate statement of
Mili Dyer
Mrs. N. Dyer
Court Reporter
Norfolk, Virginia

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# The Seer Who Sees Via His SIs

Dixon in his ability to predict the future. We have written about Owens before. A Norfolk woman reported that he had predicted lightning would strike the Apollo 12 spacecraft. It did.

Coincidence? Owens a disarmingly intelligent fellow with the face of a small-town hardware dealer, claims that his ability to predict events and create storms is special knowledge funneled into his head from space people. He calls them SIs, short for space intelligences.

What concerned us was the weather. About a month ago Owens began writing us predicting a lot of storms for the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area. We've been getting a few. So we drove out to discuss this with him.

He was seated at a kitchen table in his walkup apartment, pulling on a cigar. "You remember that I predicted storms for this area," he said. "Well, it's happening. The SIs are at work. They've placed a kind of weather grid over this area."

He tossed clippings from The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger-Star in my direction. One concerned the lightning bolt that destroyed a Humble Oil tank in Norfolk a couple of weeks ago.

Other clippings concerned the loss of revenue at the Boardwalk Art Show because of rain. There was one from the Pilot, dated June 22, 1970, with a banner headline: "Tidewater Storm Hits Buildings and Boats."

We asked Owens how the SIs were bringing all this about. "They construct a weather grid inside my head. It's very difficult to describe," he noted. He was sketching now with a pencil, drawing the Atlantic coastline with little marks like weather bars pocking its surface in the Virginia Beach area. "The parts shift back and forth in the grid like in an automobile motor; they shift and slide," he confided.

To put this weather pattern into motion, Owens said, the SIs have given him a special gift. "They have now given me special words to say to implement the weather."

What are the words? His eyes rolled upward, horrified. "Oh, I can't repeat them. They wouldn't want me to do that," he said. He tossed over a copy of a letter written to the editor of the Ledger-Star. "Tell the girls to put up their bikinis and get out their umbrellas. Ha. Ha. Ha.," the letter warned.

AND THERE WERE CLIPPINGS from The Miami Herald and a Philadelphia paper reporting unusual rain accompanying Owens' arrival in town.

In The Herald, Owens was standing by the shoreline with arms upraised like a latter day swami, beckoning rain.

Let us assume Mr. Owens, that the SIs are bringing our rain. What will make it stop?

"They want to make themselves real to us. They want documentation of what they are doing to this area with the weather."

He paused.

"You actually owe it to the local Chamber of Commerce to write about this," he added.

In his files there is a letter written by a Philadelphia attorney who claims that Owens was challenged to make lightning strike a specified place--the bridge to Camden--and that lightning struck the bridge.

We have no quarrel to make with a man bearing such credentials. Maybe it's the SIs who need their heads examined by a psychiatrist.

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Lightning Hits Gasoline Tank

Norfolk Plant Imperiled,
Homes Left, Ship Moved

By ETHEL STEADMAN
Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer

NORFOLK — Lightning struck
a huge gasoline storage tank at
the Humble Oil & Refining Co.'s
district plant on Hampton Boule-
vard Saturday, setting off a spec-
tacular fire which threatened to
spread to several adjacent tanks.
The Coast Guard, Navy, and
Civil Defense personnel aided
Norfolk fire fighters in combat-
ting the blaze, which raged un-
checked for hours.

Three hours after the tank
blazed up, flames appeared to be
as intense as ever. Numerous
residents of a nearby trailer
court fled their homes as giant
fireballs rolled up and out of the
tank.

A commercial tanker moored
only 300 yards from the tank also
was imperiled until crewmen
moved it out into the channel.

The fire started around 2:30
p.m. almost simultaneously with
a series of severe lightning flash-
es. A service station employee
near the scene said, "The man
who asked not to be
identified, said he heard a noise
similar to that produced when a
transformer is hit by lightning.

("There was a big explosion and
it shook the ground," the man
said. Moments later, he looked
out and saw smoke boiling from
one of the Humble tanks, the
man added.

By 11 p.m., the Coast Guard re-
ported that there was a need for
additional powdered foam by fire
fighters. The foam, employed to
smother blazes of this sort, was
to be trucked to Norfolk from
Elizabeth City, N.C., at last re-
port, a Coast Guard spokesman
said.

Heavy rainfall drenched the
area during the fire's height but
it appeared only to dampen the
enthusiasm of spectators and not
to douse the flames.

As word of the fire spread, peo-
ple lined up along Hampton Bou-
levard to watch the show. While
the periodic downpours of rain
the sightseers straggled away.

Winds whipped the flames side-
ways from time to time, forcing
firemen to turn hoses on one an-
other to keep their clothing from
igniting.

The Navy had at least two fire
boats on the scene. The Coast
Guard sent the cutters Mochigan,
Point Brown, and Cherokee.

No South Hampton Roads city
owns a fireboat.

By midnight, efforts were
being directed at cooling down
the adjacent sotrage tanks, each
of which holds 30,000 barrels of
high-octane fuel.

The storage tank hit Saturday
was of the floating-top type and
was one of four nestled together
inside a low dike to prevent gaso-
line spillage. In all, there are
eight to 10 tanks in the immedi-
ate vicinity, by one estimate.

Humble officials were en route
to Norfolk from Baltimore Saturday to assess the damage.

The fireboats proved of little
use in fighting the tank fire, as
they were unable to get close
enough to be effective, a Coast
Guard spokesman said. They stood by
case the flames spread.

Shortly after midnight, the
Coast Guard reported that the
Elizabeth City base was unable
to supply powdered foam. Addi-
tional supplies of the foam were
being borrowed from the Little
Creek Naval Amphibious Base,
the Naval Station, and the New-
port News Fire Department, the
Coast Guard said.

Norfolk sent nine engines, a
(See Bolt, Page A14)

Flames surge from the lightning-struck storage tank.
Virginian-Pilot Photo by Charles Meeds

oting

t Guns, Bombs Seized

searches for the weapons used
in rioting Friday night and early
Saturday.

The night of fighting, with fire
bombs, grenades, and gunfire
exploding in the streets, raised
Northern Ireland's death toll
from rioting to 12 in the last
two weekends.

Two of Friday night's victims
were snipers killed by army
sharpshooters and another was
crushed by an armored car. At
least another 80 persons were
injured—19 of them soldiers—

canceling Protestant Orange pa-
rades set for today outside Bel-
fast.

This new outburst in the an-
cient feud between Catholics
and Protestants began after the
imprisonment June 26 of Ber-
nadette Devlin, the Catholic civ-
il rights leader and member of
Britain's Parliament. She was
sentenced to a six-month term
in connection with disorders in
Londonderry last August.

Troops barricaded roads into
the town of Armagh and

nearby schools while the houses
were searched. They turned up
45 pistols, 38 rifles, two subma-
chine guns, 13 shotguns, 15,000
rounds of ammunition, 100 fire
bombs, and 45 pounds of explo-
sives.

From inside the sealed-off dis-
trict, nationalist member of
Parliament Paddy Devlin de-
clared that the area's Catholics
now wanted the troops to stay to
protect them against Protes-
tants, who would be "infuriat-

Today's Chuckle
Discretion is closing your
mouth before somebody else
does it for you.

In Today's Pilot

Inside Virginia Politics, Page A12

Amusements ....... F4-5
Ann Landers ....... G4
Gov't Worker ....... B13
Books ............ C6
Obituaries ......... B2
Bridge ........... H3
Sports ........... E1-11
Business ......... E12-14
Travel ........... B14
Classified ........ D1-14
TV-Radio ......... F2-3
Crossword ........ F6
Weather .......... A2
Dr. Thosteson ..... H3
Wishing Well ..... H3
Editorials ........ C4
Women ........... G1-10

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# Gasoline Tank

## Norfolk Plant Imperiled, Homes Left, Ship Moved

By ETHEL STEADMAN

Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer

NORFOLK — Lightning struck a huge gasoline storage tank at the Humble Oil & Refining Co.'s district plant on Hampton Boulevard Saturday, setting off a spectacular fire which threatened to spread to several adjacent tanks.

The Coast Guard, Navy, and Civil Defense personnel aided Norfolk fire fighters in combatting the blaze, which raged unchecked for hours.

Three hours after the tank blazed up, flames appeared to be as intense as ever. Numerous residents of a nearby trailer court fled their homes as giant fireballs rolled up and out of the tank.

A commercial tanker moored only 300 yards from the tank also was imperiled until crewmen moved it out into the channel.

The fire started around 7:30 p.m. almost simultaneously with a series of severe lightning flashes, a service station employee near the scene said.

The man, who asked not to be identified, said he heard a noise similar to that produced when a transformer is hit by lightning.

“There was a big explosion and it shook the ground,” the man said. Moments later, he looked out and saw smoke boiling from one of the Humble tanks, the man added.

By 11 p.m., the Coast Guard reported that there was a need for additional powdered foam by fire fighters. The foam, employed to smother blazes of this sort, was to be trucked to Norfolk from Elizabeth City, N.C., at last report, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

Heavy rainfall drenched the area during the fire's height but it appeared only to dampen the enthusiasm of spectators and not to douse the flames.

As word of the fire spread, people lined up along Hampton Boulevard to watch the show. With the periodic downpours of rain, the sightseers straggled away.

Winds whipped the flames sideways from time to time, forcing firemen to turn hoses on one another to keep their clothing from igniting.

The Navy had at least two fireboats on the scene. The Coast Guard sent the cutters Mochican, Point Brown, and Cherokee.

No South Hampton Roads city owns a fireboat.

By midnight, efforts were being directed at cooling down the adjacent storage tanks, each of which holds 30,000 barrels of high-octane fuel.

The storage tank hit Saturday was of the floating-top type and was one of four nestled together inside a low dike to prevent gasoline spillage. In all, there are eight to 10 tanks in the immediate vicinity, by one estimate. Humble officials were en route from Baltimore late Saturday to assess the damage.

The fireboats proved of little use in fighting the tank fire, as they were unable to get close enough to be effective, a fire spokesman said. They stood by in case the flames spread.

Shortly after midnight, the Coast Guard reported that its Elizabeth City base was unable to supply powdered foam. Additional supplies of the foam were being borrowed from the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, the Naval Station, and the Newport News Fire Department, the Coast Guard said.

Norfolk sent nine engines, two

(See Bolt, Page A14)

## Today's Chuckle

Discretion is closing your mouth before somebody else does it for you.

## In Today's Pilot

Inside Virginia Politics, Page A12

Amusements ........ F4-5
Ann Landers......... G4
Books ............ C6
Bridge ........... E1-11
Business.......... D1-14
Classified ........ E1-24
Gardening ........ G15
Gov't Worker ...... B13
Obituaries ........ B2
H3
Sports ........... E1-11
Travel ........... B14
TV-Radio ......... F2-3
TV Bridge ........ A9

=== **Page: 8 of 8**

Virginian-Pilot, Wednesday, July 22, 1970

Data From U.S. WEATHER BUREAU - ESSA
FORECAST
Figures Show High Temperatures Expected For Daytime Wednesday
Isolated Precipitation Not Indicated - Consult Local Forecast

## 2 Cool Days
## Rain Expected

Tidewater can expect more rain today, tonight, and probably Thursday. Temperatures are to range in the 70s and low 80s both days and in the 60s at night.
A nearly stationary front, accompanied by numerous showers extending well inland, lay just south of the North Carolina-Virginia border Tuesday night.
The frontal zone may waver back across the Virginia line today, then settle back southward. The front runs to southeastern Texas.
The rain chances are 60 per cent today and 70 per cent tonight.
Northeasterly winds of 10 to 20 miler per hour are to prevail today, tonight, and Thursday.
High pressure centered just south of Lake Superior covers the region from the Dakotas and most of the Midwest. It is moving eastward and is due over New York late today.
In Norfolk Tuesday, a gray day ended in more showers at night. Rainfall totaled .08 of an inch at the airport. The low was 67, the high 75, and the mean 71, which was 8 below normal.

teriously and a number of other weiru happ
fold.
The writer, Otto O. Binder, finds Owens more fascinating than Jeane Dixon in his ability to predict the future.

## The Seer

## Who Sees

## Via His SIs

We have written about Owens before. A Norfolk woman reported that he had predicted lightning would strike the Apollo 12 spacecraft. It did.

During our last interview with this uncanny man, he predicted a power failure. We left his home, turned the ignition switch in the car, and found that the battery was dead.

Coincidence? Owens a disarmingly intelligent fellow with the face of a small-town hardware dealer, claims that his ability to predict events and create storms is special knowledge funneled into his head from space people. He calls them SIs, short for space intelligences.

What concerned us was the weather. About a month ago Owens began writing us predicting a lot of storms for the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area. We've been getting a few. So we drove out to discuss this
nks were struck by lightning, and blew up
er thing: Ted Owens handed me a written uld put over this area an "other-dimensional s the function of causing weird, unusual ts in the Norfolk area. Shortly after he prediction, a "strange object in the sky" the local TV stations...which told of ling the police and fire department that multicolored "halo" over the city in

ve is a true and accurate statement of

Mrs. N. Dyer
Court Reporter
Norfolk, Virginia