1960s Misc letters and clippings part 3

1960s Misc letters and clippings part 3

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Congress Hotel
THE Bellevue Stratford
12th Broad and Walnut Streets
Philadelphia, Pa. 19102

CABLE ADDRESS BELLSTRAT
TELETYPE 215 569-9703
PENNYPACKER 5-0700
AREA CODE 215

Dear Lorrie --

Hope you two are having fun by now.

Open any mail I might get, forwarded, + send me anything important.

Right now am trying to get 200 - 300 to buy a car + go up to New Jersey and sell my services as The Rainmaker to various towns + counties having a terrible drought. They are out of water and need... rainstorms. Ha!

I figured I could get $5000 per town, or county, fee paid after their rain comes. However, since the area would probably become a disaster area, they might not pay me.

The rain PK I worked so hard last November to sock the U.S. with -- is slow in going away to let heat + drought take its place. But I've set up heat + fire (red) PK, not only over the U.S., but the world, for this coming summer (July -- on.) So you should read about drought all over the place. Nature will use this to make the Govt. more reasonable. Remember I wrote Clark, CIA, + told him all phenomena of Moses' day would now occur to U.S. Govt.? Well, first case of cholera since 1911 just struck -- in Wash. D.C. And since I "hit" Viet Nam with PK -- planes are colliding, Marines are shooting each other by accident -- it's really something. Some day they'll learn. Write.

Dad

Congress Hotel
Rm. 600
12th + Walnut
Phila., Pa.

AIR CONDITIONED GUEST ROOMS, RESTAURANTS AND FUNCTION ROOMS

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Double-crossing, will he? !!!

# Tornado Topples S. C. Ferris Wheel

CRESENT BEACH, S. C. (UPI). -- A sea-spawned tornado ripped through South Carolina's rich "Grand Strand" resort area and caused an estimated $1 million damage to the posh playground. No serious injuries were reported.

The twister knifed out of a squall line of thunderstorms, toppling a huge ferris wheel and severely damaging a restaurant and two motels. Lesser damage was reported at other resort areas north of Myrtle Beach.

Communications and power were cut off by the storm. Heavy rains drenched the area and flooded streets and lowland areas.

THUNDERSTORMS raked the area from Myrtle Beach northward to Cherry Grove Beach.

Police and rescue squads rushed into the stricken area and reported only minor injuries to the throng of summer visitors and residents.

Most of the minor injuries were caused by flying glass.

Remember the ferris wheel? It got it.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

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Friday

Dear Lornie

Thank you, honey, for the three cigars...but do not run yourself short of spending money, just for cigars for daddy, hear? Although I surely do appreciate the thought...and the smokes.

Our letters are hanging up...I don't get yours for maybe a week after you send it...and I know for sure that you aren't getting mine correctly, on time. Something is funny, somewhere...and I don't mean with the Shannons. Mebbe the govt. t

Beau is all right, just cut the corner of his eye. He is awfully sweet, and plays with me constantly. In fact, I can't hardly get him off my lap. He invents games...and teaches me how to play his games with him. The kid is a little wizard. And tough...good lord...if you think he was rugged when you knew him, you should know him now. Martha is afraid to try to put his pajamas on, or take him away from TV...cause he beats up on her. He charges her, and bites, hits, etc. Puts up a damn good scrap. Lots of spunk.

Am writing this at work, without benefit of your letter at hand, so will try to remember the points you made. Your letter is at home, and ordinarily I answer it directly.

Am doing any old odd job, looking for a way out of my present predicament...which is, stuck in old Philadelphia where few of my talents count for anything. Am sending my novels to N.Y. and trying to make a deal with a local businessman to start my own business, etc. Then...6 months, a year...of saving...and we'll buy a used car and go to some quiet, countryish place...and I will begin my System-teaching, and we will rent a house, or buy one. Rent one, I guess, on sober thought

Am glad your school is beginning, and you do sound like you are having fun. If any earthquakes, fires, floods, typhoons, etc., occur, you'll know that Daddy is playing his little games. I am winding up now to swat the West Coast with a big jar of PK; also to make and steer more 'canes into Florida. Debbie was doing all right; she turned right, like I told her to - then stalled just off the Florida coast, and by the time she went into Florida she'd quieted down into a mere 60-70 mile an hour tropical storm, instead of a hurricane. Anyway, I hit Florida with her. Even if I didn't get a hit on Electro directly and in full force. incidentally...last year I wrote Dunn, Chief of the Hurricane Bureau at Miami...remember? And asked him to name Hurricanes after you and Martha this year. Well, he did...but as usual, your name got misspelled, and it is "Laurie" on the official Hurricane Charts. "Martha" is there, too. So - you have a hurricane named after you. I am working hard to make that many hurricanes for that area. I have gotten 28 typhoons so far in the Pacific. They ran clear through the alphabet, and are starting over with Typhoon Bess working now.

Love and kisses, Dad

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Rick...added note.

When UFO was seen by thousands, nearby in New Jersey...it made the front pages of the New Jersey papers. I sent you photos of clippings. But...not a word appeared in the Philadelphia papers. And this was IMPORTANT news! So here is what the U.S. Govt. is doing. Whenever a UFO incident happens, they restrict the news of it just to that little area where it happens...because they know the people will talk around, and if no news appeared then questions would be asked. So maybe 100 UFO's could be seen in the U.S., but it would not appear anywhere except in a few towns around where it happens. The whole US wouldn't know this. Controlled news. This goes against our Constitution. But then, many things our present government is doing...goes against our Constitution.

I had wondered at your mentioning UFO sightings in California...because no mention of it had appeared on the East Coast. Now we know for sure why. So...if you ever see any mention of all of UFO phenomena, be sure and send me the clipping, okay?

Incidentally, might interest you to know that I use the thermos you gave me in Washington every day...take my lunch to work, and your thermos is with it, holding coffee.

I wish you hadn't left me. Young or not, I would like to train you in all these various techniques the Si's have taught me to use...my old list, that you copied, is nothing compared to my new list. Although, of course, every thing on the list you have works. But they have given me much much more. And I have made colored crayon pictures of many things that are important, but have to be explained verbally. For instance, if you saw my "Rainbow Door" picture...it would mean nothing, unless how it works is explained.

Keep punching with your school work. Did you read where that M.I.T. graduate with two degrees painted squares on his face with fingernail polish yesterday then shot three atomic energy scientists with a shotgun? Then shot himself. And he was a scientist, too. Happened in New York, not far from the UFO sighting, last week. Evidently the three squares were the men he was going to shoot...and the small square on his forehead above the three squares, stood for himself. He was brilliant...name of Maresco. Had three kiddies. Pitiful.

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Wolcott Resident Argues
The Case For UFO's

To the Editor of The American:

Via various of the newspaper items, I see that more recently there have been undeniable reports from scientists at atmospheric research centers of universities, that the sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are not purely imagination, nor simply "swamp gases," or "meteors," etc. In some cases, yes, but not the majority. So-called "flying saucers" more aptly "space ships" DO EXIST!

Why is it so difficult for governments and people in general, to believe the possibility of intelligent forms of life (perhaps far superior to our own planet earth) existing elsewhere in this vast infinite universe?

Certainly if our own present civilization is so well-advanced (enough to photograph planets and send men into orbit around the earth) then is it so difficult to believe that there may be perhaps a higher, more intelligent species of beings, somewhere in this universe, capable of these fantastic travels?

Unfortunately, mankind has not yet learned, due to his own greed and ignorance, that the very atomic forces which he has so well harnessed for destructive weapons can be used much more intelligently for the betterment of mankind, without "poisoning" the very atmosphere and waters, as now.

The earth is abundant and beautiful . . . and there is enough water, food, land, gold and gems for all living things, once man learns that these things are not to be taken for "personal possessions" . . . but to be utilized and enjoyed by ALL of God's created beings. Does any human being have the "right" to claim any land, nation, or body of water as "his," exclusively? Or any part of the world and universe? Now they are wondering and speculating who will land on the moon first, and place a stake of "ownership!"

"Brotherhood" as exemplified and taught by many religious sects, is not yet truly the brotherhood by which mankind can truly be happy. When man gives up his desire for war and destruction, his greed for personal power and possessions, then and then only will there be the beginning of Peace on Earth, such as taught by the great Avatars throughout the history of our war-torn, and sorrow-ridden world.

Unfortunately mankind's spiritual progress has not kept pace with the material aspects of his accomplishments . . . and here lies the sad story which fills the history books to the brim, of tales of bloodshed, greed and power. There is only ONE True Power . . . the Power of God . . . the Energy or Force which we so well know as The Almighty, Creator of Heaven, Earth and Seas! . . . and the "many mansions" of His infinite universe.

Until mankind learns to live in peace, and learns to revere and recognize fully, the Supreme Being, mankind will be forced to suffer, by its own hand, via poverty, strife and the countless "ills" which befall nation after nation, which eventually brings it to its knees or complete destruction. It seems that only when people are beset by woe and great trouble do they remember that there is a "God" . . . somewhere . . . to turn to. (Unfortunately though, at these times, too often they turn to Him, only to "blame" Him, and not to pray).

And so, as we look heavenward, we see so much evidence not just of His grandeur, but the infinite intelligence which lies behind it . . . and too, we see what we call "UFOs" which contain perhaps, beings who have progressed far beyond our own worldly attainments . . . beings who have progressed because they have kept pace in both spiritual and material realms . . . and not denied their creator. For man without God is simply a piece of clay.

(REV.) IRENE G. KAVULA
Wolcott

2 Cliff St.


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Sat. 5/21

Dear Lornie:

Hi, honey, it was good to hear from you. How do you like my (and Si's) score at Cape K? Haven't missed bringing down a rocket in months there. That's because the Si's added some new PK weaponry...most devastatingly effective.

This last Agena I got was said to fall into the Atlantic..but a commercial airplane pilot appeared on a TV program and said he and co-pilot were up in the air near the Agena...and it seemed to vanish into a peculiar yellow cloud. Figure that one out.

One turtle just died...and last night the goldfish died...and our canary bird, which is a singing fool...has stopped singing. ????

Yes, read about the 16 year old girl, tortured to death. We are having one to two rapes a day here in Philadelphia...some of them on the torture side. Things are getting rough all over...would advise you to watch your step, especially with the coloreds getting ready to blow up in that area against whites. How about that cop shooting the colored husband who was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital?

Don't worry about McNamara...the Si's are taking care of him in beautiful shape! He won't last much longer in his present position of power.

Martha got her goodies...and you made me very happy by making her very happy. She and baby fought like tigers over the candy...I nearly died laughing. Baby would take one piece, then snatch another with the speed of lightning before Martha could stop him. And she couldn't get it away from him, either.

You are definitely not getting my mail. You ask if I had seen the UFO show on NBC. Immediately after the show I wrote George, etc., that the U.S. Government would be severely punished by the Si's for that lousy show....and sent you your usual copy. Which obviously you haven't seen. By now the Si's have clobbered the U.S. Govt. in spades. The Si's, true to their word (see my ltrs.) have been inundating the East Coast with rain to break the drought. Steadily.

Love and kisses,

Dad


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Si's have: (as per their predictions through myself) 1964 through present May, 1967

Thrown off the magnetic equipment of the two scientific expeditions over the South Pole.

Showed themselves over the two scientific expeditions, to get it into the paper, as they said they would do.

Showed their craft, and their ray, at Waunaque, as they said they would.

Made lightning hit things everywhere and get reported in the papers, as they said they would.

Sent a huge "fireball" UFO over Philadelphia six days after they said they would, in my prediction.

Saved Brenda Sue Pennington, who was given up for dead by her doctors (or they wouldn't have let me in).

Produced an early hurricane (Alma) as they said they would.

Destroyed, disabled, or ruined the mission of various forms of rockets and missiles going up at Cape Kennedy, as per their predictions.

Produced disasters coast to coast, for a demonstration, per their predictions.

Produced negative, destructive conditions around the White House, Johnson, and the U.S. Government.

Made it rain in Phila., with me calling the shots.

Made it rain all over the U.S., reversing the upper atmosphere conditions to do it, according to the N.Y. Times, to break the 6-year drought.

Made it rain in India, to break the 3-year drought.

Produced a blinding light to confuse the "eye" on Mariner 4.

Produced a savage, hurricane-like storm in the Wash., D.C. Capitol.

Warned CIA of North Vietnamese attack on carriers off Vietnam.

Warned U.S. Govt. of Viet Cong attack with blowguns and poison darts, and poison.

Caused a judge in Selma, Ala., to have a complete change of heart re negros and whites.

Brought down the Russian spacecraft, Voshkod.

Harassed the U.S. Air Force viciously, as it would an enemy...making the AF Blue Angels crash and collide; AF planes downed everywhere under all kinds of conditions; AF top brass dropped dead, etc.

NASA...they did the exact same thing to Nasa as they did the AF.

Made U.S. nuclear sub ram freighter, just days after they said they would.

Demonstrated their control over our skies...by producing staggering airplane disasters.

Demonstrated their control over our seas...by producing ship accidents, fires, attacks by freak waves, etc. Also our naval military...by producing one carrier accident after another after another after another. Same with subs.

Produced earthquakes on predicted schedules.

Produced lightning attacks at Cape Kennedy, as they said they would, even hitting lightning-proof pad.

Put all top U.S. Govt. officials in the hospital with "executive flu" (which was not flu at all, according to the Washington D.C. medical examiners. They have never been able to discover what it was.)

Harassed the Needles, Calif. military maneuvers; the NC/SC military maneuvers; and the U.S./Spain military maneuvers, to demonstrate what they can do to our military.

Produced hurricanes as predicted, then guided them along predicted routes to target areas, already predicted.

LORNIE AND RICK

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Demonstrated their control over the Stock Market, by allowing me to predict for them a drop...the Friday before the Market fell about 15-20 points the following Monday.

Demonstrated their knowledge of secret activities in the world... by tipping off the U.S. Govt. of certain things which would occur, and which did.

Demonstrated their complete control over weather, by ending years-long droughts, causing hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, etc., and predicted in advance (like everything else on these two sheets).

Predicted Johnson't hospital stays, and surgery, in advance on three occasions (surgery on only two, "flu" on the other).

Predicted an attack on or near the White House, and predicted it would be "symbolic".

Warned the President by telegram of an oncoming disaster...the New York Blackout, which followed shortly.

Demonstrated their control over "total peoples" by defeating the African rebels, who were killing children.

Demonstrated their control over space shots and space activity... by predicting in advance what would happen, then making it happen.

Demonstrated their communication ability with P K Man (Owens) by telling him when and/or where and/or why they would appear, before they actually did so, as predicted in advance.

Demonstrated again their control over "total peoples" by helping Johnson win, then by defeating the Democrats at the polls in '66.

Demonstrated their ability to read human minds...by warning in advance of an ex-flyer's plans to crash his plane into the White House.

Demonstrated their power to heal (Mrs. Don White, Ft. Worth; Brenda Sue, Washington, D.C. - plus numerous others in Ft. Worth).

And they have just produced an electrical and power blackout in New York, as per my request (from Jim Moseley's request).

And just made lightning strike, per my request (as requested by Margulies, the parner-lawyer of this law firm) and the lightning struck the target area requested.


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Kids - read this book now!

444 Saddle Lane
Grosse Pointe Woods
Michigan 48236
April 20, 1967

Mr. Ted Owens
1114 Spruce No. 33
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dear Mr. Owens

I find the study of space and UFO's very fascinating. Upon watching the John Bandy Program of Saturday April 1st, I became intensely interested in you and the intelligence with which you communicate. I write to you now to get more detailed information on the subject, and to offer any assistance possible to you.

First of all, let me tell you a little about myself. I am a boy of 15 attending Grosse Pointe High School, and have a 3.4 average in all subjects. I recently started a campaign with a friend to map out all UFO sightings, and attempt to find any set patterns as to their appearances. We detected four patterns, all of which are circular, which seem to have their centers of curvature in Canada and off the coast of eastern South America. Two centers are in Canada and two in South America. Both of these countries seem to have circular, moving areas of UFO sightings. We do not claim that these patterns are valid, but we plan to get more members and continue the study until definite patterns are found.

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I believe that some alien form has been closely studying this planet for thousands of years, and maybe more. (I also believe that Christ was one of these aliens,) who had a mission to establish a code of laws and to unite our race into one by Christianity. Therefore, your claim of communication supports my belief, and I want to believe you. However, I would like to know how you can differentiate from ESP and the communications of other beings. How do you know you don't merely have ESP?

As I said before, I am intensely curious about your contact with intelligence from another dimension. The following are questions which I hope will be answered thoroughly and accurately. I give you my word that I will not inform anyone of your answers unless you will permit me to. (If you are telling the truth, I think you may hold the key to the survival of this world.) Here are my questions:

1. The intelligence is from another dimension. Does this mean that they are from a place beyond our universe, or could it be a zone in our universe? Both.

2. Do our dimensions of depth, width, length, and time apply to this dimension, NO or is it completely opposite ours? Please describe dimension further if possible.

3. Can this intelligence change energy into matter and take any form? YES How is this possible? HOW DO I KNOW?

4. How can energy live, think, and take any form?

5. How does it travel? If they are from another


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dimension, my guess is that their travel takes no time and is instantaneous. Is this true? Explain.

6. Please tell me exactly what their mission is. Is to set up a permanent base in the U.S.? Will they try and are they capable of correcting human conflicts and other weaknesses?

7. Could they have any interests of their own? Could they be after something?

8. Describe the mission, the intelligence, and the dimension further if possible.

I would like to help you to carry out your mission in any way I could. Please tell me if there is anything I can do for you. If you will permit me, I would like to write you to give you the results on our study of UFO's, when it is completed. Please send me more of your predictions in your letter. I am very anxious to prove that you tell the truth. There is one important question I think you ought to ask yourself: "should the people know of your mission and of the intelligence? Thank you very much for information and your time. I will be looking forward for your answer.

Sincerely yours,

Leonard S. Buccellato

My god! 15!!??


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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

I recommend RICK OWENS to any prospective parent...because he is a fine boy.

He is very creative...can draw excellent pictures; make paintings; make objects d'art with his hands that most people would never think of. He is a genius at making artistic objects.

Rick also is very loyal. I travelled with him, and he not only did his part in making picnic lunches; removing tires from old wrecks to put on our car; feeding our dog and making her comfortable; scrounging up gas money by telling fortunes; pushing the car when it ran out of gas; but he always did more than his share of work...and we were very proud of him. He is a wonderful team-worker. We could always depend on him to come through with whatever the problem was that we were trying to solve...and he always did a brilliant job with his part of the problem.

Rick is very kind, good-hearted, and generous. Many times he put covers over us when we were cold, sleeping out at nights. ; It was Rick who made Marthy Ann the happiest, by getting her food, and putting her to bed with him, when the rest of us were preoccupied with other things. Rick always put the happiness of the rest of our group ahead of his own...giving pieces of his candy or ice-cream to Lornie or Martha, if they wanted them, or to Marthy Ann.

Rick is honest at heart, and truthful. Of course, he has childishly told lies...perhaps even swiped a few things...as all people do when they are growing up. But he is growing out of that stage, and of all the children I have seen in my life, Rick has been the most honest and truthful boy with his father. I would always trust him.

Rick is very affectionate and lovable. He is warm, and outgoing. When a warm, loving hand is needed...his is the first to be extended.

Of course, Rick has his faults...everyone has. He acts without thinking sometimes, too fast, and this tends to create errors. Perhaps there are some other little faults...but the big, most important things...make Rick a prince of a boy. He is to be strongly recommended.

SIGNED:

P K Man (Ted Owens)
Father.


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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

I strongly recommend LORNIE OWENS to any prospective parent.

First, LORNIE is a beautiful human female, and this, of course, has the highest value placed upon it by members of the human race...as witness beauty contests, etc. Lornie could easily win any beauty contest.

Then, Lornie has a bright, magnetic personality. She sparkles. She is a great social asset, wherever she may be..in the home, at a party, at the beach, etc. She is always in great demand, socially.

Lornie also has a great artistic genius...in painting pictures, writing stories, etc. She is imaginative and creative.

Lornie has a good heart, fortunately...in spite of her beauty (this is usually not the case because beautiful girls learn to be superficial and get everything they want just by being beautiful.) Lornie thinks deeply about others, is concerned about others, works for others to help them, etc. As a matter of fact, many times when her own family group was in trouble, Lornie worked very hard in many ways to get them out of their troubles. Children like that are rare.

Lornie is highly intelligent, and provides brilliant ideas for those around her. A lot of these ideas are, at times, on a rationalization basis... but they are brilliant.

Lornie is affectionate and lovable, like a teddy bear, and she is outgoing with her warm love.

Lornie is more honest and truthful than most girls her age.

She has her small faults, as everybody has...but they are far outnumbered by her very good traits. Lornie Owens is a wonderful girl, and it is a surety that she will be a wonderful woman, in the years to come, and will make a fine wife and mother.

SIGNED:
Ted
P K Man (Ted Owens)
Father.


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Pg 1

SECRET INCANTATION

Today and every day my autonomic nervous system will function perfectly, in perfect balance.

Today and every day I move in a bright new world, which is the reflection of my innermost thoughts and beliefs.

Today and every day I consciously and deliberately align myself, focus myself, with all of the powers of God and Nature. Nature always moves in right action, therefore my affairs today and every day will partake of right action.

I wish no harm or sorrow to anybody, and all persons wish me well. My business is surrounded by right action. Universal Knowledge gives me fresh, vital ideas. I will meet nice people, make good contacts, because people will like me and like to do business with me.

I am surrounded by a circle of protection. God, plus Universal Knowledge, guides me in all of my decisions, and draws to me those persons, places, and things that tend toward my fullest benefit. I will become a blessing to all whom I meet.

I absolutely reject any belief in, or fear of, wrong action. I will receive wisdom, knowledge and understanding from God and Nature whenever I am asleep, as well as when I am awake.

My body is a temple in which God dwells. All of His methods and activities are those of right action. I welcome every one of these activities, and throw myself wide open to them. I freely give my mind and soul and body to God and His work.

I will not waste my money, but will use it wisely, to bring happiness to me and mine.

Nothing destructive can enter or operate within my mind or body, for I am deliberately choosing the most constructive molds of thought.

My spirit sings with happiness today and every day, for I am filled with the consciousness of life and the STRONG WILL TO LIVE.

I am tuned in to every happy, healthy, successful person. Their thoughts travel over invisible paths to me, and my thoughts to them. I am tuned in to them, and whatever I need from their minds, or whatever ones of them I need to meet, Universal Knowledge will furnish it and bring it about.

Today and every day I will draw large amounts of money to me from the inexhaustible supply of the Infinite...enough to meet any of my needs.

Today and every day I draw STRENGTH from God and Nature and Universal Knowledge.


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Secret Incantation
Pg 2

Page Two

I wish to recognize and respond only to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

Nothing negative can find a foothold in me. No doubt or fear can attach itself to me. I will have a positive attitude in every way, and will transmit this attitude and state of mind to my family and loved ones.

No accidents or mistakes can occur, at any time, because I walk in a path of right action...both when I am thinking of it, and when I am not.

I release myself and all of my affairs to the perfect working of God and Nature and Universal Knowledge...which turns these thoughts into action and results.

This message, that I speak to my subconscious mind, I do not speak merely from myself...it is God in me, speaking Himself into my experience.

This message has all-power to fulfill itself in my life and affairs, and is done with the ease of the Infinite. I release this message to the creative Law of Mind, fully confident that it is even now being fulfilled.

IT SHALL COME TO PASS ..........


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Dear Lonnie & Harvey

It was very good to hear from you.

Today is really exciting because the one single odd thing that Nature told me on March 9 - that it would affect the magnetism of the North or South Pole, to prove I was its representative to the world - and that the papers would write it up -

This one single thing that puzzled me, has come to pass. See clipping enclosed.

Thus, in fact, "something" I call Nature has brought my prediction about in the exact manner to prove what PK Man is.

Kids - my hair is standing up on end!!

More later.

Dad


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Lornie & Rick

---------- WHAT MAKES UP DAD - GOOD AND BAD ----------

(<- = ORDINARY SKILLS FOR BREAD JOBS)

PROFESSIONAL AND EXPERT SKILLS AND ABILITIES OF TED OWENS (BOGA)

RAINMAKER (WEATHER CONTROL) + YAWARA EXPERT
Writer <- + LOCKSMITH ASSISTANT
Lecturer Rice Univ. stage.
Master of Ceremonies
Personnel Manager <-
Jazz Combo Leader
Jazz Drummer
Dance Choreographer (Arthur Murray Instructor; Stripper Instructor)
Magician
Court Reporter
Ventriloquist
Hypnotist
Parapsychologist
Hand Writing Analyst
Bodyguard (5 sen.
Pool and Snooker Hustler
Boxer; BOXING INSTRUCTOR
Portrait Photographer
Oil Painting Artist
Private Investigator <-
Idea Man (ADVERTISING, ETC.) <-
Quality Control Inspector, Steel Mill (C.F.I.) <-
Sales, Closing Specialist <- (SWIMMING POOLS, HYPNOSIS, ARTHUR MURRAY LESSONS, JEWELRY, BIBLES, ETC.)
Office Manager <-
Sales Manager <-
Fortune Teller
Party Entertainer
Teacher of Autosuggestion (Autoconditioning, autohypnosis)
Teacher of Memory Improvement Techniques
Teacher of Knife Throwing Techniques
Greatest knife thrower in the world.
Design, manufacture and sale of precious jewelry.
Spanish, speak
Semi-pro basketball player; coach of team.
Medical Secretary <-
Legal Secretary <- + SHORT ORDER COOK
Psychiatric Secretary <- { LIFE GUARD
(Teacher,) Boys' Military School CAPTAIN { SWIMMING INSTRUCTOR
Treasure Hunter
Ships Entertainer

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Tuesday
May 17.

Rick:

For old time's sake, enclosed is my PK maps I made yesterday for the Agena - Gemini shoot. Send it back for my files.

The Si's surprised me on Sunday by telling me to go ahead and make PK maps. (I was, anyway.) My, and the Si's, record by now is incredible! Several weeks ago we blocked every shot at the Cape for ten days! Then we "shot down," or destroyed, the two big birds they put up - one was O.S.O. - same as O.G.O., the one we got at Myrtle Beach.

We miss you and Lonnie... especially Dean. We hope you are doing fine.

Love & kisses -

Dad.

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Tues

Lornie x Rick x Pat

Will be on Ed Harvey "Talk of Phila." WCAU radio show this Thursday, at about 2 or 2:30 - in case you've got a long-range radio.

Today someone stole my briefcase - which contained my complete Sata records - members, addresses, etc. Interesting. Grabbed it in a grocery store when I turned my back for the count of three. Only 2 persons nearby - one a store employee. I turned back x the bag had vanished into thin air. Interesting. I called the police, but... -

Dad.


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PHILADELPHIA DAILY
# NEWS

Afternoon Newspaper Published Daily By TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC.
400 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19101
Telephone LOcust 3-5200
WALTER H. ANNENBERG, PRESIDENT
J. RAY HUNT, MANAGING EDITOR
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966

Rick
LORNIE

## Senatorial Scholarships: Backbacks and Kick in Pants

Harrisburg comes the word that Gov. William Scranton has relieved Charles G. Simpson of the chairmanship of the State Council on Higher Education. Simpson has "lost his value" as spokesman, according to an announcement from the Governor's office. A value to the council, maybe. For the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, NO.

Charles G. Simpson has been the outspoken critic of the senatorial scholarship racket--and the higher education institutions that condone it.

To maintain their credentials as first-rate institutions of higher learning, the State's four largest universities are claiming an essential element of academic freedom, according to Simpson.

But they lack is backbone, Simpson charges.

Simpson has chided Pennsylvania, Penn State, Temple and Pittsburgh universities for their failure to stand up to State legislators on the matter of Senatorial Scholarships.

Each of the 50 State senators annually are given scholarships to the four universities to do with as they please. They can and frequently do award the scholarships for every reason under the sun other than academic ability or financial need.

Some legislators, Simpson charges, have sold the scholarships for $100 and others dole them out a semester at a time to make certain that they retain the "loyalty" of the beneficiaries.

This newspaper supported Simpson's original attack on the scholarship system.

Once again we find ourselves in agreement with Simpson in his view that the four institutions involved

# Jerry Doyle's Cartoon

FRANCE & SOVIET BLOC
VIETNAM CRISIS
UN

JERRY DOYLE

The Return of the Dove

# Letters to the Editor

### Freeloaders

One of the slickest pieces of Madison ave. artwork has been the labeling of Section 14-B as a "Right to Work" law. On proper examination its title should be revised to read the "Right To Freeload" law.

Organized labor is being watched constantly as a possible source of inflation. If this could be so--then organized labor must be responsible to a

### Talking Point

"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."
--ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

### Appreciation

Members of the Philadelphia Fire Officers Association wish to thank your newspaper for

### How to Tell?

Last week I read in the paper where the Vietcong massacred a whole bunch of innocent Vietnamese people. In another part of the paper was an article telling of an Allied airplane killing a whole bunch of innocent Vietnamese people by accident.

Gosh, to a civilian way over here in the U. S. it's getting hard to tell an accident from a massacre. --H. T. OWENS

# Once Upon Time Camp Meant-Group of Tents

By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPI).--Reams and reams have been written recently about the new intellectual movement known as "camp."

Intellectual movements are, of course, only dimly understood. Particularly by intellectuals. Therefore, the explanations of what camp is have tended to be rather murky.

SOME EXPERTS say camp means that something "is so bad it is good." That much I can follow. Thereafter it gets complicated.

There are, for instance, degrees of camp--"high camp," "low camp," "middle camp," "pure camp," "classic camp" and so on.

Tiffany lamps, feather boas and the movie "King Kong" are regarded as "classic camp." "Pure camp" occurs accidentally. That is, the original failure that caused it to become camp was purely unintentional.

THE NEW television series "Batman" is said to be "instant camp." It is supposedly bad because the producers planned it that way. And this is where I become un-camped.

I agree that the "Batman" producers have succeeded in turning out a pretty dismal show, but I am unable to recognize wherein the badness reaches the point of goodness.

Frankly, it doesn't seem


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What Did They See Hovering Over Jersey?

By JACK MAHON
Journal-American Staff Writer

N.Y. 1/12/66 PAPER

What was the strange flying object that hovered over the Wanaque Reservoir in Northern New Jersey all through the night, baffling police and terrorizing thousands of residents in neighboring townships?

The UFO--which is all anyone could call it -- was still unidentified at dawn today.

The police of Wanaque, Wyckoff, Pompton Lakes, Riverdale, Ringwood and Paterson all witnessed the strange, bright light, which resembled a disc, as it dipped and rose over the 15-mile-long reservoir from 7:30 p.m. yesterday until early this morning.

HEARD OF IT

They didn't know what to call it.

Officials at Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh, N. Y., and McGuire Air Base, Wrightstown, N. J., said they'd heard of the UFO--but acted as if they wished they hadn't.

Both bases clamped a tight lid of silence on the subject and denied they had sent planes to investigate the phenomena. A spokesman at the Air Phenomena Branch, Wright Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, which processes all UFO sightings, said early today the Wanaque UFO had not been reported to his office.

FIRST SIGHTING

Ptl. George Dykman, of the Wanaque Reservoir police, first spotted the weird disc about 200 yards from the police station.

"It was very bright," Ptl. Dykman said, "about two feet in diameter and, as it dipped over the dam, a round light about nine feet in diameter was reflected in the water..."

GOES, RETURNS

Ptl. Charles Theodora said the disc disappeared at 8:30 p.m., but returned about 2:20 a.m. It was motionless for about an hour then moved back and forth several times.

"It raced about six miles up and down the dam at supersonic speed," said the officer. "At one point it flashed a ray of light on the ice. Ptl. Al Campana and I drove up to investigate. We found a hole in the ice about 40 to 50 feet in diameter--there is no explaining it. The rest of the dam is covered solid."

Jack Burchill, an aerospace student at N.Y. Institute of Technology, Westbury, L.I., and Richard Scott, Paterson, a student at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, gave this analysis:

"It doesn't twinkle so it is not a star. It's too bright to be a planet or a celestial body. It gives off its own light. It can't be a helicopter, for it is soundless and appears to move at better than 1000 miles per hour."

'DON'T KNOW'

Wanaque Mayor Harry T. Wolfe, Civil Defense Director Bentley Spencer, and Howard Ball, suburban editor of the Paterson Evening News, also spotted the UFO. Mr. Ball said:

"I was driving up a hill. I thought it was the planet Venus. Then it looked like an airplane--but it was too low. I don't know what it is--or was."

Neither does anyone else...


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UFO Sighted at Wanaque

1/12/66 NEWARK (N.J.) EVE. NEWS.

'Flying Saucer' Casts Spotlight on Ramapo Area

By CECILIA KING
Staff Correspondent.

WANAQUE -- An unidentified flying object -- "very white, very bright and much bigger than a star" -- hovered silently over this astounded Ramapo countryside for hours last night.

Hundreds of eye-witnesses in a 20-mile periphery testified to seeing a flying saucer, first in Oakland, later over the Wanaque Reservoir where it lingered longest, then above Lakeland Regional High School, and finally over the Houdaille sandpit in Haskell. From there it appeared to move southeast toward Pines Lake in Wayne and suddenly disappear.

"The phenomenon was terribly strange," Mayor Harry T. Wolfe said. Having been alerted by local police that a UFO was circling over Raymond Dam at the Wanaque headworks, Wolfe drove there to see for himself. With him were Councilmen Arthur Barton and Warren Hagstrom, and the mayor's 14-year-old son, Billy.

BILLY SPOTTED the unidentified object at once. Flying low it glided "oddly" above the state's largest water storage basin "like a huge star," he said. "But it didn't flicker. It was just a continuous light that changed from white to red to green and back to white."

The older observers estimated "the oval" was between two and nine feet in diameter.

First word of the terrestrial visitor reached the North Jersey police radio station in Pompton Lakes at 6:30 p.m. After some 30 telephone calls from excited residents and motorists, the radio monitor contacted Wanaque Patrolman Joseph Cisco.

"People in Oakland, Ringwood, Paterson, Totowa, Wayne and Butler claim there's a flying saucer over the Wanaque," he was informed.

Cisco radioed reservoir Patrolman George Dykman and even as Dykman was receiving the message two excited teen-agers came running. "Look, look," they pointed excitedly.

DYKMAN GAPED along with Michael Sloat, 16, and Peter Melegrac, 15, and a few seconds later they were joined by Civil Defense Director Bentley Spencer and CD member Richard Vrooman. "What the heck is it?" exclaimed Dykman. "Never saw anything like it in my life."

Spencer proceeded to the top of 1,500-foot-long Raymond Dam with reservoir employe Fred Steines. From that vantage point he reported later that he saw "a bolt of light shoot down, as if attracted to the water." He said it looked "like a beam emitted from a porthole."

In the meantime Reservoir Police Lt. George Destito stood guard at the Wanaque entrance gates turning away swarms of pedestrians and scores of cars converging to

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'Saucer'

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the scene from north and south in Ringwood Avenue.

The "saucer" hovered for more than two hours over the Raymond Dam area before soaring out of sight. It reappeared over Lakeland Regional High School in the Midvale section of the borough. A bevy of photographers and reporters were on the spot, but before any pictures could be taken the mystery object vanished.

THE REPORTEDLY "last good view" was had in Highland Avenue, Haskell where volunteer firemen were burning Christmas trees in the Houdaille sandpit.

Police headquarters continued receiving telephone calls however, all in the same vein of petrified wonder: "I saw something weird -- what is it?"

Shortly after midnight word came from officials at Stewart Airforce Base in Newburg, N.Y. saying an Air Force helicopter with a powerful beacon had been on a mission over Wanaque about the time the mysterious object was cited.

But, at 6:15 this morning, Major Donald Sherman, Stewart Air Force Base spokesman, denied that a helicopter, or any aircraft had been on a mission over Wanaque.

Even the helicopter theory, however, failed to dissuade those who claimed they "actually saw the flying saucer." In Butler, as the midnight shift was coming to work at the American Hard Rubber Co., Leonard Tintle of Brown Avenue summed up the general feeling.

FRONT PAGE

"I BELIEVE my eyes against anybody's word," he said. "Like 18 years ago," he recounted, "when Clayton Brown (now mayor of Butler) and I were pallbearers for Philip Marion. We were in Rockaway Valley Cemetery -- we saw something -- hoverin' a mile up in the air -- backwards and forwards -- then it just disappeared -- "

Tintle declared, "the Air Force knows darn well there's something to it. They're not letting on, that's all, because they don't want people to get frantic."

"Like the time Orson Wells scared heck out of us with his 'Invasion from Mars' on the radio."

Oddly enough, two hours and 15 minutes after Tintle's comments, when the UFO incident was being discussed in the past tense, Wanaque Patrolmen Joseph Cisco and David Sisco hurried headquarters the "thing" had been seen again in the skies. This time it was over Wyckoff. Five minutes later, Cisco and Sisco were taking turns peering through binoculars at the UFO.

"It's over the reservoir," they asserted.


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# 100s See 'Saucer' At N.J. Reservoir

WANAQUE, N. J. (AP) -- An unidentified flying object, described as a brilliant disc of light, hovered over the Wanaque Reservoir for more than one hour Tuesday night, and then disappeared from view, police said.

"It was real. I saw it and so did the mayor and the civil defense director and hundreds of other people," said George Dykman, 38, a patrolman on the Wanaque Reservoir Police Department.

The officer said the weird light was first spotted earlier in Oakland, then in Pompton Lakes and then over the Raymond Dam at the reservoir--about 200 yards from the police station.

"It was very bright, like a star," said Dykman. "From where we stood; it looked like it was about two feet in diameter and it was in the shape of a disc.

"It moved in over the dam in a circular motion and then stopped and hovered over the reservoir.

"It was too low to be an airplane.

"As it dipped down over the reservoir, we saw a round light reflected in the water about nine feet in diameter."

Dykman said he spotted the strange object about 7:30 p.m. after receiving a telephone call from the Passaic County Police radio network. About one hour later, he said, it moved away from the dam and paused briefly over Lakeland High School.

"Now it's gone," he said late Tuesday night. "We have men searching, but whatever it was, thank God it's gone."

In addition to Dykman, several other police officers saw the strange object. So did Wanaque Mayor Harry T. Wolfe and Civil Defense Director Bentley Spencer.

Howard Ball, night suburban editor for the Evening News of Paterson, spotted the object in Wayne on Hamburg Turnpike while driving to work.

He said he saw the light when he reached the crest of a hill and thought it was the planet Venus. "Then it took a lateral movement toward the West. I knew it wasn't Venus. I thought it might have been an airplane, but the light was too brilliant for that."

Police departments throughout the Bergen-Passaic County area reported being flooded with telephone calls from alarmed residents.

Officials at McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown said they were as mystified as everyone else over the strange object.


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Y NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966 31

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adlyn Has Hopes
he's Found Home

VIVACIOUS NEWCOMER to the legitimate theater is Madlyn Rhue, who will make her first Broadway try in the new Gwen Davis comedy "The Best Laid Plans," which premieres at the Walnut, Tuesday. "I've already gotten one fringe benefit from my stage career," she said. "I have a home in California, but I was having a terribly difficult time finding an apartment in New York. Our director Paul Bogart had been separated from his wife; but they reconciled. He moved back home turning over his vacated apartment to me. Now everybody's happy." Miss Rhue's costar in "Plans" will be British actor Edward Woodward. Incidentally, it's also a first Broadway attempt for Bogart. "I've been waiting a long time for a good Broadway part," Madlyn said during a rehearsal break. "I'm positive that this is it. At least, I was positive enough to turn down some well paying TV offers just to join with this very funny show."

Her first Broadway try notwithstanding, Madlyn is no novice in the acting department. She has an impressive list of some 150 TV show credits "which run the gamut" and a dozen pictures including "Operation Petticoat," "Ladies Man," "A Majority of One," etc. But she is proudest of the critical notices she received as Gittel Mosca in "Two for the Seesaw," at the Civic Playhouse, in L.A. She is also proud of a collection of some 300 hats, most of which have been left in California. "I will only be able to bring 50 of them to Philadelphia with me," the actress lamented.

MADLYN
... lucky start

PEOPLE IN PLACES: Jack Jones, currently headlining at the Latin Casino, is slated to star on the Bell Telephone Hour's St. Valentine Day show. He gets an ABC-TV special of his own, April 5 . . . Police Inspector John Driscoll will be receiving congrats from all levels tomorrow at 24th & Wolf. The day marks his 39th year on the force . . . Al Fisher, United Artists Pictures publicity chief, and Cathy Tallo, a secretary in UA's home office, will be a Saturday merger in St. Patrick's Cathedral, N. Y. . . . Don Young, the singing-bandleader, is making his debut appearance at Wagner's Ballroom . . . Record promotion man Joe Campellone, who switched from Verve to the Phillips division of Mercury, flew to the Chicago main office for a briefing . . . Sam Scott, program director at Camden's WCAM and a staff member since 1952, has resigned to become executive director of the Philadelphia Hearing Society.

SHOPPER'S SPECIAL: Blonde Greta Thyssen brightened up a "fashion first" in the new fabric department at Klein's Boulevard store during the snowfall yesterday. A former "Miss Denmark" by virtue of her fulsome (39-20-35) endowments, Miss Thyssen was on hand with Loren C. Shockley and a flock of McCrory and Klein executives to cut the ribbon that officially opened the sewing and fabric section. "I made this dress I'm wearing," said Greta proudly, swiveling to demonstrate her "multi-colored printed organdy." It seemed to fit well. "I am not giving up acting to become a seamstress," she added. "Not going that far. But I like to


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is to call to the attention of femme shoppers how easy it is to follow fashion trends on a "do-it-yourself" basis. "I just finished a picture--'Double Barreled Detective Story'. It's a combination spy and western plot and spoofs both. We hope it will be another 'Cat Ballou'."

REPORTER AT LARGE: The opening night of the Metropolitan Opera's five performance series here (May 9) will be sponsored by the Golden Slipper Square Club in conjunction with Philadelphia Philanthropies. The Met will launch its return to the Academy with "Madame Butterfly." . . . Frank Teodori (Dori's) is back from Florida with not much tan but a four-foot bull dolphin to be mounted. Frank noticed one side effect of Vietnam in the cabana club at Miami Beach's Eden Roc. A Dow Jones ticker is at poolside so bathers can keep tabs on stock market fluctuations . . . . . . . . . . The Saxony East's Paul King went to Myrtle Beach for a week of sun and golf and wound up belting snow balls. It was the worst storm in 50 years for the South Carolina resort . . . Bill Mulhern, former eastern regional manager of Kapp Records and more recently g.m. for the Jamie-Guyden Corp., has joined A & M Records as director of eastern operations. One of his first chores will be opening a local office for the label.


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# Earl Wilson

# Boyd Will Visit Dolores at Conven

NEW YORK.--Handsome movie star Stephen Boyd' going from the Feb. 18 Boston opening of "The Oscar" to a Bethlehem, Conn., monastery for an appointment


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Dear Rick:

When I was in Ft. Worth, as a hypnotist I sent Pat newspaper write-ups, brochures, etc., re my hypnotism business. Now I need them badly, because everything I had was lost in storage. Will you ask her to send anything she has?

Incidentally, those "bumps" on my forehead have grown larger.


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Feb. 4, 1966

Dear Rick:

Thank you for your letter.

That was an interesting dream, re Johnson...and my fingers. The Si's could be talking to you. I know definitely they work on us while we sleep. Martha woke up one night and saw a tiny UFO hovering over my head, while I slept...it was about the size of a quarter, and moved slowly around. She watched it for quite a while. I know she wasn't dreaming, because I woke up about 4 one morning and watched a UFO the size of a dinner plate moving around near the ceiling, slowly...with the most beautiful, gorgeous colors imaginable whirling around inside it. I was wide awake while watching it.

I told you the Si's were 3-dimension, Rick...but that was a slip on my part. After writing you, (without thinking)..you asked if they were...I started thinking what 3-dimensional was...I meant, when writing to you, they were real...no, they are not 3-dimension in our apartment. On some craft they are. You have to realize, Rick...there are different shapes and forms of UFO creatures. Solid, and non-solid; human, and non-human. They can take different shapes and forms. But what they ACTUALLY are...is pure intelligence of a high form not otherwise found on this earth. They do not come from another planet, high in the sky...but from another dimension. When I asked them how it is they can give me intelligence, and I know it is from them, and write George Clark...they explained that, if I talked through an electronic remote control through somebody else's radio in another apartment (you can buy these gadgets) - the radio in the other people's apartment does not know where the voice is coming from, or how it is being done.

If you want to go out for track, go ahead. Much rather see you put your concentration and energy in on mastering basketball, at school. Way to do it is get a basketball and practice dribbling high and low, easy and hard, all the time in your spare time. Practically live with a basketball. Practice shooting until you are a dead-eye Dick. Practice lay-ups going under from the right; also going under from the left, putting the ball up left-handed. Practice one-handed shots until you are blue in the face, with both hands. AND WATCH THE PRO TEAMS ON TV!!

In your spare time, once in a while, shoot pool...great for your reflexes and timing. Am sending you your own personal pool cue...the best...with a special case to keep it in. Plus a fine book by the World's Champion, Willie Mosconi. Stick to one game only...50 point straight. It has everything, and luck isn't in it...just skill. 8-ball is for gamblers, and is pure slop. So is rotation. Stick to 50-point, the champions' game. You will be a champion, if you do.

Also see if you can talk the Bentley's into getting you a set of drums, for you'll be a great drummer...not to go into as a pro later...but to help you pay your way through high school and college. And it is great fun, as you know.

Also, try to take piano lessons if you can. Tedious now, but loads of fun


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joy when you grow up, later. It is something that is worth more than money, going through life, to be able to sit down at a piano and play jazz and blues the way you want to. You can't mix classical...so would advise you to learn jazz and blues and modern piano.

If you do what I advise...you'll never go wrong, Rick.

At the same time, try to be a good student. Learn when you are in School, or at home studying on lessons...to concentrate on just that. Then when you put your books down to practice basketball...concentrate on just that. Then when you play pool...concentrate on just that. Learn to turn it on and off, like a light switch.

You have genius in you, Rick...but all genius carries a price tag. It has to be developed, and used, correctly. And when the power is there...use it well, and wisely. This is why Nature very seldomly gives genius and power to a youngster, because the wisdom to use it is not there yet.

Remember...only from age 15 to 25 will you have the time to learn all the hobbies and things that you want, like the above. After that you have to hustle to make a living. Learn typing, too. You write well, and you'll need it to express yourself.

Am sending another clip I got into the paper...makes two clips in a week. Funny thing...this is the Editor that doesn't like me because of my UFO connection. I wonder why he prints my stuff? (I send each letter to 3 papers simultaneously.)

Also enclosed is clip showing how Dick got racked up again at Myrtle Beach. Ha ha. We got him with a tornado, last year, that cleaned him out. Then hit him with Hurricane Betsy's backlash that ruined that business. And now this. I AM HARD ON DOUBLE-CROSSERS THAT CAUSE ME UNNECESSARY HARDSHIP- AND IF YOU WILL RECALL, DICK AND HIS PHONY PROMISES HURT US BAD, SO, HE'S BEEN RUINED FINANCIALLY EVER SINCE!! AND THE BUSINESS IS ALL WE KNOW ABOUT. NO TELLING WHAT ELSE HAS HIT HIM.

Love

Dad

P.S. NO "TURN OTHER CHEEK" FOR ME. SO'S HAVE ORDERED ME TO ATTACK (WITH PK) ANYONE WHO IS MY ENEMY, OR THREATENS ME. AND THEY GAVE ME A BRAND NEW WEAPON TO DO IT WITH.

TV and movies keep her...
she calls New York "home." Her tour for the...

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Lightning Sets

# Blaze in Store

7/19

A bolt of lightning started a fire in one of an arcade of shops on Germantown ave. during Sunday afternoon's showers. Some $50,000 worth of men's furnishings were destroyed.

Smoke was seen at the Hamilton Men's Shop, 3630 Germantown ave. by Patrolman Robert Magilton and he turned in the alarm at 5:20 P.M.

Battalion Chief Edward McGonigle said lightning had struck a wooden utility a half block away during the short, but intense rainstorm, and was probably responsible for the store fire.

Owners of the shop are Frank and Norman Axe. The manager is Jerry Wundohl, of 7023 Calvert st., who told police that there was an inventory of $75,000 in goods in the shop. He gave the damage estimate.

A power failure due to the fire stopped oxygen pumps in fish tanks at the Arcade Pet Shop, 3627 N. Broad st., killing fish worth $150. Drifting smoke sickened and upset most of the animals in the shop, pet shop manager Harry Lewis, of 3966 Elser st., told police.

Firemen fought the blaze for two hours. Trolley service along Germantown ave. southbound was interrupted for an hour and a half.

# Lightning Burns 4 Phila. Girls

HAMMONTON, N. J. July 18 --Four Philadelphians suffered slight burns Sunday afternoon when lightning struck a tree under which they were standing during a thunderstorm at Hammonton Lake Park.

Burned were Mrs. Paula Puggi, 18, of 1536 S. Colorado ave.; Rita Raffa, 18, of 1715 S. 10th st.; Mary Price, 16, of 1813 S. Rosewood st.; Phylis DiPoali, 9, of 2041 Moore st. All were treated for superficial burns at the W. B. Kessler Memorial Hospital here and released.

# Snow, Rain, Winds Lash Australia

SYDNEY, Australia, July 18 (AP).--Large areas of southeastern Australia were swept by snow, heavy rain and strong winds during the weekend.

Hundreds were stranded at resorts on the New South Wales southern tablelands and Blue Mountains by stalled rail and road traffic.

# Hit Area, Ease Crisis

July 19

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from the Atlantic Ocean was pushing upriver.

The commission set the desirable flow for the emergency at 1200 cubic feet per second, as measured at the Montague, N. J., gauge across the Delaware from Milford, Pa.

Despite the release of the water from the reservoirs, the river had been decreasing almost daily for the last week.

"The river had been falling off gradually for one reason--lack of rain in the basin area," Fish said.

Here are the average flows measured at Montague beginning last Monday.

Monday, 1030 cubic feet per second; Tuesday, 1070; Wednesday, 1030; Thursday, 1030; Friday, 997; Saturday, 980.

Fish said that Sunday's flow was averaging approximately 1000, although this was before the full impact of the weekend rains had been felt.

A long-range forecast by the U. S. Weather Bureau also brought hope that the relief would be more than temporary. The prediction was that between 4 and 5½ inches of rain will fall in the river basin area of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey between the middle of July and mid-August.

The thunderstorms over Saturday and early Sunday were scattered throughout the upper basin area, with an average of .89 inches falling.

RAINFALL IS SPOTY

Fish reported that the rain measured .50 inch at New York City's Pepacton reservoir, and .91 inch at New York's Neversink reservoir.

On the other hand, the measurement at Lake Wallenpaupak was only .13 inch, Fish said.

Lake Wallenpaupak serves as reservoir for the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., one of two utilities which have been ordered to release water into the Delaware. The other utility is the Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., with a reservoir system on the Mongaup River in Sullivan county, N.Y.

DAILY FLOW FIGURES

Under the commission's orders, New York is to release 266 million gallons a day from its two reservoirs. The flow from Wallenpaupak set at 200 million gallons daily, and 66 million gallons are to be released from the Mongaup system.

Speaking of the thunderstorms, Fish said. "This is some slight improvement. We haven't had anything like this in weeks and weeks here."

The "bad" weather which was such good news, canceled a helicopter trip that New Jersey's Gov. Richard J. Hughes had planned.

Hughes, who is chairman of the Delaware River Basin Commission, had planned to fly aloft with New Jersey Conservation Commissioner Robert A. Roe to tour North Jersey reservoirs.


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26 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1966 G

.......... we shall fight the battle against aggression in Viet Nam; we shall fight the battle for social construction and, throughout the world, we shall fight the battle for peace. And we shall prevail.--President Johnson, upon his return from Honolulu.

"HE THAT LIETH RISE UP WITH F

... de Gaulle ended his boycott and the Commission busy clearing up the debris that accumulated during seven months of uncertainty. The son of law, she was ineligible for marriage with anyone else as long as her husband lived. However, when her marriage terminated by act of God, she became an eligible widow, a further since the lady doesn't want to marry the paramour that legal principle doesn't affect her at all. She may marry indeed, and she has our best wishes. House. Doesn't that stupid, ignorant press room know that President Johnson has strictly forbidden White House leaks of any kind? H. T. Owens

# How Vespasian Built HIS Stadium

By B. A. BERGMAN

I was in Rome recently. A waiter in a cafe near the Colosseum told me about the problems besetting the Emperor Vespasian when he decided to build the world's greatest stadium.

He made everything crystal clear, as he explained how Vespasian disposed of all his critics and built his stadium as he wanted it and where he wanted it.

You see, Vespasian didn't have an Open Mind. On the other hand, Mayor Tate some time ago confessed that he had an Open Mind about certain aspects of our Stadium design, that started all the foolishness. No mayor should have an Open Mind. That's worse than no mind at all.

As a result of the Mayor's Open Mind the Stadium isn't much further along than it was in 1953. Except that we now are going to have still another architect to add to our stable of architects.

## Nero Gets the Nod

Here's how Vespasian handled his Stadium, as explained to me by my Roman waiter: Romans, who didn't like Nero because of his lousy fiddling at inopportune times, creamed because Vespasian elected a site near the great statue of Nero for his stadium.

"It goes next to Nero," said Vespasian.

**The Colosseum in Rome**

Merchants objected to the site because it was too far away from the fashionable shops. They wanted the stadium as a come-on for American tourists, so they could take pictures--out of focus--of the Stadium and then buy dresses and neckties at prices much higher than Italian imports would cost back home.

Gladiators insisted that 40,000 seats were sufficient.

Chariot racers and the soldiers who threw Christians to the lions demanded 60,000 seats plus 15,000 retractable chairs for special killings.

No, said Vespasian. Fifty-thousand capacity and no retractable seats. They'd get in the way of the lions.

The chariot racers and gladiators wanted a circular stadium.

The lions need more room, the Christian killers pointed out, as they asked for a rectangular stadium.

Postcard hawkers said nobody would buy pictures of a rectangular stadium. Rectangular buildings are a dime a dozen. Look at Penn Center, if you can.

Vespasian shrugged and just said: "It'll be circular."

As for a domed stadium for which there was an insistent demand, Vespasian said there'll be no dome. "I'll put up awnings for the VIPs. Fresh air, sunshine and rain are excellent for the people."

So Vespasian, who had no Open Mind, ignored all the architects, all the special pleaders and all the pressure groups and built his stadium his way.

Why, he even squelched a movement to name the Stadium for himself or for his son, Emperor Titus, who finished the job after good Vespasian died. And a campaign to name it after Paul D'Ortona died aborning.

"My stadium is colossal, so we will just call it the Colosseum," the Emperor decreed. A man of few words.

## We Need Vespasian

Now Mayor Tate with his Open Mind wouldn't make a very good Roman Emperor. On the other hand somebody like Vespasian might get our Stadium out of the discussion stage, if it isn't too late.

I was talking to the chairman of still another Stadium committee which hasn't been appointed yet. He said he was going to propose that the easiest way to solve our Stadium foolishness would be to buy the Colosseum and move it to South Philadelphia.

"Then," he said emphatically, "We'd have the greatest stadium in the world. After all it's been just that for nearly 2,000 years."

And, at least, it's already built. 08/08/2025 16:54