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FROM THE DESD OF
Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN)

Box 48
Cape Charles, Virginia
23310

TO THE SCIENTISTS (Jan. 17, 1974)..........

If a prophet...psychic...makes tremendous, spectacular prophecies...then I think it should be brought out to the people of the land. I have done so...without a doubt I am the outstanding "prophet" of the century...yet with the exception of a few small mentions in national publications, my great prophecies have been ignored and buried. On page "A" attached, see my prophecy: "In 1973, it will become clear that the U.S. is no longer a government of, by, and for the people. Ted Owens." Now, on page "B" attached, see the same words (mine were written in 1972...these were written in early 1974). NO OTHER LIVING PSYCHIC MADE THIS PREDICTIONS. And just to spell it out more clearly, see p. 72 of the same book, "Predictions For 1973" by Glenn McWane: "Our system of politics will begin to break down on a massive scale. This will cause an upheaval among the people of the U.S. on a scale never before witnessed.....More corrupt politicians in high places will be exposed, and punished. The people of the U.S. will be sickened by the wrong actions, and wrong-doings of our top politicians....The political scene, in 1973...will be a "no-man's land", a "mine field" it would be well worth staying out of. Ted Owens." Gentlemen...all devastatingly accurate, spelled out in detail. Yet...have my outstanding prophecies...not made by any other living psychic...been brought forth to the people of the U.S.? Oh no! Let me tell you...I am, compared to the other "psychics"...a large diamond compared to kernels of corn. Delusions of grandeur? Well, you look at my work in this file alone. What do you think? It is all there.

Owens (PK MAN)


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A2 Virginian-Pilot, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1974

PREDICTIONS FOR 1973 91
in areas that will cut down on air pollution.--Bertie Catchings

The ecology of our earth will worsen in 1973. There are too few people and groups fighting to improve ecology. They are no match against the powerful corporations which are polluting the atmosphere.

In 1973, the air and water of the earth will grow even more poisonous. People will sicken and die.

Nature itself will grow angrier and will retaliate against mankind, as only nature can.

Nature's hand will be turned against man in 1973.

If the cut on your hand does not automatically heal as it always has done, but develops infection, ask Nature why it is "striking" on its job.--Ted Owens

Water pollution will reach its critical peak in many states in 1973.

New advances will be made in biological control of insects.--Del St. Clair

Millions will be spent on pollution to no avail.--Christopher Murphy

The anti-pollution drive will begin to pay real dividends. Several industries will be forced to realign almost completely. Several hastily passed

New Disease

Robert Stanley, 45, of Martinez, Calif., has a disease new to the annals of medicine. His body contains a mysterious chemical which will not allow him to heal properly from a wound. His cuts heal, but very slowly and have no strength. As a result, his scars readily pull apart. Researchers agree that no physician has ever recognized or described the illness. (UPI)

TO THE SCIENTISTS (Jan. 17, 1974)..........this page, above, is torn from the book, "Predictions For 1973" by Glenn McWane, Award Books, AQ1032, $1.25. The newsclips is from this week's newspaper. I made my prediction, above, in 1972. IF THIS TERRIFYING ACCURACY ON MY PART DOES NOT FRIGHTEN YOU, NOTHING EVER WILL! Understand fully... I predicted, in advance...a new disease (and specified it in detail) NEVER BEFORE KNOWN TO THE WORLD.

I am pointing this out...and other of my spectacular predictions... because no one else, repeat no one, has paid any attention to prophecies not made by any other living psychic! It is laughable and humorous...the greatest psychic in the history of the world... being ignored by major publications (which headline the work of other psychics, barely mentioning my own work...and never my main, best predictions!)

(Owens X PK Man)


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Award 36 Book PREDICTIONS FOR 1973 - Glenn McShane

states will turn to state lotteries as a way of increasing their incomes.

Vietnam prisoners of war will be released. There will continue to be a mystery concerning what happened to many of the missing prisoners.

Entertainment will continue along the trends of the past couple of years.-Contesa Amaya

Anarchy and rebellion will be the password for 1973.

You will be reading about corruption in the police, government agencies, feuds between racial groups, anti-war demonstrations in the coming year.

There will be an economic breakdown in the U.S., with conditions getting harder and harder.

There will be a national "mania" against war, warlike leaders, and anything to do with war.

In 1973, it will become clear that the U.S. is no longer a government of, by, and for the people.-Ted Owens

There will a much greater sales pitch, both for new and used cars. A repair-insurance policy will be introduced.

There will be much more service-oriented scouting and work with local government in welfare, civic improvement, and hospitals.

There will be productive New Year's hope, joy and relief of tension in communication of

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Award 72 Book PREDICTIONS FOR 1973 - Glenn McShane

tions, marriage, and divorce laws. Women's Lib is a strong drive to make passive and indifferent men face up to their obligations.-Brother Stanley Spears

Our new President will be unable, physically and mentally, to cope with the massive pressures, both internally and externally, of this nation.

Our system of politics will begin to break down on a massive scale. This will cause an upheaval among the people of the U.S. on a scale never before witnessed.

The military machine will run, or try to run, the country from behind the scenes.

More corrupt politicians in high places will be exposed, and punished. The people of the U.S. will be sickened by the wrong actions, and wrongdoings of our top politicians. They will begin to take action to bring this country back under the control of its people as it once was.

There will be large-scale political assassinations.

The political scene, in 1973 . . . will be a "no-man's land," a "mine field" it would be well worth staying out of-Ted Owens


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JAN. 5, 1974

By Don Hill
The Virginian-Pilot Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON.

A VOICE from Richard Nixon's past shrilled out in Washington last week. It belonged to Helen Gahagan Douglas, a lady of icy blue eyes who was defeated for the U.S. Senate in 1950 by such classy Nixonian lines as: "Helen Gahagan Douglas is pink right down to her underwear."

Mrs. Douglas has survived -- "with honor" as they noted at the Womens National Democratic Club -- but not unscathed. She carries a chilling fear that this republic won't survive.

A theme is coming to life in this country in recent months.

I first encountered it in one of those mass addressographed mailings we're all being inundated with. But this one was different. No return address; a legend on the envelope promised "Mr. D. Hill" that on the inside would be disclosed the previously unpublicized name of someone directly responsible for the Watergate mess. The letter within came from Common Cause, a citizens' political reform group. The Watergate culprit? "Mr. D. Hill."

Helen Gahagan Douglas' speech last week to the largest crowd ever to address a Womens National Democratic Club luncheon in the club's 50-year history had a subtle weave of themes, but this was the foremost:

If government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" is to live on, the people involved must speak out.

"We know what they (the Nixonians) have done," said Mrs. Douglas, "but do we know what they were aiming at?"

The secret attack upon Cambodia was an attack "upon us," she said.

The "double entry bookkeeping" by the Pentagon in Southeast Asia to conceal bombing was "designed to deceive us," she said.

The secrecy of the Nixon administration, she said, is "an attack upon us."

Recent attacks on the press, TV and radio are attacks "on our right to know," she said.

And she quoted Thomas Jefferson's 1816 letter to Col. Charles Yancey: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

Impeach Nixon?

"Is there any other course open to us?" demanded Helen Gahagan Douglas.

Born in the first year of this century, Mrs. Douglas was destined to more fame than as a mere footnote to history. At 22, she became an overnight star in the Broadway play, "Dreams for Sale."

Six years later, she turned full time to opera.

Her opera prospects were great, but something happened. On a trip through Bavaria and Austria in the 1930s -- when Nazism was fomenting -- she sensed the hair on her neck rising in horror. A British patron of the arts told her in a coffee house, "Do you know what's wrong with the world? The Jews." It hit her with a terrible forboding.

She was so sickened, she wasn't even able to sing German songs for years. She returned home to study voluminously and to join anti-Nazi causes.

She entered Congress in 1944, two years before Richard Nixon. From 1946 until 1950, the terms they served together, she voted for and he against funds for rural electrification, money for children's lunch programs, extension of the minimum wage, rent controls, and loans for tenant farmers.

Get this: she voted against, he for, a bill that would have forced executive agencies to make confidential information available to congress.

In the 1950 Senate campaign, she issued a "blue book" detailing their votes on the issues. Nixon's campaign, run by Murray Chotiner (still a White House aide), issued a "pink sheet" charging her with "Communist-line foreign policy votes." In that time of setbacks in Korea and the McCarthy era, it was enough to beat her badly.

In her explanations since will sound familiar. At first, she said he never called her a Communist, which may have been a "very clever" thing to do.

One could understand a Helen Gahagan Douglas who, bitter and cynical, gadded about the country gloating over the fall which her old tormenter had taken.

Instead, you tend to listen respectfully to the wise and charming lady who tells you, "Oh, no. I'm not glad. I wish he'd been a great president."

But it's easy to see how bemused 1973's events could make a woman who is able to say without a blush, "I have to do what I think is right. That's hard enough to figure out. I can't figure out all the smart things to do, too. We have to figure out what is right. And do it."

Mrs. Douglas was introduced for her speech last week by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, no kin except -- as the club president said -- "related ... by courage." He said, "I have the honor to present our 1st Amendment friend, Helen Douglas."

"The appointment of Gerald Ford fascinates me," Mrs. Douglas said.

Was it for past administrative experience?

"Nope."

For leadership in foreign or domestic policy?

"Nope. He was accepted because he was believed to be honest. Curious. I keep thinking about Diogenes these days. Has honesty become so rare in our great country that this quality alone without other attributes qualifies one to hold the highest office in the land or the second ...?"

The time has come, she said, to impeach Mr. Nixon, as the Constitution provides, and to try him, and either to convict him or to acquit him, and to have done.

"The people -- we have been very silent and it is time we move if we are going to save government of the people, by the people, and for the people."

So said Helen Gahagan Douglas, a lady who knew Richard Nixon when.


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Six European nations Sunday banned nearly 30 million motor vehicles from their roads in an effort to save enough fuel to see them through the winter. Bicycles, horses, and pedestrians took over the roads.

Little grumbling was reported among the 94 million inhabitants of West Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

For Holland it was the fourth consecutive car-free Sunday, and for Belgium the second. It was the first time for the four other nations in their effort to beat the Arab oil squeeze.

Police said there were few violators. In Belgium, violaters face fines of up to $75,000, in West Germany up to $60,000.

TO THE SCIENTISTS (Jan. 17, 1974)..........

I quote from the book, "What The Seers Predict For 1971" by Brad Steiger and Warren Smith, Lancer Books 77711-100, $1: "What will it be like in these days ahead to be living in the U.S.? There will be millions of cars just standing on the roads and streets...good, new cars...but no gas to go in them, no money to buy gas anyway or buy parts. No one to repair them, either." This quote was Ted Owens, PK Man speaking, in the chapter devoted to me and my work. You can see how devastatingly accurate my prediction was...at this point in time. That prediction was made in 1970. On p. 145, just the other side of the page, is this, by me: "President Nixon will not end in office. Something unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office." Is this accurate? I have told you that I am the greatest psychic in the history of the world. Perhaps you can now get an idea of it. Certainly no other psychics had this information in advance!!

- Gwene (PK Man)


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XV
Earth Changes

Earth changes in 1973 will be utterly shocking. Violent floods and earthquakes will change much of the earth's surface. Volcanoes will erupt in great numbers. Nature will begin to vent its anger at mankind. The Earth is a living thing, and the humans upon its surface have hurt it. Therefore, there will be earth changes, manipulated by Nature to punish humans. The recent okaying of the pipeline across Alaska--the last of America's great natural wildlife areas--was the last straw!--Ted Owens

First of all, I would like to say that I was right again by stating that California would not be swept into the sea. So many people in my line of work have set forth certain dates on which California would crumble into the ocean. One, I believe, was April of 1972. I think California is going to be here a long, long time. I do think we will have a very, very sharp earthquake, but as I have said over and over again, we are going to

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TO THE SCIENTISTS.......... Jan. 17, 1974
Here is a page from the book "Predictions For 1973" by Glenn McWane, Award Books, AQ1032, $1.25.
On this page you will please note that I warned the people of earth, and the U.S., of the SI and Nature punishment. Attached is a sample of it, in newsclip. And at this time...there are terrible floods in Oregon (the entire State has just been declared a disaster area; there has just been snowstorms in southern Los Angeles and southern California...almost unheard of. The weather, in short...has "gone crazy". But...Nature is not crazy. There is a reason for every single thing Nature does.
Weeks ago I had a phone call long distance from Phoenix, Arizona...a radio station...live on the air, I presume..and the host asked me what I might have to do with the "freakish weather" out there. I explained that I was trying to keep it warm here on the East Coast where I live (and it has indeed been like summer weather here...it is 70 today!)
I also told Larry Angel on his TV show in Baltimore approx. eight weeks ago that I would try to keep it warm here...and let the cold and storms go to the West....and this is what has caused the freakish weather! My mind...plus the SI's helping me...plus the anger of Nature.

Owens
(PK Man)


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# Weather Damage Tops

DAILY COURIER-DEMOCRAT, Russellville, Ark., Thursday, January 3, 1974--3-B

# State News Stories In 1973

By BILL SIMMONS
Associated Press Writer

The rains that made high ground precious in the spring also produced the top news story of the year in Arkansas.

That got the nod over another streak of foul weather--tornadoes that raked Jonesboro, Harrison and Batesville as well as other places.

Spring floods, which inundated millions of acres of farm land and also some residential areas, received 205 points and the tornadoes 201 points in a poll of Associated Press member newspapers and broadcasters in Arkansas.

It was a long drop to Nos. 3 and 4 in the survey. The general problem of an energy crisis wound up third with 140 points and the Texas International Airliner crash near Mena was fourth with 137.

Participants in the poll were asked to consider 24 nominations for "story of the year" and to rate 10 of them in a 1-to-10 priority. A No. 1 rating was counted as 10 points, No. 2 as nine points, and so on.

The top two stories directly involved the weather, but the next two also had weather connections.

Early this year, when the energy crisis was being forecast, petroleum officials said the prospect for gasoline shortages was due partly to the unusually long duration of the winter and the resultant high demand for fuel oil.

The TI Convair crash, which killed 11 persons, came when the aircraft was descending to spot landmarks during a rainstorm over Black Fork Mountain, 14 miles northwest of Mena.

Other stories in the top 10:
No. 5: The case of state Sen. Guy H. "Mutt" Jones of Conway, 119 points.
No. 6: The death of former Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller, 116 points.
No. 7: The controversy sparked by Dr. Grant Cooper when he told his classes at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock that he was a Communist and would teach history from that viewpoint, 102 points.
No. 8: The General Assembly's dispute over the amount of state aid to be given to cities and counties, 86 points.
No. 9: The legislature's accelerated highway development program coupled with a one-cent per gallon increase in the gasoline tax, 76 points.
No. 10: The Democratic party controversy in which Craig Campbell was chosen state executive secretary, 71 points.

Matters involving the environment and pollution frequently were in the news during the year, but none were ranked in the top 10.

The controversy over Arkansas Power & Light Co. plans to build a coal-fired generator ranked No. 11, the dispute over the Corps of Engineers plan to channelize the Cache River was No. 13, and the legislative fuss over Gov. Dale Bumpers' proposal for setting aside wilderness areas ranked No. 24.

The case of Jones involved not only his sentencing, but also controversy stemming from his continued service in the Senate and also a suit seeking his disbarment. All of it emanated from his conviction last December on federal income tax charges.

State Sen. Joe Lee Anderson of Helena also was convicted on federal tax charges. He resigned from the Senate. Not being a lawyer, no disbarment proceeding was involved in his case. The Anderson story was No. 17 in the survey.

The case of Sam Weems, the prosecutor who was acquitted on federal charges of filing a false grant application but later was disbarred in another action, was No. 14.

Illegal campaign donations by Harry Oswald and electric cooperatives was placed 12th. This category included charges--pending--that Arkansas milk producers also made illegal donations to politics.

Among the other categories considered in the survey:

Obscenity cases, particularly as they involved "Deep Throat;" the crash of an Air Force C130 south of Fort Smith; the resignation of Dr. Lawrence A. Davis as chancellor of the UA-Pine Bluff; the computer foulup that delayed payment of some state income tax refunds; UFOs; Jefferson County authorities investigate after police resignations; and the criminal libel charge against Joseph Weston, publisher of a weekly newspaper.


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FROM THE BOOK "WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT FOR 1972" BY BRAD STEIGER (LANCER BOOKS)

would not attempt to pinpoint time exactly, because "... in psychic perspective, one can most times tell you what is going to happen, but not exactly when it is going to happen. That's just how it is."

Ted warned us that his material would probably "shock, horrify, and or infuriate your readers. But I can't help it. I'm telling it just like it is."

The spokesmen for the SI's told us that we would have to understand that he and the SI's were presently forced to give negative demonstrations in order to bring financial cooperation from the U.S. Government. "Just as Moses did in his time, and in exactly Moses' own way," he commented grimly. "By plagues."

Assuming that the U.S. Government will still not have cooperated with Ted and the SI's by the time this book is released, here is what Owens sees in store for 1972:

**Weather Phenomena**

During the winter of 1971-'72, there will be unprecedented weather phenomena. Snowstorms, vast and deep. Hurricane winds and unseasonal tornados. Rainstorms marked by violent lightning attacks. Terrible floods.

In the summer of 1972, there will come searing heat and drought. Fires will start mysteriously, everywhere, with no logical explanations. Hurricanes will strike Florida.

Then there will come another winter of record-breaking snowstorms, hurricane winds, and tornados.

**Money and the Stock Market**

By 1972 the Stock Market will either already have crashed to bits, worse than in 1929, or it will do so shortly. The false god of money will be taken away from the American people. Hopefully, it will be replaced by some of our older, truer values and the old pioneer spirit.

**Animals, Birds, and Fish**

Animal lovers may now know that PK similar to that planted long ago in Egyptian tombs to attack and destroy

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TO THE SCIENTISTS..........Feb. 18, 1974

In order to show you further...my outstanding psychic ability (in this case, precog) above is a page torn from the book "What The Seers Predict For 1972" by Brad Steiger, published by Lancer Books, $1.25, # 78682-125. You will note that I "called the shot" correctly...unprecedented weather phenomena...for the year 1972. In Jerome Eden's article* he points out that a compendium of weather anomalies compiled by the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, scores 1972 as one of the most freakish weather years on record. I.e., "unprecedented".

Owens

PK / Mant

* Taken from magazine "Caveat Emptor." (See next page)


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5/31/73 Nature's attack: my prediction.

# World Weather Went Wild in '72

## Extremes in Temperature, Wind, Rain

By MAX WILDE
Washington Post News Service

GENEVA--Most people tend to exaggerate the ordeal of that dreadful winter or the glory of that heavenly summer the more remote in time the remembered seasons become. But 1972 has some records of weather that will support the memory for years. It was freakish all over the world, according to a writer in the latest bulletin of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva.

In Europe, Ireland had the coldest June in 100 years. Britain had never shivered in June so much since 1916. But Moscow had the hottest summer ever. For the Russians, however, that wasn't the prospect earlier in the year. Ice on Soviet Union rivers stayed a month longer than usual and reached a thickness of 25 inches on the Sea of Azov, the Black Sea, and the Caspian Sea.

There was more rain in Spain than in any year since 1859. Floods in the La Mancha area alone hit vineyards so hard that they lost three-quarters of the vintage. But there was so little snow in the Alps at one period that winter sport resorts lost thousands of pounds in revenue.

Whirlwinds in Finland in July blew down 70 square miles of forest. Gales that reached the astonishing velocity of 160 miles per hour in the Harz Mountains killed 54 people in the Netherlands and West and East Germany, smashed thousands of houses, and uprooted millions of trees.

Canada's cold 1972 has spawned 10 times the average number of icebergs into the western North Atlantic this year.

Forty-eight weather disasters hit the United States. The worst was Hurricane Agnes in June, which brought devastating floods to Pennsylvania, New York State, Virginia, Maryland, and Florida, killed 122 people, and cost $3.5 billion.

Apart from hurricanes and floods bashing the United States, Sioux Falls in South Dakota recorded the coldest January since 1918--minus 36 degrees fahrenheit--but only a month later Concordia in Kansas sweated in plus 86 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest in February in 87 years.

At the other side of the world at the same time, heat in India killed 750 people, mostly in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Wind and rain wrecked 50 ships on the west coast of Japan in March, knocked down 3,309 houses, and killed 464 people in June and July. More than 100 people died in Hong Kong when an incredible 26 inches of rain in June set off disastrous landslides.

Australia suffered the same extremes. In March the Alice Springs region had seven times as much rain as in a normal year, while in Western Australia the most severe drought in recorded history was in its fourth year.

Perhaps the most violent quirk of weather was registered by the Rhine. On Oct. 20 the river at Basel was at its lowest volume in 25 years. Thirty-four days later, Nov. 23, it had been so high only four times in the previous 60 years. Four times the normal November rainfall over Switzerland did it.


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from "Caveat Emptor" magazine
Jan. - Feb. 1974

# UFOS AND WEATHER CHAOS

## By Jerome Eden

(Editor's Note: Jerome Eden is the author of Orgone Energy - The Answer to Atomic Suicide. His new book, Planet in Trouble, gives the factual material and background for the assertions made in this article. Both books are published by Exposition Press, Jericho, N.Y. Mr. Eden has conducted weather-control experiments under federal regulations, based on the work of the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich.)

**********

Planetary meteorologists are still shaking their heads over the incredible weather chaos that struck the planet Earth in 1972. A compendium of weather anomalies compiled by the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, scores 1972 as one of the most freakish weather years on record. Here are a few highlights:

In 1972, 48 weather disasters hit the United States, with hurricane Agnes causing loss of life and $3.5 billion in destruction in Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Maryland and Florida. Spain received its heaviest rains since 1859, while lack of sufficient snowfall in the nearby Alps ruined winter sports there. Canadian temperatures dropped to unseasonable lows that were accompanied by ten times the normal number of icebergs spawned in the Atlantic.

The other side of the weather picture showed record heat in India, with hundreds dead. Killer windstorms on the east coast of Japan wrecked or sank 50 ships, bowled over more than 3,000 homes and left 464 persons dead. Australia got its share of weather miseries, with eastern portions of the country receiving seven times the normal rainfall. Residents of western Australia suffered under the fourth straight year of severe drought, the severest drought ever recorded there.

Depths of water in the Rhine River fluctuated crazily. In October, water depths at Basel were at their lowest levels in 25 years. However, in November, the water level had risen to a level reached only four times in 60 years.

Moscow residents sweltered in record summer heat and lack of rainfall, while Ireland struggled through its coldest June in 100 years!

Extremes of highs and lows were noted on many U.S. thermometers - while high winds of gale force smashed many European cities. This is only a brief smattering of the weather chaos in 1972. When the records are all in, however, 1973 weather anomalies may very well top anything that occurred in 1972.

There is no doubt in the mind of any serious weather student - "Something screwy is going on in the atmosphere!"

National Enquirer
July 22, 1973

# Weather Records Show 1972 Was Most Unusual Year

The year 1972 was one of the most freakish in recorded weather history, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

In a stormy departure from the fairly consistent weather pattern that prevailed from 1968 to 1971, 1972 brought record drought and rainfall, and some of the highest and lowest temperatures ever registered, the organization's report showed.

For example, torrential rainfall in Czechoslovakia caused the Slana River to rise beyond flood stages recorded over the past five centuries. But for the first time in 96 years, Phoenix, Ariz., received no rain during the first quarter of the year.

Madrid, Spain, registered more annual rainfall - over 27 1/2 inches - than in well over a century.

At Tosayamada, Japan, almost that much rain fell in a single 24-hour period during a typhoon.

Australia recorded its hottest summer and coldest winter ever.

And one of the most violent storms in European history blew over Brocken, East Germany, where winds were clocked at over 150 m.p.h.

Ten times as many icebergs as usual were reported in the North Atlantic.

And on the east coast of the U.S., hurricane Agnes was responsible for one of the worst natural disasters in the nation's history, causing 122 deaths and $3 1/2 billion damage.


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HERRICANE BECKY HAS BEEN MADE AND IS QUITE POWERFUL NOW. I TOLD YOU JULY 21, 5 WEEKS AGO, THE UFO'S AND I WOULD TRY TO PRODUCE THIS FULL HERRICANE WITHIN 2 WEEKS. IT HAS TAKEN 5 WEEKS. OF COURSE, ALMA WAS ALMOST A HERRICANE, BUT NOT QUITE. AT ANY RATE, WITHIN THE SPACE OF 5 WEEKS THE SI#S AND I HAVE PRODUCED ONE FULL HERRICANE AND ANOTHER NEAR HERRICANE. WE ARE CONTINUING OUR WORK TO PRODUCE MORE HERRICANES IN THE WEEKS AND MONTHS AHEAD. BECAUSE OF MY ENTERANCE INTO THE HERRICANE-PRODUCING PICTURE, AFTER BEING OUT OF IT FOR LONG YEARS, THIS HERRICANE SEASON SHOULD BE MUCH MORE ACTIVE THAN IN YEARS. THE REASON FOR THESE PRODUCED HERRICANES IS TO DEMONSTRATE SI (UFO) REALITY AND POWER*
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CONGRATULATIONS IN YOUR BOOKS "SEERS PREDICT FOR 71" AND "PREDICTIONS FOR 1974" (AWARD BOOKS) YOU HAVE THE PSYCHIC SCOPE IN HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1971, AS YOU KNOW, I ALONE, OF ALL THE MAJOR PSYCHICS IN THE WORLD, PREDICTED PRESIDENT RICHARD M NIXON WOULD BE FORCED OUT OF OFFICE AND WOULD BE UNABLE TO FINISH HIS TERM. LOUD WAS THE LAUGHTER OF MY CRITICS WHEN I MADE THAT PREDICTION. BECAUSE SUCH A THING WAS UNTHINKABLE IN 1971. NO UNITED STATES PRESIDENT HAD EVER BEFORE RESIGNED OR BEEN FORCED OUT OF OFFICE. I AM HAPPY TO INFORM YOU THAT MY ASTOUNDING PSYCHIC ABILITY HAS PREVAILED OVER MY CRITICS LAUGHTER, PRESIDENT NIXON HAS INDEED JUST BEEN FORCED OUT OF OFFICE AND HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE. BUT IN ADDITION RECALL THAT GLENN MCWANE IN HIS BOOK "WHAT SEERS PREDICT FOR 1973" CONTAINED MY 1972 PREDICTION FOR VIOLENT FLOODS, OF WATER, FOR 1973, IN THE UNITED STATES. VIOLENT FLOODS THEN, A YEAR LATER IN 1973, RACKED UP THE UNITED STATES, AS I HAD SAID WOULD HAPPEN. THEN, FOR YOUR BOOK PREDICTIONS FOR 1974, I PREDICTED JUST THE OPPOSITE IN 1973. I SAID THE UNITED STATES MIDWEST WOULD HAVE A TERRIBLE DROUGHT A YEAR LATER, IN 1974, AS WELL AS OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES. YOU ARE INDEED WITNESSING THESE TERRIBLE DROUGHTS NOW. MANY STATES ARE DISASTER AREAS FROM DROUGHT NOW, OR LACK OF WATER. THE MIDWEST IS STRICTEN WITH THE WORST DROUGHT IN ALMOST HALF A CENTURY. THESE ACCURATE, UNUSUAL, AND ASTOUNDING MAJOR PROGNOSTICATIONS BY ME SHOULD, I THINK, ENTITLE ME TO THE TITLE OF "KING OF THE PSYCHICS", WOULDNT YOU AGREE?
TED OWENS (PK MAN)

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DR LEO SPRINKLE
BOX 3708 UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
LARAMIE WY 82070

CONGRATULATIONS IN YOUR BOOKS "SEERS PREDICT FOR 71" AND "PREDICTIONS FOR 1974" (AWARD BOOKS) YOU HAVE THE PSYCHIC SCOPE IN HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1971, AS YOU KNOW, I ALONE, OF ALL THE MAJOR PSYCHICS IN THE WORLD, PREDICTED PRESIDENT RICHARD M NIXON WOULD BE FORCED OUT OF OFFICE AND WOULD BE UNABLE TO FINISH HIS TERM. LOUD WAS THE LAUGHTER OF MY CRITICS WHEN I MADE THAT PREDICTION. BECAUSE SUCH A THING WAS UNTHINKABLE IN 1971. NO UNITED STATES PRESIDENT HAD EVER BEFORE RESIGNED OR BEEN FORCED OUT OF OFFICE. I AM HAPPY TO INFORM YOU THAT MY ASTOUNDING PSYCHIC ABILITY HAS PREVAILED OVER MY CRITICS LAUGHTER. PRESIDENT NIXON HAS INDEED JUST BEEN FORCED OUT OF OFFICE AND HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE. BUT IN ADDITION RECALL THAT GLENN MCWANE IN HIS BOOK "WHAT SEERS PREDICT FOR 1973" CONTAINED MY 1972 PREDICTION FOR VIOLENT FLOODS, OF WATER, FOR 1973, IN THE UNITED STATES. VIOLENT FLOODS THEN, A YEAR LATER IN 1973, RACKED UP THE UNITED STATES, AS I HAD SAID WOULD HAPPEN. THEN, FOR YOUR BOOK PREDICTIONS FOR 1974, I PREDICTED JUST THE OPPOSITE IN 1973. I SAID THE UNITED STATES MIDWEST WOULD HAVE A TERRIBLE DROUGHT A YEAR LATER (IN 1974, AS WELL AS OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES. YOU ARE INDEED WITNESSING THESE TERRIBLE DROUGHTS NOW. MANY STATES ARE DISASTER AREAS FROM DROUGHT NOW, OR LACK OF WATER* THE MIDWEST IS STRICKEN WITH THE WORST DROUGHT IN ALMOST HALF A CENTURY. THESE ACCURATE, UNUSUAL, AND ASTOUNDING MAJOR PROGNOSTICATIONS BY ME SHOULD, I THINK, ENTITLE ME TO THE TITLE OF "KING OF THE PSYCHICS", WOULDNT YOU AGREE?
TED OWENS (PK MAN)

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FROM THE DESID OF
Mr. Ted Owens (PK MAN)----------
August 5, 1974

Box 48
Cape Charles, Virginia
23310

Mr. Clarence Kelly, Director, FBI

Thanks to you and your agency, I can assume at present that I am in deadly danger. Some months ago...I wrote to you in confidence, re a man in Florida...who had in the past written to me and advised me to buy a long-barreled .22 which uses hollow point bullets...and to fill up the hollow points with cyanide. I wrote you during the time when the SLA was gunning down people in California with .22 bullets filled with cyanide, just in the long-shot there might be some tieup and it might help you catch the killers. What happened? My family and I went to France for a few weeks...and when we returned I found the following note on my front door: "Sorry to have missed you -- I have been very much behind in all my work etc - will write you in a month - Andy and all send regards." Signed. His note is appended hereto. Now, I had never seen this man...he had only written for years. That he was deadly, or had deadly knowledge...was rather obvious. Now suddenly, after my warning to you in confidence...he comes all the way up here out of Florida to my house. But...there is more. Last week a colored man, mean-looking man, came to our front door...said he was from Florida...waved an envelope at me and wanted to come into the house and talk. I sent him away. Several days later my boy, Beau, and I found we were being followed by a car with Florida license plates...wherever we drove...and Beau said the two men "scared him". They were swarthy-skinned; looked Cuban or Latin; and were two of the toughest looking specimens I've seen in a long time.


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Finally, last Saturday, 8/3/74, at 10:45 PM, my phone rang. I picked it up and long distance operator asked if I would take along distance call collect from "The Men In Black". Before I could even answer a man's voice came on the line and he said, "Mr. Owens, the U.S. Government is getting ready to rub you out..." and hung up before I could even answer. The line went dead. Some minutes later the phone rang again...and this time I turned on my tape recorder, and clipped an amplifier onto my phone so that it would record.

It was the long distance operator. She said, "Because your party called collect, and because the message he gave was so unusual... am going to give you his number..." and she gave me a phone number in Florida. I immediately called the number. It rang about 14 times and finally the voice of a young woman answered. I asked what her name was. She stalled. Then the man's voice, same voice, came on...and he said that the U.S. Government was getting ready to "chop my brains out". And he was obviously angry...because I had managed to get his phone number. I tried to get his name three times, but he wouldn't give it...so I hung up on him in disgust.

The phone number is area 904-737-2959. And...Mr. Kelly...I have his murder threat on my tape recorder, live, along with the long distance operator's message to me. So don't let anybody tell me that I am "imagining things". I taped it on my tape recorder!

But the whole thing is...your FBI must have broken confidence with me, or the "deadly man" would never have come all the way up here from Florida. I say "deadly" because just once in his letters he instructed me on how to gun fight, using cyanide bullets. All the rest of his correspondence over the years was most intelligent...I would say he has a superior mind... and he was most kind to me. However, if there was a tie-up between him and the SLA...I wanted you to know it, to save some lives. Matter of values in the human race.

Well...as the phone call Saturday night specified...my life now seems to be in danger, as well as that of my family, possibly.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310


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TED OWENS
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Scientists
The girl operator goofed. I sent this to Warren Smith, with copy to Brad Steiger!!
Nuts!
Owens

THIS MAILGRAM IS A CONFIRMATION COPY OF THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE:

8043311208 MGM TDMT CAPE CHARLES VA 200 08-08 1000P EDT
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BRAD STEIGER CARE OTHER DEMENSIONS
104 WASHINGTON ST
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Warren:
Scoop

CONGRATULATIONS IN YOUR BOOKS "SEERS PREDICT FOR '71" AND "PREDICTIONS FOR 1974" (AWARD BOOKS) YOU HAVE THE PSYCHIC SCOOP IN HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1971, AS YOU KNOW, I ALONE, OF ALL THE MAJOR PSYCHICS IN THE WORLD, PREDICTED PRESIDENT RICHARD M NIXON WOULD BE FORCED OUT OF OFFICE AND WOULD BE UNABLE TO FINISH HIS TERM. LOUD WAS THE LAUGHTER OF MY CRITICS WHEN I MADE THAT PREDICTION. BECAUSE SUCH A THING WAS UNTHINKABLE IN 1971. NO UNITED STATES PRESIDENT HAD EVER BEFORE RESIGNED OR BEEN FORCED OUT OF OFFICE. I AM HAPPY TO INFORM YOU THAT MY ASTOUNDING PSYCHIC ABILITY HAS PREVAILED OVER MY CRITICS LAUGHTER. PRESIDENT NIXON HAS INDEED JUST BEEN FORCED OUT OF OFFICE AND HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE. BUT IN ADDITION RECALL THAT GLENN MCWANE IN HIS BOOK "WHAT SEERS PREDICT FOR 1973" CONTAINED MY 1972 PREDICTION FOR VIOLENT FLOODS, OF WATER, FOR 1973, IN THE UNITED STATES. VIOLENT FLOODS THEN, A YEAR LATER IN 1973, RACKED UP THE UNITED STATES, AS I HAD SAID WOULD HAPPEN. THEN, FOR YOUR BOOK PREDICTIONS FOR 1974, I PREDICTED JUST THE OPPOSITE IN 1973. I SAID THE UNITED STATES MIDWEST WOULD HAVE A TERRIBLE DROUGHT A YEAR LATER, IN 1974, AS WELL AS OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES. YOU ARE INDEED WITNESSING THESE TERRIBLE DROUGHTS NOW. MANY STATES ARE DISASTER AREAS FROM DROUGHT NOW, OR LACK OF WATER. THE MIDWEST IS STRICTEN WITH THE WORST DROUGHT IN ALMOST HALF A CENTURY. THESE ACCURATE, UNUSUAL, AND ASTOUNDING MAJOR PROGNOSTICATIONS BY ME SHOULD, I THINK, ENTITLE ME TO THE TITLE OF "KING OF THE PSYCHICS", WOULDNT YOU AGREE?
TED OWENS (PK MAN)


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July 29, 1974

TO MY SCIENTIST-OBSERVERS

JUST AS EVERYONE LAUGHED WHEN I PREDICTED IN BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS IN 1971 AND 1972 THAT PRESIDENT NIXON WOULD BE FORCED OUT OF OFFICE. THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOT LAUGHING NOW!

Perhaps you had quite a chuckle, a year or so ago, when I informed you that the SI's...UFO entities that I work for and with...were going to create a world-drought as one, big, definitive experiment...and then let their human representative, myself, PK Man, call the shots...i.e., name each area, each drought-stricken area, to get relief...over the globe (and in the U.S.)...thus proving once and for all that I am indeed the SI's single human link with the human race, and that they have the powers to do such a thing.

Attached is a newsclip from this morning's newspaper...indicating the "merciless, searing" drought prevalent in the U.S. today. I do not think...anyone is laughing now, at what I said some time ago. If they are, they are idiots, and you can quote me on that.

Texas...will be especially punished...for its treatment of me not long ago (re the radio station and its backers; unfortunately, that is the way the SI's work...they expect me to be well-received and well-treated AS THEIR OWN REPRESENTATIVE (much like a U.S. ambassador would be treated abroad) when I travel about. If I am tricked and/or badly treated, then God help that geographical area, state or country. (Disc-people need have no worries.)

France...will be especially demonstrated upon (rather than punished) with white-hot drought combined with violent storms, lightning attacks, hurricane approaches, powerful winds, power blackouts, etc....not by the SI's (who are chewing up Texas) but by myself, to demonstrate what I can do "with half a brain"...the SI half.

Referring to the attached newsclip...of course I could bring rain and storms at will...to any of the stricken areas. But according to the terms of the SI Definite Miracle (world drought) which they outlined some time ago, through me to you...I will not do so.

If you think...that my powers, through the UFO's, do not amount to a "5th world power"...wait, wait, until water practically vanishes and the earth is scorched...then let me see all the governments of the world replace that water, and save that earth, with their vast sums of money and great military establishments. Only I...will be able to replace the water...and repair the earth. Through the infinite powers of the UFO's, of course.

If any one of you...gave a poor reference to Dr. Poher...think about the above. You were doing a great disservice not only to Dr. Poher, but to France...and the entire world...in blocking the progress of the UFO plan to help this earth.

Sincerely,

Owens

* or Barrat


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Note: See (1)

CHAPTER 24
Ted Owens: The PK Man

"... President Nixon will not end in office. Something most unusual will occur, and he will either resign or be forced out of office."

This prediction by Ted Owens was made in 1970 for our 1971 compilation of predictions. While we have not yet seen it come to pass, few people would have predicted such a possibility three years ago. An amazing man with genius level I.Q., Ted Owens stands alone in his claims that he receives his predictions from the SIs; Space Intelligences. Whoever is providing predictions to Owens is often incredibly accurate in an unusual way. While he seems to be a prophet of doom and gloom, Owens has compiled an impressive record for accuracy.

According to Owens, he first came into contact with his extraterrestrial prophets one evening in 1965 when he was living in Fort Worth, Texas. He and his daughter were driving in the country when a cigar-shaped UFO suddenly appeared over a field and floated toward their car. There was no noise from the craft, but blue, red, white, and green lights flickered vividly from inside the UFO.

There was no dramatic contact with space-suited aliens landing to talk with Owens and his daughter. "From that day on my life changed radically," Owens reported. "Space Intelligence does the planning and the executing. I am just their middle man, their go-between, and their front. Their purpose in doing certain things is to make the authorities listen, but first they have to prove their existence to the skeptics."

Owens points out that he has never met the SIs face to face. He has not been given an outer space tour of another planet. He claims he has mental contact with the SIs, who use his brain as a receiving station for their telepathic messages. It is his contention that he can talk with them on his

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pro coaches, pro owners and pro players in past years. It will be connected to the Mafia or Syndicate.

Religion. What religion? Eat a soda cracker, drink a glass of wine, light some candles, chant hymns, handle rattlesnakes, speak with strange tongues and have a ball. Personally, I am waiting for the Second Coming. It is long overdue.

Celebrities. Passing away will be many of the greats. Show business's loss will be incalculable during the year of 1974. These personalities cannot be replaced with the current entertainers now gracing our television and movie screens with dull performances.

Earth Changes and Quakes. Worse than 1973, and tornadoes then were unprecedented. The weather was also unprecedented in a freakish way. Florida and California will be the unlucky participants of huge fires, quakes, storms, and other earth-damaging factors. The Midwest will be torn up in worse fashion by weather in 1974, than in 1973. Drought will strike the length of the United States in 1974. The lack of water will really cripple farms and ranches. The cities and towns of the United States will be dangerously short of water.

The shortage of drinking water in the United States will be intense in 1974, due to the Great Drought. (I am going to give it a name, since it will be with us for quite a long time.)

Note: See (2)

Warren Smith's "Predictions for 1974" (Award Books)

INTRODUCTION
Welcome To The World of Tomorrow--1974!

"There will be a military takeover of the US government!" "A submarine and a UFO will collide off the Aleutian Islands. Some of the survivors will not be of this planet!" "John Connally will be the last president of the nation." "Atlantis will start to rise in 1974."

These are just a sampling of the startling predictions for the future contained in this unique glimpse of 1974. Our forecast for next year--and beyond--has been envisioned by the nation's leading psychics, tarot card readers, clairvoyants, ESP practitioners, and astrologers. While our prognosticators do not always agree about the course of future events, we can enjoy their predictions, utilize their advice, and keep score in 1974.

If an occasional prediction appears to be old news, it isn't a psychic's error. These predictions were made with a deadline of June 8, 1973. This means that the psychics were asked to predict up to eighteen months into the future. "Some of these predictions will come true before your book goes on sale," cautioned a contributor. "In today's fast-paced world, a psychic can receive impressions concerning a future event, then not have time to have it documented before the event has occurred."

There were plans to rate the seers who appeared in last year's compilation, but since there are still several months left in the year, such an undertaking would be folly. I will simply state that no psychic is able to maintain 100 percent accuracy in his predictions. The participating psychics, however, have numerous successes to their credit, and they are

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The Virginian-Pilot

Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Suffolk, Virginia, Friday, August 9, 1974

# Nixon Quits

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Nixon resigned Thursday night, effective at noon today, telling the nation that "America needs a full-time president and a full-time Congress" freed of the pressures of Watergate and impeachment.

Nixon, in his final address from the Oval Office of the White House, said he leaves without bitterness toward his foes, with thanks for those who have supported him through the months of Watergate.

Nixon was to disclose his decision to an expectant nation six years to the day after he received the Republican nomination for President at the GOP National Convention in Miami Beach, Fla., on Aug. 8, 1968.

In the 198-year history of the Republic, eight presidents died in office, but none resigned.

A White House source said Kissinger was instrumental in persuading Nixon that the nation would be best served.

# President Yields and Resigns

"The leadership of America will be in good hands," Nixon said.

Nixon, his face grim but his voice steady, said he is stepping aside in the national interest. His base of support in Congress, he said, has eroded to the point at which he would not have backing for the crucial decisions that confront the president.

... spanned almost three decades in public life as representative, senator, vice president, citizen campaigner, and ultimately, 37th president of the United States.

It was the first time in the 185-year chain of presidents that a chief executive resigned his office.

And it was the first time that the office would be filled under the presidential succession decreed by the 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967.

Newsweek 8/12/74

![Image of a farm during a drought]

Dust Bowl '74 Page 56

A blistering drought is baking the Midwest grain belt, searing crops and bringing back memories of the ravaging dust bowl of the 1930s. Hopes for a bountiful harvest have disappeared--and if heavy rains don't come soon, the nation could suffer its first crop disaster in history. Chicago bureau chief Frank Maier visited the drought-stricken region and talked to worried farmers. From his file and those of other correspondents, Allan Mayer wrote the story.


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Aug. 5, 1974

SCIENTISTS...

IF YOU GET BOOK, "PREDICTIONS FOR 1974" BY WARREN SMITH (AWARD BOOKS), AND READ THE CHAPTER (P. 156) ON TED OWENS... TURN TO PAGE 161 AND READ:

" THE MIDWEST WILL BE TORN UP IN WORSE FASHION BY WEATHER IN 1974, THAN IN 1973. DROUGHT WILL STRIKE THE LENGTH OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1974. THE LACK OF WATER WILL REALLY CRIPPLE FARMS AND RANCHES. THE CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES WILL BE DANGEROUSLY SHORT OF WATER. THE SHORTAGE OF DRINKING WATER IN THE UNITED STATES WILL BE INTENSE IN 1974, DUE TO THE "GREAT DROUGHT." (I AM GOING TO GIVE IT A NAME, SINCE IT WILL BE WITH US FOR QUITE A LONG TIME.) "

I SENT THAT TO WARREN SMITH IN 1973, NOW... READ ON, AND CHECK OUT MY ACCURACY, IN 1974!!

OWENS
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ECONOMY & BUSINESS

FARMING

Back to Dust Bowl Days

First came the torrential rains of spring, sweeping away thousands of planted acres in the Midwestern grain belt, gouging great creases in the fields and delaying planting of new crops. Then the rain stopped, and for well over a month now, the sun has risen like a bright brass gong in a white sky. While days, then weeks passed without rain, the sun parched the soil and left corn stalks brittle, stunted and dead. From the Dakotas southward to Texas, from Kansas east to parts of Ohio, the most baleful weather in a generation is raising the specter of economic disaster for Midwest farmers and the businessmen who depend on them. The big drought is daily diminishing what had been estimated would be a bumper yield of corn, soybeans and other feed grains. Crops of spring wheat, oats and barley are also being reduced.

"It's the worst since 1934," says Nebraska Farmer Harold Buethe. Adds Gary Luth of Illinois: "Last year my soybeans were waist- to chest-high by this time. Now they're only ankle- to knee-high." Unless there is a break in the malicious weather this week, the corn crops could be devastated; soybean plantings will begin to burn up within weeks. Even if the rains come soon, this fall's harvest is now all but certain to drop well below amounts needed to restrain inflationary food prices. Says Jim Tippett, an official of the Illinois Farm Bureau: "We need hot, sticky weather now, with plenty of rain, the kind of weather that makes people suffer." Last week some rain fell in the Midwest, but officials said it was not enough to end the drought.

Shrinking Income. In part because of the drought, Agriculture Department forecasts for the corn crop have been revised downward, from 6.7 billion bu. in May to 5.9 billion bu. two weeks ago. Since then, conditions have grown worse, and by last week the National Corn Growers Association was predicting that the corn harvest would drop "significantly below" 5.5 billion bu. v. 5.6 billion last year.

In Nebraska, the state with the biggest crop damage, "dry land" farmers (those without irrigation) reckon that they have already lost 75% of the 235 million bu. of corn they expected. Many farmers are holding tight to whatever grain they have, and a lack of feed for Nebraska's record 7.5 million head of cattle is hurting ranchers. In all, Nebraska's farm income could shrink by $2 billion this year. Losses for Iowa and Kansas are conservatively estimated at $3 billion.

Dry weather is also punishing Illinois, where the soybean crop will probably fall 20% below earlier expectations. Farmers in Oklahoma are getting only three cuttings of hay instead of five, and the spring-wheat yield in North Dakota is expected to be sharply reduced. The Governors of Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota have declared their states disaster areas. At the Midwest Governors Conference last week in Minneapolis, a resolution was adopted urging the Administration to expand farm disaster relief and increase crop price-support programs, which only last year were reduced in order to boost production.

DROUGHT AREA

![Map of the United States showing drought areas in the Midwest and South]

0 250 500 mi.
TIME Map by W. Hortens

For small farmers, the drought could be ruinous. For example, Kenneth Grove, who invested heavily in weed killers and fertilizers to work his 220 acres in Tecumseh, Neb., has given up on part of his crop and is now mowing it to feed his 80-head dairy herd. On the other hand, many large and middle-size farmers, who earned the bulk of the $32 billion in agricultural income last year, have enough financial protection to tide them over. Indeed, many big wheat farmers, who brought in their winter harvest before the drought struck, stand to make a bundle because they are holding back an unusually large proportion of their crop until prices are forced up still higher. Worst off are the cattle raisers, who overproduced in recent years in hopes of making plump

DRIED-OUT KANSAS FARM LAND
Multibillion disaster.

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UPI

Nebraska farmer with stunted corn: 'First it's too wet, then it's too dry'

A '30s dust-bowl scene: New drought ...

2 The Dust Bowl of '74

The First Christian Church of tiny Sheldon, Iowa, was jammed--but not for the usual reasons. Seven hundred farmers and townsfolk had gathered to pray for rain. Not a drop had fallen since early June, and the fields of northwestern Iowa were baked hard, scarred with ugly zigzag cracks. The corn was stunted, the soybean plants seared yellow. Hope for a bountiful harvest had long since disappeared. Without a lot of rain--and soon--there might not be any harvest at all.

Sheldon's prayers were answered last week when half an inch of rain fell--but it simply wasn't enough. And so the Rev. Nicholas Vogelzang is planning a second pray-in for rain.

Sheldon is not alone in its plight. A blistering drought is baking the vast plains and prairies of the Midwest and West, parching the land unmercifully during what should be the prime growing season. To many farmers, it brings back frightening memories of the 1930s when the ravaging dust bowl cost hundreds of thousands their land, their farms and their futures. Even though rain came to sections of the Midwest late last week, it didn't do much good. Long-range weather forecasts are not promising, and it is already probably too late to save billions of dollars' worth of corn, soybeans and wheat.

So far, a full 75 per cent of Nebraska's non-irrigated corn has been damaged beyond recovery, and the state's hay crop is expected to be a mere 30 to 40 per cent of normal. Nebraska Gov. J.J. Exon, citing crop losses totaling more than $2.2 billion, has declared his state a disaster area. Iowa's corn crop is expected to be as much as 40 per cent smaller than last year's 1.2 billion bushels; in some especially hard-hit areas, the harvest may be down a disastrous 70 per cent, while soybean yield has fallen more than 40 per cent. In North Dakota, some counties estimate their wheat harvest could be as bad as a third of normal. "Unless the soybean and corn fields get some rain soon," warns commodity expert Robert Raclin, "we could have the first crop disaster in our history."

For consumers, the drought will mean higher food prices--perhaps drastic increases in the case of meat and poultry. What's more, the Nixon Administration's hope for cutting the inflation rate rests heavily on the lower food prices that a bumper harvest would bring. Now, that prospect seems increasingly unrealistic. "When the President talked about big crops to ease inflation, it was a lot of baloney," Raclin says bluntly.

Jump: Indeed, prices are already turning up. The Agriculture Department reported last week that prices of raw farm products jumped 6 per cent between June 15 and July 15 after four months of decline. Sharp increases in farmers' expenses for fuel, fertilizer and other overhead account for part of the rise, but the trend also reflects the first impact of the devastating weather that has plagued this year's crops.

An unusually wet spring delayed planting of corn and soybeans. Many planted fields were washed out and had to be seeded twice, some three times. But the wet spring was followed by a scorchingly dry summer. There has been virtually no rain since June in much of the Midwest Farm Belt and the prairies. Omaha recently had fifteen days in a row of over-100-degree heat; the first seven months of this year probably will turn out to be the third driest in the 104 years weather records have been kept in Nebraska--drier even than 1936, the worst Depression drought year.

What rain there has been has done little good. It has either been light and scattered or torrential and brief--too brief to do more than run off the hard-baked ground and evaporate. "It's so dry you can start a fire just from a car or truck muffler," says Harold G. Gallaher of Kansas State University's extension service. In Kansas last week, rural fire districts reported a record 30 pasture-land fires. South Dakota, too, is experiencing an unusual number of prairie fires. "First it's too wet, then it's too dry," grouses J. Orin Taylor, who farms

TURN FOR THE WORSE
Devastating weather is ruining crops, helping to push farm prices up once more.

PER CENT CHANGE

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| -2 | | |
| -4 | | |
| -6 | | |
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| -10 | | |
| -12 | | |
| -14 | | |
| -16 | FARM | |
| -18 | PRICES | |
| -20 | | |

1973 1974
Source: Economic Indicators, June 1974
Fenga & Freyer

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Virginian-Pilot, Sunday, August 4, 1974

# Sun-Scorched Midwest Gets Only a Dribble of Relief

KANSAS CITY (AP) -- Scattered showers and some heavy rains fell on the parched crops of the Midwest in the last few days, but most weather and agricultural experts say they have not brought substantial relief from the drought.

Not many of the rains measured more than half an inch, and most of the showers left barely more than a trace of moisture.

From West Texas across southeast Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, many sections have had little more than an inch of rain since early June.

"This is truly a disaster," Iowa Gov. Robert Ray said on a tour Friday from Council Bluffs to Atlantic and Hastings in southwest Iowa.

Keith Bruce and his son David took Ray into a cornfield on their farm near Hastings and showed him stalks on which no ears had formed. The Bruces grow 1,700 acres of corn, feed it all to the cattle they fatten for market, and even in normal years buy additional feed.

Normally they would have 4,000 to 5,000 head of cattle, but because of the drought they have cut back to 2,500 and are not replacing the ones they sell off.

"This has such an adverse effect on many things -- livestock, main street, the consumer, the world food picture -- all are hurt by this," Ray said.

Iowa's secretary of agriculture, Robert Lounsberry, estimated that the income of Iowa farmers has been cut $1.6 billion from reasonable expectations earlier in the year.

The area which Ray toured is expected to lose 70 per cent of its corn production.

Iowa did have some rains during the week, up to 1 1/2 inches in a few areas. But there were only traces in the areas which needed it most.

A survey made at the request of Gov. J. James Exon, based on conditions at the end of July, showed that Nebraska's farmers have lost $2.2 billion to the drought.

Paul Sindt, executive director in Nebraska for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service and head of the governor's drought-disaster committee, estimated that 85 per cent of the corn grown on nonirrigated land, 67 per cent of the sorghum grains grown on nonirrigated land, and 51 per cent of all soybeans have been lost.

Even in irrigated fields, crops will be off 15 to 16 per cent because there hasn't been enough water.

Nebraska has had a few sprinkles in the last few days, even a little more than an inch at the little town of Orchard in the northeast. The worst damage is in the southeast.

Spotty rains did not do much good for Oklahoma, particularly in its hard-hit west. The latest estimates showed two-thirds of Oklahoma's corn crop in poor to fair condition and 93 per cent of its cotton and sorghums poor to fair. Forty-one per cent of its soybeans were still in good condition, but that was down from 75 per cent a week earlier.

Many areas in Missouri reported showers in the 24 hours ended at 7 a.m. Saturday, but reporting stations in the big-crop farm areas had little more than one-tenth of an inch or none at all.

There was no rain across Kansas, although the state has had some light and scattered showers in the last few days.

Frank Mosier, executive director of Kansas' Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said: "We need 2 to 3 inches of gentle, soaking rain . . . when it sets in for two or three days."

Kansas has written off most of its corn not raised on irrigated land, particularly in the eastern third of the state. Soybeans have been putting on few pods. Grain sorghums are stunted and their heads have been filling out with few kernels, if they have headed. Good rains in another 10 days would save some of the beans and sorghums.

One thing that has helped a little is a mass of cool air which surged down over the farm belt during the week. Many areas marked all-time lows for an Aug. 3.

"It will help us hold on a little longer," Dallas Pickett said from his 450-acre grain-and-livestock farm at Stewartsville in northwest Missouri.

The state offices of the federal government's Livestock and Crop Reporting Service will be making reports Monday afternoon on their weekly survey of crop and pasture conditions.

They are couched in general terms about the condition of crops and pastures, as of the previous Saturday, and give an estimate on the adequacy of soil moisture.

As of Aug. 1, the field offices made crop surveys which will result in the first bushel estimates on fall crops. Washington will announce them Aug. 12.


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TRIBUNE July 29, 1974

# Drouth scorching American midlands

By David Smothers
By United Press International

A MERCILESS, searing drouth is drying up the midlands and it is probably too late to save billions of dollars in crops and livestock.

If rain, and lots of it, does not come soon, the situation can only get a great deal worse, state officials and experts surveyed by United Press International said.

The drouth of 1974 probably will mean climbing prices at the supermarkets. Administration hopes for bumper crops which could drive down prices and still keep farmers happy seem sure to be disappointed in some of the nation's richest farm and ranch country.

In Nebraska, there is talk that this drouth could be worse than the disaster years of the 1930s. Meteorologists have speculated the summer's sizzling dry spell might be the start of such a drouth cycle.

APPEALS FOR federal aid in the form of easier farm loans and higher prices are going out from state capitals.

E. L. Short, a rancher and representative in the Texas legislature, said, "Without relief and an incentive for the farmers and ranchers to stay in business and keep the supply and demand partially balanced, we have yet to see what higher prices are really about."

Already, Gov. J. James Exon of Nebraska has declared that state a drouth disaster area. There is frightening talk of almost a zero corn crop in some areas.

GOV. BRUCE KING has declared a state of emergency in New Mexico, where the U. S. Department of Agriculture says range land is in the worst condition since it began keeping records in 1922.

In the corn belt, many farmers have despaired of bringing in a decent crop and are chopping up their corn for silage except in some areas there is not much corn to chop.

In Weston County, Wyo., the hay crop is almost a complete loss and officials say ranchers have sold off 30 per cent of their livestock because they won't have enough money to make it thru the winter otherwise. The county has been declared a disaster area.

HUNDREDS OF PERSONS prayed for rain at the First Christian Reform Church in the rich farm town of Sheldon, Ia., where the minister said there has been no rain to speak of in 8 to 12 weeks.

Iowa is the nation's second state in popcorn production and it looks as if 25 per cent of the state's popcorn crop may be lost. Look for higher popcorn prices.

Anthrax, a disease which comes with drouth, is killing cattle from Texas to the Dakotas. Crop-killing insect infestations have been reported at the same points.

Conditions are approaching the critical stage as far east as Ohio.

STATE OFFICIALS are glum in calculating the costs so far and those to come.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner John C. White said drouth damage there to crops alone comes to at least $2 billion. Winter wheat production is the lowest in seven years, he said, and, "even if the rains came today, it would be too late for much of the cotton, grain, sorghum, and other row crops."

Nebraska's Exon said his estimate of a $1 billion loss is probably conservative "because the situation is deteriorating so rapidly." Feed shortages have become so serious, that Exon ordered hay growing along highway rights of way to be cut and sold at auction.

The loss in Kansas was estimated at about $1 billion. Dryland wheat in New Mexico is dead. Some Texas ranchers are selling off all their herds because of high feed costs and dry range conditions.

IN CENTRAL Illinois, agricultural experts look for a 50 per cent cut in crop yields on some farms.

Altho the drouth is concentrated in the plains, it is feared the corn and soybean crop in northwest Ohio could be slashed by half if rain does not come.

The Cleveland crop reporting service of Murch and Co. advised last week, "It is a disaster area in the [corn] belt."

The cause is simple. It was a wet spring in the midlands. That delayed planting and held down the acreage which could be planted. Then there was no water.

Last week, there had been no rain of consequence in Kansas, aside from a July 3 downpour, since June 12. It was much the same elsewhere from the southwest plains well into the Mississippi Valley.


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a. Pilot 7|31|74

# Expert 'Horrified' by Drought

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) Norman E. Borlaug, a Nobel prize-winning food expert, said Tuesday that he is "horrified" at the extent of drought conditions in the United States. Borlaug returned last week after nearly six months in Asia and Africa, working on food projects with developing nations. While his information is incomplete, Borlaug said, "It doesn't look promising." He said he has unconfirmed reports of substantial winter kill in the Russian winter wheat crop, a factor which could affect world prices. Borlaug spoke at the Midwest Governors Conference, joining Sen. Hubert wh. Humphrey, D-Minn., and others in a discussion of world food problems. Borlaug criticized the federal government for dealing inadequately with inflation. "It seems to me we've become so damn obsessed with Watergate that we play Watergate-Watergate while inflation is ruining the world," he said. Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for developing a strain of wheat useful in underdeveloped countries. Speaking mostly in worldwide terms, Borlaug said food production is barely keeping pace with the "population monster."

August 1, 1974..........
to my Observer-Scientists:

It is sad..........that the SI's must have to prove their point the "hard way" for the human race...i.e., that they must produce a World Drought, then let me replace the water by rainfall around the world.. "calling the shots" in order to prove for once and for all that I work for and with the SI's (UFO entities)...that they are real...and that I am their very real human bridge, or link, to the human race.

They have just communicated with me...and informed me that shortly, when I return to Europe to complete my mission for them...that they must further modify my brain (at one of the European geographical locations outlined) so that I will be ABLE TO HAVE ENOUGH POWER TO REPLACE RAINFALL ONTO THE EARTH AFTER THE WORLD DROUGHT BECOMES SEVERE! Should anything stop me, or happen to me...then the surface of the earth will become a dried-out, unlivable (without water) crust.

I trust...this gets over to you...the gravity of the situation.

All right, you can read more about the World Drought in the enclosed.

Now, another kind of prediction...Gerald Ford, presently Vice President...is a very very bad man...he works for the "Nixon machine"...and if he becomes our President, then we are lost...for we have already probably gone past the "point of no return" due to so many bad leaders in a row. Ford...will be a catastrophe for the United States...if he steps into the office of Presidency.

Another different kind of note to you...for years I've been controlling pro football teams in an effort to get enough money together for two things: (1) to go to Europe and Australia and carry out the SI "castle plan" and (2) to be able to move to a safe location for me and my family. Because this will shortly be made possible WITHOUT a pro football contract...then this season of 1974 I will not pursue my usual demonstration; except that I will stop the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Oilers, because of the knavery I experienced in Dallas not long ago....

Ted Owens (PK Man)

Owens


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Million Crop Loss

Va. Pilot

# More States Have Damage From Drought; Aid Sought

8/3/74

By United Press International

South Dakota and Ohio Friday joined the growing list of states seeking federal aid because of a drought that has severely crippled the nation's crop country, causing an estimated $6 billion in losses.

Kenneth Rush, President Nixon's chief economic adviser, said the drought also will mean higher prices at the supermarkets. "Food prices will be somewhat higher," he said. "It will not be as good as we had hoped and expected."

Administration officials had hoped for bumper crops which could drive down prices.

Gov. Richard Kneip of South Dakota and Gov. John J. Gilligan of Ohio asked the federal government to declare portions of their states disaster areas because of drought conditions.

Kneip said crop losses are total in some areas and extremely high in other portions of South Dakota. Gilligan said the drought already has destroyed one-third of his state's corn and soybean crop and expressed concern for the farmers.

On Thursday, Iowa Gov. Robert D. Ray asked Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz to declare Iowa a disaster area so farmers hit by the drought could seek federal assistance. The state damage estimate, presently at $1.6 billion, will go higher, Ray predicted.

The drought picture across the country:

* Illinois: Corn crop cut an estimated half a billion bushels; state's crop production down by "25 to 30 per cent."
* Indiana: Agriculture experts say state already has lost millions of dollars and if rain came now it could be "too late".
* Kansas: State's dry land corn has matured to the point that rain now cannot help it. Farmers predict a $1-billion loss. Many have applied for disaster relief payments.
* Missouri: The agriculture commissioner is conducting a statewide survey to determine the extent of the drought. As of now, he said, the farmers are in bad shape.
* Nebraska: Damage estimate is $1 billion. One of the first states to seek emergency funds from the federal government.
* New Mexico: Gov. Bruce King has declared a state of emergency. Rangeland is in the worst condition since 1922.
* Oklahoma: The drought and the cattle-killing disease anthrax has forced farmers to market in hopes of getting what they can--even if it means a loss.
* Texas: A $2-billion loss because of the drought.
* Wyoming: The hay crop in portions of Wyoming is almost completely lost, and ranchers in some counties have sold 30 per cent of their livestock.

Va. Pilot
8/2/74

## Not Enough Water

On the Dave Marple farm south of Topeka, Kan., the milo that was planted over a month ago either has not sprouted or is stunted. If rain fell on this milo crop, Marple could harvest 70 bushels per acre, but the problem is that not enough water is coming down. (AP)

Drought

# Visions of a Dust Bowl Grow Daily

Va. Pilot 8/4/74

McLOUTH, Kan. (UPI) -- John Bower sat sweating atop his creaky, rust-red 1945 tractor and gazed at 80 acres of cornstalks scorched to a sickening orange-yellow from the worst drought in 20 years.

"This isn't as bad as the dust bowl days in the 30s," the craggy-faced farmer said, climbing down from the tractor. "At least, it isn't yet. But if we don't get rain in the next 30 days, it will be as bad, if not worse."

The tall, soft-spoken farmer wore traditional blue-gray dungarees with a matching hat. His leathery skin was brown from 35 years of working his land. He walked grimly toward a scene that is now a common and disquieting sight in eastern Kansas.

Thousands of rows of cornstalks, scorched to death by extreme heat and dry winds, are good only for livestock feed that will bring a few dollars per acre.

Bower's 200-acre farm, his home and livelihood since 1939, is tucked among the rolling northeast Kansas hills known for their rich soil and high moisture content.

As in most areas of the corn belt, only a few raindrops have pitted the light brown dust since July 3, the only day of significant rain since early June.

Bower admitted that he and his neighbors were "spoiled" last year with a good crop and high prices. But most of the financial gains enjoyed last year already have been wiped out by the drought.

"Farmers are always in debt to someone," Bower said, shuffling out of his field on a wooden leg caused by a tractor accident several years ago. "For the first time last year, I was able to pay off all my notes at the bank. But this will put me right back where I was before."

Bower waved at other fields holding about 100 acres of soybeans and milo -- his only hope left for a break-even year. Those crops develop late in the season, he said, and he planted them as a precaution in case of drought. Rain in the next two weeks would save those crops.

Despite the drought that most state officials are now calling a disaster, Bower said he and his farming neighbors aren't ready to quit farming yet.

"Most of them have outside jobs," he said. "So they can keep going. But I'm 62 years old, and nobody wants someone my age. I'm too old to do much else than farming."


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A12 Virginian-Pilot, Wednesday, August 7, 1974

# Rainfall Touches Midlands

By United Press International

Gentle rain, the first in 33 days, touched the drought-suffering midlands Tuesday offering hope that at least some crops may be salvaged.

Agricultural experts said the rain was too late to save most corn crops, but hoped that it may be just enough to preserve soybean and milo crops, giving farmers a chance at least to break even financially.

Fred Ostby of the National Weather Service said the rain was "gentle, the kind needed to gradually soak into the ground without much runoff."

Areas touched by rain Tuesday included Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and Missouri. Kansas and Texas each has reported a $28-billion crop loss so far, and Nebraska $2.2 billion.

Other states reporting multimillion or billion-dollar losses include Missouri, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

As the rain fell, officials studied ways to aid farmers and ranchers -- suffering through the worst drought since the dust bowl days of the 1930s.

Rep. William Scherle, R-Iowa, said if the drought continued Congress would have to pass emergency legislation to provide help to farmers in the form of disaster loans.

"Certainly these steps would be mandatory to forestall a catastrophic depression which would wrench our nation," Scherle said.

Weather modification as an aid to ending the drought will be discussed Friday at a U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee hearing in Lawton, Okla.

"Anyone who is interested in finding ways to prevent or reduce the impact of a drought is invited to attend this hearing," said Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Okla., who is conducting the session.

Oklahoma Gov. David Hall, saying farmers have been "wiped out by this drought," asked that portions of his state be declared disaster areas.


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7/29/74 Va. Pilot, Norfolk
The SI drought

# Drought Chokes Hope for Good U.S. Harvest

By DAVID SMOTHERS

United Press International

A merciless, searing drought is drying up the midlands and officials say it is probably too late to save billions of dollars in crops and livestock.

If rain, and lots of it, does not come soon, the situation can only get a great deal worse, state officials and experts report in a survey by United Press International.

The drought probably will mean climbing prices at the supermarkets. Administration hopes for bumper crops, which could drive down prices and still keep farmers happy, seem sure to be disappointed in some of the nation's richest farm and ranch country.

In Nebraska there is talk that this drought could be worse than the disaster years of the 1930s. Meteorologists have speculated the summer's sizzling dry spell might be the start of a drought cycle such as Nebraska suffered in the 30s.

Appeals for federal aid in the form of easier farm loans and higher prices are going out from state capitols. E. L. Short, a rancher and representative in the Texas legislature, said: "Without relief and an incentive for the farmers and ranchers to stay in business and keep the supply and demand partially balanced, we have yet to see what higher prices are really about."

Already, Gov. J. James Exon of Nebraska has declared that state a drought-disaster area. There is frightened talk of almost a zero corn crop in some areas.

Gov. Bruce King has declared a state of emergency in New Mexico, where the U. S. Department of Agriculture says range-land is in the worst condition since it began keeping records in 1922.

In the corn belt, many farmers have despaired of bringing in a decent crop and are chopping up corn for silage, except that in some areas there is not much corn to chop.

In Weston County, Wyo., the hay crop is almost a complete loss and officials say that ranchers have sold off 30 per cent of their livestock because they won't have enough money to make it through the winter otherwise. The county has been declared a disaster area.

John Regier, a Weatherford, Okla., cattleman, said: "Hay crops are drying up. Pasture is drying up. If it keeps going then cattle will have to start going down." Without rain in two weeks, he said, he will begin selling cattle at a loss of $50 to $100 a head.

Hundreds of people prayed for rain at the First Christian Reform Church in the rich farm town of Sheldon, Iowa, where the minister said there has been no rain to speak of in eight to 12 weeks.

Iowa is the nation's second state in popcorn production and it looks like up to 25 per cent of the state's popcorn crop may be lost. Look for higher popcorn prices.

PK'd Texas

Anthrax, a disease which comes with drought, is killing cattle from Texas to the Dakotas. Crop-killing insect infestations have been reported in the same areas.

Conditions are approaching the critical stage as far east as Ohio. State officials are glum in calculating the costs so far and those to come.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner John C. White said drought damage there to crops alone comes to at least $2 billion, let alone cattle losses. Winter wheat production is the lowest in seven years, he said, and, "even is the rains came today, it would be too late for much of the cotton, grain, sorghum, and other row crops."

Nebraska's Exon said his estimate of a $1-billion loss is probably conservative "because the situation is deteriorating so rapidly." Feed shortages have reached the point that Exon ordered hay growing along highway rights-of-way to be cut and sold at auction.


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Virginian-Pilot, Thursday, August 1, 1974 B15

Ear Trouble

Jim Kuehl breaks open an ear of corn showing how little the corn has matured in the Omaha, Neb., area due to dry conditions. Kuehl, along with many other area farmers, has given up any hope of bringing in a decent corn crop and has begun to chop the corn for silage. The dry conditions caused Nebraska Gov. James Exon to declare the state a disaster area. (UPI)


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SPECIAL REPORT

Thomas Hopker-Woodfin Camp

A brink-of-death existence in an area as large as the U.S.: Ethiopians devour emergency food rations

# Africa's Disastrous Drought

By ANDREW JAFFE

On the outskirts of Niamey, the capital of Niger, 20,000 nomads cluster in a pocket of disease and pestilence that passes for a refugee camp. The smelly four-day-old carcass of a donkey rots in the sun near the camp's main waterhole, and children-their bellies bulging from untreated parasites-play nearby. "There is almost no malnutrition here," says a complaisant Red Cross worker. But just then several mothers pass by carrying babies with yellowish hair and skin like papier mâché. They are suffering from marasmus-progressive emaciation.

At a camp in Dessiye, Ethiopia, 6,000 barefoot peasants huddle together for warmth as they wait for food. Some are half naked; others cling to rags so filthy that they are alive with flies and lice. Many of the children show signs of pneumonia and tuberculosis, and much of the camp is afflicted with crippling diarrhea. To while away the time, the children make long whips out of hemp and then lash each other in cruel delight.

In camps across north-central Africa, 1.5 million men, women and children are leading a brink-of-death existence. They are refugees from the great drought that has scourged sixteen African nations for several years (map, page 59). At best the camps provide the barest food and health care; at worst, they are hellholes. But the Africans who inhabit the camps are, in a way, the lucky ones. Another million Africans have already died of hunger and disease. Five to 10 million more are starving in the African bush or the slums of drought-area towns. The African drought is one of the great catastrophes of the twentieth century. And the response of the world community and the African governments themselves has, in many ways, only compounded the tragedy.

The drought began in the Sahel-an arid savanna that stretches across six nations on the southern fringe of the Sahara desert. The natives of the Sahel are among the world's poorest people-ragged, cattle-raising nomads and subsistence farmers. When the region's meager rainfall failed in 1968-the result of a change in the global weather pattern-25 million Africans were soon hard pressed for a living. As the brutal dry spell continued and desperate nomads cut down trees and shrubs to feed their starving cattle, the Sahara itself moved southward at a rate of 30 miles a year. Eventually the drought spread east into the provinces of northern Ethiopia. "We have eaten more sand this year than in our thirteen years here," one European missionary in Western Niger told me. "There is not enough vegetation to hold back the desert." Today, in an area the size of the continental U.S., the streams and watersheds of north central Africa are dusty, rocky beds. Even Lake Chad, one of Africa's principal bodies of water, has been reduced to a sea of mud and small ponds.

The reaction to the drought is an unedifying tale of official incompetence and inactivity. As herds died, hungry Africans by the hundreds of thousands began to drift to the edges of towns and cities. But the pride-or terror-of the governments concerned kept them from admitting the scope of the problem or sounding a timely alarm. This was particularly true in Ethiopia, where local officials long ago reported to the Cabinet that a northern famine had begun. When frantic men, women and children fleeing drought-stricken Wollo province appeared near Addis Ababa, authorities locked them up and left them to starve. A military coup has since overthrown the government of Ethiopia, and an investigation of this official indifference to the famine is under way.

Hushed Up: To make matters worse, the vaunted "early warning system" of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) first began reporting crop failures and food shortages in the Sahel in September 1972-years after they began. Though by then the situation was critical, it was a full eight months before FAO Director-General A.H. Boerma set

Catastrophe in the Sahel: Nomads in Mali sift the desert, grain by grain, for food air-dropped by French Army planes.

Alain Noguès-Sygma

Newsweek, August 5, 1974

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SPECIAL REPORT

man Office of Sahelian Relief ons (OSRO) in Rome. In the case opia, fear of offending Emperor Selassie even led U.N. officials to up field reports that drought and ger were affecting millions.

Not until last autumn did the FAO nd experts from major industrial states survey the African drought region to determine the needs of each nation. The experts' figures--showing a need for nearly a million tons of food grain--were accurate enough. But the FAO failed to collate the data and organize a shipping schedule for donor nations until last February. Why the delay? OSRO chief J.V.A. Nehemiah's answer was candid if startling. "It's not such a long delay if you take into account that we had to break for the Christmas holiday," he explained. And U.N. coordinator in Niger Alexander Rotival lays blame at the door of the donor nations themselves. "In December and January we had almost no food coming in," he says. "Was it necessary for the donors to wait for us to finish before they started shipping?"

This delay has certainly cost lives. And it has increased the relief bill by millions of dollars. In June, for instance, the U.S. began an airlift of grain from Bamako to the wasted region of Mali around Timbuktu. Early this year, when the Niger River was navigable, supplies could have been moved for about $80 per ton. But now Mali's food needs are so urgent that emergency measures have become a necessity. According to the FAO, the airlift the U.S. has organized may come to $900 a ton. And a truck convoy that European nations have dispatched south across the Sahara from Algeria will cost more than $200 a ton.

**Badger:** The relief effort that has been mounted is gigantic in scope. More than 120,000 tons of food a month are flowing from the U.S., Europe and Asia to the African interior. A small band of men share credit for finally getting the operation off the ground. One is former U.S. Ambassador to Mali Robert Blake. The State Department has never been overly concerned with the small and nonstrategic nations of north-central Africa, and Blake had to badger Washington for six months to shake loose funds for Malian disaster relief. Stephen Green, an American working for UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, is the man responsible for first exposing the extent of starvation in northern Ethiopia. (The U.N. has since told Green, in effect, that his career as an international civil servant is probably finished.) And indefatigable Trevor Page, OSRO's 33-year-old British logistics officer, has managed to bully donors into line, break through bottlenecks all over Africa and personally set in motion the trans-Sahara truck convoy across Algeria.

But enormous problems remain. The food en route is grossly inadequate for the Africans' needs. And many drought victims are now so weakened from lack of nourishment that they are dying of simple afflictions like diarrhea. In the

**Newsweek, August 5, 1974**

Henri Bureau--Sygma

Too little, too late?: A West German helicopter brings food to Ethiopia

Sahara Desert

DROUGHT ZONE

3,600 miles

AFRICA

Atlantic Ocean

Don Mackay

Famine belt: Only the strong will survive

meantime, 200,000 tons of grain are stacked at the ports of West Africa waiting to be distributed. When I toured the area, some of the food had already rotted from improper warehousing. Much of the blame for this lies with the Africans themselves. Recently, for example, the FAO discovered that food bound for Chad was stalled at the Nigeria-Chad border. The reason: the wife of Chad's President owns the national truck monopoly and she wanted to ferry the food into Chad on her own trucks--at twice the going freight rate.

Furthermore, current relief projects deal only with short-term needs. In the view of experts, a coordinated master plan for water conservancy and land use is what north-central Africa really needs. That, of course, would be very costly. "What is required is probably $10 billion over a 25-year period," says Dr. Edward Fei, AID's regional coordinator for Africa. One partial solution would be to resettle nomadic tribes on newly developed farmland. But that idea is bound to meet with resistance from the nomads themselves. "We would rather die than leave the desert," the son of one Tuareg chief in Niger told me.

Reticent: African governments are not enthusiastic about joint, long-range planning either. Each is pursuing its own interest and when a master plan is suggested, officials react much like Senegal's Planning Minister, Ousmane Seck. "What we are afraid of," says Seck, "is that some of the developed countries will impose priorities on us that only benefit their economies."

Within the next few weeks, the need to solve Africa's water crisis will be dramatically highlighted by nature. The scanty rains that annually water the Sahel and neighboring regions will descend in a sudden flood. The torrent will wash out roads--and thus make the delivery of relief even harder. And ironically, if the rainy season amounts to anything this year, it may actually leave the Africans worse off than a continued drought would. For the chances are that a marginal crop will emerge from an extended rainfall. And then the world community, which is already tiring of its $500 million African relief effort, may seize the occasion to ignore the catastrophic drought and its victims. "What worries me," says one British relief worker in Upper Volta, "is that this year's rain may be a bit better. Then interest in the Sahel will dim. And people will forget the African drought before any permanent solution has got started."

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(Add to Texas Miracle File)

August 5, 1974

SCIENTIST-OBSERVERS

Attached is a National Tattler write-up on the "Texas Miracle" I documented some months ago.

People in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area were scared witless...both from my radio broadcasts from my home in Virginia to the Dallas station, and from the appearance of the UFO in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area in perfect timing with my radio broadcasts in which I flatly stated that a UFO was producing the phenomena the miraculous happenings going on at that time in Texas...which I also predicted would happen in advance.

So...the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport officials worked up a "whitewash" of the UFO sightings at the airport...then they attacked me and my credibility through a clever ruse, which I have already informed you about.

Consider...I predicted in advance...the weather aberrations I would cause to take place...and predicted in advance that a UFO would cause it to happen. The UFO itself was even seen...and photographed... yet I was called a liar, and my credibility attacked.

The Watergate in Washington, D.C. --is not the only place where crooked official bureaucracy....would turn your stomach. Dallas, Texas, qualifies.

Ted Owens (PK Man)

Owens

By DELINDA HARRELL
Of the Tattler Staff

saw colored lights and rotating beacons, he said.

"WHEN WE'D SEE one of these appearing to hover or move in usual movements reported for UFOs, we queried the men in the radio cars along the runways to tell us what was taking off or landing," Ford told TATTLER.

Other airport operations officers outside the field reported the lights and unidentified aircraft appearing to match previous UFO descriptions given by witnesses, he said.

"What all of us saw from several locations did match up with the descriptions of UFOs," he explained.

"However, in 99 per cent of the cases, coordinating the information by radio, we discovered our sightings matched those of the takeoffs and landings of Metroflight Airlines' special deHavilland Twin-Otter STOL (short takeoff and landing) airplanes commuting to and from D-FW to Love Field in Dallas.

"Or they reported other conventional types of aircraft movements."

While the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport operations task force staff resolved most of the sightings in this way, Ford stressed the study shed no light on the sighting that night when Mrs. Hodgson took her photo of the UFO.

Neither did it explain the strange craft hovering above the clearing in which the Perez family lives, seen by five witnesses from three different families.

THE TASK FORCE could not classify those two sightings, said Ford, who takes a serious interest in UFO reports.

"They weren't in D-FW's flight pattern, were sighted too low and acted so differently from the aircraft light sightings we could identify, it can only be concluded the witnesses did see something other than a conventional aircraft or helicopter," he added.

Unofficially, Ford and other officials support Mrs. Hodgson's claim that she did spot a UFO on those occasions.

"We don't have the answers to those," he said. "And as a matter of safety for the hundreds of airplanes using D-FW in the same immediate area, we have instructed our operations crews and public safety officers to immediately report anything they cannot identify."

The investigation of UFO reports at Dallas-Fort Worth will continue on an around-the-clock basis, Ford reiterated.


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July 21, 1974

Drs. Fogel, Hynek, Sprinkle, Targ, Eastwood, Arenas.

My important work for, and with, the UFO entities...is quickly getting down to the essence.

For ten long years I have worked for and with the SI's, but just recently a private citizen, Millie, made it possible for me to do what the U.S. Govt. had neglected to do all along...she delivered me to Europe, where the SI's wanted me to go in person, physically...for reasons known only to the SI's. This trip, just finished, was, according to the SI's, a probe and a "feint" combined. On the trip itself, the SI's reached me and gave me a great deal of instruction with regard to further proceeding. Perhaps you would call it programming.

The enclosed report on the trip to my benefactor, Millie, is self-explanatory. (It is being xeroxd, and will actually follow this letter.)

As some of you know, the SI's had, years ago, told me that if I could meet with them, according to the conditions that they specified, at various geographical locations in Europe...they would instruct me, or build into my brain (further modification of my brain, which has already been modified by them in the past) various things that would help progress the human race, including information which would help the human race avert a nuclear war.

Millie will shortly make it possible for me to return again to Europe... alone this time...and carry out the full and complete assignment for the SI's.

It will be a lengthy trip. As the SI's have instructed me, and I have worked out by map -- first I will fly by Air France to Paris, where I will take a train to Limoges (which is south of Paris). In Limoges I will have to hire an interpreter, and rent a car. We will drive down south of Limoges to the old castle (I managed to obtain several photographs of this castle, with a special camera, and will get the photographs to you as soon as possible) where I will make arrangements to spend five nights in/at the castle, from midnight to 5 AM (to give the SI's opportunity to approach and come down to me.)

Next, I will return to Paris and take a plane to London, where I will take quarters, rent a car, and hire a driver to accompany me and assist me; someone who knows the area well. The SI's have already instructed me on where to go in England, to meet with them (two different sites, actually; will spend five nights at each site.) Then will return to London, where I will rent a huge lecture hall and invite the public...to acquaint the English full and completely with the SI's and their work. (The SI's have stipulated that this must be done.)

Next will fly to Scotland, rent a car, and drive to Loch Ness, where I will attempt to telepath/communicate with the "Loch Ness Monster" and try to get it to emerge from the lake. (This action based upon my brain being half-SI; the Loch Ness Monster, like the Bigfoot being, in my estimation, SI products -- will react to my telepathing to it.)


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Next will fly to Munich, Germany. Will hire an interpreter there, who will drive the car I will rent...and I will find the correct abandoned old castle and repeat the five night process. Then will return to Munich and give another lecture for the benefit of the German people, done through the interpreter.

If funds allow, at this point...will fly to Rio, and repeat the entire process there (for some reason, the SI's feel strongly about Brazil.) Then will fly to Australia, and repeat the entire process there...with the exception that I will give lectures in both Sydney and Melbourne. (The SI's also insist strongly that I go to Australia.)

Then I will return home.

It will take much time, and energy and effort, on my part...but get it done I will, and according to the SI specifications.

I know, deep down, that this entire schedule, after being completed, will benefit the human race infinitely.

Changing the subject...for quite some time now...I have been using my UFO-given powers to try and improve the human race; one method has consisted on working to eliminate bad leaders of the human race...war leaders and crime leaders.

Many of the top leaders in our own government are out, or going out.

Juan Peron, of Argentina, expired around the first part of July.

Franco, of Spain, has collapsed, is in hospital, and is on his way out.

Golda Meier, of Israel, is out.

Premier Caetano of Portugal was thrown out the last part of April.

Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, is out.

Souvanna Phouma, Premier of Laos, is in the hospital as of last week and is on his way out.

And there have been others that the SI's and I have removed.

Also crime leaders:

Magaddino, one of the very top Mafia bosses, passed away last Friday.

The Joseph Colombo, Sr., mafia "family" is being taken apart and investigated by a Federal grand jury...first time in history such a thing has been done.

And so it is going...and I am working very hard at it -- using SI powers to separate "the wheat from the chaff"...the bad leaders of the world...and replace them with leaders of peace, intelligence and goodness.

Also, happily I have gotten the huge SI craft positioned around this earth to get some recent rains onto Africa...which has helped a great deal there. But more will be needed; more rain there.

Texas, which treated PK Man (and the SI's) badly not long ago...is being chewed up by drought and by anthrax plague. I just mention this in passing. Not my doing...but a SI "follow up" on their own.


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On the recent trip to Paris I gave a very nice demonstration of weather control, by making it rain on Paris. With the sun shining brightly, I told Madame Kitty (who works for the wire services of Le Figaro newspaper there) that I would make it rain on Paris. Later that day, in the apartment of Gary Cooper's daughter, Maria...and her husband, Byron Janis(?)...I worked on the sky and told them how, within days, Paris would have a good drenching. Several days later the skies clouded, and it poured down rain on Paris.

Enclosed also is an affidavit from a gentleman who works with nuclear reactors in Canada...confirming that I had just made it rain here in the Norfolk area, before I went to Paris.

You probably wonder how I keep going...since the government is of no help and I have no scientific grants as yet. Well, George Delavan, for several years, has steadily pumped in several hundred dollars a month to keep me going. And of course, Millie has just set up the huge European project the SI's have long wanted me to get at. So both of these people must be very precious to the SI's, just as they are to me.

Finally, I hope to give you a demonstration. A large one. The control of an entire country. France.

As you should know from your files by now...I do not give novel PK demonstrations of bending spoons or rolling pencils around. I control radar installations with my mind; control a city with my mind; control a pro football team with my mind. Quite different altogether, my work, contrasted with other "PK" demonstrators.

This demonstration I am going to give will probably last an entire year. Now, you all have my "Cleveland Miracle" file, where I caused extreme heat to strike Cleveland and buckle the sidewalks, breakup swimming pools, etc. And disrupted Cleveland's power supply. I am going to do much the same thing with France (especially Paris and Toulouse). I am going to strike France with both tremendous heat and with storms (which will contain much lightning...but not to injure anyone). I will also attempt to make some hurricanes, and bring them at France (will work to produce a hurricane off the U.S. coast within two weeks of this letter, for a beginning.) And will work to cause strange EM (electromagnetic) effects to attack France...which should affect the power supply there. Am certain...that France will never have experienced anything like this before. (Note: the above might produce many storms and hurricanes around the U.S. as a sort of "side effect" in the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf. My brain has increased its power, exponentially, for quite a long while... and at this point it is much more powerful than some years ago when I accomplished the miracles written about in the Saga articles.)

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310

Owens


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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

This past Thursday (June 20, 1974) Ted Owens (The PK Man - UFO Prophet) drove me to the Norfolk Airport, for me to catch my plane to Canada. Mr. Owens had given me personal training (SI methods) for several days, which had been my purpose in flying down from Canada. Before we entered the Airport, Mr. Owens told me that he would teach me how to make it rain...he pointed up at the sunny, clear sky...and gave me instructions on how to cause a rainstorm when I wished. I might add at this point that it had been hot, sunny and clear during my four days in Virginia...with no indication whatever of inclement weather. Within a short time after Owens had "worked on the sky" for my benefit, to teach me how to make the sky pour rain, and lightning appear... I learn from the enclosed newsclip that rain and lightning appeared in the area that Owens had been "working on" to make rain and lightning appear.

I swear that this is a true and accurate statement, to the best of my knowledge.

Bernard M. Joanisse
Bernard Joanisse
538 Mutual Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1K1C6

Some Phones Out

June 22, 1974
Va. Pilot, Norfolk, Va.

# Power On, Suffolk Area Shakes Off Storm Effects

- This storm I made -

SUFFOLK--Storm damage to electric power equipment has been restored 100 per cent and full service to customers resumed, according to a Virginia Electric & Power Co. spokesman.

The chain of severe thunderstorms which swept through Suffolk Thursday night disrupted service to about 4,250 households in a wide area.

Thomas B. Knox, area business manager for Vepco, said the time in which some customers were without service ranged from a few minutes to seven hours. Crews worked throughout the night restoring power, he said.

Knox said the damage ranged from transformers knocked out by lightning to one complete circuit out at the Driver substation, leaving about 1,600 customers in the Driver and Bennett's Creek areas without service for a little more than seven hours.

About 1,520 customers in the Chuckatuck, Hobson, Eclipse, and Crittenden areas were without service, he said, when a tree fell across a primary line at Reid's Ferry about 9 p.m.

The storm also brought a heavy rainfall. The Lake Kilby pumping station reported 2.86 inches, and just a few miles further west at the Tidewater Research Center at Holland the precipitation was measured at 2.42 inches.

In the Smithfield area, a utility shed near Benns Church was struck by lightning and burned. No further property damage was reported there.

A spokesman for the Suffolk Fire Department said 12 calls were answered between 4:07 and 10:50 p.m. He said 10 were storm-related.

W. Randolph Robinson, local Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. manager, said 120 telephones in Suffolk were put out of order because of lightning damage to cables.

"Crews worked all night," he said, "and are still on the job today making repairs." He said he hoped to have all the damaged cables repaired by late Friday night.

If all customer service is not restored by that target time, the company is prepared to work through the night and into today, he said.


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July 20, 1974

United States

North Atlantic Ocean

England

Germany

Spain

France

Hurricanes
Power Blackouts
EM effects
Storms
Drought


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The Cabinet In Portugal Is Moderate Left

NY Times 7/21/74

Charged by President Antonio de Spinola with enforcing greater "social and civic discipline," Portugal's new, military-dominated Government has taken office against a background of continued unrest at home and stepped-up violence in the nation's African colonies.

Heading the regime is Col. Vasco dos Santos Goncalves, the Premier. President Spinola, in introducing the new Cabinet, referred to Colonel Goncalves as "the brain" behind the April 25 coup that toppled Portugal's 50-year-old dictatorship, headed in its final days by Premier Marcello Caetano.

The general tone of the Cabinet is moderately left. Its major task will be to deal with the country's 30 per cent inflation rate and general business depression. And it will have to try to reconcile the problems in Africa.

Seven key posts in the new government, almost half the total, went to military men. But the Communist party's secretary general, Alvaro Cunhal, will stay on as a Minister Without Portfolio; he loses control of the Labor Ministry. And the Socialist leader, Mario Soares, who has been in charge of negotiating with rebel leaders from Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau, remains as Foreign Minister.

In Mozambique, African guerrillas last week blew up a section of the Tete railway line which links Beira, the colony's main port, with the giant Cabora Bassa Dam which the Portuguese are rushing to completion. Since June 26, the line has been sabotaged three times, seriously delaying work on the dam.

In Angola, the shooting of a white taxi driver in the capital, Luanda, two weeks ago, touched off riots that left seven people dead. Last week new demonstrations were broken up by troops and in the ensuing melee, 20 more people were reported dead.

By ALVIN SHUSTER

ATHENS--For an island about half as big as the State of New Jersey and with a population of 640,000, Cyprus has given the world more than enough problems over the years.

Sitting south of Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean, it has been racked by violence between ethnic Turks and Greeks, figured prominently in domestic politics in Ankara and Athens, monopolized the attention of the United Nations and caused concern in the North Atlantic alliance and in Moscow.

It has been a problem for so long that many Greeks and Turks outside of the island are weary of hearing about it. A Greek editor said here the other day that even in the days before censorship a Cyprus headline ensured a drop in circulation.

Yet to the people of Cyprus and to the governments of Greece and Turkey, among others, it is a genuine problem that arises out of a tangled and complex history spanning centuries. Peace there has always been a sometime thing and, as was the case this weekend, Greece and Turkey have come close to war over the island on several occasions.

As so often in the past, the present crisis stems from the traditional desire of ethnic Greek Cypriotes and elements in Athens for Enosis, or union with Greece. It is a cry long heard, before and after the island passed from Turkish rule to the British in 1878, during its days as a Crown colony, after 1960, when it gained its status as an independent state where ethnic Greeks outnumber the ethnic Turks by four to one.

The goal, reflecting the historical insistence of Athens that it is the national center of Hellenism, underlies Ankara's fears for the safety of the ethnic Turks. It has been at the root of the communal violence that forced the United Nations to send in a peace-keeping force 10 years ago and turned the island into an armed camp with makeshift barriers still blocking movement between Greek and Turkish sectors.

For years, Archbishop Makarios, deposed as President in Monday's coup by the Greek-led National Guard of Cyprus, led the determined campaign to bring about union. But it was his conversion to a more "realistic" policy to maintain independence and work to unite the warring communities that led to his downfall.

In public, union with Greece remained his ultimate objective. But he felt that it was no longer attainable because it would lead to war with Turkey, and that Cyprus was better off anyway as an independent sovereign state than as a province of Greece.

Despite all the traditional emotions, the 60-year-old priest and statesman appeared to have convinced many of the Greeks in Cyprus that his course was right. The Turkish minority remained suspicious and unconvinced but talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriotes over the political structure of the country continued. To the nationalist-minded, rigidly anti-Communist military rulers now in power here--those who last November toppled President George Papadopoulos--the Archbishop was selling out. Moreover, they worried about his strong support from the Cypriote Communist party, his flirtations with Moscow and his highly publicized state visit to Peking in May.

The plot to dislodge him unfolded and grew more urgent when the Archbishop, sensing trouble,

NY Times 7/21/74


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* Also... see Makarios and others (Golda Meir, Caetano, etc)

NY Times
7/21/74

The World

In Summary

# Juan Carlos, Franco's Heir, Steps In

Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Spain's ruler for 35 years, is seriously ill in a Madrid clinic and has delegated his powers to Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón, the 36-year-old heir to a throne that has been vacant since 1931.

In transferring power to Prince Juan Carlos, General Franco acted under a law which states that during the absence or illness of the chief of state, the royal heir will assume his duties. But there was a strong feeling in the Spanish political world, already excited by the recent overthrow of the dictatorship in Portugal, that a long and bitter era in Spanish history was ending.

The general belief was that Francoism without Franco was impossible. There has long been hostility to the Franco regime, not only among the Basque and Catalonian separatist movements in the north, but also among liberal politicians and intellectuals.

Now, like Portugal's, Spain's economy is a prominent victim of the worldwide inflation and economic recession. In a country used to full employment for years, there are already 80,000 unemployed and one estimate says the number of jobless will rise to 300,000. The result: growing social malaise.

The 81-year-old General was admitted to the clinic two weeks ago for treatment of phlebitis and his condition had been improving. But last week his doctors said he suffered a "setback" caused by "gastric complications." It was believed that anticoagulants, administered to relieve bloodclots in the leg, had caused internal hemorrhaging. Later, the general's condition improved again but still gave cause for anxiety.

Tomorrow Prince Juan Carlos will mark the fifth anniversary of his designation as General Franco's successor carrying the title of King. The last King was Alfonso XIII, who abdicated in 1931 in favor of a republic. The prince's father, Don Juan, who disagreed politically with General Franco, lives in exile in Lisbon. General Franco's decision to bypass Don Juan in favor of his son caused bitterness within the royal family.

But the Generalissimo persisted and saw to it that the young prince was educated in the traditions of Francoism.

Up to now, his duties have been largely ceremonial but last week he began his new role by signing a joint Spanish-American declaration of defense principles similar to one recently signed in Brussels by the United States and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization members.

# Left and Right in Laos, They Wait

By JAMES M. MARKHAM

VIENTIANE--The Chinese came last. By the time they got there, cardiologists from the United States, Thailand, France and the Soviet Union were already huddling around the bedside of Prince Souvanna Phouma, the 72-year-old Premier of Laos, who had been stricken by a heart attack.

The medical prognosis for the Premier, which was still uncertain, would also be a political prognosis for Laos and for the fragile three-month-old coalition between the Communist-oriented Pathet Lao and the American-supported Vientiane side. It has been the neutralist Prince Souvanna who has held the fractious arrangement together, tacking between left and right and, more often than not, making concessions to the Pathet Lao that angered the right.

At the moment, neither the Pathet Lao nor the right seemed eager to sunder the coalition. The last months in Laos have been truly peaceful. The only real alternative to coalition is war, which nobody wants.

The symbolism of the polyglot medical team caring for the Premier was reassuring, too. Laos has tried coalitions twice before--in 1957 and 1962--but they shattered under the pressures of the cold war and the Vietnam war. Today, everyone wishes the coalition well: if it fails, it will not be for want of international support.


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7/21/74 THE NEW YORK TIMES,

# Franco Said to Fight Back After Hemorrhage Alarm

## General Reported Walking and Taking Nourishment; Government Stresses Successful Transfer of Power

By HENRY GINIGER
Special to The New York Times

MADRID, July 20--Generalissimo Francisco Franco, ailing since July 9 with phlebitis, appeared today to be fighting back against the effects of the internal bleeding that suddenly developed yesterday morning.

The alarm that led to a temporary transfer of power to the 81-year-old General's designated successor, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón, subsided somewhat after doctors reported the hemorrhaging that had caused him to vomit blood had been able to take nourishment normally. The six-man medical team even had him walking this morning.

The medical bulletin, issued shortly after noon, was more explicit than previous ones in acknowledging that doctors were fighting against both phlebitis and thrombosis in the right thigh. The effort to inhibit blood clots had apparently provoked hemorrhages and it remained to be seen whether the effort to stop the bleeding would not in turn bring about new clots.

### Air of Crisis Reduced

Officials and supporters of the regime that General Franco had led for 33 years until yesterday, continued to stream in and out of the private clinic in northern Madrid, which is part of a vast hospital complex that bears his name. But the atmosphere of crisis lifted to a large degree and Carmen Franco, who has remained beside her husband in an adjoining room, was able to leave the hospital for a while.

The press, responding to express Government wishes that it contribute to public tranquility, emphasized how well the constitutional provisions for temporary transfer had worked and how the General had prudently left "no loose ends" in the process of continuity.

Although some military and police precautions are believed to have been taken, there were no reports of the kind of incidents that might have been provoked by an event that made the Spanish people more conscious than ever of the fragility of there aged leader.

### Emergency Measures Withheld

Officials are acting now much as they acted during the emergency last December when General Franco's most trusted aide, Premier Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated. Now, as then, the solidity of the regime -- no matter how vulnerable those who lead it may be -- is the dominant theme. Consequently the Government has refrained from any spectacular emergency measures.

Although the political system is opposed by a large number of Spaniards, neither in December nor now has any important opposition group made any overt attempt to profit from the circumstances. The assassination of Mr. Carrero Blanco by a small group presumed to consist of Basque terrorists has remained an isolated act.

The present calm indicates that the 36-year-old acting chief of state will have no serious political difficulties at least until the country knows the outcome of the General's illness.

Third World for the next twenty years. Perón himself took care of the nationalism; his second wife, María Eva Duarte, a fiery former actress, carried the message of economic justice to the masses. "Perón Cumple" (Perón delivers) said the wall posters, and to a degree he did. He bettered the lot of the Argentine workers, creating a strong trade-union movement and giving them better wages, social security and a sense of dignity. Even today, Juan and "Evita" are remembered in remote villages because the Eva Perón Foundation sent a sewing machine to a cripple or a bicycle to a poor child.

Hysteria: Evita died of cancer in 1952 at the age of 33--and her death traumatized Argentina. Sixteen people died in the crush to view her body, and thousands were treated for hysteria. Argentines prayed to her photograph and some of her followers asked Pope Pius XII to canonize her. As for Perón, he kept her embalmed body in a coffin in his residence.

Perón also bankrupted the nation--morally, politically and economically. Government under the smooth and wily general meant the steady growth of a highly centralized dictatorship. Political opponents were hounded into silence or prison; the courts and universities were purged; newspapers were muzzled or put out of business. Perhaps Perón's most damaging weakness was his monumental inability to understand the simplest economics. In 1955, his fellow military men--egged on by the country's old ruling class and by prelates scandalized by Peronist legislation legalizing prostitution and divorce--moved against Perón.

![Perón and Evita, 1952: A marriage of politics and charisma]
Perón and Evita, 1952: A marriage

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July 15, 1974 Newsweek


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NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1974

# S. Jury Examining Colombo Family Racketeer-Influenced Organization

For the first time, the structure of an organized-crime family is being examined by a Federal grand jury as though it were a noncriminal organization that became infiltrated by racketeers, Federal law enforcement sources have disclosed.

The grand jury, in Brooklyn, is investigating the Mafia family of Joseph A. Colombo Sr. under a section of the criminal statutes that has been used in the past to look at racketeer influence in unions, businesses and other legitimate organizations.

In the past, mobsters have been prosecuted for the commission of specific crimes and for infiltration of legitimate organizations. But they have not been examined by grand juries for the way they relate to each other within a crime syndicate. Nor have they been prosecuted for their involvement in a crime syndicate.

Already the Brooklyn investigation has led to the jailing of the man whom Federal authorities believe to be the current head of the Colombo family, Thomas Salvatore Di Bella, a retired longshoreman.

**Main Advantage Noted**

According to Denis E. Dillon, the former chief of the Brooklyn strike force against organized crime, the grand jury's approach could lead to indictments of Colombo family members "for involvement in a racketeer-influenced organization."

by 1971 he was listed by the police as a soldier in the Colombo family.

Several law-enforcement sources said Mr. Di Bella's recent rise to a leadership position indicated that the more powerful bosses, such as Mr. Gambino and Mr. Persico, were not pleased with the younger generation's style and wanted a reversion to the older, more discreet sort of family boss.

But others were of the opinion that Mr. Di Bella was picked because he was not powerful and hence would be submissive to Carlo Gambino.

According to the sources, no provision has been made for his replacement while he serves his term for contempt.


NY Times
7/21/74

# Stefano Magaddino Dead at 82; Reputed Upstate Crime Leader

By EMANUEL PERLMUTTER

The body of Stefano Magaddino, the reputed upstate New York crime boss who was one of the last of the original national "commission members" who had ruled the American Mafia in the last 30 years, lay in his own Niagara Falls funeral chapel yesterday. He died Friday of a heart ailment at the age of 82. Floral wreaths kept arriving all day.

Don Stefano, as he was known to associates, was said by the Justice Department to have headed organized crime in the area from Western New York into the Ohio Valley and Canada.

Once one of the most feared of Mafia leaders, he had been in semiretirement for the last three years and could occasionally be seen playing with his grandchildren in the back yard of his home in Lewiston, N.Y. His Mafia "family" is now believed to be ruled by Russell Bufalino, the reputed organized crime boss of northeastern Pennsylvania.

Mr. Magaddino's power began to wane about five years ago after law enforcement officials raided the apartment of his son, Peter A., in Niagara Falls and found $521,000 in a suitcase under his bed. The members of the Magaddino crime "family" had been unhappy over dwindling illicit


heroin smuggling between 1950 and 1960 in France, Italy, Canada and the United States.

Five years ago, the Justice Department listed Mr. Magaddino as one of the four members still left of the nine men who had once ruled the Mafia as its national board of governors. In addition to Mr. Magaddino, they include Carlo Gambino of Brooklyn-now reputed to be the "boss of bosses" of the syndicate; Angel-


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August 1, 1974

Scientist-Observers:

this report about Germany... further carries out my report to you that I, and the SI's, are changing the world's (and the US) weather.

Interloping west wind

# Germany's bad summer imported from U.S.

By BERT LINDLER
Staff writer

HAMBURG (S&S) -- One of Germany's coolest, wettest summers in 100 years swept in unexpectedly from America, said a German meteorologist here.

The west wind which is blowing air masses from America to Europe is normal in winter, but extremely unusual in the summer, said Dr. Elisabeth Kleissen, a meteorologist with the German weather service.

These air masses cool off as they pass over the Atlantic, Dr. Kleissen said, and bring cool weather, rain and thundershowers when they reach Europe.

This type of summer weather system, which first developed on June 27, is just one of two or three that have been recorded in the past 100 years, she said.

No change in the weather should be expected within the next few days, Dr. Kleissen said, but she wouldn't venture a guess as to when the system would move out.

"We don't understand why the air masses moved this way, so it's difficult for us to predict what they're likely to do next," she said.

The effect of this cold mass of Atlantic air -- rain and storm weather -- was further intensified by a northward shift of hot tropical air, Dr. Kleissen said.

You have storms when hot air meets cold air, she said, and the greater the difference in temperature, the more violent the storms.

Normally the European air mass, some 9 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the tropical, meets the tropical air mass over the Mediterranean. The storms take place over the sea.

Now, the tropical air mass has extended several hundred miles northward to the southern edge of the Alps. The difference in temperature is 18 to 27 degrees greater than normal because of the cool Atlantic air mass over Germany.

The result: cold, rainy weather just when vacationers are looking forward to sun and tan.

And, at least in this case, Americans should be cautious when complaining about the European weather. This system is an American import.

And the following... further shows you... how I, and the SI's, are taking out tyrannical dictators the world over... to replace them with better men.

NY Times 7/28/74

## Island Head Quits In Caribbean

ROSEAU, Dominica, July 27 (Reuters) -- Prime Minister Edward Leblanc today gave up leadership of the Caribbean island of Dominica, whose politics he dominated for 12 years.

Mr. Leblanc, 50 years old, who became chief minister when Dominica was still a British colony in 1962, sent his letter of resignation to the Governor, Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue.

Mr. Leblanc also resigned his seat in Parliament.

The resignation came as no surprise to the 75,000 people on the banana-producing island. Less than two weeks ago Mr. Leblanc revealed his disenchantment with politics in the country after stepping down as leader of the ruling Labor party.

NY Times 1974

## Chou Is Reported Out of Hospital

PEKING, July 27 (Reuters) -- Premier Chou En-lai has left the hospital and is making a good recovery from his recent illness, diplomatic sources have said today.

Ill health forced the 76-year-old Premier to reduce his official duties in early May and he is reported to have suffered a heart attack about a month later.

The Premier apparently left the hospital shortly before a meeting on July 20 with a visiting Niger delegation on establishing diplomatic links between the two countries.

Observers here believe that Mr. Chou will still rely heavily on his deputy Premiers even after his recovery, although he may retain the post of Premier, a position he has held for a quarter of a century.


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The Great Drought

Va. Pilot
Aug 22, 1974

# New England Lacks Rain

By United Press International

Parts of New England Wednesday were in the grip of the worst drought in 27 years, hard on the heels of a two-month drought in the Midwest that cut projected grain harvests.

Farmers in Maine and New Hampshire have been ravaged by the drought, which has cut deeply into northern New England's three-month growing season.

Corn and hay are expected to be in short supply by winter, and the price of milk probably will rise, said New Hampshire Agriculture Commissioner Howard Townsend. Vegetable gardens have been damaged.

Forestry officials in coastal New Hampshire have imposed bans in some state forests on camp fires and cigarette smoking, closed other parks, increased smoke watching flights, and placed fire towers on alert.

"Everybody that I talk to feels we are sitting on a powder keg and just wondering where the big one's going to start," said Jack Sargent, chief of New Hampshire forest-fire control.

Thundershowers last weekend were the only substantial rain in the area in nine weeks, and officials said that by the weekend the forest-fire danger will be at its worst all summer.

Some stretches of the Maine coast have been parched by the long hot summer, but officials so far have not imposed restrictions on forest use. Fire last week blackened seven acres of Maine's Acadia National Park in the worst forest fire since 1947, when 1,000 acres of Mt. Desert Island burned.

Vermont authorities said dry conditions there have not reached drought proportions.

In the Midwest, rains eased the drought situation but brought with it temperatures so low that farmers in the nation's breadbasket were faced with a new worry.

Drought-stunted crops are maturing slower than usual, agricultural officials said, and face danger of being killed by premature fall frosts.

Wednesday morning, temperatures dipped to a record low of 45 degrees at Denver, Colo., and to record-tying levels of 45 at Scottsbluff, Neb., and 38 at Sheridan, Wyo.

Rain throughout August helped soybeans and row crops such as grain sorghum, but agriculture experts in Nebraska and Iowa warned that crops slowed by the drought need time and good fall weather if they are to mature before the first killing frosts.

A special report issued early this week by the Agriculture Department in Washington said that, while the rains ended the Midwestern drought, they did not significantly improve the projected corn harvest.

The department predicted that the 1974 corn crop would be 12 per cent below last year and the soybean crop down 16 per cent. The next full-scale crop assessment is expected Sept. 11.

Gentlemen -
Perhaps you thought I was jesting about the world drought and U.S. drought. The midwest is racked up; worst in New England in 27 years - and it will get worse! And that, gentlemen, is where I will step in...

Owens
PK Man


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The News and Observer, Raleigh, N. C.
Sunday, September 22, 1974

# U. S. Seeks to Aid Gloomy World Food Picture

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Kissinger faces an awesome task at the United Nations Monday. He is expected to provide specifics on United States plans for food aid to a world in which few truths that he can provide are likely to be palatable.

President Ford had assigned him the task last Wednesday, telling the United Nations that Kissinger would "present in specifics the overall principles that I will outline." Ford went on to give the following promise:

"To make certain that the more immediate needs for food are met this year, the United States will not only maintain the amount it spends for food shipments to nations in need but it will increase this amount this year."

Aides worked into the weekend, searching and researching to find the means to put the best possible face on a gloomy food picture. But no matter how they turned it, the hard facts came out the same, and they are these:

World grain production this year will fall more than 25 million tons below last year's crops -- an amount more than equal the average provisions for 100 million people in hungry nations -- in a world that has added about 65 million to its population.

And the United States, with total grain production this year of about 206 million tons and expected exports of about 50 million tons, would have little more to give to aid the world's 400 million undernourished and starving people than the 3.2 million it provided in the 1973-74 fiscal year -- and perhaps less.

Details of what the Agriculture Department calls a "sobering picture" emerge from interviews with officials and a study of many of the department's reports and working papers.

All the producing countries of the world will produce 941.9 million tons of grain in the 1974-75 marketing year, according to the best judgments and projections. That was 27 million tons less than the world consumed in the year ended June 30, 1974.

Because the world had about 106 million tons of grain supplies carried over at the beginning of the year, its people will be able to eat a little more than they produce, but are still expected to consume about 25 million tons less than they did last year.

Much of the "carryover" stocks of 104 million tons projected for the end of this marketing year are "pipeline" supplies in transit and in storage and much of the remainder is simply too high priced or in the wrong place to succor the millions of the world's needy.

Thus, they are expected to bear the brunt of most of the 25 million ton reduction in world consumption.

When rice production is added, the world tonnage total projected is 1,249.8 million tons, compared with 1,276.4 million last year.

### In India

The grimmest part of the picture is developing in India, where uneven monsoons have brought heavy rains to eastern areas but left vast areas of the interior parched and dry. The latest Department of Agriculture reports indicates that this year's wheat crop there has fallen about 2.5 million tons below the 24.9 million tons produced last year.

At the same time the rice harvest is expected to fall about two million tons short of last year's 65 million tons, while prospects for coarse grains and peanuts are said to have been "crippled" by the drought in central India.

In Eastern Europe, meanwhile, harvest prospects are down about 5 per cent from the 87 million tons produced for the last two years. Although wheat production is about the same as last year's 30 million tons, rye production and corn have declined.

In any event, Eastern Europe will have no excess to contribute to world needs. Instead, the area will increase imports.

Western Europe will have an increase of about four million tons in total grain production, despite deduced rainfall in northern areas. The rise in production is largely a result of increased acreage and better cropping conditions in the Mediterranean area.

The net result is likely to be a 84.7 million for Western Europe, and 52 million for Eastern Europe. Among others, Canada's projection is 18.7 million tons, Argentina 17.8 million, South Africa 9.7 million, Australia 5.2 million, Thailand 2.7 million and all other foreign production 131.7 million.

The world production compares with last year's 599.1 million tons and consumption last of 604.8 million tons.

For rice, no similarly detailed picture is available for the 1974-75 crop year, but the total output is projected at 305 million tons, compared with last year's estimated tonnage of 309.7 million tons.

Among all the facts available in the world food picture one final stark reality stands out. It is this: On the basis of the Agriculture Department's long-term trend calculation, world grain consumption is growing 1.5 million tons a year faster than world grain production.

### In Canada

Canada, meanwhile, expects to produce about a million tons of wheat less than she did last year.

In summary, this is the outlook for the world's major crops:

Wheat -- World production is projected at 360.5 million tons, with 95 million to come from the Soviet Union, 52.8 million from Western Europe, 50.1 million from the United States, 31.2 million from Eastern Europe, 16.2 million from Argentina and 73.7 million from all other countries.

The total of 360.5 million compares with last year's production of 367.8 million tons and last year's consumption of 364.2 million tons.

### Other Crops

Feed grains -- The projected world production of 581.4 million tons is led by the United States 158.9 million tons, 100 million for the Soviet Union.

Sept 24, 1974

Only PK Man and his UFO's, will be able to end the world drought ... and assure the world of ample food supplies.

But if anything happens to PK Man in the game is over!!

Owen


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WORLD STARVATION

U.S. PET POPULATION

CRAWFORD
KEA '74

Man's Best Friends (are UFO's. Owens)

True cartoon.

But... only PK Man, and his SI's... can prevent "World Starvation."

Owens


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August 5, 1974

SCIENTIST-OBSERVERS

Attached is a National Tattler write-up on the "Texas Miracle" I documented some months ago.

People in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area were scared witless...both from my radio broadcasts from my home in Virginia to the Dallas station, and from the appearance of the UFO in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area in perfect timing with my radio broadcasts in which I flatly stated that a UFO was producing the phenomena the miraculous happenings going on at that time in Texas...which I also predicted would happen in advance. So...the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport officials worked up a "whitewash" of the UFO sightings at the airport...then they attacked me and my credibility through a clever ruse, which I have already informed you about.

Consider...I predicted in advance...the weather aberrations I would cause to take place...and predicted in advance that a UFO would cause it to happen. The UFO itself was even seen...and photographed... yet I was called a liar, and my credibility attacked.

The Watergate in Washington, D.C. --is not the only place where crooked official bureaucracy....would turn your stomach. Dallas, Texas, qualifies.

Ted Owens (PK Man)

Owens

By DELINDA HARRELL
Of the Tattler Staff

saw colored lights and rotating beacons, he said.

"WHEN WE'D SEE one of these appearing to hover or move in usual movements reported for UFOs, we queried the men in the radio cars along the runways to tell us what was taking off or landing," Ford told TATTLER.

Other airport operations officers outside the field reported the lights and unidentified aircraft appearing to match previous UFO descriptions given by witnesses, he said.

"What all of us saw from several locations did match up with the descriptions of UFOs," he explained.

"However, in 99 per cent of the cases, coordinating the information by radio, we discovered our sightings matched those of the takeoffs and landings of Metroflight Airlines' special deHavilland Twin-Otter STOL (short takeoff and landing) airplanes commuting to and from D-FW to Love Field in Dallas.

"Or they reported other conventional types of aircraft movements."

While the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport operations task force staff resolved most of the sightings in this way, Ford stressed the study shed no light on the sighting that night when Mrs. Hodgson took her photo of the UFO.

Neither did it explain the strange craft hovering above the clearing in which the Perez family lives, seen by five witnesses from three different families.

THE TASK FORCE could not classify those two sightings, said Ford, who takes a serious interest in UFO reports.

"They weren't in D-FW's flight pattern, were sighted too low and acted so differently from the aircraft light sightings we could identify, it can only be concluded the witnesses did see something other than a conventional aircraft or helicopter," he added.

Unofficially, Ford and other officials support Mrs. Hodgson's claim that she did spot a UFO on those occasions.

"We don't have the answers to those," he said. "And as a matter of safety for the hundreds of airplanes using D-FW in the same immediate area, we have instructed our operations crews and public safety officers to immediately report anything they cannot identify."

The investigation of UFO reports at Dallas-Fort Worth will continue on an around-the-clock basis, Ford reiterated.


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# Alarmed Officials Hunt UFOs At the World's Largest Airport
-Page 7

VOL. 21, NO. 2 JULY 14, 1974

Airfield Official Refuses to Ignore Repeated Sightings There

# World's Biggest Airport Sends out a Team Nightly to Check for UFOs Among Big Jets

Officials at the world's largest airport have formed a task force to investigate unidentified flying objects showing up in their flight patterns.

Operations officer Fred C. Ford of Dallas-Fort Worth Airport formed the group after a 10-day wave of periodic UFO reports from residents of Grapevine, Tex., a small city a few miles to the northwest.

The task force now mans radio-equipped cars at night to try to trace down the source of the UFOs, which appear four and five times in an evening.

Grapevine residents first reported the sightings to officials at the airport's Federal Aviation Administration control tower and later to the FAA Southwest Regional Headquarters, Fort Worth.

Mrs. Sandra Hodgson, 36, a medical technician, who lives in a new townhouse complex three miles west of the airport boundaries, was the first to make a report.

After noticing strange lights for six to eight months above the 17,500-acre field, which opened Jan. 1, 1974, she called the FAA, Ford and her local newspaper.

REPORTERS visited Mrs. Hodgson and found she had taken a photo of a UFO in the air. It did not fit any Dallas-Fort Worth flight pattern and its altitude was only 60 feet.

After seeing more of the strange lights on succeeding nights, she was joined by Debbie Carter, 17, a friend, when they took Mrs. Hodgson's car and followed the slow-moving light, which flew over a wooded area, she reported.

"When we got about a mile into the woods, the UFO was hovering over a clearing, shining a very bright spotlight down into the clearing," she told TATTLER.

"Standing there watching it were Mr. and Mrs. (Lucio) Perez and his brother Leonardo.

"They were frightened. So was I, but I think they (people in the UFO) are seriously trying to contact humans.

"I BELIEVE they come from another planet and are greatly advanced technically," she said.

Hearing such reports repeated, Ford organized his UFO-hunting team.

"We weren't debunking possibilities of UFOs existing," he told TATTLER. "But in this case, we wanted to seriously try and pin down exactly what it was the people were seeing.

"It was becoming obvious. All of the reports were not just imagination."

Ford stationed radio cars along the west runway and others in strategic areas two to four miles west of the airport. Then he joined Mrs. Hodgson and Miss Carter in their nightly UFO watch.

After spending but two hours in the remote area, Ford saw something flashing the same lights residents were reporting as UFOs.

They appeared to be similar to the UFO lights being reported and looked as if they were hovering. He

SWIRL OF FOLIAGE marks spot where residents saw UFO

NEAR THE FIELD at Dallas-Fort Worth, resident took the photo above of UFO 60 feet up.


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August 16, 1974

TO OBSERVER-SCIENTISTS:

AS PER MY MESSAGE TO YOU OF JULY 21 ... THAT I WOULD TRY AND PRODUCE A HURRICANE FOR YOU WITHIN TWO WEEKS.

I SUCCEEDED IN MAKING "ALMA" WHICH REACHED 65 MPH, BUT NOT QUITE HURRICANE STRENGTH. ALSO, IT TOOK ME THREE WEEKS INSTEAD OF TWO, TO PUT HER TOGETHER.

BY THE WAY, ALMA DID NOT KNOCK THAT PLANE DOWN IN VENEZUELA! SHE WAS JUST A HANDY EXCUSE TO SAVE THE AIRLINE COMPANY A MILLION DOLLARS IN LAWSUITS! (CRASH WAS DUE TO PILOT ERROR, RAINSTORM NOTWITHSTANDING.)

ALMA WAS GOOD, BUT I WILL DO BETTER, IN THE WEEKS AND MONTHS TO COME. (HAVEN'T WORKED WITH HURRICANES SINCE THE 60'S, AND AM OUT OF PRACTICE.)

OWENS
(PK / MAN)


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LTR TO SCIENTISTS
7/21/74

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On the recent trip to Paris I gave a very nice demonstration of weather control, by making it rain on Paris. With the sun shining brightly, I told Madame Kitty (who works for the wire services of Le Figaro newspaper there) that I would make it rain on Paris. Later that day, in the apartment of Gary Cooper's daughter, Maria...and her husband, Byron Janis(?)...I worked on the sky and told them how, within days, Paris would have a good drenching. Several days later the skies clouded, and it poured down rain on Paris.

Enclosed also is an affidavit from a gentleman who works with nuclear reactors in Canada...confirming that I had just made it rain here in the Norfolk area, before I went to Paris.

You probably wonder how I keep going...since the government is of no help and I have no scientific grants as yet. Well, George Delavan, for several years, has steadily pumped in several hundred dollars a month to keep me going. And of course, Millie has just set up the huge European project the SI's have long wanted me to get at. So both of these people must be very precious to the SI's, just as they are to me.

Finally, I hope to give you a demonstration. A large one. The control of an entire country. France.

As you should know from your files by now...I do not give novel PK demonstrations of bending spoons or rolling pencils around. I control radar installations with my mind; control a city with my mind; control a pro football team with my mind. Quite different altogether, my work, contrasted with other "PK" demonstrators.

This demonstration I am going to give will probably last an entire year. Now, you all have my "Cleveland Miracle" file, where I caused extreme heat to strike Cleveland and buckle the sidewalks, breakup swimming pools, etc. And disrupted Cleveland's power supply. I am going to do much the same thing with France (especially Paris and Toulouse). I am going to strike France with both tremendous heat and with storms (which will contain much lightning...but not to injure anyone). I will also attempt to make some hurricanes, and bring them at France (will work to produce a hurricane off the U.S. coast within two weeks of this letter, for a beginning.) And will work to cause strange EM (electromagnetic) effects to attack France...which should affect the power supply there. Am certain...that France will never have experienced anything like this before. (Note: the above might produce many storms and hurricanes around the U.S. as a sort of "side effect" in the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf. My brain has increased its power, exponentially, for quite a long while...and at this point it is much more powerful than some years ago when I accomplished the miracles written about in the Saga articles.)

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310

Owens


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Virginian-Pilot, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 1974 A5

# 1st Storm Cited Off Trinidad

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico UPI -- Alma, the first tropical storm of the season, was discovered with 55 mile-per-hour winds east of Trinidad Tuesday, and a hurricane watch was posted in the outlying islands.

At 6 p.m. EDT, the San Juan weather bureau pinpointed the storm near latitude 10.0 north, longitude 45.5 west or about 375 miles due east of Trinidad. This was about 950 miles southeast of Puerto Rico.

The storm was pushing heavy seas of around 15 feet ahead of it, and the weather bureau warned the seas would hit the exposed eastern coast of Trinidad and Tobago and spread westward to the Grenadines Wednesday.

The weather bureau ordered posting of gale warnings and a hurricane watch on the Windward Islands of Trinidad, Tobago, the Grenadines, St. Vincent, and Barbados at the southeastern edge of the Caribbean.

Alma was discovered by a hurricane hunter plane which had been sent out to check on the disturbance.

The storm grew out of a tropical depression which had been tracked by satellite across the mid-Atlantic for the past three days.

Alma is racing westward at about 24 m.p.h. Forecasters said it would continue its course and speed for the next 12 to 18 hours.

Gale winds extended 75 miles to the north of the center and 25 miles to the south. Alma is likely to attain hurricane strength of 75 m.p.h winds before reaching the islands, the weather bureau said.

"In its present track and motion, the center of the storm will be passing between the islands of Trinidad and Tobago early Wednesday morning and will continue westward, approaching the Grenada area during the day," forecasters said.

"It is moving unusually rapidly for this time of year and location," said Dr. Neil Frank, director of the National Hurricane Center at Miami, who conferred with forecasters in Puerto Rico on the first storm advisory.

Frank said the storm was likely to intensify before reaching the islands that form the eastern fringe of the Caribbean sea. The hurricane watch order was issued so residents could keep in close contact with Alma's progress.

<== MY STORMS ARE ALWAYS UNUSUAL!

OWENS


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AUGUST 21, 1974

TO: SCIENTIST-OBSERVERS

SEE "PREDICTIONS FOR 1974" BY WARREN SMITH (AWARD BOOKS).

THERE IS A CHAPTER IN THERE ON MY PREDICTIONS FOR 1974.

SEE PAGE 160: "THERE WILL BE A 'SPORTS WATERGATE' CONCERNING PRO COACHES, PRO OWNERS AND PRO PLAYERS IN PAST YEARS. IT WILL BE CONNECTED TO THE MAFIA OR SYNDICATE."

NOW SEE BELOW NEWSCLIP FROM TODAY'S PAPER.

OWENS
PK MAN

VA. PILOT, NORFOLK AUG. 21, 1974

# Betting Scandal Hits NFL

NEW YORK (UPI) -- A stunning gambling scandal, involving the former team physician of the New York Giants, rocked the National Football League Tuesday with the indictment of two known gamblers in a $1 million betting ring.

A 40-count indictment against Thomas Musto, 65, of New York and Michael Astarita, 47, of Hillsdale, N.J., was returned in Manhattan supreme court. Both men were taken into custody under the indictment, which contained a total of 40 counts on gambling and criminal conspiracy. The court papers also mentioned the involvement of Dr. Anthony Pisani, who for 10 years was chief orthopedic surgeon for the Giants before resigning last month.

Astarita and Musto, who were said by one source to have had a yearly handle of $26 million from which they grossed close to $1.5 million, were arraigned before acting Supreme Court Justice Irving Lang and pleaded innocent to the 40-count conspiracy and promoting gambling indictment. They were paroled without bail for a hearing scheduled Sept. 23.

Dr. Pisani was not charged because, according to sources close to the two-year investigation, he cooperated fully in the investigation. Pisani tendered his resignation after NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle and Giant president Wellington Mara were informed he was involved in an investigation.

Musto was a "soldier" in the Vito Genovese crime family, while Astarita was associated with the late Thomas (Tommy Ryan) Eboli, who was once the manager of boxer Rocky Castellani.

Manhattan district attorney Richard Kuh declined comment on why no action was taken against Pisani, saying only that "It is not the practice of this office to go beyond the scope of the indictment."

While Kuh would only offer a "no comment" when asked if Pisani had cooperated in the investigation, Greg Perrin, Pisani's lawyer, said his client had become "unfortunately involved through his acquaintance with Musto and Astarita, who were his patients for a period of years. The doctor is not involved in any way with any wrongdoing."

According to the conspiracy count in the indictment, Musto and Astarita were involved in some of these "overt acts:"

"1. On or about Oct. 4, 1973, Thomas Musto and Michael Astarita conferred with Dr. Anthony Pisani about the physical condition of Ron Johnson (Giant fullback).

"2. On or about Oct. 6, 1973, Michael Astarita called the office of Dr. Anthony Pisani.

"3. On or about Oct. 12, 1973, Thomas Musto refused to discuss the football line with a certain individual stating 'I want to speak to the doctor first to find out what he knows about injuries.'"

Kuh said the indictment covered a period from September, 1973, to December, 1973, although the actual investigation had been going on for more than a year.

At NFL headquarters, a spokesman issued a terse statement which said that the league office had been aware of the New York City Police Department investigation for some time, but had been unable to come up with any information to help the probe.

According to the indictment, Musto and Astarita had "agreed to confer on a regular basis with Pisani through the (1973) football season regarding the extent and exact nature of injuries sustained by Ron Johnson, Carl Lockhart, John Mendenhall and other offensive and defensive players with the Giants."


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Newsweek

Frank Johnston--The Washington Post

THIS IS ONE OF MY VERY BEST "PRECOG"* PSYCHIC "HITS," MADE FOUR YEAR'S AGO IN "WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT" BY BRAD STEIGER AND WARREN SMITH.

*HA HA

OWENS MANY XPK

# Seven Days In August

And suddenly it was over. ¶ Sitting for the last time behind his desk in the Oval Office, a taut smile flickering at his lips, Richard Milhous Nixon, 61, looked wanly into the television cameras and brought the long ordeal of Watergate to its end. ¶ He resigned his ruined Presidency in disgrace--the first man ever driven from the office in the 198 years of the American Republic--and passed the mantle to his hand-chosen successor, Gerald Ford. ¶ The transfer of power

August 19, 1974

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The New York Times Magazine | August 18, 1974

August 18, 1974
TO MY OBSERVER-SCIENTISTS...

By William Safire

WASHINGTON. "We've known that something terrible was going to happen since last Thursday," Julie Nixon Eisenhower told a friend a few hours before her father's resignation, exactly one week after the President had revealed incriminating evidence to his closest aides.

On incrimination Day-Aug. 1-the White House bunker began its final weeks of siege. The first aides to hear the crushing tapes reported bleakly, "it's not 'more of the same,'" and others immediately said, "Throw in the towel." Although some of his attorneys had accepted the need for resignation since the Supreme Court decision, the President, strongly supported by his family, resisted.

those last months inside the bunker? It may be instructive to examine how the people on the inside reacted to the bursts of fresh defections, the shellings of criticism, the impacts of court decisions, the rumbling sounds of the erosion of foundations, leading up to the Big Bomb-the revelation by the President that he had been holding back evidence-and the final days of Richard Nixon's Presidency.

"Last days in the bunker" may be a cruel headline for this article, recalling as it does the last days of Hitler and his henchmen in the rubble of Berlin.

a minute to think." Then he looked up at me and his eyes came back into focus; old colleague or not, I now worked for The New York Times, so Ziegler picked up the dead telephone and yelled, "Jerry-tell the truth!"

And then the roof of the White House bunker fell in as the guns of August found the range. When the President confessed his guilt and threw himself on the mercy of the Congress, the White House mood of grim optimism and

With the confession, the black humor turned funereal; Nixon's statement fluttered like a white flag over the bunker.

A FEW MONTHS AGO I INFORMED YOU, AND ED BUSCH IN DALLAS, AND DAVID, WARREN AND OTHERS... THAT NIXON WAS GOING TO DO SOMETHING "WILD" AND UNEXPECTED... ENOUGH TO SHOCK HIS OWN FAMILY! THIS WAS IT!

WHEN HE PUBLICLY ADMITTED FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT HE HAD BEEN LYING FOR YEARS! LYING TO HIS FAMILY, LYING TO HIS LAWYERS, ETC.

I CALLED THIS... RIGHT ON THE NOSE!

OWENS
(PK / Man)


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August 20, 1974

TO OBSERVER-SCIENTISTS

P.S. I MIGHT NOT LIVE LONG, OR STAY FREE LONG, AFTER THESE PREDICTIONS GO ON PUBLIC RECORD!

I READ NIXON'S MIND AND CHARACTER CORRECTLY IN 1970 AND MADE A ONCE-IN-U.S.-HISTORY PREDICTION, THAT HE WOULD BE FORCED OUT OF OFFICE,... FOUR YEARS IN ADVANCE OF THE FACT. REMEMBER THIS, AS YOU READ THE FOLLOWING:

FORD IS A MEAN, CRUEL MAN. A CONTROLLED MAN (BY A POWER GROUP). DESPITE THE DELIRIOUS EUPHORIA SWEEPING THE COUNTRY AT PRESENT, WE AS A PEOPLE ARE NOW NO BETTER OFF THAN WHEN WE HAD NIXON AS PRESIDENT. (WE ARE WORSE OFF, NOW THAT FORD MADE ROCKEFELLER VICE PRESIDENT TODAY!)

IF YOU THINK NIXON'S CREW WERE BADDIES... WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE FORD'S CREW, FULLY ASSEMBLED!

THE "RICH GANG" PLAYS "ONE-AHEAD." WHEN KENNEDY WAS PRESIDENT, JOHNSON WAS THEIR CONTROLLED "ONE-AHEAD." WHEN JOHNSON WAS PRESIDENT, NIXON WAS INSERTED AS THE "ONE-AHEAD." NOW ROCKEFELLER HAS BEEN INSERTED BY FORD AS A CONTROLLED "ONE-AHEAD" FOR THE RICH GANG.

YOU THINK THIS IS A COUNTRY OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE? IT IS NOT. THE PEOPLE DID NOT ELECT OUR PRESIDENT FORD... NIXON, ONE MAN, DID. THE PEOPLE DID NOT ELECT OUR VICE-PRESIDENT ROCKEFELLER... FORD, ONE MAN, DID. AS "FRONT MEN" FOR THE RICH GANG, THEREFORE, OUR COUNTRY


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2)

IS ONCE MORE HEADED BY, AND CONTROLLED BY BAD MEN FRONTING FOR AND ACCOUNTABLE TO THE RICH GANG.

IF FORD WERE A GOOD MAN, AN HONEST MAN, WITH COMPLETE LOYALTY TO THE US, -- HE COULD NO MORE HAVE INSERTED ROCKEFELLER AS V.P. THAN HE WOULD HAVE INSERTED WILLIE SUTTON, THE BANK ROBBER (WHO, INCIDENTALLY, WOULD BE BETTER AS V.P. THAN ROCKEFELLER! SUTTON IS HONESTLY DISHONEST, AND HAS FAR MORE INTELLIGENCE THAN ROCKEFELLER, OR FORD, FOR THAT MATTER.)

LOOK, THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT WANT OR NEED A PRO POLITICIAN FOR ITS TOP LEADER!! IT NEEDS THE MOST HONEST, AND MOST INTELLIGENT, LEADER IT CAN FIND! TAKING MEN LIKE FORD AND ROCKEFELLER, SOAKED IN 10-20 YEARS OF PRO POLITICAL CHICANERY AND BITTER, CYNICAL "COMPROMISE" REFLEX ACTIONS BASED ON POLITICAL, PARTY POLITICS -- AND BEHOLDEN TO YEA-MANY FINANCIAL BACKERS TO KEEP THEM


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3

IN THE POLITICAL RING THAT MANY YEARS - IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS A BEAUTIFUL STRIP TEASER WORKING NIGHT CLUBS FOR 10-20 YEARS - BEING KEPT BY, AND SCREWED BY, MANY MANY CLUB OWNERS AND CUSTOMERS - AND AFTER ALL OF THAT BEING EXPECTED TO BE A CLEAN, PURE VIRGIN WITH CHARACTER OF THE PUREST. HA!

NOW I SPEAK TRUE. I AM A PSYCHIC. THE BEST THERE IS, ALIVE. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS OR SUCH... CERTAINLY NOT REVOLUTION. BUT NOW I CAN SEE QUITE PLAINLY AND CLEARLY... THE ONLY CHANCE (AND THAT IS SLIM OR NONE) THIS COUNTRY OF OURS HAS OF SURVIVAL (AND A MOVE TO GREATNESS BASED ON TRUTH, HONESTY AND FAIRNESS - IS REVOLUTION. THE "LITTLE PEOPLE" ARE SIMPLY GOING TO HAVE TO MUSCLE THIS COUNTRY (THE HARD WAY) AWAY FROM THE "RICH GANG."


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4) I AM NOT ADVOCATING REVOLUTION ... I AM SAYING THAT, BEING ABLE TO SEE YEARS AHEAD, AS ONLY PK MAN CAN ... IT WILL EITHER HAVE TO BE A FORM OF REVOLUTION ... OR THE U.S. WILL SINK LOWER, LOWER, LOWER ... UNTIL IT IS A HOLLOW MOCKERY OF WHAT IT WAS, AND IS NOW.

YOU ARE LAUGHING? THEY LAUGHED AT ME WHEN I SAID I'D CONTROL A VOLCANO, BUT I DID IT. THEY LAUGHED WHEN I SAID I'D CONTROL WEATHER OVER TEXAS, WITH THE HELP OF A UFO THERE. THEN TEXAS GOT RACKED UP WITH AN EARTHQUAKE, AND LOST COTTON AND WHEAT CROPS FROM DROUGHT! PEOPLE THERE EVEN PHOTO'D THE UFO! THEY LAUGHED IN 1970 WHEN I SAID THE PRESIDENT WOULD BE FORCED OUT OF OFFICE ... BUT HE JUST WAS KICKED OUT ... A "FIRST" IN OUR HISTORY. WHO IS LAUGHING AT ME NOW?

ROCKEFELLER IS A WEAK, CROOKED MAN - ROTTEN TO THE CORE!! OUR "GOOD PRESIDENT FORD" MADE THIS, AND STILL KNEW ROCKY VICE PRESIDENT.

ANY QUESTIONS??

OWENS (PK MAN)


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Aug 21, 1974
Lake Worth, Fla

Dear Mr Owens -

I have read hundreds of predictions these last few years in magazines, papers, books etc. but find none as accurate as yours. When all others were predicting that Nixon would come out smelling like a rose (even Jeanne Dixon) you said as early as Sept '72 that Nixon would be elected but would not serve the entire second term. That he would be impeached, resign or forced out of office.

You've also stated that Florida is due for terrible storms, and as I'm a Florida resident now I'm very concerned about it. Will you please let me know where & when the storms will strike and also when to expect civil strife (total civil war here in our country.)


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30-Aug-74. C.2

Dear Ted Owens:

All your predictions come true! Batting .500.

Billy Webb
Mamaroneck N.Y.

- Someday all will laud his greatness. Heaven bless Ted, P.K. man!


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August 16, 1974

TO OBSERVER-SCIENTISTS:

AS PER MY MESSAGE TO YOU OF JULY 21 ... THAT I WOULD TRY AND PRODUCE A HURRICANE FOR YOU WITHIN TWO WEEKS.

I SUCCEEDED IN MAKING "ALMA" WHICH REACHED 65 MPH, BUT NOT QUITE HURRICANE STRENGTH. ALSO, IT TOOK ME THREE WEEKS INSTEAD OF TWO, TO PUT HER TOGETHER.

BY THE WAY, ALMA DID NOT KNOCK THAT PLANE DOWN IN VENEZUELA! SHE WAS JUST A HANDY EXCUSE TO SAVE THE AIRLINE COMPANY A MILLION DOLLARS IN LAWSUITS! (CRASH WAS DUE TO PILOT ERROR, RAINSTORM NOTWITHSTANDING.)

ALMA WAS GOOD, BUT I WILL DO BETTER, IN THE WEEKS AND MONTHS TO COME. (HAVEN'T WORKED WITH HURRICANES SINCE THE 60'S, AND AM OUT OF PRACTICE.)

OWENS
(PK / MAN)


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LTR TO SCIENTISTS
7/21/74

3

On the recent trip to Paris I gave a very nice demonstration of weather control, by making it rain on Paris.

With the sun shining brightly, I told Madame Kitty (who works for the wire services of Le Figaro newspaper there) that I would make it rain on Paris. Later that day, in the apartment of Gary Cooper's daughter, Maria...and her husband, Byron Janis(?)...I worked on the sky and told them how, within days, Paris would have a good drenching. Several days later the skies clouded, and it poured down rain on Paris.

Enclosed also is an affidavit from a gentleman who works with nuclear reactors in Canada...confirming that I had just made it rain here in the Norfolk area, before I went to Paris.

You probably wonder how I keep going...since the government is of no help and I have no scientific grants as yet. Well, George Delavan, for several years, has steadily pumped in several hundred dollars a month to keep me going. And of course, Millie has just set up the huge European project the SI's have long wanted me to get at. So both of these people must be very precious to the SI's, just as they are to me.

Finally, I hope to give you a demonstration. A large one. The control of an entire country. France.

As you should know from your files by now...I do not give novel PK demonstrations of bending spoons or rolling pencils around. I control radar installations with my mind; control a city with my mind; control a pro football team with my mind. Quite different altogether, my work, contrasted with other "PK" demonstrators.

This demonstration I am going to give will probably last an entire year. Now, you all have my "Cleveland Miracle" file, where I caused extreme heat to strike Cleveland and buckle the sidewalks, breakup swimming pools, etc. And disrupted Cleveland's power supply. I am going to do much the same thing with France (especially Paris and Toulose). I am going to strike France with both tremendous heat and with storms (which will contain much lightning...but not to injure anyone). I will also attempt to make some hurricanes, and bring them at France (will work to produce a hurricane off the U.S. coast within two weeks of this letter, for a beginning.) And will work to cause strange EM (electromagnetic) effects to attack France...which should affect the power supply there. Am certain...that France will never have experienced anything like this before.

(Note: the above might produce many storms and hurricanes around the U.S. as a sort of "side effect" in the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf. My brain has increased its power, exponentially, for quite a long while... and at this point it is much more powerful than some years ago when I accomplished the miracles written about in the Saga articles.)

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310

Owens
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Virginian-Pilot, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 1974 A5

# 1st Storm Cited Off Trinidad

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico UPI -- Alma, the first tropical storm of the season, was discovered with 55 mile-per-hour winds east of Trinidad Tuesday, and a hurricane watch was posted in the outlying islands.

At 6 p.m. EDT, the San Juan weather bureau pinpointed the storm near latitude 10.0 north, longitude 45.5 west or about 375 miles due east of Trinidad. This was about 950 miles southeast of Puerto Rico.

The storm was pushing heavy seas of around 15 feet ahead of it, and the weather bureau warned the seas would hit the exposed eastern coast of Trinidad and Tobago and spread westward to the Grenadines Wednesday.

The weather bureau ordered posting of gale warnings and a hurricane watch on the Windward Islands of Trinidad, Tobago, the Grenadines, St. Vincent, and Barbados at the southeastern edge of the Caribbean.

Alma was discovered by a hurricane hunter plane which had been sent out to check on the disturbance.

The storm grew out of a tropical depression which had been tracked by satellite across the mid-Atlantic for the past three days.

Alma is racing westward at about 24 m.p.h. Forecasters said it would continue its course and speed for the next 12 to 18 hours.

Gale winds extended 75 miles to the north of the center and 25 miles to the south. Alma is likely to attain hurricane strength of 75 m.p.h winds before reaching the islands, the weather bureau said.

"In its present track and motion, the center of the storm will be passing between the islands of Trinidad and Tobago early Wednesday morning and will continue westward, approaching the Grenada area during the day," forecasters said.

"It is moving unusually rapidly for this time of year and location," said Dr. Neil Frank, director of the National Hurricane Center at Miami, who conferred with forecasters in Puerto Rico on the first storm advisory.

Frank said the storm was likely to intensify before reaching the islands that form the eastern fringe of the Caribbean sea. The hurricane watch order was issued so residents could keep in close contact with Alma's progress.

MY STORMS ARE ALWAYS UNUSUAL!

OWENS