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N.R.L. - F.S.D
N.A.S. Patuxent River
MD. #20670
Dr. Jeffery Mishlove
Washington Research Center
3101 Washington Street
San Francisco, Calif #94115
Dear Dr. Mishlove:
Under instructions from Ted Owens, who has listened to this tape, I am sending it to you - considering there is mention of using his book "How To Contact Space People" in it - and results from doing so - plus other para-normal events noted down and dated -
I recorded this for a UFOlogist in New Jersey, Mr. Tom Benson -
P.O. Box 1174
Trenton N.J. 08606
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I have just taken Jedi Training which he has said was given him by the UFO's (SI's) He also said that anyone who comes to him for that training, has been sent there for one reason or another, by UFO's -
There were several things which he said were very similar in which our minds were on the same frequency - so the training would be that much better between me and himself -
1. He had been wanting to get his Teddy (10) a space ship (Toy) and finances were such that he was unable to - I had just completed a model of the movie starship enterprise in which lights worked by Battery power - I brought
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this for his son because I could not find another one like it Amt Corporation quit making them -
(2) He had some time ago, admired a set of Black Cross pens which he could not buy - I spied the exact same and bought them for him as a gift when I came
(3) The UFO's left dolls for him to find. I brought one for little Jerome to cuddle with -
(4) When he went to Scotland - for some strange reason I "saw" the very same castle and fog & lake & when he went to Egypt I was there where he was under a well or cave - and just last month when he was pouring out energy - I "felt" this energy - & saw it too -
For many years I have traveled (I am in the service) and each time I have gone to a different place - that day - or next - I would see a disk - shaped object in
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the sky - I would look up see it - and it would disappear just as fast.
But now, I have the training and, according to Ted Owens - am closer to the UFO entities than ever before - he said also, that I had a very strong mind - I had always thought I was weak - but that was because of my childhood fears and allowing others to dominate me with theirs -
Listen to the tape and let me know what you think - Thank you very much for taking up some of your precious time in your busy schedule -
I have been reading from a very "rough" manuscript which I was going to write as a book -
Very Sincerely
Carolyn Valentine
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MENSA®
A NON-PROFIT EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION CHARTERED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 50 EAST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017
November 9, 1973
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Ted Owens, who is known as "PK Man - The UFO Prophet", and is a member of Mensa, informed me by letter on Tuesday, October 23, 1973, that it was his intention to telepathically communicate with UFO's and ask them to appear within a 100 mile area of Cape Charles, Virginia, and show themselves to the police within that area. On October 25, 1973, two days later, a UFO appeared over the head of a policeman in Chase City, Virginia (within the specified 100 mile area) for 15 minutes, as described in the Richmond Times-Dispatch dated October 26, 1973.
Thus, an example of the type of occurrence predicted in Mr. Owen's letter to me, written in advance of the occurrence, did take place.
Sincerely,
Max L. Fogel
Max L. Fogel, Ph.D.
Director of Science and Education
CHAIRMAN, Herbert Ahrend; FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN, Dr. Emerson Cowie; SECOND VICE-CHAIRMAN, Joseph Frisch; EASTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Fred Lowenstein; MID-WESTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Lou McGowan; WESTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Ellison Jack; SECRETARY, Irene Turchin; TREASURER, Sander Rubin; LOCAL GROUPS OFFICER, Stuart Friedman; RESEARCH OFFICER, Max L. Fogel, Ph.D.; LEGAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Jack Weinstein; MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Vernon K. Schumann; PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Allan Wikman; RECORDING SECRETARY, Carol H. Stephens; SUPERVISING PSYCHOLOGIST, Allan H. Frankle, Ph.D.; EDITOR MENSA BULLETIN, Lee Russell; GREATER L. A. REPRESENTATIVE, Mel Springer; N.Y.C. REPRESENTATIVE, Ita Solomon; MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY, Margot Seitelman.
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November 28, 1966
On June 5, 1966, Ted Owens made the following prediction to myself, my husband, Robert Hansell, and George Riddle:
The UFO intelligences, to demonstrate their powers further to the U.S. Govt. will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, or Aircraft carrier catastrophe, i.e., a naval catastrophe involving U.S. vessels within the near future.
They will also deal our seat of Government (The White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow in the near future.
The above to take place not later than September, 1966.
(Only the time element was off a bit)
Sept. 15, 1966, the West German submarine Hai suddenly sunk with its crew.
Oct. 26, 1966, the J.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Oriskany caught fire and burned, killing 34 officers and pilots and 9 enlisted men.
Nov. 2, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Guadalcanal, a helicopter crashed on deck killing four of the crew and injuring eighteen others.
Nov. 4, 1966, U.S. Navy Submarine "Tiru" accidentally went aground of the coast of Australia and radioed for help. Took three days for tug to get it off the rocks and it is now in port being repaired.
Nov. 5, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. caught fire, killing eight of the crew. Commander Schoultz, the ship's captain termed the cause of the blaze "a mystery".
Nov. 8, 1966, former aircraft carrier, now a transport caught fire in Kula Gulf, Hawaii.
Nov. 10, 1966, nuclear U.S. sub Nautilus collided with the aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged.
Also, on Nov. 5, '66, President Johnson of the United States announced that he must have two operations performed at once; surgery. This was certainly a blow to our seat of government.
Therefore it is my conviction that this 3-point prediction by Ted Owens has come about (although a few weeks late) in the exact order that he predicted it.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of November, 1966
Zelda S. Hansell
29 S. Wyoming Ave.
Ardmore, Pa. 19003
# Carrier Hit By Nautilus Under Sea
**Crewman Hurt, A-Sub's Tower Badly Damaged**
NORFOLK, Va. Nov. 10 (UPI) - The world's first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, rammed the aircraft carrier Essex while running submerged off the North Carolina coast Thursday, slightly injuring one crewman.
The Navy said the mishap occurred during a routine anti-submarine warfare exercise.
The Nautilus, commissioned Sept. 21, 1954, suffered heavy damage to its conning tower, the Navy said, and immediately surfaced. It struck out for the New London, Conn., submarine base with an unidentified destroyer as an escort.
**CARRIER DAMAGED**
The 27,100-ton Essex, a 24-year-old anti-submarine warfare ship, was reported damaged below the waterline. It was commanded by Capt. S. W. Fly, was taking some water, but that it was under control.
The Navy said the Essex was heading for Quonset Point, R.I.
# Johnson's Doctors Negotiate On a Site, Time for Surgery
By LAWRENCE M. O'ROURKE Of The Bulletin Staff
JOHNSON CITY, Texas, Nov. 11 - Getting several busy doctors to agree on a single time and place for surgery is a difficult task, even when the patient is President Johnson.
Mr. Johnson apparently still doesn't know when or at what hospital his abdomen and throat will be operated on.
He hopes it will be early next week in the Bethesda Army Medical Center in Maryland. That is only a half hour helicopter flight from his LBJ ranch. Mr. Johnson could decide.
A high official in the Johnson Administration asserted that Mr. Johnson could fix the time and place in a minute.
He could call the doctors on the phone and say he wanted them to come to Texas, and they'd come.
But the President doesn't want to impose his will on the physicians, though he has made his own desires clear through Dr. George G. Burkley of the White House staff.
The complications arise from the fact that there are four doctors involved. Four are at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., one is in New York City, another is in Atlanta, and Dr. Burkley is in Washington.
Sources say that the operations may be done at the same time at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., or at a hospital associated with Mayo.
**Shoulder Soreness**
The President, resting more than normal and soaking up the sun on his LBJ Ranch, feels fine despite a number of ailments.
In addition to the abdominal and throat problems which were revealed by surgery, the President has felt soreness in his right arm and shoulders.
The White House said today that it is nothing serious, although it is unexplained.
Mr. Johnson has reportedly had massages to ease the discomfort.
The doctors have checked out the soreness, White House acting press secretary George C. Smith said, and found nothing serious.
A high administration official himself is at a loss to explain the soreness, but he said it's not from cutting wood.
**Sometime Next Week**
At a news conference yesterday - the first since he came to his LBJ ranch, the President said the surgery will take place next week.
Surgeons will repair an abdominal defect at the lower end of the scar on the President's abdomen left by gall bladder and kidney stone surgery 13 months ago. The surgery will involve the closing of an incisional hernia, a weak spot in the stomach wall. There is a lump at the site the size of a golf ball.
While Mr. Johnson is under anesthesia, a throat specialist will remove a small non-malignant polyp from near the President's right vocal cord.
The polyp will be examined immediately to determine if there is malignancy. The doctors said that nearly all polyps are non-malignant.
# Background
# Navy Has Rough Sailing
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (AP) - THE Navy has had a tough time in the way of ocean safety the past 16 days.
Thursday's collision of a submerged submarine with a carrier in the Atlantic marked at least the sixth accident involving Navy vessels since Oct. 26 when a flash fire swept the aircraft carrier Oriskany off Vietnam.
That fire claimed 44 men.
"When you have several hundred ships operating at sea, these things are bound to happen," one high officer said. "The best you can hope to do is take steps toward preventing them."
Here are recent accidents:
Oct. 26 - A fire that broke out in a locker containing flares swept the Oriskany off Vietnam. The flattop, from which U.S. jets strike at North Vietnam, had to be pulled off its "Yankee Station" and sent home for repairs.
Nov. 3 - The submarine Tiru ran aground on a reef in the Coral Sea off Australia and was stuck four days before it could be towed away. None of the 80 men aboard was injured.
Nov. 4 - The LST (Landing ship, transport) Churchill County rammed the top of the Bay Tunnel at Norfolk, Va., and had to be pulled away by two tugs. No injuries.
Nov. 5 - The carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt operating in South China seas, was hit by a fire which killed eight men. The carrier remained on station.
Nov. 7 - Fire erupted in a storage room of the 24,000 ton aircraft transport ship Kula Gulf stationed at Pearl Harbor. No one was injured; the blaze was brought under control in three hours.
Nov. 10 - The submarine Nautilus rammed the carrier Essex during a maneuver 35 miles east of Wilmington, Del. The atomic sub suffered extensive damage to a super-section but surfaced with only one injury, a possible broken arm sustained by one of the crewmen. The Essex was not damaged.
One of the Navy's more embarrassing incidents of recent months occurred in July, however, when a radar picket destroyer, the Frank Knox, was hung up for five weeks on a reef in the South China Sea.
The Navy later reprimanded the commander of the destroyer after a court martial on charges of "negligently failing to keep himself informed of the ship's position."
# Burned Carrier Is Home to Prepare for Next Round
San Diego, Calif., Nov. 16 - (AP) - The fire-scarred attack carrier Oriskany and her proud, weary men returned from war today, their home-coming saddened by the loss of 44 men.
Band played and an estimated 2,000 wives, children and friends greeted the huge 42,000-ton carrier as it docked under gray skies.
Forty-four men, including 25 pilots, were victims of the tragic Oct. 26 fire, evidence of which still lingers on scorched walls of the hangar bay and living quarters. Ten other Oriskany pilots were lost on strike missions over Viet Nam.
**Morale 'Terrific'**
The skipper of the 21-year-old carrier, Capt. J. H. Iarrobino of Coronado, Calif., praised his 2,500-man crew and said he hoped the ship would not miss its third rotation back to the Viet Nam war zone.
"The morale of the men is terrific," the skipper said. "This ship's performance was really outstanding - not just outstanding, but great.
"We were in a state of shock for a short period of time," Iarrobino said. "But we're digging ourselves out now. This ship will answer the bell for the next round."
**Inquiry Under Way**
After a week in San Diego the ship goes to San Francisco for three or four months of repair and overhaul, followed by another tour of war duty.
Meanwhile, a board of inquiry investigating all aspects of the fire will take "roughly another two weeks to finish," Iarrobino said.
"We don't know whether it was a malfunction of a flare or personnel fault that caused the fire," the captain said. He said that as yet no disciplinary action has been taken against two men who were handling the magnesium illumination flares that triggered the three explosions.
ILLUSTRATION # 2
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forces which are responsible for the events. Either hypothesis offers a para-normal explanation; however, one hypothesis suggests that Ted Owens is a passive, receptive, or perceptive participant of these unusual conditions, while the other hypothesis suggests that Ted Owens is an active, or manipulative, agent in these unusual conditions. The events are worthy of scientific investigation, but the hypothesis of active manipulation is one which is morally bothersome to me. - R. Leo Sprinkle, Ph.D.
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LIPPINCOTT & CROWELL, PUBLISHERS
521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10017
LAWRENCE PEEL ASHMEAD
Executive Editor
March 31, 1980
Ron Bernstein
THE RON BERNSTEIN AGENCY
200 W. 58th St., suite 10C
New York, NY 10019
RECEIVED
APR 12 1980
Dear Ron:
Without a supporting publishing program of science fiction novels we'd have a very difficult time launching just one category novel like Rogo's EARTH'S AMBASSADOR.
Thank you for letting me see this, Ron, and I'm sorry I can't be more enthusiastic.
Best,
Larry
LPA/cdn
enclosure
P.S.: Good to see you at Judy's Friday evening.
xc: D. SCOTT ROGO 4/14/80
- [x] JEFFREY MISHLOVE
Phone: 212-687-3980
TELEX: 83-4566
TWX: 7106700974
Cable: Lippcot, New York
N.R.L. - F.S.D
N.A.S. Patuxent River
MD. #20670
Dr. Jeffery Mishlove
Washington Research Center
3101 Washington Street
San Francisco, Calif #94115
Dear Dr. Mishlove:
Under instructions from Ted Owens, who has listened to this tape, I am sending it to you - considering there is mention of using his book "How To Contact Space People" in it - and results from doing so - plus other para-normal events noted down and dated -
I recorded this for a UFOlogist in New Jersey, Mr. Tom Benson -
P.O. Box 1174
Trenton N.J. 08606
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I have just taken Jedi Training which he has said was given him by the UFO's (SI's) He also said that anyone who comes to him for that training, has been sent there for one reason or another, by UFO's -
There were several things which he said were very similar in which our minds were on the same frequency - so the training would be that much better between me and himself -
1. He had been wanting to get his Teddy (10) a space ship (Toy) and finances were such that he was unable to - I had just completed a model of the movie starship enterprise in which lights worked by Battery power - I brought
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this for his son because I could not find another one like it Amt Corporation quit making them -
(2) He had some time ago, admired a set of Black Cross pens which he could not buy - I spied the exact same and bought them for him as a gift when I came
(3) The UFO's left dolls for him to find. I brought one for little Jerome to cuddle with -
(4) When he went to Scotland - for some strange reason I "saw" the very same castle and fog & lake & when he went to Egypt I was there where he was under a well or cave - and just last month when he was pouring out energy - I "felt" this energy - & saw it too -
For many years I have traveled (I am in the service) and each time I have gone to a different place - that day - or next - I would see a disk - shaped object in
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the sky - I would look up see it - and it would disappear just as fast.
But now, I have the training and, according to Ted Owens - am closer to the UFO entities than ever before - he said also, that I had a very strong mind - I had always thought I was weak - but that was because of my childhood fears and allowing others to dominate me with theirs -
Listen to the tape and let me know what you think - Thank you very much for taking up some of your precious time in your busy schedule -
I have been reading from a very "rough" manuscript which I was going to write as a book -
Very Sincerely
Carolyn Valentine
=== Page 5 of 8
MENSA®
A NON-PROFIT EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION CHARTERED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 50 EAST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017
November 9, 1973
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Ted Owens, who is known as "PK Man - The UFO Prophet", and is a member of Mensa, informed me by letter on Tuesday, October 23, 1973, that it was his intention to telepathically communicate with UFO's and ask them to appear within a 100 mile area of Cape Charles, Virginia, and show themselves to the police within that area. On October 25, 1973, two days later, a UFO appeared over the head of a policeman in Chase City, Virginia (within the specified 100 mile area) for 15 minutes, as described in the Richmond Times-Dispatch dated October 26, 1973.
Thus, an example of the type of occurrence predicted in Mr. Owen's letter to me, written in advance of the occurrence, did take place.
Sincerely,
Max L. Fogel
Max L. Fogel, Ph.D.
Director of Science and Education
CHAIRMAN, Herbert Ahrend; FIRST VICE-CHAIRMAN, Dr. Emerson Cowie; SECOND VICE-CHAIRMAN, Joseph Frisch; EASTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Fred Lowenstein; MID-WESTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Lou McGowan; WESTERN VICE-CHAIRMAN, Ellison Jack; SECRETARY, Irene Turchin; TREASURER, Sander Rubin; LOCAL GROUPS OFFICER, Stuart Friedman; RESEARCH OFFICER, Max L. Fogel, Ph.D.; LEGAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Jack Weinstein; MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Vernon K. Schumann; PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, Allan Wikman; RECORDING SECRETARY, Carol H. Stephens; SUPERVISING PSYCHOLOGIST, Allan H. Frankle, Ph.D.; EDITOR MENSA BULLETIN, Lee Russell; GREATER L. A. REPRESENTATIVE, Mel Springer; N.Y.C. REPRESENTATIVE, Ita Solomon; MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY, Margot Seitelman.
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November 28, 1966
On June 5, 1966, Ted Owens made the following prediction to myself, my husband, Robert Hansell, and George Riddle:
The UFO intelligences, to demonstrate their powers further to the U.S. Govt. will bring about a nuclear submarine catastrophe, or Aircraft carrier catastrophe, i.e., a naval catastrophe involving U.S. vessels within the near future.
They will also deal our seat of Government (The White House and Capitol Hill) a serious blow in the near future.
The above to take place not later than September, 1966.
(Only the time element was off a bit)
Sept. 15, 1966, the West German submarine Hai suddenly sunk with its crew.
Oct. 26, 1966, the J.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Oriskany caught fire and burned, killing 34 officers and pilots and 9 enlisted men.
Nov. 2, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Guadalcanal, a helicopter crashed on deck killing four of the crew and injuring eighteen others.
Nov. 4, 1966, U.S. Navy Submarine "Tiru" accidentally went aground of the coast of Australia and radioed for help. Took three days for tug to get it off the rocks and it is now in port being repaired.
Nov. 5, 1966, U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. caught fire, killing eight of the crew. Commander Schoultz, the ship's captain termed the cause of the blaze "a mystery".
Nov. 8, 1966, former aircraft carrier, now a transport caught fire in Kula Gulf, Hawaii.
Nov. 10, 1966, nuclear U.S. sub Nautilus collided with the aircraft carrier Essex, and was extensively damaged.
Also, on Nov. 5, '66, President Johnson of the United States announced that he must have two operations performed at once; surgery. This was certainly a blow to our seat of government.
Therefore it is my conviction that this 3-point prediction by Ted Owens has come about (although a few weeks late) in the exact order that he predicted it.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of November, 1966
Zelda S. Hansell
29 S. Wyoming Ave.
Ardmore, Pa. 19003
# Carrier Hit By Nautilus Under Sea
**Crewman Hurt, A-Sub's Tower Badly Damaged**
NORFOLK, Va. Nov. 10 (UPI) - The world's first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, rammed the aircraft carrier Essex while running submerged off the North Carolina coast Thursday, slightly injuring one crewman.
The Navy said the mishap occurred during a routine anti-submarine warfare exercise.
The Nautilus, commissioned Sept. 21, 1954, suffered heavy damage to its conning tower, the Navy said, and immediately surfaced. It struck out for the New London, Conn., submarine base with an unidentified destroyer as an escort.
**CARRIER DAMAGED**
The 27,100-ton Essex, a 24-year-old anti-submarine warfare ship, was reported damaged below the waterline. It was commanded by Capt. S. W. Fly, was taking some water, but that it was under control.
The Navy said the Essex was heading for Quonset Point, R.I.
# Johnson's Doctors Negotiate On a Site, Time for Surgery
By LAWRENCE M. O'ROURKE Of The Bulletin Staff
JOHNSON CITY, Texas, Nov. 11 - Getting several busy doctors to agree on a single time and place for surgery is a difficult task, even when the patient is President Johnson.
Mr. Johnson apparently still doesn't know when or at what hospital his abdomen and throat will be operated on.
He hopes it will be early next week in the Bethesda Army Medical Center in Maryland. That is only a half hour helicopter flight from his LBJ ranch. Mr. Johnson could decide.
A high official in the Johnson Administration asserted that Mr. Johnson could fix the time and place in a minute.
He could call the doctors on the phone and say he wanted them to come to Texas, and they'd come.
But the President doesn't want to impose his will on the physicians, though he has made his own desires clear through Dr. George G. Burkley of the White House staff.
The complications arise from the fact that there are four doctors involved. Four are at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., one is in New York City, another is in Atlanta, and Dr. Burkley is in Washington.
Sources say that the operations may be done at the same time at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., or at a hospital associated with Mayo.
**Shoulder Soreness**
The President, resting more than normal and soaking up the sun on his LBJ Ranch, feels fine despite a number of ailments.
In addition to the abdominal and throat problems which were revealed by surgery, the President has felt soreness in his right arm and shoulders.
The White House said today that it is nothing serious, although it is unexplained.
Mr. Johnson has reportedly had massages to ease the discomfort.
The doctors have checked out the soreness, White House acting press secretary George C. Smith said, and found nothing serious.
A high administration official himself is at a loss to explain the soreness, but he said it's not from cutting wood.
**Sometime Next Week**
At a news conference yesterday - the first since he came to his LBJ ranch, the President said the surgery will take place next week.
Surgeons will repair an abdominal defect at the lower end of the scar on the President's abdomen left by gall bladder and kidney stone surgery 13 months ago. The surgery will involve the closing of an incisional hernia, a weak spot in the stomach wall. There is a lump at the site the size of a golf ball.
While Mr. Johnson is under anesthesia, a throat specialist will remove a small non-malignant polyp from near the President's right vocal cord.
The polyp will be examined immediately to determine if there is malignancy. The doctors said that nearly all polyps are non-malignant.
# Background
# Navy Has Rough Sailing
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (AP) - THE Navy has had a tough time in the way of ocean safety the past 16 days.
Thursday's collision of a submerged submarine with a carrier in the Atlantic marked at least the sixth accident involving Navy vessels since Oct. 26 when a flash fire swept the aircraft carrier Oriskany off Vietnam.
That fire claimed 44 men.
"When you have several hundred ships operating at sea, these things are bound to happen," one high officer said. "The best you can hope to do is take steps toward preventing them."
Here are recent accidents:
Oct. 26 - A fire that broke out in a locker containing flares swept the Oriskany off Vietnam. The flattop, from which U.S. jets strike at North Vietnam, had to be pulled off its "Yankee Station" and sent home for repairs.
Nov. 3 - The submarine Tiru ran aground on a reef in the Coral Sea off Australia and was stuck four days before it could be towed away. None of the 80 men aboard was injured.
Nov. 4 - The LST (Landing ship, transport) Churchill County rammed the top of the Bay Tunnel at Norfolk, Va., and had to be pulled away by two tugs. No injuries.
Nov. 5 - The carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt operating in South China seas, was hit by a fire which killed eight men. The carrier remained on station.
Nov. 7 - Fire erupted in a storage room of the 24,000 ton aircraft transport ship Kula Gulf stationed at Pearl Harbor. No one was injured; the blaze was brought under control in three hours.
Nov. 10 - The submarine Nautilus rammed the carrier Essex during a maneuver 35 miles east of Wilmington, Del. The atomic sub suffered extensive damage to a super-section but surfaced with only one injury, a possible broken arm sustained by one of the crewmen. The Essex was not damaged.
One of the Navy's more embarrassing incidents of recent months occurred in July, however, when a radar picket destroyer, the Frank Knox, was hung up for five weeks on a reef in the South China Sea.
The Navy later reprimanded the commander of the destroyer after a court martial on charges of "negligently failing to keep himself informed of the ship's position."
# Burned Carrier Is Home to Prepare for Next Round
San Diego, Calif., Nov. 16 - (AP) - The fire-scarred attack carrier Oriskany and her proud, weary men returned from war today, their home-coming saddened by the loss of 44 men.
Band played and an estimated 2,000 wives, children and friends greeted the huge 42,000-ton carrier as it docked under gray skies.
Forty-four men, including 25 pilots, were victims of the tragic Oct. 26 fire, evidence of which still lingers on scorched walls of the hangar bay and living quarters. Ten other Oriskany pilots were lost on strike missions over Viet Nam.
**Morale 'Terrific'**
The skipper of the 21-year-old carrier, Capt. J. H. Iarrobino of Coronado, Calif., praised his 2,500-man crew and said he hoped the ship would not miss its third rotation back to the Viet Nam war zone.
"The morale of the men is terrific," the skipper said. "This ship's performance was really outstanding - not just outstanding, but great.
"We were in a state of shock for a short period of time," Iarrobino said. "But we're digging ourselves out now. This ship will answer the bell for the next round."
**Inquiry Under Way**
After a week in San Diego the ship goes to San Francisco for three or four months of repair and overhaul, followed by another tour of war duty.
Meanwhile, a board of inquiry investigating all aspects of the fire will take "roughly another two weeks to finish," Iarrobino said.
"We don't know whether it was a malfunction of a flare or personnel fault that caused the fire," the captain said. He said that as yet no disciplinary action has been taken against two men who were handling the magnesium illumination flares that triggered the three explosions.
ILLUSTRATION # 2
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forces which are responsible for the events. Either hypothesis offers a para-normal explanation; however, one hypothesis suggests that Ted Owens is a passive, receptive, or perceptive participant of these unusual conditions, while the other hypothesis suggests that Ted Owens is an active, or manipulative, agent in these unusual conditions. The events are worthy of scientific investigation, but the hypothesis of active manipulation is one which is morally bothersome to me. - R. Leo Sprinkle, Ph.D.
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LIPPINCOTT & CROWELL, PUBLISHERS
521 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10017
LAWRENCE PEEL ASHMEAD
Executive Editor
March 31, 1980
Ron Bernstein
THE RON BERNSTEIN AGENCY
200 W. 58th St., suite 10C
New York, NY 10019
RECEIVED
APR 12 1980
Dear Ron:
Without a supporting publishing program of science fiction novels we'd have a very difficult time launching just one category novel like Rogo's EARTH'S AMBASSADOR.
Thank you for letting me see this, Ron, and I'm sorry I can't be more enthusiastic.
Best,
Larry
LPA/cdn
enclosure
P.S.: Good to see you at Judy's Friday evening.
xc: D. SCOTT ROGO 4/14/80
- [x] JEFFREY MISHLOVE
Phone: 212-687-3980
TELEX: 83-4566
TWX: 7106700974
Cable: Lippcot, New York
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