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FROM THE DESK OF
Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN)
Box 48
Cape Charles, Virginia 23310
February 11, 1976
PS... when I produced a UFO ("prediction," ha!) for Dr. Max Fogel, Mensa scientist, in a certain area of Va. at a certain time under certain conditions... he "stopped & thought" too. Gave me a signed confirm. The point: if I could produce a UFO... forget "predictions!" - for this noted scientist, Ted
Dear Dr. Putoff (and Dr. Targ), AKA Hal and Russ.....
Thank you very much...for the newsclip on the snowstorm. I appreciated hearing from you. Of course...the storm, and those to follow, are not "predictions". They are CAUSED. Just as the hurricane winds, tornados, record heat, record snow, lightning attack...were CAUSED in Chicago and its surrounding area...after I first notified you that I would CAUSE it to happen. Same with the Cleveland demonstration. Same with the France demonstration. All...CAUSED. By myself telepathing instructions to my UFO connection (also this time to my Stonehenge-Pyramid Power connection.) I know that it sounds ridiculous...but since I know it to be solid concrete fact...then I state it as it is. Have been too busy trying to stay afloat financially...to write the voluminous (and most enlightening) Egyptian Report (details of my trip to Egypt and what I discovered there...extremely important psi-force information!) But hope to get it done at some time in the near future. Meanwhile will continue to bring great storms and a lot of rain and snow (and dangerous lightning and dangerous high winds...but can't be helped) to California...in the weeks to come...until the 90 days has passed. When I perform the same type of miracle over and over and over and over...documenting it completely and thoroughly and calling the specifics in advance each time...you can rest assured that the miracles are quite quite real, and...CAUSED. If my performance were on-again off-again, hit and miss...then you could cry coincidence. But...when have I failed?
Owens
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Water trucks, common enough during the bone-dry summer season, are running at five times the normal daily rate, from well heads to watering troughs on the range lands.
In the cattle auction yard at Stockton, ordinarily quiet in the winter, animals are being sold at four times the normal volume and ranchers are losing money on each sale.
<u>The lack of rain to make the grass grow, and now the shortage of hay to replace the grass, have staggered California's cattle and calf industry.</u>
The drought is one of the main topics at the annual meeting of the American National Cattlemen convention in Phoenix.
<u>"I've seen it dry before,"</u> says Le Grand rancher Charles Day, <u>"but in my 57 years, I've never seen it this dry this long."</u>
At auctions up and down the Central Valley calves are being sold at as little as half the normal weight and at prices per pound considerably below what the rancher needs to repay rising costs.
Pairs, a cow and a calf, that sold for as much as $600 just three years ago, were sold at Stockton this week for $190. That price has plummeted nearly $100 in two weeks.
The alternative to selling, even at a loss, is worse. Alfalfa hay, the main replacement for grass, that cost $75 a ton in December is now going for almost $100, according to the Hay Growers Association here. Worse, there is very little left for sale and almost two months remain until new hay can be cut.
"The people who still have any hay," one rancher said, "are hanging on to it. Can you blame them?"
Hay from as far away as Idaho is being trucked into California at windfall profits for its growers and at disastrous prices for the ranchers and dairymen who have to buy.
The feed bill for even a small cattle operation can easily reach $300 a day.
Most ranchers interviewed in the last week were philosophical about "the disaster."
"It's just one of the things that happens," said Charles Day, who runs about 1,000 head of beef cattle on the Central Valley's east side not far from the highway to Yosemite.
"As of now," he said, "a small number of ranchers is being forced out of business <u>and every day we don't have rain, the number will increase."</u>
<u>"It's nothing to be ashamed of. The elements are against us."</u>
S.F. Examiner Feb. 1, 1976
# Ranchers want drought relief
## Beef prices are falling
Consumers can expect unusually low beef prices in supermarkets in the next few weeks as a result of drought-induced oversupply of slaughter cattle.
Meat packers say wholesale beef prices -- those paid by the big food chains -- are at their lowest in nearly five years.
"This may be a bad time for the producer," says Santa Cruz packer Larry Wolfsen, "but the consumer is reaping some vast benefits."
Wholesale prices at the first of the week were about 60 cent a pound, down 20 cents in the last month as farmers have been forced to sell their animals because the cattle don't have enough grass to feed on.
"We expect beef prices to come down a little more," said Bache and Co. commodities broker John Rende, "and then probably around the end of February they will go up again."
"We look for the prices to get a good deal higher," said Wolfsen, chief of the big Walti-Schilling packing house. "If they don't, we won't have any meat at all in a couple of years."
Retail outlets told the Examiner that they are planning sales of beef beginning next week and confirm that prices should be unusually low.
S.F. Chronicle Feb. 2, 1976
# Might as Well Be Spring
California's long, unseasonable spell of warm, dry weather is fooling the foliage into acting as if spring were here. A cherry tree on Berkeley's Hilldale avenue, for instance, yesterday had put out these blossoms, weeks ahead of schedule. And no wonder -- the temperature reached 76 yesterday in the East Bay. It was 70 in San Francisco -- not a record for the date, but still pretty warm.
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Nutrition Institute of America
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February 3, 1976
Mr. Ted Owens
Box 48
Cape Charles, Virginia
Dear Mr. Owens:
Enclosed find is a recent press release regarding the Paranormal Healing Division here at the Nutrition Institute of America.
We welcome any statement and medical documentation you may be able to send us regarding your experiences with paranormal healing. Where documentation is lacking, please send us the names and addresses of those patients and doctors who would be willing to give us statements for our files and future reports.
With the cooperation of doctors, patients and those actively involved with the healing arts, we will be able to help remove the cloak of mystery surrounding paranormal healing.
Thank you.
Best Wishes,
Carl Stone
Carl Stone
Research Director
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Nutrition Institute of America
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION
200 W 86 STREET, SUITE 17A
RESEARCH, EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024, PHONE 212-595-9244
ADVISORY BOARD
Gary Null, Director
Michael Casselman, M.D.
Elliot Silverstein, J.D.
Kyu Yong Lee, M.D.
Pierre Sajous, M.D.
James Dooling, Ph.D.
Max Warmbrand, D.O.
Elain Klibbe, Ph.D.
Leonard L. Steinman, L.L.B.
Lorraine Glemby, Ph.D.
Neil Kramer, J.D.
Nina Morgan, Ph.D.
Neils Lavreson, M.D.
Leo Wollman, M.D.
Elain Khan, Ph.D.
Samuel Klein, Ph.D.
Victor D. Berman, D. Sc.
Elliot Silverstein, S.D.
Elliot Goldwag, Ph.D.
COUNCIL OF NUTRITIONISTS
Steve Null
Mortoh Jacobe
Bruce E. Calnan
Herbert Bailey
Charles Lowe
Kimon H. Voyages
Kenneth Rosa
Sera F. Izquier
Irving Nathanson
Edmond R. Sealey
Allen Pressman
Pat Luongo
RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL STAFF
Carl Stone
Lesslie Lee
Neal Koeningsburg
Ron Milkie
Richard V. Benner
Russ Grigan
Ron McCulty
George Marcus
Richard Goldemberg
Michael Ricciardi
Byhal Phillips
Gail Greenbaum
Kyra Williams
Edith Stern
Margo Meginnis
Sharon Oswald
Tom Croft
James Dawson
Pat Whitcome
Jan Ewing
Ann Schlesinger
Saraa Dona
Katherine Dack
Ann Kerns
Press Release for March 1, 1976
Re: The Paranormal Healing Division of the Nutrition Institute of America.
For the past two and a half years, the Nutrition Institute of America has been collecting data in all areas of paranormal healing.
Our staff members have traveled around the world seeking scientific evidence of paranormal healing, especially in the areas of faith healing, psychic healing and spiritual healing.
The Institute's researchers and camera crews have concentrated their efforts on these phenomena in the United States, England, South America and the Philippines.
Our experience in this work has proved to our satisfaction that the gulf which exists between the medical community and those individuals and groups which are working with paranormal healing methods contributes ultimately to the harm of the patient.
The people most responsible for this gulf are those physicians who take the position that the healing arts are totally without merit and those healers who feel that their approach should replace medical science.
The N.I.A. Investigation of Paranormal Healing has left us with the conviction that there is a great need for a constructive dialogue to be established between the medical community and those actively engaged in the healing arts.
Certain healers have proven their ability to treat psychosomatic illness, a malady which has been left relatively unchecked since the days of the general practitioner. Other healers, in the Edgar Cayce tradition, have shown extraordinary accuracy in the area of diagnosis.
In this, the age of the specialist, doctors
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need assistance from healers in order to concentrate on the treatment of organic disorder. Healers, likewise, need the assistance of doctors when organic disorder is detected. Whether or not healers can affect an organic cure is a question yet to be answered.
The ego of certain factions of the medical fraternity must be relaxed in order for the patient to receive proper care. On the other hand, many healers are so far removed from the scientific world, they'd rather die than consult a physician; and that philosophy becomes the dictum they preach to their followers, many of whom die senseless deaths from the lack of medical attention.
The gulf between these two extremes is closing. A dialogue and a sharing of services between the two camps is quietly coming together.
Working toward that goal, the Nutrition Institute of America announces the formation of the Paranormal Healing Division, which will act as a clearinghouse for all paranormal healing data which is verified by a physician or a qualified scientist.
Because of fears, whether real or imagined, on the part of most physicians, healers and patients, the anonymity of those who request it will be honored without exception.
Like the parent organization (N.I.A.), the Paranormal Healing Division will operate under a non-profit status, relying on private contributions and the proceeds from its publications.
The Paranormal Healing Division will also conduct scientific experiments to test paranormal healing theories. We are currently working on a cancer experiment involving fifty healers and laboratory mice.
The Paranormal Healing Division welcomes any scientific data, such as medical case histories from patients who believe they have had a so-called 'miraculous cure', no matter how bizarre or unscientific the source of that cure, be it from a healer, a mechanical device, a holy place, or self-healing methods.
All data which can be verified with before-and-after medical evidence will be published for the general public in the form of N.I.A. Official Reports.
Accounts of paranormal healings should be sent to:
Paranormal Healing; % Carl Stone; Suite 17A; 200 West 86th Street; New York City, New York. 10024. Phone: (212) 595-7507
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March 26, 1976
Carl Stone, Research Director, Nutrition Institute of America
200 W. 86th Street, Suite 17A, New York, New York, 10024.
Dear Mr. Stone:
I have received your February 3, 1976, letter of inquiry...backed by eighteen scientists with varying degrees. That...is ironical.
Long years ago...a gentleman by the name of Edgar Cayce was arrested... for "practicing medicine without a license." So was I. Cayce had helped innumerable people...saved quite a few. So did I. When I was arrested...I was so infuriated at the injustice of it that I burned all of the thousands of documents that I had...hundreds of signed, notarized documents confirming that I had healed or saved from death the individuals concerned. This occurred in Forth Worth, Texas...in about 1956-57. I was a "Consultant Hypnotist" and had a sign on my door stating that I was not a doctor or psychiatrist...merely a lay hypnotist...and at my public trial the prosecution waved this sign at the jury and said this sign I had had on my door was a "license to practice medicine." My "practice of medicine" consisted of teaching individuals autohypnosis; also I used heterhypnosis with them to get them started; and then taught them various mental mechanisms which I am sure do not exist elsewhere in the world. I did not touch my pupils; I gave them nothing at all except suggestion. My only equipment was a Brain Wave Synchronizer, which has been described in both Newsweek and the Medical Journal.
What happened was...a small group of doctors swung through Texas and gave Texas doctors a quicky course in hypnosis...following which they were designated as "fully qualified medical hypnotists." Ha ha ha. This course, as I heard of it, lasted from 10-20 hours of instruction. I had practiced hypnosis for 14 years by that time. Actively. I knew more about heterohyp and autohyp than these doctors could learn in a lifetime. The AMA decided to make "test" cases out of the lay hypnotists practicing in Texas...Dallas, Houston, and Fort Worth...so I was selected to take the beating in Fort Worth...and a beating I took. The AMA' produced a "medical hypnotist" at my trial. Prior, I had both doctors and dentists, with whom I had worked...call me and offer to appear in my behalf at the trial. But a member of the AMA called me and warned me that any doctor or dentist who appeared at my trial would be blacklisted in the medical profession...so I had to reject the kind offer from those MD's who offered to appear in my behalf. Later I discovered that my own lawyer, Shelton, had been bought to "throw the trial" in favor of the AMA.
During the years of 1953 to 1957 I had discovered a revolutionary method of helping and healing people. It happened just after a UFO came down to the automobile containing my daughter Lornie and myself. We lost an hour of time. Following that, ideas streamed into my mind... which I wrote down in a book...and still have...and which I put into operation. I had been hired originally by Jack Danciger, an oil-rich multimillionaire in Fort Worth, Texas...to write his autobiography in a plush office in his downtown office building. But at night...I taught pupils this new system that I had discovered, at my apartment...and after long months of working for Mr. Danciger...I decided to quite working for him with an assured future with him...because by that time
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I had dozens of letters from my pupils stating how my system had helped them and saved them.
My logic worked thus: with Danciger I was merely helping one man aggrandize himself to the public. With my pupils...I was helping and saving dozens upon dozens. I preferred to go with teaching the new system of healing, so I quite Mr. Danciger. He told me that I was "insane" to do this...but at this time, 1976, I have become recognized as one of the world's greatest psychics...if not THE best...so perhaps I was right and Mr. Danciger was wrong. (He has since expired.) After leaving him, I opened a small office in Fort Worth, and went to work in earnest. The results which I obtained with pupils...were fantastic. One woman was brought in to me by her husband...sent by their family doctor. She came in, foul-smelling and drunk. Her husband explained that she had been through three mental institutions and had had several hundred shock treatments. Nothing had helped. I had this woman on her feet, sober, dressing to the teeth, and mentally on balance...within six weeks. And each year for two years thereafter her husband phoned me and thanked me...said that she had never regressed...that the entire family had become like a new family...and that he couldn't put a price on what I had brought about. (I am having to tell you his now from the top of my head...because I destroyed all of those wonderful records after being arrested.) A Mr. Don Whitehead brought in his wife, I recall, sent by their family doctor...because medicine could not save her. She had a very bad heart condition...was eight months pregnant...and when the baby arrived, she would die. Nothing that the doctors could do would be able to stop it. In the small time left to me, I used a combo of auto and hetero hyp, with transference to her family doctor...plus the mysterious techniques that I had in my Black Book. She had previously had a terrible history of childbirth...with one child she was three days in labor...but after my work she was 45 minutes in labor, and the doctor came rushing out to me and her husband...shook my hand...and told me that miraculously she had been so relaxed by my teaching methods...it had been a perfect delivery...she was quite well, and alive...and that very day she was able to go home...and several days later sent a basket of gifts to me and my little daughter. I could go on and on. Another man came to me because of alcoholism...and while training him I spotted some bad teeth and decided that toxicity from the bad teeth could be a contributing cause to his alcoholic condition...so I asked him to go to a dentist. He said that he had a phobia about dentists, and had not been to one in 14 years. I placed him under hypnosis (light waking), took him down the street to a dentist with whom I worked, the dentist pulled ten teeth, after which my pupil "awakened" and asked when the dentist would begin. This dentist told me that he had known my pupil in school...and asked me how I'd been able to bring him in, because the dentist knew about his phobia.
I trained judges, lawyers, doctors, an FBI agent, state undercover narcotics agents (narcs), helicopter pilots, a nuclear physicist from Indiana who had heard of my work and come to Texas, and so on. And they all told me how very much my training had improved them and helped them.
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But the damned small clique of AMA sharpies in Fort Worth decided that I had to go...because I had no degree. So they bounced me out of Fort Worth, on trumped up charges. (The main witness against me on the stand at my trial...was an outright liar; a brazen liar.) In later years, as I read Edgar Cayce's life history...and his being arrested in the same way and for the same reasons...made me very bitter against the AMA and how it operates and what it stands for (as of 1956-57.) At any rate...when I was arrested and disgraced in Fort Worth, that evening when I went home from the trial I got together all of the years of fastidious records that I had been keeping about each and every one of my hundreds of pupils...and burned them out in back of my apartment, in the alley. And I can assure you, positively and concretely...that was a terrible loss... which mankind could not afford.
In the years following...I discovered that I had many other psychic abilities besides healing...and of course, by now, it has been proven out by documented work with scientists and other responsible people. Since you are interested solely in healing...I will tell you that in 1965 a notice appeared in a Washington, D.C. newspaper, that a young female secretary, Brenda Sue Pennington, had been found, days later, in her apartment, with her head crushed in. Burglars had entered, attacked her, robbed her, and left her for dead. I contacted her family and asked permission to try and save her...because the newspaper flatly stated that she could not possibly live...and it asked for donations from people to pay her hospital and funeral bill, because her family was poor. Her family sent the police to come pick me up, along with my daughter Lornie...they got the permission of the hospital plus that of the doctor on the case...for me to try the experiment. So my daughter and I were taken to her hospital room, where she was under police guard. Lornie and I stood ten feet from the girl's bed. I used mental mechanisms given me by UFO entities just for this sort of thing...and from that moment on she began to live. At that time tubes were running in and out of her head and a machine was doing her breathing for her. As of 1974 she was still alive in Rainelle, West Virginia, at her home there, where she was taken by ambulance in 1965. I dropped by there and visited her and her parents. She had never fully recovered... because in crushing her head they had destroyed some of her functions... but she was alive, and living. This case...is on public record. Otto Binder, the prominent author, now deceased, described the case in a Saga article some years ago after checking it out.
My main work...during the past years...has been in the area of psi-force. And with UFO's. But psi-force can work on the invisible "life-field" which surrounds each human body. If I had the time and energy now... as well as the means...I could save and heal unlimited amounts of people... by using the Brain Wave Synchronizer, heterohyp and autohyp methods... plus the UFO techniques given to me. But I haven't the time, the energy, or the financial means.
If you wish to know more about my dynamic psychic work...contact Dr. Allen Hynek, astronomer at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Dr. Leo Sprinkle, well-known psychologist at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; Dr. Max Fogel, International Research Scientist for Mensa (of which I am a member) at 340 Brighton
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Road, Norristown, Pennsylvania; or Drs. Targ and Putoff, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California. These gentlemen...have been observing my work, through my cooperation with them...during the past years. It is quite safe to say...that no other psychic in the world...perhaps the entire history of the world...has done or can do... what I am doing, in the way that I am doing it and proving it with proper documentation.
Now I will add this before closing. Long years ago hypnosis was thought to be, by the medical profession...something akin to palmistry or astrology. Slowly but surely the medical profession discovered that hypnosis was quite real...and could be utilized as a tremendous tool for the medical profession. So they seized it away from the lay hypnotists (crushing them in the process) then they, the MD's, began fighting with the psychiatrists to see who would monopolize it. To me it was vastly amusing...here you had doctors, with a few weeks of training in the techniques and usages of hypnosis, calling themselves "medical hypnotists...with their Boards"...crucifying lay hypnotists who had spent 20 to 40 years in the practice and application of the art... and it is indeed an art. What should have been done, of course...the doctors should have employed the lay hypnotists and trained them along the lines that they wanted...and used them...as today "paramedics" are used in the field by MD's. A fusion, if you like, between the MD's and the lay hypnotists.
In like manner, the medical profession today has finally, finally realized that SOMETHING operates behind their limited applications of medicine...to save people...and that it stems from some psychic source. Some paranormal source. So...instead of crushing every "healing psychic" they can find, as they did the lay hypnotists...the AMA should, instead, offer the psychic healers "sanctuary" and train them to suit their AMA purposes and ethics...and work along with them...and continue to study them and their methods. Breakthroughs in discovery of heretofore unknown facts re psychic healing are sure to occur in this manner.
It gave me quite a start...to read your letter, and accompanying explanation. Because it is the very first, very first, intelligent approach by the medical profession which I have been able to witness in my entire life... toward a genuine search for Truth...which lies beyond the medical profession... but which can be bridged, ultimately...utilizing teamwork and cooperation between medical scientists and lay hypnotists and lay healers.
I know...what most do not know. There is a "life force envelope" which surrounds the human body, and which governs that human body (and brain and soul.) Teeth, of course, must still be pulled; an infected appendix must still be removed surgically, and so forth. But...miracles can be wrought IF the medical profession can learn how to communicate with, and work in tandem with, that invisible envelope around that human body. I learned long ago how to do it (I was always successful in healing stomach ulcers in a matter of weeks, for example...) and I obtained unbelievable results. But I shall never do it again. Once burned by the hot stove of AMA and wracked up traumatically by its crooked machinations...never again. But...the Truth lies there. And I can give you this much information, which took me long long years to learn. I regret that my records were burned. They would have been invaluable to you. All that I can offer you is my current reputation as one of the world's most powerful psychics... and my word in Truth as a former practitioner of the psychic healing arts.
FROM THE DESK OF
Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN)
Box 48
Cape Charles, Virginia 23310
February 11, 1976
PS... when I produced a UFO ("prediction," ha!) for Dr. Max Fogel, Mensa scientist, in a certain area of Va. at a certain time under certain conditions... he "stopped & thought" too. Gave me a signed confirm. The point: if I could produce a UFO... forget "predictions!" - for this noted scientist, Ted
Dear Dr. Putoff (and Dr. Targ), AKA Hal and Russ.....
Thank you very much...for the newsclip on the snowstorm. I appreciated hearing from you. Of course...the storm, and those to follow, are not "predictions". They are CAUSED. Just as the hurricane winds, tornados, record heat, record snow, lightning attack...were CAUSED in Chicago and its surrounding area...after I first notified you that I would CAUSE it to happen. Same with the Cleveland demonstration. Same with the France demonstration. All...CAUSED. By myself telepathing instructions to my UFO connection (also this time to my Stonehenge-Pyramid Power connection.) I know that it sounds ridiculous...but since I know it to be solid concrete fact...then I state it as it is. Have been too busy trying to stay afloat financially...to write the voluminous (and most enlightening) Egyptian Report (details of my trip to Egypt and what I discovered there...extremely important psi-force information!) But hope to get it done at some time in the near future. Meanwhile will continue to bring great storms and a lot of rain and snow (and dangerous lightning and dangerous high winds...but can't be helped) to California...in the weeks to come...until the 90 days has passed. When I perform the same type of miracle over and over and over and over...documenting it completely and thoroughly and calling the specifics in advance each time...you can rest assured that the miracles are quite quite real, and...CAUSED. If my performance were on-again off-again, hit and miss...then you could cry coincidence. But...when have I failed?
Owens
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Water trucks, common enough during the bone-dry summer season, are running at five times the normal daily rate, from well heads to watering troughs on the range lands.
In the cattle auction yard at Stockton, ordinarily quiet in the winter, animals are being sold at four times the normal volume and ranchers are losing money on each sale.
<u>The lack of rain to make the grass grow, and now the shortage of hay to replace the grass, have staggered California's cattle and calf industry.</u>
The drought is one of the main topics at the annual meeting of the American National Cattlemen convention in Phoenix.
<u>"I've seen it dry before,"</u> says Le Grand rancher Charles Day, <u>"but in my 57 years, I've never seen it this dry this long."</u>
At auctions up and down the Central Valley calves are being sold at as little as half the normal weight and at prices per pound considerably below what the rancher needs to repay rising costs.
Pairs, a cow and a calf, that sold for as much as $600 just three years ago, were sold at Stockton this week for $190. That price has plummeted nearly $100 in two weeks.
The alternative to selling, even at a loss, is worse. Alfalfa hay, the main replacement for grass, that cost $75 a ton in December is now going for almost $100, according to the Hay Growers Association here. Worse, there is very little left for sale and almost two months remain until new hay can be cut.
"The people who still have any hay," one rancher said, "are hanging on to it. Can you blame them?"
Hay from as far away as Idaho is being trucked into California at windfall profits for its growers and at disastrous prices for the ranchers and dairymen who have to buy.
The feed bill for even a small cattle operation can easily reach $300 a day.
Most ranchers interviewed in the last week were philosophical about "the disaster."
"It's just one of the things that happens," said Charles Day, who runs about 1,000 head of beef cattle on the Central Valley's east side not far from the highway to Yosemite.
"As of now," he said, "a small number of ranchers is being forced out of business <u>and every day we don't have rain, the number will increase."</u>
<u>"It's nothing to be ashamed of. The elements are against us."</u>
S.F. Examiner Feb. 1, 1976
# Ranchers want drought relief
## Beef prices are falling
Consumers can expect unusually low beef prices in supermarkets in the next few weeks as a result of drought-induced oversupply of slaughter cattle.
Meat packers say wholesale beef prices -- those paid by the big food chains -- are at their lowest in nearly five years.
"This may be a bad time for the producer," says Santa Cruz packer Larry Wolfsen, "but the consumer is reaping some vast benefits."
Wholesale prices at the first of the week were about 60 cent a pound, down 20 cents in the last month as farmers have been forced to sell their animals because the cattle don't have enough grass to feed on.
"We expect beef prices to come down a little more," said Bache and Co. commodities broker John Rende, "and then probably around the end of February they will go up again."
"We look for the prices to get a good deal higher," said Wolfsen, chief of the big Walti-Schilling packing house. "If they don't, we won't have any meat at all in a couple of years."
Retail outlets told the Examiner that they are planning sales of beef beginning next week and confirm that prices should be unusually low.
S.F. Chronicle Feb. 2, 1976
# Might as Well Be Spring
California's long, unseasonable spell of warm, dry weather is fooling the foliage into acting as if spring were here. A cherry tree on Berkeley's Hilldale avenue, for instance, yesterday had put out these blossoms, weeks ahead of schedule. And no wonder -- the temperature reached 76 yesterday in the East Bay. It was 70 in San Francisco -- not a record for the date, but still pretty warm.
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Nutrition Institute of America
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION
200 W. 86 STREET, SUITE 17A
"RESEARCH, EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT"
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024, PHONE 212-595-9244
ADVISORY BOARD
Gary Null, Director
Michael Casselman, M.D.
Elliot Silverstein, J.D.
Kyu Yong Lee, M.D.
Pierre Sajous, M.D.
James Dooling, Ph.D.
Max Warmbrand, D.O.
Elain Klibbe, Ph.D.
Leonard L. Steinman, L.L.B.
Lorraine Glemby, Ph.D.
Neil Kramer, J.D.
Nina Morgan, Ph.D.
Neils Lavreson, M.D.
Leo Wollman, M.D.
Elain Khan, Ph.D.
Samuel Klein, Ph.D.
Victor D. Berman, D. Sc.
Elliot Silverstein, S.D.
Elliot Goldwag, Ph.D.
COUNCIL OF NUTRITIONISTS
Steve Null
Morton Jacobe
Bruce E. Calnan
Herbert Bailey
Charles Lowe
Kimon H. Voyages
Kenneth Rosa
Sera F. Izquier
Irving Nathanson
Edmond R. Sealey
Allen Pressman
Pat Luongo
RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL STAFF
Carl Stone
Lesslie Lee
Neal Koeningsburg
Ron Milkie
Richard V. Benner
Russ Grigan
Ron McCulty
George Marcus
Richard Goldemberg
Michael Ricciardi
Byhal Phillips
Gail Greenbaum
Kyra Williams
Edith Stern
Margo Mcginnis
Sharon Oswald
Tom Croft
James Dawson
Pat Whitcome
Jan Ewing
Ann Schlesinger
Saraa Dona
Katherine Dack
Ann Kerns
February 3, 1976
Mr. Ted Owens
Box 48
Cape Charles, Virginia
Dear Mr. Owens:
Enclosed find is a recent press release regarding the Paranormal Healing Division here at the Nutrition Institute of America.
We welcome any statement and medical documentation you may be able to send us regarding your experiences with paranormal healing. Where documentation is lacking, please send us the names and addresses of those patients and doctors who would be willing to give us statements for our files and future reports.
With the cooperation of doctors, patients and those actively involved with the healing arts, we will be able to help remove the cloak of mystery surrounding paranormal healing.
Thank you.
Best Wishes,
Carl Stone
Carl Stone
Research Director
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Nutrition Institute of America
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION
200 W 86 STREET, SUITE 17A
RESEARCH, EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024, PHONE 212-595-9244
ADVISORY BOARD
Gary Null, Director
Michael Casselman, M.D.
Elliot Silverstein, J.D.
Kyu Yong Lee, M.D.
Pierre Sajous, M.D.
James Dooling, Ph.D.
Max Warmbrand, D.O.
Elain Klibbe, Ph.D.
Leonard L. Steinman, L.L.B.
Lorraine Glemby, Ph.D.
Neil Kramer, J.D.
Nina Morgan, Ph.D.
Neils Lavreson, M.D.
Leo Wollman, M.D.
Elain Khan, Ph.D.
Samuel Klein, Ph.D.
Victor D. Berman, D. Sc.
Elliot Silverstein, S.D.
Elliot Goldwag, Ph.D.
COUNCIL OF NUTRITIONISTS
Steve Null
Mortoh Jacobe
Bruce E. Calnan
Herbert Bailey
Charles Lowe
Kimon H. Voyages
Kenneth Rosa
Sera F. Izquier
Irving Nathanson
Edmond R. Sealey
Allen Pressman
Pat Luongo
RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL STAFF
Carl Stone
Lesslie Lee
Neal Koeningsburg
Ron Milkie
Richard V. Benner
Russ Grigan
Ron McCulty
George Marcus
Richard Goldemberg
Michael Ricciardi
Byhal Phillips
Gail Greenbaum
Kyra Williams
Edith Stern
Margo Meginnis
Sharon Oswald
Tom Croft
James Dawson
Pat Whitcome
Jan Ewing
Ann Schlesinger
Saraa Dona
Katherine Dack
Ann Kerns
Press Release for March 1, 1976
Re: The Paranormal Healing Division of the Nutrition Institute of America.
For the past two and a half years, the Nutrition Institute of America has been collecting data in all areas of paranormal healing.
Our staff members have traveled around the world seeking scientific evidence of paranormal healing, especially in the areas of faith healing, psychic healing and spiritual healing.
The Institute's researchers and camera crews have concentrated their efforts on these phenomena in the United States, England, South America and the Philippines.
Our experience in this work has proved to our satisfaction that the gulf which exists between the medical community and those individuals and groups which are working with paranormal healing methods contributes ultimately to the harm of the patient.
The people most responsible for this gulf are those physicians who take the position that the healing arts are totally without merit and those healers who feel that their approach should replace medical science.
The N.I.A. Investigation of Paranormal Healing has left us with the conviction that there is a great need for a constructive dialogue to be established between the medical community and those actively engaged in the healing arts.
Certain healers have proven their ability to treat psychosomatic illness, a malady which has been left relatively unchecked since the days of the general practitioner. Other healers, in the Edgar Cayce tradition, have shown extraordinary accuracy in the area of diagnosis.
In this, the age of the specialist, doctors
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need assistance from healers in order to concentrate on the treatment of organic disorder. Healers, likewise, need the assistance of doctors when organic disorder is detected. Whether or not healers can affect an organic cure is a question yet to be answered.
The ego of certain factions of the medical fraternity must be relaxed in order for the patient to receive proper care. On the other hand, many healers are so far removed from the scientific world, they'd rather die than consult a physician; and that philosophy becomes the dictum they preach to their followers, many of whom die senseless deaths from the lack of medical attention.
The gulf between these two extremes is closing. A dialogue and a sharing of services between the two camps is quietly coming together.
Working toward that goal, the Nutrition Institute of America announces the formation of the Paranormal Healing Division, which will act as a clearinghouse for all paranormal healing data which is verified by a physician or a qualified scientist.
Because of fears, whether real or imagined, on the part of most physicians, healers and patients, the anonymity of those who request it will be honored without exception.
Like the parent organization (N.I.A.), the Paranormal Healing Division will operate under a non-profit status, relying on private contributions and the proceeds from its publications.
The Paranormal Healing Division will also conduct scientific experiments to test paranormal healing theories. We are currently working on a cancer experiment involving fifty healers and laboratory mice.
The Paranormal Healing Division welcomes any scientific data, such as medical case histories from patients who believe they have had a so-called 'miraculous cure', no matter how bizarre or unscientific the source of that cure, be it from a healer, a mechanical device, a holy place, or self-healing methods.
All data which can be verified with before-and-after medical evidence will be published for the general public in the form of N.I.A. Official Reports.
Accounts of paranormal healings should be sent to:
Paranormal Healing; % Carl Stone; Suite 17A; 200 West 86th Street; New York City, New York. 10024. Phone: (212) 595-7507
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March 26, 1976
Carl Stone, Research Director, Nutrition Institute of America
200 W. 86th Street, Suite 17A, New York, New York, 10024.
Dear Mr. Stone:
I have received your February 3, 1976, letter of inquiry...backed by eighteen scientists with varying degrees. That...is ironical.
Long years ago...a gentleman by the name of Edgar Cayce was arrested... for "practicing medicine without a license." So was I. Cayce had helped innumerable people...saved quite a few. So did I. When I was arrested...I was so infuriated at the injustice of it that I burned all of the thousands of documents that I had...hundreds of signed, notarized documents confirming that I had healed or saved from death the individuals concerned. This occurred in Forth Worth, Texas...in about 1956-57. I was a "Consultant Hypnotist" and had a sign on my door stating that I was not a doctor or psychiatrist...merely a lay hypnotist...and at my public trial the prosecution waved this sign at the jury and said this sign I had had on my door was a "license to practice medicine." My "practice of medicine" consisted of teaching individuals autohypnosis; also I used heterhypnosis with them to get them started; and then taught them various mental mechanisms which I am sure do not exist elsewhere in the world. I did not touch my pupils; I gave them nothing at all except suggestion. My only equipment was a Brain Wave Synchronizer, which has been described in both Newsweek and the Medical Journal.
What happened was...a small group of doctors swung through Texas and gave Texas doctors a quicky course in hypnosis...following which they were designated as "fully qualified medical hypnotists." Ha ha ha. This course, as I heard of it, lasted from 10-20 hours of instruction. I had practiced hypnosis for 14 years by that time. Actively. I knew more about heterohyp and autohyp than these doctors could learn in a lifetime. The AMA decided to make "test" cases out of the lay hypnotists practicing in Texas...Dallas, Houston, and Fort Worth...so I was selected to take the beating in Fort Worth...and a beating I took. The AMA' produced a "medical hypnotist" at my trial. Prior, I had both doctors and dentists, with whom I had worked...call me and offer to appear in my behalf at the trial. But a member of the AMA called me and warned me that any doctor or dentist who appeared at my trial would be blacklisted in the medical profession...so I had to reject the kind offer from those MD's who offered to appear in my behalf. Later I discovered that my own lawyer, Shelton, had been bought to "throw the trial" in favor of the AMA.
During the years of 1953 to 1957 I had discovered a revolutionary method of helping and healing people. It happened just after a UFO came down to the automobile containing my daughter Lornie and myself. We lost an hour of time. Following that, ideas streamed into my mind... which I wrote down in a book...and still have...and which I put into operation. I had been hired originally by Jack Danciger, an oil-rich multimillionaire in Fort Worth, Texas...to write his autobiography in a plush office in his downtown office building. But at night...I taught pupils this new system that I had discovered, at my apartment...and after long months of working for Mr. Danciger...I decided to quite working for him with an assured future with him...because by that time
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I had dozens of letters from my pupils stating how my system had helped them and saved them.
My logic worked thus: with Danciger I was merely helping one man aggrandize himself to the public. With my pupils...I was helping and saving dozens upon dozens. I preferred to go with teaching the new system of healing, so I quite Mr. Danciger. He told me that I was "insane" to do this...but at this time, 1976, I have become recognized as one of the world's greatest psychics...if not THE best...so perhaps I was right and Mr. Danciger was wrong. (He has since expired.) After leaving him, I opened a small office in Fort Worth, and went to work in earnest. The results which I obtained with pupils...were fantastic. One woman was brought in to me by her husband...sent by their family doctor. She came in, foul-smelling and drunk. Her husband explained that she had been through three mental institutions and had had several hundred shock treatments. Nothing had helped. I had this woman on her feet, sober, dressing to the teeth, and mentally on balance...within six weeks. And each year for two years thereafter her husband phoned me and thanked me...said that she had never regressed...that the entire family had become like a new family...and that he couldn't put a price on what I had brought about. (I am having to tell you his now from the top of my head...because I destroyed all of those wonderful records after being arrested.) A Mr. Don Whitehead brought in his wife, I recall, sent by their family doctor...because medicine could not save her. She had a very bad heart condition...was eight months pregnant...and when the baby arrived, she would die. Nothing that the doctors could do would be able to stop it. In the small time left to me, I used a combo of auto and hetero hyp, with transference to her family doctor...plus the mysterious techniques that I had in my Black Book. She had previously had a terrible history of childbirth...with one child she was three days in labor...but after my work she was 45 minutes in labor, and the doctor came rushing out to me and her husband...shook my hand...and told me that miraculously she had been so relaxed by my teaching methods...it had been a perfect delivery...she was quite well, and alive...and that very day she was able to go home...and several days later sent a basket of gifts to me and my little daughter. I could go on and on. Another man came to me because of alcoholism...and while training him I spotted some bad teeth and decided that toxicity from the bad teeth could be a contributing cause to his alcoholic condition...so I asked him to go to a dentist. He said that he had a phobia about dentists, and had not been to one in 14 years. I placed him under hypnosis (light waking), took him down the street to a dentist with whom I worked, the dentist pulled ten teeth, after which my pupil "awakened" and asked when the dentist would begin. This dentist told me that he had known my pupil in school...and asked me how I'd been able to bring him in, because the dentist knew about his phobia.
I trained judges, lawyers, doctors, an FBI agent, state undercover narcotics agents (narcs), helicopter pilots, a nuclear physicist from Indiana who had heard of my work and come to Texas, and so on. And they all told me how very much my training had improved them and helped them.
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But the damned small clique of AMA sharpies in Fort Worth decided that I had to go...because I had no degree. So they bounced me out of Fort Worth, on trumped up charges. (The main witness against me on the stand at my trial...was an outright liar; a brazen liar.) In later years, as I read Edgar Cayce's life history...and his being arrested in the same way and for the same reasons...made me very bitter against the AMA and how it operates and what it stands for (as of 1956-57.) At any rate...when I was arrested and disgraced in Fort Worth, that evening when I went home from the trial I got together all of the years of fastidious records that I had been keeping about each and every one of my hundreds of pupils...and burned them out in back of my apartment, in the alley. And I can assure you, positively and concretely...that was a terrible loss... which mankind could not afford.
In the years following...I discovered that I had many other psychic abilities besides healing...and of course, by now, it has been proven out by documented work with scientists and other responsible people. Since you are interested solely in healing...I will tell you that in 1965 a notice appeared in a Washington, D.C. newspaper, that a young female secretary, Brenda Sue Pennington, had been found, days later, in her apartment, with her head crushed in. Burglars had entered, attacked her, robbed her, and left her for dead. I contacted her family and asked permission to try and save her...because the newspaper flatly stated that she could not possibly live...and it asked for donations from people to pay her hospital and funeral bill, because her family was poor. Her family sent the police to come pick me up, along with my daughter Lornie...they got the permission of the hospital plus that of the doctor on the case...for me to try the experiment. So my daughter and I were taken to her hospital room, where she was under police guard. Lornie and I stood ten feet from the girl's bed. I used mental mechanisms given me by UFO entities just for this sort of thing...and from that moment on she began to live. At that time tubes were running in and out of her head and a machine was doing her breathing for her. As of 1974 she was still alive in Rainelle, West Virginia, at her home there, where she was taken by ambulance in 1965. I dropped by there and visited her and her parents. She had never fully recovered... because in crushing her head they had destroyed some of her functions... but she was alive, and living. This case...is on public record. Otto Binder, the prominent author, now deceased, described the case in a Saga article some years ago after checking it out.
My main work...during the past years...has been in the area of psi-force. And with UFO's. But psi-force can work on the invisible "life-field" which surrounds each human body. If I had the time and energy now... as well as the means...I could save and heal unlimited amounts of people... by using the Brain Wave Synchronizer, heterohyp and autohyp methods... plus the UFO techniques given to me. But I haven't the time, the energy, or the financial means.
If you wish to know more about my dynamic psychic work...contact Dr. Allen Hynek, astronomer at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Dr. Leo Sprinkle, well-known psychologist at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; Dr. Max Fogel, International Research Scientist for Mensa (of which I am a member) at 340 Brighton
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Road, Norristown, Pennsylvania; or Drs. Targ and Putoff, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California. These gentlemen...have been observing my work, through my cooperation with them...during the past years. It is quite safe to say...that no other psychic in the world...perhaps the entire history of the world...has done or can do... what I am doing, in the way that I am doing it and proving it with proper documentation.
Now I will add this before closing. Long years ago hypnosis was thought to be, by the medical profession...something akin to palmistry or astrology. Slowly but surely the medical profession discovered that hypnosis was quite real...and could be utilized as a tremendous tool for the medical profession. So they seized it away from the lay hypnotists (crushing them in the process) then they, the MD's, began fighting with the psychiatrists to see who would monopolize it. To me it was vastly amusing...here you had doctors, with a few weeks of training in the techniques and usages of hypnosis, calling themselves "medical hypnotists...with their Boards"...crucifying lay hypnotists who had spent 20 to 40 years in the practice and application of the art... and it is indeed an art. What should have been done, of course...the doctors should have employed the lay hypnotists and trained them along the lines that they wanted...and used them...as today "paramedics" are used in the field by MD's. A fusion, if you like, between the MD's and the lay hypnotists.
In like manner, the medical profession today has finally, finally realized that SOMETHING operates behind their limited applications of medicine...to save people...and that it stems from some psychic source. Some paranormal source. So...instead of crushing every "healing psychic" they can find, as they did the lay hypnotists...the AMA should, instead, offer the psychic healers "sanctuary" and train them to suit their AMA purposes and ethics...and work along with them...and continue to study them and their methods. Breakthroughs in discovery of heretofore unknown facts re psychic healing are sure to occur in this manner.
It gave me quite a start...to read your letter, and accompanying explanation. Because it is the very first, very first, intelligent approach by the medical profession which I have been able to witness in my entire life... toward a genuine search for Truth...which lies beyond the medical profession... but which can be bridged, ultimately...utilizing teamwork and cooperation between medical scientists and lay hypnotists and lay healers.
I know...what most do not know. There is a "life force envelope" which surrounds the human body, and which governs that human body (and brain and soul.) Teeth, of course, must still be pulled; an infected appendix must still be removed surgically, and so forth. But...miracles can be wrought IF the medical profession can learn how to communicate with, and work in tandem with, that invisible envelope around that human body. I learned long ago how to do it (I was always successful in healing stomach ulcers in a matter of weeks, for example...) and I obtained unbelievable results. But I shall never do it again. Once burned by the hot stove of AMA and wracked up traumatically by its crooked machinations...never again. But...the Truth lies there. And I can give you this much information, which took me long long years to learn. I regret that my records were burned. They would have been invaluable to you. All that I can offer you is my current reputation as one of the world's most powerful psychics... and my word in Truth as a former practitioner of the psychic healing arts.
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