https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/330a9acf4f9463abb503d8104b66e514.pdf 41effe1a7905bc73e0ad6d4e2f7fb591 https://www.pkman.org/archive/files/original/8e52d0891510bf1d652de86307a7723c.txt 98163b73d15ebdf3d6d95f51a6a362e7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1974 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document === Page 1 of 12 PRECOG by Ted Owens (PK Man) Coming up...during the balance of 1974...and in 1975...there will be many, many wars...not only between small countries...but between large countries. It will be startling. Just suddenly...wars will begin everywhere. Loss of life and bloodshed that will be incredible in modern times. It will be so widespread...and so chaotic...that the news media may be unable to keep up with it all. I, PK Man, will cause...repeat cause...chaos in France in 1974-1975-1976. Am projecting poltergeists onto that country in great numbers. You will see crazy things happening in France...upset, confusion, political upheaval, etc. I warned France not long ago...to quit nuclear tests. Of course, France ignored my warnings. This...is a demonstration of UFO power, plus my own. Call this a "prediction" if you want to. This country, America...will destroy itself...unless it follows the pro football format. Pro teams that keep "old" players...who have lost their once-great abilities but keep their great names...sink slowly to the bottom of the winning list...and become the worst losers. Pro teams...carefully snap up new, promising players...and give them years to mature and develop into "greats"...which is often the case. Our government, like a pro team...has become overloaded with "old players". Old Senators, old Congressman....too many old men. Our "team" in America is old, tired, jaded, worn-out, and worse...out of fresh, young ideas. Our government must go into a crash program...of selecting, carefully, new, young "players"...each to be assigned to an old player, for coaching and training for a year or two...until the new, young player has learned the game and how to play it...then the old player must step down and let the new, young player play. It...is the only way left. Once this program were put into effect and developed...we would have a fresh young team...a fresh young country, led by fresh young leaders...and new hope for America. I sense a large foreign power...now planning an active attack on the United States...in near time ahead. __________ Owens === Page 2 of 12 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Oct. 5, 1974 Ed Busch (Dallas Radio) Well...I told you some time ago...that because of the hostility that you and your radio station showed me at Dallas...when I was your guest there...that I would wipe out the Dallas Cowboys this season...with psi force...as your punishment (and Hunt). As you know...I have done excellently. The Cowboys are losing everything but their pants...and that could be next. You-all like a hex? You've really got one there! Sincerely, Owens Minnesota Overcomes Dallas, 23-21 DALLAS (AP)--Fred Cox kicked a 27-yard field goal with one second remaining Sunday to lift Minnesota to a 23-21 victory over the Dallas Cowboys and keep the Vikings unbeaten in the National Football League. It was the third field goal of the day for Cox who also connected from the 46 and 30-yard lines. Minnesota is now 4-0 and the leader in the National Conference Central Division while the Cowboys sank to 1-3, which is their worst start since 1965. Fran Tarkenton, the crafty Viking quarterback who had thrown touchdown passes of 66 and 13 yards in the closing moments of the game, drove Minnesota 68 yards in the closing moments after Calvin Hill's eight-yard run had put the rallying Cowboys ahead, 21-20, with 2:26 to play. Tarkenton scrambled for 12 yards during the drive and hit Ed Marinaro with two clutch passes. VG Pilot Oct 7 '74 | | Vikings | Cowboys | |---|---|---| | First downs | 18 | 16 | | Rushes-yards | 25-111 | 32-144 | | Passing yards | 265 | 129 | | Return yards | 17 | 24 | | Passes | 17-27-0 | 9-20-4 | | Punts | 6-33 | 3-46 | | Fumbles-lost | 3-0 | 1-0 | | Penalties-yards | 4-55 | 3-20 | Minnesota 3 10 7 3--23 Dallas 0 7 0 14--21 Dal--Richards 58 pass from Staubach (Herrera kick) Minn--FG Cox 46 Minn--Foreman 66 pass from Tarkenton (Cox kick) Minn--FG Cox 30 Minn--Foreman 13 pass from Tarkenton (Cox kick) Dal--Garrison 5 pass from Staubach (Herrera kick) Dal--Hill 8 run (Herrera kick) Minn--FG Cox 27 A--57,847 Scientist The SI's are going to begin to eliminate Rich Gang members (to contribute some peace and relief to the human race.) Owens === Page 3 of 12 Oct 14, 1974 Rosy Rozenbloom - Owner, Rams I told you months ago to hire me, or I'd stop the Rams from Super Bowl this season. Yesterday I got a clear shot at your "favored team" on my TV set. So... you lost. (my "PK" is still deteriorating your "old catts.") Owens x PK/Man X Va. Pilot Oct 14, 1974 # Packer Defense 'Staggers' Rams MILWAUKEE (AP) - Green Bay turned two interceptions into scores and added a touchdown on Jon Staggers' 68-yard punt return for a 17-6 National Football League victory Sunday over the favored Los Angeles Rams. The Packers, 3-2, intercepted four Ram passes - three by linebacker Ted Hendricks - and converted the turnovers into a field goal and a touchdown after Staggers' second-quarter return. The Rams' only scores came on a pair of 28-yard Dave Ray field goals as mistakes consistently stymied their offense. Staggers took Dave Chapple's punt on the Green Bay 32-yard line midway through the second quarter, then threaded through the Los Angeles coverage, and outraced Chapple as Green Bay took a 7-3 lead. The Rams had driven from their own 28 to the Green Bay 11 to set up Ray's field goal. Most of the drive involved runs by Larry McCutcheon and Jim Bertleson, although John Hadl completed three passes. McCutcheon picked up 109 yards on 21 carries. | | Rams | Packers | |---|---|---| | First downs | 16 | 10 | | Rushes-yards | 42-157 | 44-143 | | Passing yards | 94 | -1 | | Return yards | 132 | 155 | | Passes | 9-28-4 | 2-9-1 | | Punts | 5-35 | 7-40 | | Fumbles-lost | 1-1 | 2-1 | | Penalties-yards | 2-10 | 2-38 | Los Angeles 0 3 0 3 - 6 Green Bay 0 7 3 7 - 17 LA-FG Ray 28 GB-Staggers 68 punt return (Marcol kick) GB-FG Marcol 32 LA-Ray 28 GB-Brockington 5 run (Marcol kick) A-47,499 OCTOBER 13, 1974 8 DIRECTIONS Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal explains why he has devoted his life to tracking down war criminals. ABC News correspondent George Watson interviews Wiesenthal in Austria at Mauthausen concentration camp, where Wiesenthal was an inmate during World War II. 13 ROLLER GAMES 15 POLITICAL TALK-DEMOCRAT 27 HAPPY HUNTERS 51 YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF 1:15 15 POLITICAL TALK-REPUBLICAN 1:30 8 ISSUES AND ANSWERS 15 MASTERPIECE THEATRE 27 GOOD NEWS 51 JOB MAN CARAVAN 2:00 8 COLLEGE FOOTBALL '74 Highlights of selected games played Oct. 11-12. Bill Flemming is the series host. (60 min.) 13 CONVERSATION 27 MINISTERS 51 TAKING BETTER PICTURES 2:30 13 ISSUES AND ANSWERS 15 MEN WHO MADE THE MOVIES - Documentary 27 DEAF HEAR - Reverend Stalli 51 CONVERSATION WITH 3:00 8 RUN FOR YOUR LIFE 13 MOVIE - Western "Hangman's Knot." (1952) Unaware the Civil War is over, a Confederate band sets out to ambush a Union gold train. Slam-bang Randolph Scott vehicle. Donna Reed, Claude Jarman Jr. Kemper: Richard Denning. Bainter: Lee Marvin. Peterson: Glenn Langan. Browne: Frank Faylen. (90 min.) Sunday AFTERNOON Beat Rams Teach Rosy! 27 RIVER OF LIFE - Sapp Brothers 51 SPEAKING FREELY 3:30 27 SINGING KOLENDAS 4:00 3 6 NFL FOOTBALL The Los Angeles Rams vs. the Green Bay Packers at Milwaukee County Stadium. Jack Buck and Pat Summerall report. Rosters are in the Close-up on page A-29. (Live) 3 TO BE ANNOUNCED 8 TARZAN - Adventure Jai's pet elephant is blamed for the death of a jungle commissioner. Tarzan: Ron Ely. Judge: Murray Matheson. Matusi: Percy Rodriguez. Domo: Maurice Marsac. Jai: Manuel Padilla Jr. (60 min.) 10 12 25 WORLD SERIES/NFL FOOTBALL For details, see today's special programming box. 15 WHRO TELETHON See Sat. 4 P.M. Ch. 15 for program details. (4 hrs., 30 min.) 27 TONY AND SUSAN ALAMO 51 SOUTHERN ARTISANS 4:30 13 THRILLSEEKERS A friendly game of darts, Cherokee style; Skeeter Vaughn throws tomahawks and knives at a human target; a high-speed go-cart race; film clips of daredevils of the past. Chuck Connors is the host. 27 KATHRYN KUHLMAN 51 NATIONAL TOWN MEETING Senate minority leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) and Rep. Richard Bolling (D-Mo.) voice their ideas on Congressional reform in this week's forum from Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Harrison Salisbury moderates. (60 min.) HIGH SCHOOL AT HOME IN YOUR SPARE TIME LOW MONTHLY PAYMENTS - ALL BOOKS FURNISHED Diploma Awarded If you are 17 or over and have left school phone or send for FREE High School Information and a look at sample lessons. Phone Newport News (804) 596-1479 Richmond (804) 288-4359 Approved For Veteran Training American School of Chicago Dept. TVE-727 P.O. Box 1234, Newport News, Va. 23601 705 Spottswood Rd., Richmond, Va. 23229 Name Age Address TV GUIDE A-31 === Page 4 of 12 Scientists FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN)---------- Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 PS...and coming up in the near future...many many wars all over the world...little countries and big countries. Oct. 7, 1974 Warren Smith... In the near future...many of the world's richest men...will pass away... either by old age, accidents, or whatever. (The Rich Gang...caused by UFO's.) A catastrophic earthquake...will strike the West Coast...within 180 days. 6 or above on the Richter scale...affecting heavily populated areas. The Rich Gang...is using Kissinger...as their personal agent...to set up advantageous deals for them internationally (enabling foreign interests to buy into huge U.S. holdings, now going on...thus weakening the U.S. structure.) There will be a full revolution (revolution) in the United States...in approximately one year from now. The United States will have a full-blown depression, worse than '29...in approximately one year from now. Owens === Page 5 of 12 FROM THE DESK OF Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN) Box 48 Cape Charles, Virginia 23310 Oct. 30, 1974 Mr. Warren Smith, Author Please note..........that some time ago I predicted that Nixon would go into hospital for an operation..........on "the lower part of his body". (This before his phlebitis became known.) (See your files on my correspondence). Also..........I predicted that the "Rich Gang" would try to kill him while in hospital. Right now..........he's in perfect position for demise. Also..........I predicted to you..........that the Rich Gang would kill Kissinger, and try to make it look like an accident. Please note that recently a machine gun "accidentally" fell off a shelf in Kissinger's plane..........and shot up a Secret Service agent. It could just as easily have been Kissinger, right? Best.......... Owens Owens === Page 6 of 12 Va. Pilot Oct 5, 1974 # Millions in U.S. Crops Destroyed by Cold Wave By The Associated Press A September cold wave has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to crops across the Midwest and East, officials reported Friday. They said soybeans and corn were hit the hardest with damage also to tomatoes, Kentucky's tobacco crop, and New York State grapes. The cold weather brought frost to states like South Dakota as early as Sept. 3 and there was freezing reported in late September in most of the northern Midwest. The result, officials say, was the destruction of crops like corn and soybeans that are normally planted late and in some areas were planted later than usual this year because of heavy spring rains. The only good news was a prediction of short-range benefits to beef consumers and a positive effect on the Eastern apple crop. Officials in Indiana estimate that the frost cost farmers there about $152 million; in Wisconsin, officials said total crop damage for the year is $125 million, much of it from the frost, but some of it from heavy spring rains; in Ohio, total damage was set at $356 million for the year from drought, torrential rain, and early frost. In other states, estimates were not available but officials predicted that the cost would be high. Walter Goeppinger, chairman of the Board of the National Corn Growers Association in Boone, Iowa, said Friday that American farmers will harvest less than 4.8 billion bushels of corn this year. The Agriculture Department predicted last spring a harvest of 6.1 billion bushels. Goeppinger, who toured frost-bitten areas of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa this week, predicted a short-term benefit to consumers. He said much of the damaged corn crop would be used for silage and fed to beef, causing a short-term increase in the beef supply. Goeppinger also predicted possible reduction of the 1975 corn crop if the frost prevents late-fall field work. Corn, soybeans, and tomatoes were affected because they are planted the latest. In Kentucky, where harvesting was late because of earlier rains, there were between 20,000 and 25,000 acres of tobacco still standing when the cold hit. "We're talking about $40 million to $50 million worth of tobacco still in the field that was subject to freeze," said Dr. J. W. Smiley, a tobacco specialist at the University of Kentucky. Trenholm D. Johnson, a specialist hired by four western New York grape-growing counties, reported that leaves on grape vines froze, diminishing the sugar content in the grapes. He said he could not estimate the financial loss to growers, who sell the crop for wine and grape juice. "We'll get some improvement in the crop with better weather, but we will not get the high-quality crop we expected a few weeks ago," Johnson said. In Ohio, most crops were harvested by Sept. 24 and Sept. 30, when the killing frosts struck. But corn, soybeans, and tomatoes were not. C. William Swan, executive vice president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, said about a third of the tomato crop and between 10 and 15 per cent of the soybean crop in northeastern Ohio was wiped out. Swan said the corn crop, hurt by dry weather this summer, was reduced another 5 per cent by the frost. The Michigan Crop Reporting Service said some farmers in the southeast corner of the state may ask for disaster aid because of damage to the soybean crop. Damage estimates for the state are not available yet, but are expected to be high, the service said. Earl L. Park, a Purdue University agriculture statistician, says it is possible as much as 6 per cent of the corn and 6 per cent of the soybeans were destroyed in Indiana. Park said 40 per cent of the 5.5 million acres planted in corn was considered not fully safe from freeze; and about 10 per cent of the 3.91 million acres planted in soybeans was in the same category and another 20 per cent susceptible to some damage, Park said. Al Jindra, a state crop statistician in Wisconsin, said the estimated $125 million in crop loss there could climb higher. Jindra said the immature corn and soybeans whose growth was stopped by the frost have low nutritional value and he predicted that many farmers will simply plow them under. In South Dakota, where frost came as early as Sept. 3 in some areas, the damage estimates aren't in yet. But Chuck Hudson, a statistician with the federal Crop and Livestock Reporting Service, says there was extensive damage and said farmers are using considerably more corn for silage than they had planned. One farm official said the frost caused little damage because the damage had already been done. "Our crops were already ruined by the hot and dry weather in July and August," said Vilas Young, regional farm extension agent for northwest Missouri. "By the middle of August, most of the corn already had been ruined and was being cut for silage. The soybeans dried out before they matured and they will be better for hay than for beans." One of the few happy notes came from northwestern New York, hit by temperatures in the low 30s for several days. Kenneth Pollard, merchandising director of the Western New York Apple Growers Association noted that Lake Ontario retains heat and has a moderating influence on early fall temperatures. He said the cold weather "actually allows the trees to harden up and build a resistance to cold temperatures." And Ralph Baldasaro of the New York-New England Apple Institute in Westfield, Mass., dried out before the matured said: "The cold nights and clear days add color to the apple -- that's the finishing process." SCIENTISTS SEE MY PREDICTION IN "PREDICTIONS FOR 1974" BY WARREN SMITH (MADE IN 1973), PAGE 161, "THE MIDWEST (NOTE: 1ST DROUGHT, THEN COLD, THEN) WILL BE TURN UP IN WORSE FASHION BY WEATHER IN 1974, THAN IN 1973." AGAIN, GENTLEMEN, GREAT PREDICT ACCURACY. === Page 7 of 12 NY TIMES 10/20/74 # Timbuktu Gains Charm After Drought's Horror NY Times # Timbuktu Regains Charm After Horror By HENRY KAMM Special to The New York Times TIMBUKTU, Mali, Oct. 18--Timbuktu is the beautiful, changeless desert city of old once more, now that the drought is over and its victims have either left or died. On the feast day yesterday that marked the end of the one-month fast of Ramadan, sumptuously robed dignitaries crowded into the colonial mansion of the regional military governor to pay their respects. They were received by the Governor, Capt. Korcissy Tall, who in honor of the day had shed his paratrooper uniform and beret for an elegant white and gold robe and cap. Later, the turbaned elders, leaning on scepterlike staffs, joined the rest of Timbuktu's to come to life in flamboyant hues. At dark, Araby became Africa. The tomtoms began to beat in the unlighted streets of low, stark mudhouses, and dancing began. Men and women danced separately. "Dancing together is an offense to the sense of shame," explained a young man who said he would not personally be offended. All was quiet on the sprawling expanse of sun-baked sand at the edge of town. Last year more than 10,000 nomads camped there for handouts of grain and for medical attention for those who had barely survived the hungry trek across the grassless pastures and for more Continued on Page 20, Column 3 **Beggars Are Children** What the handful of remaining Tuareg offer for sale now are trinkets made for the tourist trade, many smuggled in from Mauritania. The only beggars are the usual smiling children who hold out their hands and continue smiling whether something is put in their palm or not. Most of the Tuareg left the camp during the rainy season, which this summer brought what the name promises. Although many had lost all their animals--the average loss in this pastoral region is estimated at 85 per cent--they left toward their old grazing grounds as grass began sprouting. They took with them, Captain Tall said, three months' supply of grain and some powdered milk and cooking oil. Their hope is either to live off the animals that survived or to find clansmen who salvaged more of their animals and with them to reconstitute their herds and lives. In seven to ten years, experts believe, the nomads reconstituted their herds after earlier droughts, to which this region is periodically heir. "It is an experiment," Captain Tall said. "It is bad for them to stay in the camps too long and lose the habit of work. They have to try to resume the work. But if they don't manage, we will have to see what we can do." **Most Returned Last Year** Informed sources reported that in a similar experiment last year, most came back to the camps. Those who did not leave voluntarily have recently been sent out by the administration to gather a kind of wild grain. It grows abundantly and is traditionally used to tide over people in the lean period, when the last year's crop is eaten up and the new crop not in yet. A number of Tuaregs remain near here, living precariously from occasional government handouts and the sale of the milk of their few remaining goats. "We have five left from 100," said a young woman, sitting on a mat outside a traditional low nomad shelter in the desert sand. Her husband seems to prefer to stay near Timbuktu because he occasionally earns a bit of money arranging camel rides for visitors. Those who stay around town strongly express traditional Tuareg animosity to the blacks who govern Mali. The Tuaregs, a Berber, Caucasian people, traditionally lived from the milk and meat of their animals and the work of the black slaves they captured in frequent raids on sedentary villages. Their attitude remains haughty to those of skin darker than theirs, and the governing powers feel little tenderness for the Tuaregs. But diplomatic observers believe that the Government has nonetheless fairly distributed food and other available assistance to the nomads. Now it looks more like a scout camp. Neatly aligned tents shelter only a few hundred nomads--old people and orphans mainly--who have no one to care for them and who have not been able to set out again to try to recreate their traditional way of life, which would depend largely on the animals they lost to the famine. No one in the camp showed signs of undernourishment. The town has resumed its ancient ways. It is no longer inundated by once-proud Tuareg herdsmen who had lost their camels, cattle, sheep and goats and thus had been reduced to selling their swords and their wives' jewelry or to begging for money or food. ALGERIA SPANISH SAHARA MAURITANIA Timbuktu MALI NIGER SENEGAL Bamako UPPER VOLTA GUINEA IVORY COAST Atlantic Ocean The New York Times/Oct. 20, 1974 OCT 28, 1974 SCIENTISTS THE UFO'S AND I DID WHAT I SAID WE'D DO (TO WARREN SMITH... SEE YOUR FILE.) OF COURSE, I'LL KEEP WORKING ON IT. IT IS... A GREAT BEGINNING. Owens === Page 8 of 12 Demonstrators cheer Spínola's ouster: A defeat for the 'silent majority' (Another bad President removed. Gwen) Newsweek Oct 14, 1974 # Portugal: A Shove Leftward He was Portugal's man on horseback--a general idolized by his troops and loved by his countrymen. And when several hundred junior army officers toppled Europe's oldest Fascist regime last April, they quickly asked Gen. António de Spínola to serve as interim President during the difficult transition period from dictatorship to democracy. But the young army captains, many of them leftists, soon found themselves at odds with the conservative Spínola. The monocled, 64-year-old general appeared to feel he had some sort of Gaullist mandate to rule Portugal as he saw fit--and that meant slowing his nation's rapid swing to the left. Last week, the junior officers decided their idol had to go. They stripped Spínola of virtually all power--and forced the aristocratic general to resign. The showdown had been brewing since mid-July. At that time, the young leaders of the Armed Forces Movement vetoed Spínola's call for early Presidential elections--which he hoped to win before Portugal's long-suppressed Communist and Socialist parties had time to fully organize. Then the captains forced the haughty general to name their leader, left-leaning Col. Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, as his new Prime Minister. In the weeks that followed, Spínola stumped the country trying to drum up support among Portugal's "silent majority." Two weeks ago, rightists began organizing a big rally in support of Spínola. Fearful that this show of strength might foreshadow a rightist coup, the young officers led by Gonçalves demanded that Spínola ban the rally. No. Kissinger was damn lucky! Gwen Virginian-Pilot, Saturday, October 12, 1974 # Accidental Shot Misses Kissinger DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A submachine gun accidentally discharged aboard Henry A. Kissinger's jet plane at Cairo airport Friday and injured his principal bodyguard only 20 feet from the secretary of state. Fearing a terrorist attack, Kissinger, hurried to his private compartment on the plane and the shutters were drawn. The Secret Service agent, Walter Bothe, 33, of Alexandria, Va., suffered a deep scalp wound and a second wound on the right forearm. "You are damn lucky," Kissinger told Bothe after it was determined that he had not been injured seriously and that the shot came from inside the Boeing 707 when a case carrying the Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun had tumbled from a rack onto the floor. Bothe told a reporter that two other weapons cases were similarly jostled free toward the front of the blue-and-white jet as it taxied off the flight line. Martin Wolfe, a State Department physician, treated the injured agent. The bullet pierced the ceiling of the jet after passing through a cloth bag of Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco. The incident delayed Kissinger's takeoff for Syria half an hour. Shortly after Kissinger arrived in Damascus he began talks with President Hafez Assad, who has said there will be no peace in the === Page 9 of 12 NY TIMES 10/20/74 NY Times Timbuktu Regains Charm After Horror Timbuktu Gains Charm After Drought's Horror By HENRY KAMM 1974 Special to The New York Times TIMBUKTU, Mali, Oct. 18--Timbuktu is the beautiful, changeless desert city of old once more, now that the drought is over and its victims have either left or died. On the feast day yesterday that marked the end of the one-month fast of Ramadan, sumptuously robed dignitaries crowded into the colonial mansion of the regional military governor to pay their respects. They were received by the Governor, Capt. Korcissy Tall, who in honor of the day had shed his paratrooper uniform and beret for an elegant white and gold robe and cap. Later, the turbaned elders, leaning on scepterlike staffs, joined the rest of Timbuktu's to come to life in flamboyant hues. At dark, Araby became Africa. The tomtoms began to beat in the unlighted streets of low, stark mudhouses, and dancing began. Men and women danced separately. "Dancing together is an offense to the sense of shame," explained a young man who said he would not personally be offended. All was quiet on the sprawling expanse of sunbaked sand at the edge of town. Last year more than 10,000 nomads camped there for handouts of grain and for medical attention for those who had barely survived the hungry trek across the grassless pastures and for more Continued on Page 20, Column 3 Beggars Are Children What the handful of remaining Tuareg offer for sale now are trinkets made for the tourist trade, many smuggled in from Mauritania. The only beggars are the usual smiling children who hold out their hands and continue smiling whether something is put in their palm or not. Most of the Tuareg left the camp during the rainy season, which this summer brought what the name promises. Although many had lost all their animals--the average loss in this pastoral region is estimated at 85 per cent--they left toward their old grazing grounds as grass began sprouting. They took with them, Captain Tall said, three months' supply of grain and some powdered milk and cooking oil. Their hope is either to live off the animals that survived or to find clansmen who salvaged more of their animals and with them to reconstitute their herds and lives. In seven to ten years, experts believe, the nomads reconstituted their herds after earlier droughts, to which this region is periodically heir. "It is an experiment," Captain Tall said. "It is bad for them to stay in the camps too long and lose the habit of work. They have to try to resume the work. But if they don't manage, we will have to see what we can do." Most Returned Last Year Informed sources reported that in a similar experiment last year, most came back to the camps. Those who did not leave voluntarily have recently been sent out by the administration to gather a kind of wild grain. It grows abundantly and is traditionally used to tide over people in the lean period, when the last year's crop is eaten up and the new crop not in yet. A number of Tuaregs remain near here, living precariously from occasional government handouts and the sale of the milk of their few remaining goats. "We have five left from 100," said a young woman, sitting on a mat outside a traditional low nomad shelter in the desert sand. Her husband seems to prefer to stay near Timbuktu because he occasionally earns a bit of money arranging camel rides for visitors. Those who stay around town strongly express traditional Tuareg animosity to the blacks who govern Mali. The Tuaregs, a Berber, Caucasian people, traditionally lived from the milk and meat of their animals and the work of the black slaves they captured in frequent raids on sedentary villages. Their attitude remains haughty to those of skin darker than theirs, and the governing powers feel little tenderness for the Tuaregs. But diplomatic observers believe that the Government has nonetheless fairly distributed food and other available assistance to the nomads. OCT. 28, 1974 SCIENTISTS THE UFO'S AND I DID WHAT I SAID WE'D DO (TO WARREN SMITH... SEE YOUR FILE.) OF COURSE, I'LL KEEP WORKING ON IT. IT IS... A GREAT BEGINNING. Owens noon promenade on the market square of desert sand. Everyone was dressed in his finest robe. As groups gathered, blended and dissolved, "A Thousand and One Nights" seemed Starvation, measles or cholera. Now it looks more like a scout camp. Neatly aligned tents shelter only a few hundred nomads--old people and orphans mainly--who have no one to care for them and who have not been able to set out again to try to recreate their traditional way of life, which would depend largely on the animals they lost to the famine. No one in the camp showed signs of undernourishment. The town has resumed its ancient ways. It is no longer inundated by once-proud Tuareg herdsmen who had lost their camels, cattle, sheep and goats and thus had been reduced to selling their swords and their wives' jewelry or to begging for money or food. The New York Times/Oct. 20, 1974 === Page 10 of 12 SCIENCE OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY SUFFERS WATERGATE-LIKE SETBACK # Researcher Admits "Fixing" Data by MALCOLM ABRAMS A brilliant young researcher at the Institute for Parapsychology has confessed to "tampering and fixing" important research studies. In the world of science, there is no greater crime. It comes at a time when the world has reached an historic peak of interest in psychic phenomena. It's a scandal of Watergate proportions from which the science of parapsychology may have difficulty recovering. The researcher is 26-year-old Dr. Jay Levy. For five years he has been the shining star in the fledgling field of parapsychology. ## Honesty Intense, dedicated and loyal, his honesty was beyond question. He had already risen to the directorship of the Parapsychology Institute. His work was highly regarded both in the U.S. and in the international science community. Dr. Levy was called "the next great mind" in the science that deals with the unexplained powers of telepathy, clairvoyance and extrasensory perception. All that's over now. Fittingly, Dr. Levy's resignation was accepted by Dr. J. B. Rhine, head of the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man. The 78-year-old pioneer in the study of psychic phenomena was the mentor and driving force behind Dr. Levy. And because the Institute is the major research arm of Dr. Rhine's Foundation, he was also Dr. Levy's boss. In an interview with MIDNIGHT, Dr. Rhine assessed his protege: "Dr. Levy is a brilliant chap," Dr. Rhine said. "He was without a doubt one of the most brilliant chaps working in our field. He had a great career in front of him. But now that's over. It is finished. He has moved on to another field. "It was a matter of a man wanting certain test results so badly that he did anything to get them. There was and is no excuse. Any talk about his future will have to come from him," Dr. Rhine said. ## Not Talking But Dr. Jay Levy is not talking about his future, or anything else. He is unreachable. So the story of what happened at the Institute of Parapsychology must come from others. Dr. Rhine supplied MIDNIGHT with many of the details. Additional information was gained from an interview with Dr. Levy's assistant James Davis. At the time of the scandal, Dr. Levy was testing rats for the power of psychokinesis, the ability to move or alter material objects by mental power alone. His results were alarmingly good. So good that his three assistants became suspicious. "We noted Dr. Levy working around one of the automatic data recording devices while experiments were being conducted. This is most unusual," Davis told MIDNIGHT. He decided to check the test results on another set of recording instruments without telling Dr. Levy. Then, while two of the researchers helped Levy, the third hid and watched the young director. Dr. Levy was seen to tamper with the recorder, causing the scores to be higher. The second set of instruments confirmed their suspicions. The scores were lower. ## Cheating Dr. Levy was definitely cheating. Davis and his two colleagues reported their findings to Dr. Rhine. In an article just printed in the Journal of Parapsychology, Dr. Rhine tells the story from that point on. In his account however, to protect Dr. Levy, he has identified him only as "W". "I called W in and confronted him with these observations of his colleagues," Dr. Rhine writes in his report. "Within a matter of minutes he acknowledged the charges, and almost without further discussion he offered his resignation. Under the circumstances, of course I accepted it." Page 2 -- MIDNIGHT October 21, 1974 ![DR. J.B. RHINE] DR. J.B. RHINE === Page 11 of 12 Dr. Levy's confession was brought with remorse. But it was too late. "As he expressed his deep regret," Dr. Rhine recalls, "he added a few words about overwork during recent months. "When asked about the extent of this sort of practice over the five years of his research (including part time) at the Institute, he strongly confirmed that there had been no other instances whatever. This, of course, has to remain uncertain for the present." That uncertainty is tainting the work of honest parapsychologists around the world. Especially those who have based their own research on Dr. Levy's findings. More important still, the Levy scandal has cast a giant shadow over the credibility of psychic study. Worst Possible Time The blow has come at the worst possible time. Parapsychology, after four decades of struggle, was just being accepted as a legitimate science. In 1971, the Parapsychology Association was admitted to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It was laboratories like those at the Institute for Parapsychology and reputations for integrity like Dr. Rhine's and Dr. Levy's that put it there. Dr. Robert Morris, president of the Parapsychology Association, had called Dr. Levy's research "among the most significant in the field." He has since asked for Dr. Levy's resignation from the association. "This whole thing serves as a reminder that you can't always take research findings at face value," Dr. Morris said. Dr. Rhine agrees. He told MIDNIGHT: "There are no gods in this business. We get results from the efforts of a team of hardworking and dedicated researchers. "The idea of putting faith in the personal honesty of a research worker is old-fashioned." Restore Integrity Now that the damage has been done, it is up to Dr. Rhine, Dr. Morris and others to restore integrity to parapsychology. "The first impact on the general public will be a bad one," Dr. Rhine confided to MIDNIGHT. "Such a disclosure makes the general public even more wary of a field that is hard to prove in the first place. "The more intelligent people, however, will realize that one man's deception will not mar an entire field. We are doing all we can to try and live this down and we will continue to do so." Warning Letters Sent For starters, Dr. Rhine sent warning letters to all persons planning to use Dr. Levy's work in articles, books or other presentations. Next, all of Dr. Levy's past papers and reports have been declared fraudulent. Finally, the validity of Dr. Levy's findings is to depend solely on follow-up studies by other researchers. The end result of the whole affair, Dr. Rhine hopes, will be a greater emphasis on scientific techniques. And less trust in individual integrity. But no amount of patchwork will ever blanket the scandal of Dr. Jay Levy. It will be discussed and debated for many years to come. Still, Dr. Rhine may have already spoken the last definitive words on the affair. "Dr. Levy was a very hard worker but his dedication was overshadowed by his ambition. Maybe that was his trouble. He was too ambitious." Oct. 4, 1974..........SCIENTISTS Just recently I was personally insulted by Dr. Levy...the same you read about here...BEFORE he did his "nutty thing." I wish I could fill you in on the details...but I had given my word to some people that I would not, so I cannot. However...the SI's and I were infuriated...and this is the result. For those who have followed me and my work for a long time...I refer you back to the time when two sports reporters challenged me to go to a pro football team and demonstrate a miracle. I went, and did the miracle. And Stan Hochman, of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote it up in the papers and confirmed it. And he added: "What flash of insanity provoked him (Tom Woodeshick) to rush off the bench with his fists flurrying?" (This was the miracle...I told the two reporters I would get Woodeshick out of the game...and within minutes he was thrown out of the game by officials...AND HE WASN'T EVEN ON THE FIELD PLAYING!) Name of article, "Invisible Forces", by Stan Hochman, 9/30/68. If you might guess a parallel between that...and Levy...you might be right. The SI's and I...have a great deal of clout. * And one among you... has all the details. But my mouth is sealed shut on this! I made a promise. === Page 12 of 12 Rcvd 2/26/75 Oct. 28, 1974 SCIENTISTS... For over ten years I have been working for, and with, UFO entities. Only I, of all humans, am able to telepath with back and forth to them...for cause and effect...and document the results...as I have done for so long. Now my special, SI brain...which has been increasing in power exponentially year after year...is ready for its next big leap forward. I have just brought rains...thus food and water...to Africa, which had suffered a six-year drought. Now...am going to feed India's starving...in the same manner. Each day...I will telepath to the SI's...using different of the 150-odd communication symbols with which they have provided me, for the effects that I wish for them to bring to pass. I will ask that they bring their infinite powers to bear...to see that India's poor are fed...and in a thousand different ways, this will be brought about. Other-dimensional power...uses a "shotgun" principle. The "target" is signified by myself; my own powers are brought to bear on the target; I also bring the UFO's powers to bear on the target...and lo and behold, the "miracle" comes to pass after a time. Sometimes many factors enter into causing the "happening", as in getting rid of Nixon and his crooked cohorts...as well as other evil world premiers. Many many factors are brought to bear...on the "target"...to produce the wanted result. As far as I can see, there is no earthly way that I can prove that what I say is so (one critic-scientist recently stated that I was merely a precognitive marvel...or words to that effect...and proposed that I enter into a childish Zener card experiment with him. This would be the equivalent of asking Einstein to attend 5th grade of school to see if he could actually add and subtract...or asking Joe Namath to attend your local highschool football field, to see if he can really pass a football.) All that I can do...as I have been doing so successfully for long years...is continue to show you RESULTS...miraculous results, as usual...and notifying you in advance of the fact...what those results are going to be. And one of these days...when I am gone...you will see no more such miracles from any human. I am absolutely one of a kind...unique. Ted Owens (PK Man) * TWENTY EIGHT YEARS AGO, AT DUKE...I WORKED WITH THESE ZENER CARDS: I HAVE SINCE MOVED FAR UPWARD ON THE PSYCHIC SCALE! Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 7410