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July 4, 1970

Postmark July 4, 1970
RLS

Drs. Hynek and Sprinkle...

this letter, as the others, requires no answer. Matter of fact I wasn't even going to write it...but Si's prodded me to do so. You see, being part Si myself...sometimes I catch indications and "shadows" of their thoughts and plans. Lately I caught some interesting information from the "shadow areas", and am passing it along.

The Si's and OI's are enemies. But they do not fight and kill each other as we do. They fight each other with ideas. Mental Imagery is one of their key weapons. For instance, us humans...to the OI's (Other Intelligences, not the Si's)...us humans are like roaches or rodents fouling their garden (the earth). To the Si's we are a most valuable animal species which they are studying and trying to perfect, through the ages. The OI's try to get rid of us...the Si's try to help us and perfect us. It was the OI's who "planted" the idea for nuclear and atomic warfare in the human brain, which then came into fruition. They then speeded up our technological abilities, knowing full well they were implanting ideas into our human brains faster than our human souls and human psychologies could absorb them...they were, in effect, building a time-bomb into the human race.

The OI's have done such a good job...of helping us eliminate ourselves...that the Si's have been desperate enough to actually request a base on earth, in the U.S., for purposes of trying to avert the nuclear holocaust they know is on its way.

Are you familiar with...if the right note is struck, it can break a glass vessel? Are you familiar with the mysterious number of deaths of hillbilly singers these past ten years? Dozens of them killed in a weird, mystifying number of ways? It's true, if you'll check. Well, their own music killed them. Their wailing, sad, crying music...created conditions around them to destroy them. Mass music can accomplish that, say the Si's. They say the OI's deliberately implanted the "rock" and "go-go" music now sweeping the country...and this music, mass music, creates destructive conditions on a far greater scale even than hillbilly music. Instead of one note breaking a glass...multiply that same note by a million, and what do you get? You see? The Si's say that music is not just sound that fades away quickly...but it actually causes conditions around it. They say this music will wreck this country in this manner faster than a previous-type war could. One by-product of this rock music is to drive listeners to use dope...which is what the OI's want...because while the rock listener is on dope, the OI's can somehow insert their intelligence and plant powerful suggestions into the mind and soul of the one on dope, which will then effect humans around that dope person later...effect, and infect.

Yes, mass music can cause mass vibrations, which will effect humans en masse, say the Si's. Something to think about. Of course, what I am saying here is nothing of my usual work...no documented material. Just file it. But...you might think about it.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens


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July 18, 1970

Mr. Richard Vallance
311-B
22nd Street
Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dr. Sprinkle

Posted
APM
19 Jul 70
RLS

Now you can see, Richard, how the Si's take care of people who give me a hard time. Let's recap.

You brought Pincon over to see me. He was insulting. I wrote you and told you the Si's would give him a spanking for that. (He got off lightly compared to what has happened to others who insulted me.)

In the newspapers a few days ago I read that Pincon's house... which is a haven for hippies... was raided by the police, who caught one of the men in the house with hashish in his pockets.

Now, what will be the result of that?

From now on you may rest assured that all mail going to and going from that house will be intercepted and scanned. Mail cover.

The phone(s) may be tapped. Probably. The doctors and respectable professional men who have been dealing with that house... now will have sober second thoughts, certainly not wishing to be embarrassed by having their connection with a "haven" which shelters dope addicts with dope in their pockets, and police running in and out, known. They will probably drop away their professional support.

Pincon himself will no doubt have his past scrutinized as it has never been scrutinized before. And if I read him right, it will not stand scrutinizing.

In short... nice spanking.

Ted Owens (PK Man)

P.S. And of course it will be much more difficult for him now to get financial backing for the "haven". Or cult, as the case may be.

Owens


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Dr Sprinkle

Saturday, July 18, 1970

President Nixon:

At 2:15 P.M., as I was having lunch at the Puritan Cafe in Norfolk, the top intelligence of the Si's appeared on the empty seat opposite me...it has a black, shapeless head with blazing eyes...that's all I could see...and this is the first time it has ever done this. As I looked at it in astonishment...it seemed to fumble for words...as I would in Mexico City trying to order something in Spanish...and slowly, very slowly, the following message appeared:

"TELL PRESIDENT DANGER SOON!"

And then it vanished. And that was all I could get.

I tried to figure out...if it meant danger for you, personally.. such as an attempted assassination by some nut, or danger for the U.S. About the only way I could get a clue...would be to go by my "feeling" that went with the message...and the "feeling" is that it is personal danger to you, in the immediate future. Say, for the next 90 days your life might be in the greatest danger from some unexpected source. (That 90 days is my guess.)

I called the Secret Service here in Norfolk at 2:30, but no answer; guess they don't work on Saturday here. There's no quick pipeline to you for info the Si's give me, which is a pity. If they warn me of some disaster on Saturday or Sunday...and it strikes on Saturday or Sunday...there's no way to get it topside, the message, that is.

I.e., "soon" as the Si's say...might mean today or tomorrow... in which case this message would be too late. You see? No way to get it to you at all from Norfolk.

So, seeing as how the Si's used a "first" to get this message across...not relying on their usual method of communication... I would guess that something really big is up, aimed at you personally...and it might be a good idea to avoid the White House for a bit. Or tip off just where you'll be for a bit. And be careful, very careful, at this point of time...keep well guarded. Trusted guards, even.

Ted Owens, (PK Man)
Box 3141 CHS, Norfolk, Va.

Owens

P.S. I think the danger may stem from a Senator or Congressman or perhaps official, high official, willing to pay the price of an attempt on your life.


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July 11, 1970

Dr. Sprinkle

PM July 11, 1970

Dr. Hynek; I am going to perform an experiment...just for you along. That is, in your honor.

Since you live, I suppose, in Evanston, and are a scientist at Northwestern University...this gives us, you and me, an excellent opportunity for a full-blown experiment utilizing not only my own PK powers...but Si powers as well.

When the Jets played the All-Stars last year...I used PK on the game to beat the world champions...and almost did. Game ended 27-29, or something like that. The All Stars came from way behind...and given just a few more minutes, with My PK, would have beaten Namath and the Jets. (You have to understand that I do not win each and every game with my PK powers...I take a certain team and pursue it through the season... and tell the coach of that pro team in advance of the season that he will not be able to win the World Championship, because my PK will block the team. Last year I told Weeb Eubank before the season, coach of the Jets; also the Eagles; and the Miami Dolphins, who had a poor chance, but they told me they had a good chance, so I made sure they didn't.

So this year I'll pursue the Kansas City Chiefs...World Champions...with my PK...to block them from winning the Championship. And I'll start with their first game against the All-Stars on July 31 at the stadium at Northwestern. Now, here is what I'll do:

Am going to set up an EM grid (electromagnetic grid) over the stadium that night. It will be an ODE grid (other-dimensional, unseen) but it should have powerful effect on the stadium, and on the people in the stadium, since individuals have EM fields of their own. It could effect the power at the stadium, radios, TV broadcasting, etc. Then...I'll personally, using my brain, attack the KC Chiefs on every play...which can cause weird things to happen. Unusual fumbles; unusual breaks in favor of the All Stars. And injuries, because the PK works in a thousand ways...and of course to injure key players would be basic in stopping the Chiefs.

Then...I'll go further. I will signal the UFO intelligences that I deal with...and request them to send one or more craft near or over the stadium, to insert their own phenomena into the game. (They can be invisible, other-dimensional, so they probably will not be seen.) So, all in all, it should be a wild, unusual game...and I'll do my utmost to help the All Stars win it. But if they do not, at least I hope to be able to show you a wide range of phenomena during the game directly attributable to the Si's...and my own brain. As I said...I do not depend on one single game to stop a World Championship team from repeating...but will use the All Stars as a hammer against the Chiefs...in this game. But I will do my best to make the Chiefs lose the game. IT IS INFINITELY BETTER IF I CAN BE AT THE GAME MYSELF. As it is, I have to do my work over TV, watching the game that way. But...I have no money to fly to Evanston, stay overnight, and pay my way into the game. Am a financially poor man.

It should be fascinating...and am delighted to be able to set up an experiment which you can observe yourself. As you know...am doing wonderfully here in Norfolk right now...bringing in storm after storm, with lightning attacks. There's no question about it.

Best...

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens


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July 12, 1970

Dr. Hynek
Dr. Sprinkle

Gentlemen:

Something startling and new has occurred...in my relationship with the UFO intelligences (Si's) and I thought I should relay it on to you.

For years...in causing storms and lightning-attacks on areas... the Si's have had me extend my fingers toward the sky and "see" in my mind bolts of lightning flashing out of my extended fingers toward the sky. There is more to it, but that's enough to tell you about that.

Several days ago...standing outside and extending my hand toward the sky and preparing to bring more rain to now-soggy and groggy and inundated Virginia...the Si's stopped me. They communicated that my mind HAD REACHED A NEW PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT. They seemed to be quite pleased about it. As if I had "graduated" from something less to something more. They told me...from now on to just look at the sky, and I would be able to "see" lightning bolts flashing out of my eyes at the sky. They said my brain had new power of some sort, now. That I was "different now."

They also warned me...to be sure NOT to ever look at any person or living thing...and "see" the lightning bolts flashing from my eyes. That it would destroy that person or living thing.

They told me that I had had so much experience by now...in controlling the various other-dimensional effects...that they felt it was quite safe to trust me in this regard; i.e., not to lose my temper and use the lightning bolts from the eyes on some trivial argument or even fight with some human or humans. Or to use it in any wrong way, for that matter.

What impressed me was: their emotion over this development. Ordinarily the Si's do not reflect an emotion. Can't recall their ever having reflected an emotion...and didn't think they were capable of it. But this development seemed to be something very big to them. My own impression: they are leading me, taking me, step by step, upwards on some kind of scale...to see how much power of theirs a human can contain and survive...to see how a human brain which has been modified by them (they did that to me years ago) could grow and progress under that modification. You don't know my mind and mental processes...but I love children; have had many opportunities to kill attackers in combat situations, yet did not do so; I love pets; won't even hunt because I can't conceive of killing God's creatures unless I were starving, just to survive; and I have steel-nerved control over these reflexes.

Just thought the above might be interesting to you, to know about.

Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 3134, CHS, Norfolk, Va.

Owens


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July 12, 1970

Mr. Hank Stram, Coach
Kansas City Chiefs Football Team
Liberty, Missouri

Dear Mr. Stram:

I regret to say...that I must, for the sake of a demonstration...block, and stop, the Kansas City Chiefs Football Team this 1970 season...with my mind...from attaining World Championship status again this year.

In other words...from this moment on your team has no chance whatsoever of becoming World Champion. And it might never, from this time on, because "PK" grows, once it is once used...as the Philadelphia Eagles found out. Not only did I wreck their team; get Kuharich fired; put Wolman into bankruptcy...but this has continued...as you know the Eagles have just been "frozen" in a sort of limbo, etc.

Of course you won't believe this...that a man's mind...could wreck your fine team. It would only be human to disbelieve it. For nothing like it has ever existed.

What you can expect: A season of unprecedented fumbling, bumbling, strange freak accidents and injuries, all causing games to be lost. It will be weird. And that's how you will know...that "PK Man" is doing it with his mind.

I could not, of course, put on this demonstration with a weak team. It must of necessity be the toughest and best team in the world...and that happens to be your team.

I respectfully suggest...that you do not throw this letter away...file it...and remember it.

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You might as well know something further...I control pro football. Last season I was instrumental in controlling various pro football teams. This is a plain fact. Check with the owners of the Miami Dolphins; with the coach of the Jets, or Namath; and the Phila. Eagles staff. I told them in advance of the season what to expect.

I also control pro basketball; but that's beside the point, and not important here.

It will be a strange, weird game when you play the All Stars, because my control will begin in that game. You just might win it, if you are lucky...but it will be at high price. However, power from another dimension...will be working against your team...in that game on July 31st.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS, Norfolk, Va. 23514


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July 19, 1970

Editor, Virginian-Pilot
Editor, Ledger-Star
Mr. Larry Maddry
Mrs. N. Dyer, Court Reporter

Dr Sprinkle

Postmark PM 20 July '70 RLS

I beg your pardon.

On proof-reading (belatedly) my file copy of a letter sent to you, I note an inaccuracy. (And I do try to be as accurate as possible at all times.)

I wrote you...that I had been making storms and lightning attacks in this area weekly for two months; that should read one month. (I was absent-mindedly using the two-month figure thinking of another experiment am conducting).

The drought article appeared in the newspaper here on June 16; and that's when I wrote that I would end the drought and save the crops. ONE month's time, till and through now.

Sorry about that.

Ted Owens (PK Man)

Box 3141 CHS
Norfolk, Va., 23514

Owens


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July 15, 1970

Mr. Otto Binder
Mr. M. Singer

Dr. Sprinkle
Important

Otto: An extraordinary thing has occurred, which I want you to know about immediately. As well as Mr. Singer. Enclosed is a letter which is self-explanatory. It is very valuable to me, and you can return it whenever you are able.

Now...you recall some months ago...that I notified you that the Si's would actually "broadcast" all over the U.S., from their craft, in the way that they have...in order to subtly force people to buy Saga when it came out with our story? Matter of fact, Mr. Singer sent me an advance copy so that I could telepathize the cover to the Si's...so that they in turn could telepathize it, with an order to get it, to the American people everywhere.

I just received a letter from a man I've never heard of. Mr. Avram Davidson, 2 Wootton Road, Essex Fells, New Jersey, 07021. In the letter Mr. Davidson (1) says that he was mentally forced into going and looking for Saga and buying it...with our story in it, and (2) he was then forced to notify me about it.

What this means...is that the Si's actually had him do this...in order to notify me, and you, and Mr. Singer...that they were cooperating with us!

He begins by talking about reading my book...then, "Then I started getting a desire to read this months SAGA magazine. I found myself canvasing stores I never went into before looking for this months SAGA. Sort of getting mugged into buying the magazine. Naturally this issue started with an interview with you...I might add that I have been thinking of writing to you for some time but never until now got around to it." He goes on and ends with: "Well sir my question is this, are the SI in some manner desiring me to contact you? I realize that this is virtually stupid of me, as well as damn egotistical, but I was wondering if they were after me to write to you? I'm sorry if I have wasted your time with this letter, but something inside of me was sort of pestering me to do it."

And there you have it. One of the most amazing things I've ever encountered! Of course he would have no way of knowing of the arrangement I'd set up...to get an advance copy...to broadcast the suggestion through the Si's, etc. Do you agree on this?

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3141 CHS, Norfolk, Va.


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Dr. Sprinkle

Posted
PM 24 Jul 70

July 24, 1970

Mr. Larry Maddrey
Virginian-Pilot Newspaper

Dear Mr. Maddrey:

I have fought against sending this...but the SI's keep after me to do so...therefore am doing it.

They make you this offer...because you are the only one locally who has given them any exposure at all, even if at times it was not the exact exposure they wanted. If you do not accept their offer herein, then they will make the offer to Bonko and the Ledger-Star. After that they will withdraw the offer completely.

Their offer: In your column mention that on a certain day you will print a certain phrase of words in your column, that the SI's have told me to pass on to you. If that certain column containing the certain phrase of words is clipped out and kept on the person of that reader, and underneath their pillow at night, with the reader saying that phrase of words once daily...then tremendous good fortune will come to that reader. It is not necessary at all that the reader believe in it or have any faith in it. And you can express your skepticism as much as you like. All that is necessary is...that the reader follow instructions.

And you will ask...readers to send in any odd, unusual results they might get...to be serious about it, no funnies...for you to "file".

The SI's state that this will result in a tremendous sale of papers...and bring an enormous amount of attention and "word of mouth" publicity to your paper, which of course is money in the bank to your paper over the long run.

I know you've just done a column on the SI's...that's why I didn't want to write this. The SI's, however, do not care about that. Remember, they are not humans.

If I don't hear from you on this within a short time, say by next Wednesday, will send the SI offer to Bonko and the Ledger-Star. If they are not interested, then that's it.

Ted Owens (PK Man) 3141 Box, CHS, Norfolk, Va.

Owens


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Dr. Sprinkle Received 8/7/70

July 24, 1970

Mr. Larry Maddrey
Columnist

Dear Larry:

Since your article came out...I've been in a quandary, and today the Si's have given me proper instructions as to what to do.

Quandary: I proposed a bargain, (for the Si's): I would quit making it rain constantly in this area, if the paper would publish a confirmation of the Multiple-Miracles which I'd just brought about (through the Si's) in this area. You dropped over, said okay, and ran the article. BUT: the article did not mention that I said in writing I'd bring a storm in a week, and got it in five days; that I'd make weird electromagnetic effects happen in this area, and then the "strange object in the sky" appeared; that I'd save the crops, and they were saved; that I'd actually bring a hurricane close enough to water the area down with rain, and Hurricane Becky did just that. And so forth. These were the things you were supposed to publish, to make our agreement valid...yet you did not. Just a vague general mention that I'd written "a month ago" I'd make it rain and storm, and there'd been a "few". Ha.

All right. Now, problem. You did publish a confirmation for the Si's, although you confirmed the wrong things. And you seem to be in good faith about the matter; and want the rain stopped. Do I keep it raining all summer long (I can certainly do that) because you didn't give the Si's what they want? Or do I remove the mechanism that's set up...and make it stop raining...because you did produce a confirmation column, albeit the wrong confirmation, in good faith, but just erring?

Here is what the Si's have instructed me: I'm to keep on making it rain week after week, until I hear from you on this. If I do not hear from you on this then I'm to assume that you either don't care whether it rains or not, or, since the Si's are allowing you to be the fair judge of the matter...you realize you didn't give them what they wanted, and judge that the rain should continue. In the event that you write and tell me you thought the article was what the Si's wanted, and did it in good faith expecting the rain to end...then and only then will I stop the rainfall. Okay?

Best to you and yours....

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3141 CHS, Norfolk, Va.


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LEDGER-STAR

Friday afternoon, July 31, 1970 section B

Virginia Beach hit by severe lightning

Dr. Sprinkle

By JACK DORSEY

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Lightning during a severe thunderstorm Thursday night touched ground at more than a dozen places causing some damage and knocking out power to 25 or 30 customers.

The central dispatcher for the Virginia Beach fire and rescue squad said today two radio transmitters were knocked out in his office by surges in power from the storm.

Virginia Beach Junior High School, The Cavalier Hotel and at least four residences in scattered areas of the city placed calls to the fire department for assistance between 7:30 and 11 p.m. There were no injuries or major fires.

The U.S. Weather Bureau at Norfolk Regional Airport said today the thunderstorm was confined to Virginia Beach and had little effect on other Tidewater area cities.

A spokesman at the Weather Bureau said the storm was located north, east and south of the airport and he called it a "typical thunderstorm."

He also said there has been a theory advanced lately that the unusually large amount of haze in the area is responsible in part for lightning being grounded more easily. The haze condition might have helped, he said, but this is only a theory that is being studied.

Elsewhere in Virginia Beach, the Virginia Electric and Power Co. said it had a "hectic" night.

"We had a lot of wind, rain and lightning," said Wallace Faison, district supervisor for the Virginia Beach Vepco office. "There were no widespread power failures."

Faison said the affected areas included Thalia Creek, Kings Grant, Kingston, Little Neck and Malibu. The power failures affected only three or four customers in each of the areas, he said.

A transformer on a utility pole exploded when struck by the lightning and caught fire, he said.

According to the rescue squad dispatcher, the two radios knocked out at the Princess Anne Plaza headquarters were a stand-by remote fire transmitter and the Public Works Department transceiver.

Officials at the Cavalier Hotel said today no damage occurred to the building.

This lightning attack -- called by me in advance, in writing. (Documented.)

Owens


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August 1, 1970 .......... TO ALL CONTACTS

(1) Re my EM and demonstration on this Norfolk/Virginia Beach area, large headline in the newspaper Ledger-Star here last night, 7/31/70: "VIRGINIA BEACH HIT BY SEVERE LIGHTNING" by Jack Dorsey. It points out that a severe lightning attack...caused bolts of lightning to hit more than a dozen places in Virginia Beach...including the Virginia Beach High School, The Cavalier Hotel (famous spot) and "at least" four homes in scattered areas of the city...the "storm" was confined to Virginia Beach.. two radio transmitters were knocked out "by surges in power" (see my earlier correspondence to you re the "grid" that would indeed cause surges in power)...the authorities stated this lightning attack "is being studied" as to its cause...the Virginia Electric and Power Company said it had a "hectic night." And it is interesting that one of the radio transmitters knocked out was a "fire transmitter"..(do you recall that for a joke I stood in front of the fire department and signalled for a lightning attack recently?)

(2) The All Star-KC Chiefs Game last night. Score: Chiefs 24, Stars 3. And I told you...that I would use my mind, PK powers, to block and stop the Chiefs, right? Well, you say, obviously it didn't work, right? Wrong. The PK worked amazingly well. Let me show you how it did. The World Champions only made, earned, one touchdown. That's 7 points. And they got a kick. That's 3 points. All together the Chief's champion offensive team...only made 10 points! Not only that, but during the entire second half of the game, and remember they were playing, as it turned out, an impotent, helpless Star team that couldn't run and couldn't pass...during the entire second half the Chiefs could not score. They tried every trick in the book, too. And Dawson, said to be the best quarterback in all the pro teams, played just about the whole game. Now, the extra 14 points...were gift points..."cheap" touchdowns, as the pros put it...not made on purpose by the crack offensive team, but scored by the defensive team when the Star quarterbacks simply threw the ball away to Chief defenders, who took the gifts and ambled over for scores.

I think that Hank Stram, the Chiefs coach, would be fair enough to tell you...that the lowly Miami Dolphins, with equal practice time, could have beaten them, the Chiefs, last night.

Not only that...the PK stopping the Chiefs very cold...but the PK gave the All Stars opportunites to make touchdowns at least a half a dozen times! But what did they do with the opportunities? Threw the ball away into the arms of the Chiefs, or dropped passes, stumbled and bumbled and tossed away every opportunity the PK attack gave them.

As I wrote you previously...the PK cannot carry the ball. All it can do is pave the way for scoring, by blocking the other team and holding back the other team. The favored team must capitalize on the breaks... and this is where the Stars broke down. Without the two cheap gift touchdowns...the score would have been 10-3; and if the Stars had scored even two or three of the splendid chances the PK gave them to make touchdowns...they'd have beaten the Chiefs easily.

If you will watch the Chiefs now, as they go further into the season... you'll see them fall apart with key injuries. They'll win some games; but the PK will take them apart...and they won't be World Champions again.

You may think this is all poppycock; but I've been attacking with PK for several years - you might say I'm a pro at it - and remember how I dismantled the Eagles! Believe me, it's mighty potent stuff!

Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 3134 CHS, Norfolk, Va. 23514
Owens


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July 18, 1970

Editor, Virginian-Pilot Newspaper
Editor, Ledger-Star Newspaper
Mr. Larry Maddry
Mrs. N. Dyer, Court Reporter

Dr. Sprinkle

Knows any other human who can call the shot on 2 months of rain, at least once a week? (Starting with drought)

Well, well, well...you see? You didn't pay attention. And look what happened!

As you know, since I first wrote you and put on record that I intended bringing rain to this drought-stricken area...this area has had rain every week for about two months, approx. I haven't missed one single week, have I, in bringing rain to this area since first writing to you?

Well, then...all I got from you was silence...so I put up an other-dimensional EM grid...so cause radio and TV and other electrical and EM weird effects in the area. Also, I warned you that Virginia Beach was going to be smarting...as the result of this rain, continued rain, and the loss of tourist dollars. Hokay!

You know what happened Thursday, July 16...giant Art Show at the Beach...people there by the thousands...an Annual Art Show. Outside. And the artists gleefully set up their paintings and rubbed their hands, seeing dollar signs in these thousands of onlookers. Swoosh! Down came the rain. People ran in all directions. Oil paintings and other paintings simply vanished as the rain poured down on them...and all those lovely dollar signs vanished, too, in the eyes of the artists...as they watched those lovely thousands of people run for their dry lives. I quote the newspaper: "Rain interrupted the show (art) twice Thursday and cut the volume of sales. Last year the total was about $19,000.00 for the first two days." Based on the last year sales...the artists could have dropped roughly $9,000.00 (which is more than I make in a week). The next day...Friday...without repeated rainstorms...the artists made $13,669.00.

So...I warned you in advance they'd drop a bundle at the Beach from the rain...but you didn't listen...and they did.

Just as an added phillip...on Thursday nite and Friday nite, June 16 and 17...TV sets went haywire in this area...and across the TV screen flashed the message: "This is not your TV set, but due to co-channel atmospheric interference." There was also loss of sound on programs and other freakish things happening. The "grid" is getting stronger now.

But...Hope Is On The Horizon. Possibly the Si's may get their wish, bless their little hearts...and this true miraculous story just might get printed, so that it will be on record...in which case the storms will come to a screeching halt...and all will be Heaven again for those Lovely Tourists, as well as the nail-biting Va. Beach Chamber of Commerce.

Ted Owens Owens (PK Man) Box 3134 CHS, Norfolk, Va.


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A4 Ledger-Star, Friday, July 10, 1970

# Heavy rains blamed for flash floods

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Heavy rains from a line of thunderstorms triggered flash flooding in several Virginia localities late Thursday and early today.

Many low-lying areas in Richmond were flooded today when a heavy thunderstorm passed over the city shortly after 7:30 a.m. Morning traffic was slowed and telephone lines were knocked out.

Cloudy skies tonight; high in

Five-day forecast

Outlook for southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina through Tuesday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms through early Saturday, otherwise partly cloudy with a high in the mid 80s and a low in the low 70s. Mostly fair Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, except for chance of scattered showers late Monday and again on Tuesday. High temperatures will be in the 80s and lows around 70.

Local forecast

Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with chance of showers and thunderstorms tonight, ending Saturday. Low tonight in the low 70s, high Saturday in the mid 80s. Outlook for Sunday fair and warm. Probability of precipitation decreasing to 50 per cent tonight and Saturday. Small craft warnings are in effect for southerly winds 15 to 25 miles per hour with stronger and gusty winds in the vicinity of thunderstorms. Winds becoming west to northwest 10 to 20 miles per hour on Saturday.

FORECAST

Figures Show Low Temperatures Expected Until Saturday Morning

Isolated Precipitation Not Indicated - Consult Local Forecast

National weather summary

Thundershowers lingered along the eastern seaboard today following heavy downpours that swamped Washington and adjacent areas of Virginia and Maryland. The cloudbursts late Thursday snarled rush-hour traffic in the Washington area, knocked out power and telephone lines and flooded numerous low-lying street intersections. Showers persisted from the Rockies to the western Plains. Heavy thunderstorms also swept parts of the Gulf Coast region late Thursday.

THE OUTLOOK: Scattered showers and thunderstorms are predicted today from the Central Gulf Coast through the Atlantic Coast states. Showers are also expected over the Northern and Central Rockies and in portions of the Central Plains.

weather maps...and you Rain pours down over the weekend....then there's a lull of a few days while the necessary ingredients for the next deluge are rounded up and brought across the country to here...and wham! There we go again! 1,2,3,4,5 times now. Consistent, isn't it?

This can go on and on, you know. And will. But if you get tired of lightning and rain...and want to help out the Virginia Beach Chamber of Commerce....just run that story the Si's want...and I personally will see to it that this area has beautiful, gorgeous, rainless weather all the rest of this tourist season.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens


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Dr. Sprinkle AM July 11, '70

July 10, 1970

Editor, Virginian-Pilot Newspaper
Editor, Ledger-Star Newspaper
Larry Maddry
Mrs. N. Dyer, Court Reporter

So you won't tell the people...the true story...of what is happening, eh? Shame on you. The primary duty...of a newspaper...is to keep its public, the people, informed of the truth of things...no matter what. Even UFO's.

So yesterday and today...the area has been deluged, and bombarded with more lightning. Matter of fact, the area is now getting quite soggy...floods everywhere; baseball games rained out; racetrack flooded out; rivers flooding over, and so forth.

And of course...the tourists, and all those lovely dollars, ain't happy at all. How can they be...dodging lightning bolts and wiping driving rain out of their eyes?

It is very interesting...how my UFO friends do this, you know. Unless I've missed count...five weeks in a row, the same thing has occurred. To bring the rain (and lightning) to the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area...the ingredients are rounded up on the west coast and the mid west, and then they are moved to this area, where they are parked long enough to do a fine job on this area of storms and lightning as per my "arrangement." Simply check your weather maps...and you will see that it has been so. Rain pours down over the weekend....then there's a lull of a few days while the necessary ingredients for the next deluge are rounded up and brought across the country to here...and wham! There we go again! 1,2,3,4,5 times now. Consistent, isn't it?

This can go on and on, you know. And will. But if you get tired of lightning and rain...and want to help out the Virginia Beach Chamber of Commerce....just run that story the Si's want...and I personally will see to it that this area has beautiful, gorgeous, rainless weather all the rest of this tourist season.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens


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7/2/70 Dr Sprinkle
Postmark July 3, 1970
RLS

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All of a sudden it appeared that Norfolk was having a re-run of the Eclipse. It happened this morning--note time on the clock--when a thundercloud drifted over. Automatic switches turned on the street lights. Motorists had to turn on car lights.

And then the rain poured down, drenching pedestrians like these on Brambleton Avenue near Boush Street. Before long, however, the rain let up and the sun struggled to come through.

Staff photo by Dick Bushnell


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Red Cross Prepares for Va. Flooding
7/23/70

ALEXANDRIA (AP) -- Eastern area headquarters of the American Red Cross said its chapters in Southwest Virginia, Western North Carolina, and Southeastern West Virginia have been alerted to be prepared for possible flash flooding from 6 p.m. Wednesday until noon today.

The flood watch covered 12 Virginia counties as Tropical Storm Becky moved northward with rainfall up to 6 inches possible, according to the Weather Bureau.

The Virginia counties warned included Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan, Tazewell, Bland, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, Wythe, Floyd, Carroll, and Grayson.

A Red Cross spokesman said chapter workers and national disaster staffs are standing by to render any assistance that may be necessary.

Persons in the affected counties living in low-lying areas or along streams were advised to keep tuned to local radio or television stations for further reports. In event of serious flooding, the spokesman said, instructions will be broadcast for evacuations and places of shelters.

ot, Thursday, July 23, 1970

WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST TO 7:00 P.M. EST 7-23-70

[Weather Map showing SHOWERS, MILD, WARM, RAIN across the Eastern United States]

Becky's Legacy
70% Rain Chance

As the dying remnants of Tropical Storm Becky moves northward, Tidewater can expect rain, possibly heavy at times, today and tonight.

The high temperature today is to be near 80 and the low tonight in the 60s. Friday is to be partly cloudy, warm, and humid with a chance of thundershowers. The high may reach the upper 80s.

The rain chances are 70 per cent today and 50 per cent tonight.

The Weather Bureau issued a flash-flood watch for most of Southwestern Virginia Wednesday evening. Tornadoes were reported in the Macon and Augusta, Ga., areas, spawned by the storm system, which is to reach northern Alabama this afternoon. By Friday morning the remnants are to be over western Ohio.

A stationary front extended from just north of Becky's remnants at the Georgia-Alabama border, northeastward to the Virginia-North Carolina border, then offshore. This front is weakening fast and should dissipate today, weathermen said.

In Norfolk Wednesday the low was 67, high 77, and the mean 72, which was 7 below normal. Early mornings showers left .07 of an inch of rain and evening showers .05 at Norfolk Airport.

re the Norfolk phenomena since June 16, 1970...append news clips I've sent you...and you'll have a record of dern-day miracle unsurpassed by any other modern man in world!

I brought about the 5-points in these "miracles"...it urse takes it completely and absolutely out of the realm y possible coincidence in any way, shape or form.

Ted Owens (PK Man)

Owens


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Virginian-Pilot, Thursday, July 23, 1970

PREVIEW OF ESSA WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST TO 7:00 P.M. EST 7-23-70

Becky's Legacy

70% Rain Chance

As the dying remnants of Tropical Storm Becky moves northward, Tidewater can expect rain, possibly heavy at times, today and tonight.

-The high temperature today is to be near 80 and the low tonight in the 60s. Friday is to be partly cloudy, warm, and humid with a chance of thundershowers. The high may reach the upper 80s.

The rain chances are 70 per cent today and 50 per cent tonight.

The Weather Bureau issued a flash-flood watch for most of Southwestern Virginia Wednesday evening. Tornadoes were reported in the Macon and Augusta, Ga., areas, spawned by the storm system, which is to reach northern Alabama this afternoon. By Friday morning the remnants are to be over western Ohio.

A stationary front extended from just north of Becky's remnants at the Georgia-Alabama border, northeastward to the Virginia-North Carolina border, then offshore. This front is weakening fast and should dissipate today, weathermen said.

In Norfolk Wednesday the low was 67, high 77, and the mean 72, which was 7 below normal. Early mornings showers left .07 of an inch of rain and evening showers .05 at Norfolk Airport.

you re the Norfolk phenomena since June 16, 1970...append the news clips I've sent you...and you'll have a record of a modern-day miracle unsurpassed by any other modern man in this world!

Since I brought about the 5-points in these "miracles"...it of course takes it completely and absolutely out of the realm of any possible coincidence in any way, shape or form.

Ted Owens (PK Man)

Owens


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July 23, 1970

Gentlemen:

Put these clippings with the Multiple-Miracle file I've sent you re Norfolk, and it's complete. Refer to the file copy letter of June 16, 1970, that I sent you...where in it I said I'd bring a hurricane near this area, near enough to flood this area with rains from it. I've done it. What you should do...is assemble all the letters I've sent you re the Norfolk phenomena since June 16, 1970...append the news clips I've sent you...and you'll have a record of a modern-day miracle unsurpassed by any other modern man in this world!

Since I brought about the 5-points in these "miracles"...it of course takes it completely and absolutely out of the realm of any possible coincidence in any way, shape or form.

Ted Owens (PK Man)

Owens

Dr. Sprinkle

Posted PM 23 Jul 70 RFS


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Dr Sprinkle

July 2, 1970

Editor, Virginian-Pilot Newspaper
Editor, Ledger-Star Newspaper
Larry Maddry
Mrs. N. Dyer, Court Reporter

Ever been propositioned by a flying saucer?
Well, you are being, now.

The Si's communicated with me today and directed me to send this message.

Their request: that the local newspapers tell the public that they have saved the local crops, which were in disaster-danger from drought. (Have you noticed your third rainstorm is going on this morning outside?) Let the writer explain the letters IN ADVANCE of the rainstorms, saying it would happen. Also they request that the mysterious "halo" that the Weather Bureau could not explain, be connected with the letter stating that this area would be electro-magnetized by an other-dimensional grid...and that weird, strange things WOULD happen, like that halo.

In short, they want the people, the public, to know what is transpiring. (And incidentally, if any of your friends start behaving peculiarly...the Si's say that this giant electro-magnetic field WILL AFFECT HUMANS, because each of us has an electrical field of our own.)

In return...the Si's will cease with their rainstorms.

Now, why should the local newspapers cooperate in this? Very simple. Bundles and bundles of money will be lost...by this resort area, famous resort area...with the rain pouring down every few days, on and on. Mrs. Gotrocks in New York will tell her husband..."dear, let's not go down to Virginia Beach this season, too much rain down there...let's go somewhere else." And they will, too. And the people here in the hotels and motels will have to sit inside the hotels and motels, cussing and chewing on their fingernails in frustration.

Lots of tourist money involved.

And the Si's say...they will begin to show their craft, their flying saucers and strange UFO's...in this area soon.

Incidentally...I work for nobody...part-time typist picking up typing jobs here and there. Need any typing done up there?

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens

Postmark
July 2, 1970
RLS


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July 6, 1970

Editor, Virginian-Pilot Newspaper
Editor, Ledger-Star Newspaper
Larry Maddry
Mrs. N. Dyer, Court Reporter

Dr. Sprinkle

In this letter...am going to make you a most interesting...proposition.

But first...have a chuckle for the day. You know, of course, that lightning struck and destroyed the Humble Oil tank over the weekend, and the local fire department was on the job the whole weekend trying to contain it. Well at noon today I strolled over and stood right in front of the Fire Department and signalled the Si's to produce lots more lightning and storms. Heh heh. How fiendish can you get?

Now, to serious business. IF one of your newspapers will publish this entire matter...my letters, the dates on them...the drought...crops in danger...storms...crops saved...lightning attacks as per my call on it...Electromagnetic "grid" then the sighting of the "strange object in the sky". The whole thing. Publish it. Then I'll tell you what I'll do.

For starters...I'll stop making storms and hitting Norfolk with lightning.

For a bonus I'll do this: Most people think that Pete Rozelle, Commissioner of Pro Football, controls pro football. Actually, he does not. Owens does. Last year I controlled the Eagles, the Dolphins, and the Jets. They know about it, and so do my contacts. I think Maddry saw enough documentation on my work with pro football and basketball, to know something about this. All right. Now, the Si's have a plan of their own...to attack all pro teams this coming season with the object of creating entire teams of walking-wounded. Well, that's their business. But I'll tell you what I'll do.

The paper that prints the above story that the Si's want printed...may choose any five pro football teams they want, for the coming pro season, to be losers. And you can start with the World Champions to be number one losers, if you want to. I'll take those five teams...and beat them with my mind...just my mind...this coming pro season. Freakish things will happen to them...and they will not be able to make a Championship. They'll be losers next season.

I can do all that...as easily as I make storms and lightning attacks.

Try me, and see. Your readers should be fascinated to see...whether I can do it or not, even if you are not especially interested. Now, you might think it is childish for the Si's to take a special interest in such a trivial thing as pro football. But I happen to know their plan...and it is ultra-brilliant. Not trivial at all. Just looks that way.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens


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July 6, 1970

Dr. Sprinkle

Editor, Virginian-Pilot Newspaper
Editor, Ledger-Star Newspaper
Larry Maddry
Mrs. N. Dyer, Court Reporter

And yet again..........over this weekend..........Norfolk has been struck by a rock 'em, sock 'em "severe, violent thunderstorm" as the Virginian-Pilot described it yesterday.

Featuring, as usual, my trademark..........a dandy lightning attack.

Matter of fact..........the lightning blew up its second oil tank in two weeks..........once might be a coincidence (in spite of the fact that I put in writing in advance that lightning would attack) but twice? That's being rather selective you know.

Actually..........the humor of it is that Humble Oil, in collecting insurance on this huge loss..........will call the matter "an act of God"..........when actually it was an act of Owens. Ha ha ha. No, I'm not confusing myself with God, now. I'm a lousy bookkeeper, have big feet, am potbellied middleaged loaded with human faults..........but I do have this teensy weensy ability to make storms and have lightning strike.

What if I were ridden out of town on a rail? Wouldn't do any good. I once flooded India while I lived in Philadelphia..........called in advance in writing, of course, as well as broadcast over the radio. Nope, distance doesn't stop this at all.

But look at it this way..........the crops have been saved, haven't they?

You certainly can't say I haven't kept my written promise..........made when Norfolk was a dry, drought-stricken area. You've had downpour after downpour..........lightning attack after lightning attack.

And am working on more.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens


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Lawrence Maddry

HEYWOOD HALE BROUN, CBS News sports-caster, was in Norfolk Tuesday, a Little Orphan Annie in a sportcoat as outrageously flowered as a Tahitian garden. He was here to interview Ted Owens, the city's resident evil eye.

Accompanied by a CBS-TV crew, this gentleman of the twinkle-twitch eyes and rakish moustache performed a neat little miracle of television reportage which will explain Owens' hex on football's Baltimore Colts.

The scenario, which roams from the cluttered and bizarre apartment where Owens' tuning fork rings the ears, to the clank and thump of cargo loaded onto hulking containerships at Norfolk International Terminals, to the black cat, electric purr of psychedelic lights in the back of The Magic Shop, probably will be viewed nationally over CBS, either this weekend or next.

This goblins-will-get-you-if-you-don't-watch-out drama, reported here earlier, has been improved upon by Broun, a master of the lyrical phrase, who arrived in Norfolk after covering the Preakness with its "rhythmic pounding of hoofbeat energy."

"I defied all logic by selecting Impetuosity because of a friendship with its owner," he said. He will ride, spiritually, with Preakness winner Canonero II in the Belmont.

Even those unfamiliar with Heywood Hale Broun must surely know his father, the crusading giant of American journalism who, like his son, was acutely conscious of "the pore and needy ones 'at clusters all about'" the American landscape.

Heywood HALE Broun

It was Woody's father (Heywood Hale prefers the nickname) who immortalized Babe Ruth and was fired by his newspaper for his ringing defense of the tormented Sacco and Vanzetti, the shoe-trimmer and fish peddler executed in a haunting miscarriage of justice of the 1920s.

To have such a father is a blessing and curse.

The sire haunts him like the ghost of Hamlet's father. He knows that he will never wear the crown worn with loveable carelessness by his father.

Thus, in the CBS coverage of the Preakness, Broun nasally intones that only one of the horses is weighted with the heavy burden of having to do what his father did.

He alternately rejects his father and then speaks lovingly of him.

Bud Lamoreaux, the savagely knowledgeable CBS News sports producer, recalled that Broun is really the third member of the family to bear the name "Heywood Broun." The CBS Broun stuck in the name


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Hale (his mother was a Hale) in a desperate effort to find his own identity.

As Lamoreaux explained:

"Nothing pleases him more than to find someone who has never heard of his father but has seen Woody on TV. The person will say: 'Ah, Mr. Hale Broun. I enjoy your stuff on CBS.' Woody's eyes light up like candles with the sheer joy of it."

TOGETHER, Lamoreaux and Broun have raised sports reportage to a level that closely parallels art. Broun will likely describe a distance runner as a "vaunt-courier jogging with loose-limbed exhaltation through the shadowed arches of the stadium."

Broun was for years supporting actor, trying to establish himself in a role alien to his father.

He was orphaned, in effect, by his famous parents who were unable to give their offspring the attention of homebodies in more normal circumstances.

Only Broun's friends recall the lonely hours he spent in hotels like the Algonquin in New York. These experiences gave him the expression which passes his face occasionally like a small dark cloud before the sun. It is found in his eyes, the tender-sad, glazed eyes of a wounded animal.

Broun is making every effort to escape identification with his father. Notice how the moustache disguises the resemblance; and if his father was "an unmade bed" Broun is dapperly rakish, given to loud sportcoats. He is, nevertheless, primarily a sports writer and stylist, as his dad was.

He writes with an intense scribble on backs of envelopes while hurrying by car to a filming assignment, pausing to enter a conversation with his own observation about an irreverent and bawdy sultan of the Sahara who tatooed the loins of his mistress in Sanscrit.

We were watching the Stanley Cup Hockey series in Broun's motel room. He sat carelessly in a chair, stockinged feet on bed, sucking a corncob pipe.

"Yes," he said, "the Algonquin set was powerful as you suggest. I remember Woolcott and Taylor and Parker had been to a play with Marc Connelly .......... Look at Esposito, the goalie, he gets down. That's his only flaw, he lurks too much."

HE DRANK BOURBON from a silver flask emblazoned with a black camel and palm tree--something out of the Twenties, perhaps found in an antique shop.

There is a simple humanity that attends this longing for the finer things. At the Owens apartment he insisted that the filming begin in the living room after Mrs. Owens had dotted drops to her baby's eyes.

"I can go in the other room," she said.

"No," he said, emphatically, "We will wait, Mrs. Owens, until you have finished."

As Broun pointed to a foul on the ice, several seconds before it was acknowledged by an official, he was asked about the best advice he ever got.

"It came from my father," he said. "He had once given me $10 and asked what I did with the money. I gave him an itemized accounting, something he did not seek.

"Philosophic advice is no good, no man can tell another how to find love or happiness," he continued.

"My father told me that money had no existence of its own. It is, he said, to spend. Oh, put a little aside but spend the rest."

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(Posted AM 29 Jul '70 RPS)

July 29, 1970

Dr. Sprinkle

Editor, Virginian-Pilot
Editor, Ledger-Star

Gentlemen:

At present there is a very dangerous situation from New York to Atlanta...poisonous air, atmospheric inversion. They are predicting deaths from this, any day now. The air pollution in Washington D.C. reached its highest level in history. This poison air covers most of the Southeast. And the Weather Bureau sees no end to it at present.

I can and will remove this dangerous situation...for I can control the atmospheric conditions. (When I broke the 6-year drought on the East Coast, I had to reverse the high-altitude atmospheric conditions which had caused the drought.)

But this is a swap, a trade. In return, I want you to publish the June 16, 1970, letter I sent you...and simply state the fact that what I predicted in that letter, all of it, has come to pass...in five weeks' time. (It has.)

If you are thinking positive on this...better call me where I've a temporary typing job, 625-5848 (this is confidential, not to be passed on...the places I work at any time) or wire me at my home, 2828 Ballantine, Norfolk, upper apartment. Then I'll go into fast action to get rid of all this air poison over such a large area, fast, and I'll take your verbal word over the phone that you'll give me the published confirmation above that I ask for, in swap. Unlike many others, I trust newspapermen.

Ted Owens (PK Man) Box 3134 CHS, Norfolk, Va.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - America never had such a birthday party before. Superstars gave their talent. Common people and great people gave their prayers, songs, and cheers.

Dissenters, claiming their heritage, clamored on the fringe, but the theme of unity clung through thunder, rain, tear gas, and a hail of stones.

Bob Hope cracked jokes, keeping his pledge to keep Honor America Day off politics and on fun and country. Billy Graham preached the old-time religion and old-time ideals. President Nixon sent his greeting in the same mood.

What America's founding fathers did 194 years ago when they declared this country independent, the President said, "is the greatest political achievement in the history of man and we are the beneficiaries of that achievement."

Most of the mixed crowd at the nighttime gala cheered Hope and a host of other entertainers. A few threw pop bottles and litter, but no real harm was done.

Scattered skirmishes between police and young war protesters throughout the afternoon failed to scare away a crowd for the Hope show estimated by various police sources from 250,000 to 400,000 on the Monument grounds, the largest rally ever held here, last fall's protest against the war.

Tinges of tear gas still hung in the air, but the dissenters who continued to harass the festivities, though largely ignored, never numbered more than 100.

"Let us all look back today so that we will be reminded of what great sacrifices have been made to make this the land of the free," Nixon said in a transcribed message sent from the Western White House at San Clemente, Calif.

"Then let us turn once more to the future," Nixon added, "inspired by what this day means to us and to all of us that love freedom throughout the world."

Hope cracked jokes about Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's golf and tennis but did not mention his politics.

The closest thing to current politics was Jeannie C. Riley's singing of "When you're running down our country, you're talking on the fightin' side of me." She drew more cheers than boos.

All in all, Honor America Day had been what its sponsors had hoped for - a return to an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration.

There was oratory of the old style, brass band music, fireworks, saluting cannon. And the enthusiasm of the new generation, including nude wading in the fountains.

Graham preached to 35,000 at a morning rally and asked Americans to fulfill the dreams of their forefathers.

"Their goal must be our goal and we must pursue it," Graham proclaimed. "Their vision

(See America, Page A6)

Flags and flag wavers get together at Lincoln Memorial. (AP)

# Lightning Hits Gasoline Tank

## Norfolk Plant Imperiled, Homes Left, Ship Moved

By ETHEL STEADMAN
Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer

NORFOLK - Lightning struck a huge gasoline storage tank at the Humble Oil & Refining Co.'s district plant on Hampton Boulevard Saturday, setting off a spectacular fire which threatened to spread to several adjacent tanks.

The Coast Guard, Navy, and Civil Defense personnel aided Norfolk fire fighters in combatting the blaze, which raged unchecked for hours.

Three hours after the tank blazed up, flames appeared to be a series of severe lightning flashes. Service station employees and a nearby trailer court fled their homes as giant fireballs rolled up and out of the tank.

A commercial tanker moored only 300 yards from the tank also was imperiled until crewmen moved it out into the channel.

The fire started around 7:30 p.m. almost simultaneously with a series of severe lightning flashes. A service station employee near the scene said.

The man, who asked not to be identified, said he heard a noise similar to that produced when a transformer is hit by lightning.

"There was a big explosion and it shook the ground," the man said. Moments later, he looked out and saw smoke boiling from one of the Humble tanks, the man added.

By 11 p.m., the Coast Guard reported that there was a need for additional powdered foam by fire fighters. The foam, employed to smother blazes of this sort, was to be trucked to Norfolk from Elizabeth City, N.C., at last report, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

Heavy rainfall drenched the area during the fire's height, but it appeared only to dampen the enthusiasm of spectators and not to douse the flames.

As word of the fire spread, people lined up along Hampton Boulevard to watch the show. With the periodic downpours of rain, the sightseers straggled away.

Winds whipped the flames sideways from time to time, forcing firemen to turn hoses on one another to keep their clothing from igniting.

The Navy had at least two fireboats on the scene. The Coast Guard sent the cutters Mohegan, Point Brown, and Cherokee.

No South Hampton Roads city owns a fireboat.

By midnight, efforts were being directed at cooling down the adjacent storage tanks, each of which holds 30,000 barrels of high-octane fuel.

The storage tank hit Saturday was of the floating-top type and was one of four nestled together inside a low dike to prevent gasoline spillage. In all, there are eight to 10 tanks in the immediate vicinity, by one estimate.

The fireboats proved of little use in fighting the tank fire, as they were unable to get close enough to be effective, a fire spokesman said. They stood by in case the flames spread.

Shortly after midnight, the Coast Guard reported that its Elizabeth City base was unable to supply powdered foam. Additional supplies of the foam were being borrowed from the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, the Naval Station, and the Newport News Fire Department, the Coast Guard said.

Norfolk sent nine engines, two

(See Bolt, Page A14)

Virginian-Pilot Photo by Charles Meads

Flames surge from the lightning-struck storage tank.

# 5 Killed in Rioting

# Belfast Guns, Bombs Seized

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - British troops seized piles of hidden guns, bombs, and ammunition Saturday in the aftermath of rioting that killed five civilians.

Military personnel took over the guard at two special courts trying 120 persons on riot charges.

The latest disturbances came after the army seized an arms cache and a stone-and-bottle-throwing brawl erupted.

Streets were littered with debris and deserted in the riot-scarred Falls Road quarter - a Roman Catholic enclave - as the army ordered a full emergency curfew and began house-to-house searches for the weapons used in rioting Friday night and early Saturday.

The night of fighting, with fire bombs, grenades, and gunfire exploding in the streets, raised Northern Ireland's death toll from rioting to 12 in the last two weekends.

Two of Friday night's victims were snipers killed by army sharpshooters and another was crushed by an armored car. At least another 80 persons were injured - 19 of them soldiers - and about 300 were arrested.

To prevent further bloodshed, the government banned all processions throughout the province for three days, thus canceling Protestant Orange parades set for today outside Belfast.

This new outburst in the ancient feud between Catholics and Protestants began after the imprisonment June 26 of Bernadette Devlin, the Catholic civil rights leader and member of Britain's Parliament. She was sentenced to a six-month term in connection with disorders in Londonderry last August.

Troops barricaded roads into the town of Armagh and searched cars for arms.

In the Catholic Falls Road district of Belfast where the rioting centered, troops ordered 1,500 residents out of their homes to nearby schools while the houses were searched. They turned up 45 pistols, 38 rifles, two submachine guns, 13 shotguns, 15,000 rounds of ammunition, 100 fire bombs, and 45 pounds of explosives.

From inside the sealed-off district, nationalist member of Parliament Paddy Devlin declared that the area's Catholics now wanted the troops to stay to protect them against Protestants, who would be "infuriated" at the disclosure of arms caches. Devlin said the weapons had been brought into the district to protect it from Protestant attacks.

**Today's Chuckle**

Discretion is closing your mouth before somebody else does it for you.

# In Today's Pilot

**Inside Virginia Politics, Page A12**

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Dr Sprinkle

Postmark
AM 23 Jul 70
RLS

July 22, 1970

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

On June 16, 1970 (while the Norfolk area was in the midst of a months-long drought) Ted Owens handed me a written prediction...that he would bring about a large rainstorm within a week's time (to save the crops in this area, which were in danger of dying from drought); that he would bring a steady stream of rainstorms into this area, to keep it raining all summer; that he would try to bring a hurricane near enough to this area to cause heavy rainfall in this area; and that he would cause lightning attacks in this area, to prove that it was he causing all this.

Since June 16, 1970...these things above have occurred; the first heavy rainstorm came within five days after Ted Owens handed me the written prediction, and there have been rainstorms once or twice a week since that time. The newspapers told that the crops have been saved. Hurricane Becky just came into life...and this week the Norfolk area is getting rain from the hurricane, days of it. There have been several tremendous lightning storms in the area...and on two different occasions huge oil tanks were struck by lightning, and blew up in flames.

And there was one other thing: Ted Owens handed me a written prediction that he would put over this area an "other-dimensional grid" which would have the function of causing weird, unusual electromagnetic effects in the Norfolk area. Shortly after he gave me this written prediction, a "strange object in the sky" was reported by all of the local TV stations...which told of hundreds of people calling the police and fire department that they had seen a huge, multicolored "halo" up over the city in the night sky.

I certify that the above is a true and accurate statement of fact.

N. Dyer

Mrs. N. Dyer
Court Reporter
Norfolk, Virginia


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July 23, 1970..........TO ALL CONTACTS ---------- Multiple Miracle!

I have, for the first time, actually brought about a multiple miracle... and needless to say, am tremendously excited about it. It is soundly documented...completely wrapped up. I had a court reporter/notary public keep my letter-predictions in exact chronological order, before each happening. I have also a dozen other responsible people who can testify to it all. Now, here is what happened:

On June 16, 1970, an article appeared in the Ledger-Star newspaper in Norfolk that this area was in a terrible drought...flowers and shrubs were dying, and the crops were in danger of disaster! I immediately that date, sat down and sent letters to the editors of both newspapers, Mr. Maddry, columnist, Mrs. Dyer, court reporter, and others...that I would do the following:
(1) Try to make it rain here substantially within one week from June 16.
(2) Give the area a drenching, soaking and pouring down...more and more rain...not just one rainstorm, etc.
(3) The rainstorms would be marked with my own personal trademark... heavy lightning attacks.
(4) I'd try to bring up a hurricane from lower Florida to this Norfolk area, or near this area...and draw more rain from it to here.
(5) I'd erect a grid, other-dimensional, over this area...and produce weird electromagnetic effects in Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. (This in ltr. a few days later; am just lumping them for you.)

(1) Norfolk then had a crash-bang, knockdowndragout storm five days after my letter on June 16...the 21st. It was marked by a tremendous lightning display.
(2) For the next five weeks...there was a rainstorm at least once a week, sometimes twice or more a week, and it hasn't stopped raining yet!
(3) Lightning in these storms during these five weeks, on two separate occasions, struck oil tanks and blew them up...knocked out power and communications, and generally raised cain.
(4) Yesterday Hurricane Becky threw its outer fringes of rainstorms up at the Norfolk area...and for several days, the TV weathermen say, we'll have rain from Becky here.
(5) On June 29 in the evening all the TV stations began buzzing with excitement..."strange object in the sky" as announcers put it. Hundreds of people calling in to the police etc. A multi-colored "halo" had appeared over Norfolk. Next day in the paper was this heading: "Halo In Sky Puzzles Even Weather Bureau." It went on to explain...that there simply was no explanation from anybody, any official source, at all. They tried to fit it into any understandable explanation, but could not. It was simply a UFO. About a week later TV sets in the area went haywire and the words were put across the picture-screen: "This is not your set. It is due to atmospheric interference." This occurred several days in a row.

So there you have it...Oh, and I almost forgot, the papers announced that the crops were saved...but, just think, the mind boggles...five simultaneous "miracles". Would be enough just to call the hurricane bringing up the rain, right? Then add to that I made lightning strike...add to that I made it crash-bang storm within a week, and weeks thereafter... add to that I created a weird EM effect over Norfolk...and the crops were saved...you see?

I'll tell you now...I've accomplished some impossible things before...but this multiple miracle...tops them all, so far.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3141 CHS, Norfolk, Va.

Owens


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# Thousands Flee Becky

## Panhandle Blow Due At 9 a.m.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (UPI)-- Thousands of tourists fled inland Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Becky, aiming 75-mile-per-hour winds for a strike this morning at the "Miracle Strip" beaches of the Florida panhandle.

Several thousand persons were evacuated from Santa Rosa Island, parts of Destin, and other low-lying areas Tuesday night. Advance gales and heavy rains began lashing the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane shelters were set up in Panama City, Fort Walton Beach, Destin, and other cities and towns along the 100-mile stretch of Gulf Coast threatened by Becky.

Panama City Beach, an 18-mile stretch of white sand and tourist motels, was in the center of the area Becky was expected to strike around 9 a.m. today.

"We've got about 50,000 tourists along the miracle strip now," a Chamber of Commerce spokesman said early Tuesday, "but most of them are bailing out for higher ground." There was a steady stream of traffic on U.S. 98--the main road through this beach area that draws thousands of summer tourists from Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi--but the Highway Patrol reported no serious traffic tieups.

"People are buying bread, crackers, canned goods, flashlights and milk like crazy," said Zack Bronson, manager of a food store in Destin.

At 10 p.m., Becky was centered about 160 miles south-southwest of Pensacola near latitude 28.0 north and longitude 86.6 west. It was expected to resume its northward movement about 8 to 10 m.p.h.

Panhandle residents were told to expect 6 foot tides and up to 8 inches of rain that could cause local flooding of roads, streams, creeks and bayous.

But despite the weather bu-

(See Becky, Page A10)

| TEXAS | LA. | MISS. | ALA. | GA. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston | Port Arthur | Morgan City | Mobile | Pensacola | PORT ST. JOE |
| Galveston | | | FORT WALTON | | Jacksonville |
| | | | | | Tampa |
| | | | | | Miami |
| | | | | | Key West |

BECKY
GULF OF MEXICO
HURRICANE WATCH

## ol Days xpected

cent today and 70 per cent tonight.

Northeasterly winds of 10 to 20 miler per hour are to prevail today, tonight, and Thursday.

High pressure centered just south of Lake Superior covers the region from the Dakotas and most of the Midwest. It is moving eastward and is due over New York late today.

In Norfolk Tuesday, a gray day ended in more showers at night. Rainfall totaled .08 of an inch at the airport. The low was 67, high 75, and the mean 71, which was 8 below normal.

weird happenings un-

finds Owens more fascinating than Jeane Dixon in his ability to predict the future.

I have written about Owens before. A Norfolk woman reported that he had predicted lightning would strike the Apollo 12 spacecraft. It did.

But by this uncanny man, who left his home, turned and found that the battery of

Exceedingly intelligent fellow, former hardware dealer, he can events and create telepathically into his head

Local Chamber of Commerce.

Written by a Philadelphians was challenged find place--the bridge back the bridge.

Met with a man bearing SIS who need their


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Virginian-Pilot, Wednesday, July 22, 1970

2 Cool Days

# Rain Expected

Tidewater can expect more rain today, tonight, and probably Thursday. Temperatures are to range in the 70s and low 80s both days and in the 60s at night.

A nearly stationary front, accompanied by numerous showers extending well inland, lay just south of the North Carolina-Virginia border Tuesday night.

The frontal zone may waver back across the Virginia line today, then settle back southward. The front runs to southeastern Texas.

The rain chances are 60 per cent today and 70 per cent tonight.

Northeasterly winds of 10 to 20 miles per hour are to prevail today, tonight, and Thursday.

High pressure centered just south of Lake Superior covers the region from the Dakotas and most of the Midwest. It is moving eastward and is due over New York late today.

In Norfolk Tuesday, a gray day ended in more showers at night. Rainfall totaled .08 of an inch at the airport. The low was 67, the high 75, and the mean 71, which was 8 below normal.

Data From U.S. WEATHER BUREAU - ESSA

FORECAST

Figures Show High Temperatures Expected For Daytime Wednesday

Isolated Precipitation Not Indicated - Consult Local Forecast

blackout and a number of other weird happenings unfold.

The writer, Otto O. Binder, finds Owens more fascinating than Jeane Dixon in his ability to predict the future.

# The Seer Who Sees

We have written about Owens before. A Norfolk woman reported that he had predicted


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Lawrence Maddry

THE RAINMAKER is at it again.

We're talking, of course, about Ted Owens, one of your Norfolk neighbors whose space people have brought more raindrops falling on my head and yours than Burt Bacharach ever thought of.

At least that's his story.

Now breathe deeply. Your pulse okay? Ted Owens is a 49-year-old former knife thrower with an IQ of 150--genius starts at 140--who is the feature subject for an article in the August issue of Saga magazine.

Opening Saga, you will find Owens standing in a drawing like a great Colossus as Boeing 747s fall mysteriously from the sky and New York is thrown into a blackout and a number of other weird happenings unfold.

The writer, Otto O. Binder, finds Owens more fascinating than Jeane Dixon in his ability to predict the future.

# The Seer Who Sees Via His SIs

We have written about Owens before. A Norfolk woman reported that he had predicted lightning would strike the Apollo 12 spacecraft. It did.

During our last interview with this uncanny man, he predicted a power failure. We left his home, turned the ignition switch in the car, and found that the battery was dead.

Coincidence? Owens a disarmingly intelligent fellow with the face of a small-town hardware dealer, claims that his ability to predict events and create storms is special knowledge funneled into his head from space people. He calls them SIs, short for space intelligences.

What concerned us was the weather. About a month ago Owens began writing us predicting a lot of storms for the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area. We've been getting a few. So we drove out to discuss this with him.

He was seated at a kitchen table in his walkup apartment, pulling on a cigar.

"You remember that I predicted storms for this area," he said. "Well, it's happening. The SIs are at work. They've placed a kind of weather grid over this area."

He tossed clippings from The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger-Star in my direction. One concerned the lightning bolt that destroyed a Humble Oil tank in Norfolk a couple of weeks ago.

Other clippings concerned the loss of revenue at the Boardwalk Art Show because of rain. There was one from the Pilot, dated June 22, 1970, with a banner headline: "Tidewater Storm Hits Buildings and Boats."

We asked Owens how the SIs were bringing all this about.

"They construct a weather grid inside my head. It's very difficult to describe," he noted. He was sketching now with a pencil, drawing the Atlantic coastline with little marks like weather bars pocking its surface in the Virginia Beach area.

"The parts shift back and forth in the grid like in an automobile motor; they shift and slide," he confided.

To put this weather pattern into motion, Owens said, the SIs have given him a special gift. "They have now given me special words to say to implement the weather."

What are the words? His eyes rolled upward, horrified. "Oh, I can't repeat them. They wouldn't want me to do that," he said. He tossed over a copy of a letter written to the editor of the Ledger-Star. "Tell the girls to put up their bikinis and get out their umbrellas. Ha. Ha.," the letter warned.

AND THERE WERE CLIPPINGS from The Miami Herald and a Philadelphia paper reporting unusual rain accompanying Owens' arrival in town.

In The Herald, Owens was standing by the shoreline with arms upraised like a latter day swami, beckoning rain.

Let us assume Mr. Owens, that the SIs are bringing our rain. What will it make it stop?

"They want to make themselves real to us. They want documentation of what they are doing to this area with the weather."

He paused.

"You actually owe it to the local Chamber of Commerce to write about this," he added.

In his files there is a letter written by a Philadelphia attorney who claims that Owens was challenged to make lightning strike a specified place--the bridge to Camden--and that lightning struck the bridge.

We have no quarrel to make with a man bearing such credentials. Maybe it's the SIs who need their heads examined by a psychiatrist.


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Gasoline Tank Fire Controlled

7/6/70

NORFOLK -- A lightning-set fire that consumed nearly 20,000 barrels of gasoline and melted the metal walls of a storage tank off north Hampton Boulevard was reported under control Sunday evening by the Fire Department.

Firemen were still at the scene at midnight.

The intense blaze started about 7:30 p.m. Saturday during a thunderstorm in which a lightning bolt struck the 48-foot-high tank at the district plant of the Humble Oil & Refining Co.

Only moments before the fire started, the Humble tanker Esso San Francisco at the plant piers had suspended unloading operations because of the storm danger.

Several persons on the pier saw the tank hit by the lightning. The ship was then moved from the pier.

Firemen battled the blaze throughout the night and into Sunday evening in an effort to keep it from igniting other gasoline storage tanks nearby.

The flames lit the sky by night and trailed a thick fog of black smoke in a southwesterly direction Sunday afternoon.

Residents of a nearby trailer court left their homes Saturday night as huge fireballs leaped from the blazing tank.

Spectators lined Hampton Boulevard, even in intermittent July 4 rain, to watch the brilliant flames. The spectators were still there Sunday although the intensity of the fire had abated somewhat.

No firemen were reported injured during the blaze. Murray A. Roberts, regional operations

(See Fire, Page A4)

The tank blazes in a melted ruin amid other tanks filled with gasoline.

Photo by Ben Pulliam


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# Fire Under Control

From Page 1

manager for Humble, said that the damage caused by the blaze would have to be estimated by professional assessors.

The 55,000 barrel tank (42 gallons to a barrel) contained "just under 20,000 barrels" of Esso Plus gasoline Roberts said. The tank wall melted down to 18 feet from its original 48 feet.

Firemen tried throughout the night to smother the blaze with foam, but without success. "The tremendous updraft from the heat carried the light foam up in the air," said Norfolk Fire Chief Lawrence B. Wilson.

"About 8 a.m. we stopped the foaming effort because it just wasn't doing any good. Then we concentrated just on keeping the other exposures (tanks) cool."

Wilson said fire fighters got a favorable break in controlling the blaze about 10 a.m. Sunday when the wind died down and shifted to the northeast, blowing the heat and flames away from the other storage tanks.

During the darkness hours of Saturday night and Sunday morning the wind sometimes whipped the intense heat and flames sideways so that firemen had to douse one another's clothes and their equipment with water to keep them from igniting.

Norfolk sent nine engine companies, two ladder trucks, and one salvage unit to the scene and kept 150 firemen working at the blaze in five and six-hour shifts.

The Navy sent two crash trucks from the Norfolk Naval Air Station, a pumping engine from the Naval Station, two fire boats and a tug. The fireboats were later withdrawn.

The Coast Guard sent the cutters Mochican, Point Brown, and Cherokee, but later reduced the standby to just the Cherokee.

Civil Defense volunteers also aided the fight.

Red Cross volunteers and women's auxiliary of the Fire Department served food to the fire fighters. Chesapeake and Virginia Beach fire departments and the Norfolk Naval Station Fire Department sent units to stand duty in Norfolk stations left unmanned because of the fire.


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# Tides Rained Out

7/6/70

NORFOLK--Rain has claimed another Sunday on the Tide home schedule, the third in the last four as a matter of fact.

The game with Rochester at Metropolitan Park was called before noon by Dave Rosenfield, the Tide general manager.

"It rained last night and all morning. Even with the infield covered there was no way," Rosenfield said with more than a trace of sorrow.

"We've had six Sundays at home and only one really good day, when our Kid's Day promotion drew 3,063. Two others were played in bad weather and three we have lost. We've drawn 82,000 people, almost 50,000 ahead of last year's pace, but with those three Sundays we'd be close to 90,000."

The game, the last of a set of three with the Red Wings, will be made up as part of a doubleheader when Rochester returns Aug. 17-20. The Tides have a makeup doubleheader with Syracuse set Tuesday night and another in August with Louisville. On the road games must be made up at Rochester (Friday as part of a twinighter) and Winnipeg.

Jesse Hudson (5-2), who was to have pitched Sunday, will now work Tuesday in the doubleheader with the league-leading Chiefs. Bill Denehy (3-1) probably will work the other game because Jon

(See Sundays, Page B9)

# is Battle; Bucs Win

words and within moments, both dugouts emptied. No ejections were made and play was resumed after a few minutes.

Hebner's third home run of the season, following a leadoff single by Matty Alou, was the 11th for the Pirates in the four-game series and 12th of the month, one more than they had in all of June.

The Pirates, who've won 10 of the last 13, added an unearned run in the first on an error by Ron Santo and Gene Alley's run-scoring single and picked up two more in the fifth on singles by Alou and Roberto Clemente.

| PITTSBURGH | | | | | CHICAGO | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | ab | r | h | bi | | ab | r | h | bi |
| MAlou cf | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | Kessinger ss | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Hebner 3b | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Popovich 2b | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Clemente rf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | BWilliams lf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| AOliver 1b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Hickman cf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Stargell lf | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | WSmith 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jeter lf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Santo 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Sanguilln c | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Callison rf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Alley ss | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Hiatt c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Mazroski 2b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | CJames pr | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ellis p | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Rudolph c | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | Jenkins p | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | Spangler ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | Colborn p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | Martin ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 36 | 5 | 9 | 5 | Total | 35 | 2 | 10 | 2 |

Pittsburgh .......... 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 -- 5
Chicago .......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -- 2

E--Santo 3. DP--Pittsburgh 2. LOB--Pittsburgh 6, Chicago 7. 2B--Callison, Hiatt, Stargell. 3B--Kessinger, B.Williams. HR--Hebner (3). SF--A.Oliver.

| | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellis (W,8-6) | 9 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Jenkins (L,9-10) | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Colborn | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

T--2:42. A--25,569.


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June 23, 1970

Dr. Hynek
Dr. Sprinkle

Dr. Hynek - please forward to Dr. Sprinkle to see. Haven't facilities for copying. Ted.

Gentlemen:

I have just concluded putting on an absolutely air-tight demonstration, proof-wise, of my ability to communicate with UFO entities and bring about an effect. It could not conceivably be labeled a "coincidence" or anything else. As I say, it is as air-tight as a genuine scientific experiment could be, were it one, which of course it is not, since I am a layman.

What would your reaction be...if you were the Editor of a very large newspaper...there was a local drought...crops were in danger of dying... and a man wrote in and said that he would deliberately make a storm for the area, within a week's time...and as proof that it was caused by him, the storm would be marked by a savage lightning attack? Then it follows...that in 5 days, on the 5th day thereafter...a devastating storm strikes this area, specified....it is marked by an absolutely savage lightning attack, lighting striking houses, striking powerlines and knocking out power in 10,000 homes...lightning striking a huge oil building and sending up a "fireball" when it explodes. And...the corn crop which was in great danger, is now "saved" according to the newspapers from the 4 inch rainfall ensuing from the storm.

I'll tell you what the Editor's reaction was, here in Norfolk/Virginia Beach. Absolutely nothing. Not a word of it to the public. That is how completely my "miracles" are kept a secret. Following is a copy of my letter to the Editor of the Ledger-Star (4565 Virginia Beach Blvd., Virginia Beach, Virginia, Phone 625-1431) before, 5 days before, the storm struck: Dear Sir: Maddry and Bonko have both mentioned me previously in their columns. Tonight I read in your paper that this area is in a serious drought condition...that within two weeks the corn crop can be a disaster, as well as other crops, etc. Not much rain in months. All right. I was quite successful in Phila. in causing it to rain...and Maddry saw the articles in the papers on it. I notified the papers by letters, like this one...and then brought the rain in...and this during the 6-year drought then on at that time. I'm going to do this: (1) Try to make it rain her substantially within one week from now. (2) Try to keep it raining here in the Norfolk/ Virginia Beach area all the summer long. (3) Try to give this area such a drenching, soaking and pouring-down as to be almost beyond belief... the wettest summer on record here...more rain...etc. (4) It will be marked (the storms, that is) with my own personal trademark...heavy lightning attacks. (5) I will try to bring up a hurricane from lower Florida to this area, or near this area...and draw more rain from it to here. Am not writing you this letter...to get any publicity...but to let you know, when it happens, what caused it. Maddry was skeptical of my work, I'm afraid, and would like to give him a sort of demonstration."

Am enclosing the newsclips showing the terrific scope of the storm, as well as the documention of confirmation from the court reporter, Mrs. Dyer, here in Rm. 401, Plaza One Bldg., Norfolk, Va., phone 625-5848.

A cleaner, more powerful demonstration of my link with the Si's...you couldn't find.

Ted Owens, (PK Man)


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June 22, 1970, Monday

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Last Tuesday, June 16, 1970, Mr. Ted Owens, known as "PK Man", gave me in writing a prediction that he would bring about, within one week's time, a substantial rainstorm. Furthermore, he additionally promised that the rainstorm would be marked by spectacular lightning display... which he terms his "trademark."

The foundation for all of this...was an article which appeared in the Ledger-Star newspaper of Norfolk to the effect that there had been no rainfall for two months and that unless rainfall occurred...there would be a disaster for the crops in this area. Mr. Owens decided, he said, to save the crops for the farmers here.

Yesterday, Sunday, June 21, 1970, there was a devastating storm in this Norfolk area...more than a half-inch of rain fell...winds of over 65 miles per hour...boats were grounded...roofs were blown off of buildings...cars were blown off roads...and lightning struck everywhere at houses, power lines, etc. Lightning in fact knocked out the power in various portions of Norfolk. Lightning also struck a huge oil tank and the resulting explosion sent up a "fireball".

Therefore I do confirm herein that Mr. Owens' prediction last week was entirely accurate, and has come to pass within the one-week time limit that he imposed.

I certify this to be a true and accurate statement of fact.

NIKI DYER, Court Reporter
Plaza One Building
Norfolk, Virginia.

# Rain Saves Tri-County Corn Crop

6/23/70

SUFFOLK -- Farm authorities said Monday that while Sunday's rain played favorites in the Tri-County area, it played an important part in saving the year's corn crop.

Rainfall ranged from 1.5 inches in Isle of Wight County, to .4 inches in Holland, and to a low of .18 inches in Suffolk.

Robert Goerger, assistant agricultural agent in Isle of Wight County, said the rain did "a lot of good. It saved the corn crop, for it was about gone."

While Sunday's rain was a good start, Goerger added, "we'll need more to keep the corn going. We could use a couple more inches of a gentle rain."

Weather recorders at the Tidewater Research Station in Holland said the 4-inch rainfall helped Nansemond County crops a little "but not a great deal."


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LEDGER-STAR
Monday afternoon, June 22, 1970 section B

Lines, crane downed

# Area cleaning up after 'quickie' squall

By RICHARD C. BAYER

Tidewater cleaned up today after a hit-and-run squall Sunday that swept across the area, disrupting power, playing havoc on the waterways and damaging waterfront property.

The biggest cleanup operation was at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal where wind that gusted up to 58 miles per hour blew the boom of a giant cargo crane across a container ship.

John T. Nix, executive director of the Portsmouth Port and Industrial Commission, said the boom fell on The Baltimore, owned by Sealand Lines, about 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the peak of the storm.

Nix said, while waiting for the boom to be raised early today, that there were no injuries. Damage to the boom, he said, appeared extensive, but the ship, he added, did not appear to be badly damaged.

The Weather Bureau had ample warning that a squall line was moving rapidly in from the west accompanied by wild thunderstorms.

It mounted a severe thunderstorm watch at 8:55 a.m. Sunday and shortly thereafter began issuing small craft warnings.

Despite these warnings, there were many small boats in Hampton Roads and on Chesapeake Bay when the storm rolled in about 1 p.m.

The Weather Bureau at Norfolk Regional Airport said the temperature dropped from 95 to 73 in about an hour while heavy winds buffeted the area.

The peak of the storm, the bureau said, was about 1:38 p.m., but scattered thunderstorms were reported in the area as late as 3:43 p.m.

The Coast Guard received dozens of calls and had virtually every piece of rescue equipment in action.

There was one possible death. A man identified by the Coast Guard as Leon Hodge, 35, of Hampton was reportedly washed off a sailboat in the bay four miles north of the Thimble Shoals light.

The Coast Guard said a 40-foot boat, aircraft and the cutter Point Huron searched for Hodge several hours before suspending the search after nightfall.

About 1:30 p.m. Sunday one of the Coast Guard's own, the cutter Sebago, went aground on Willoughby Shoals about three quarters of a mile southwest of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.

A Coast Guard spokesman in Portsmouth said a hawser became entangled in the cutter's propeller and divers were sent over the side before Navy tugs pulled the cutter free at high tide.

The Virginia Power and Electric Co. said some 10,000 Tidewater homes were without power for varying periods of time because of the storm.

A power company spokesman said crews were still out today restoring service to a few homes in outlying areas.

Trouble calls began pouring in at 1:30 p.m. Sunday and most service was restored by 11 p.m., the VEPCO spokesman said.

The heavy wind peeled part of the roofing from atop the Quality Courts Motel, which sits at the end of Willoughby Spit between Willoughby Bay and Chesapeake Bay.

Mrs. Mary Griffith, a desk clerk at the motel, said:

"I told my husband it looked like a tornado. There was so much noise because of the wind. You couldn't believe it."

John C. McCaw, the motel's manager, was surveying the damage today. He said water came through the roof and damaged about 60 rooms on two levels. The motel has 120 rooms.

Firemen were able to extinguish a gasoline storage tank fire caused by lightning in Chesapeake. No one was injured in the fire, which burned for more than an hour.

The storm also blew out 145 feet of freshly erected cinder block in the north walls of the new Rena B. Wright school in Chesapeake.

The wall was 12 feet high and was ready to receive steel joists.


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JUMBLE
Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.
DYPUC
LUSKK

# Storm Knocks Out Electricity to Some

**From Page 1**

of Virginia Beach, rescued two men who were floating on life cushions after their 19-foot outboard overturned near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Billy T. Cooper, a passenger on Loziato's boat, estimated the seas at 10 to 15 feet and winds at 60 to 65 m.p.h. They rode out the storm, which lasted nearly an hour, northeast of the Bridge-Tunnel's fourth island.

The Coast Guard cutters reported making numerous rescues, including a father and son in Chesapeake Bay.

Hardest hit by the storm was the Quality Courts Motel in the 1500 block of West Ocean View Avenue. The winds knocked half the roof off the 120-room motel. John C. McCaw, motel manager, estimated the damage to the roof and furniture in the rooms at about $100,000. Although about 30 of the rooms were occupied, he said, no one was injured. He said the motel will remain open while repairs are made to the roof.

The Weather Bureau said the storm was caused by a squall line ahead of a low-pressure area moving west to east. The high winds were not unexpected as a severe thunderstorm watch had been in affect from 8:55 a.m. and a tornado watch from 1:15 p.m. Both were lifted at 6 p.m.

Wing gusts up to 80 m.p.h. whipped Blackstone in eastern Virginia and small hail was reported near Raleigh-Durham, N.C.

The tornado watch was issued for portions of the Carolinas as well as southeast Virginia.

Scattered damage was caused by the storm as the winds felled trees and knocked limbs across power lines.

Power was lost for more than seven hours in scattered parts of Norfolk, said J. T. Mason, Virginia Electric Power Co.'s district superintendent. He said that more than 10,000 homes in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and Chesapeake were without power during the storm.

The storm also damaged power lines throughout Suffolk and the Tri-County Area, leaving hundreds of homes without electricity for several hours. Vepco crews were kept busy until late Sunday night clearing limbs from high-voltage lines and repairing downed lines.

In Virginia Beach, the most serious problem was a massive traffic jam on Shore Drive at Pleasure House Road and at Northampton Boulevard created by a power failure in the Bayside area of the city. At one time, westbound traffic on Shore drive was backed up, bumper to bumper in two lanes, for more than three miles from the intersection at Pleasure House Road.

Thousands of people on the beach at Sandbridge, south to the North Carolina state line, were warned of the storm by city police to clear the beaches. Lt. Carl Weast of the 1st Precinct said some paid no attention to the warnings and "wished they had," but no problems were reported.

A report that two people were aboard an airfloat being blown to sea off the beach at 53rd Street was apparently false, a spokesman for the Fire Department said. The search was called off about 30 minutes after it began.

During the peak of the storm, many small boats sought safety inside the Lynnhaven and Rudee inlets, and one sailboat that overturned was finally brought ashore at Chesapeake Beach without injury to its occupants, police said.

In the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake, a wall of the new Rena B. Wright Elementary School collapsed. Officials at the school, under construction at Park Avenue and Perry Street, were unable to estimate damage or say how much delay can be expected in completion of the building.

State Trooper E. H. Davis Jr. said an automobile on U.S. 58-460 seven miles east of Suffolk was blown off the highway and hit a tree.

The victims were identified as Mrs. Phyllis Crumble, of the 100 block of Ackiss Avenue, Virginia Beach, and her two sons, James, 5, and Darrell, 4. Mrs. Crumble and James were treated and released and Darrell was admitted to Maryview Hospital for a possible head injury.

A home on U.S. 460 north of Suffolk was heavily damaged with it was apparently struck by lightning, firemen said.


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Virginian-Pilot Photos by Dick Bushnell and Bill Randolph

# Wind Victims

Children inspect what would have been a wall of the new Rena B. Wright Elementary School under construction in the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake while tugs attempt to free the grounded Coast Guard cutter Sebago off Willoughby. Both were victims of Sunday's storm. Story is on Page A1.

# The Virginian-Pilot

M Monday, June 22, 1970 Section B

# Lightning Sparks Tank Fire

## Fireball Seen Over Chesapeake

By DAVE LEONARD
Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer

CHESAPEAKE - Lightning struck a 33-foot tall gasoline storage tank early Sunday causing a fire that burned more than an hour, fire fighters reported.

Witnesses said flames roared skyward in a fireball visible for miles about 2:25 a.m. when lightning struck a 30,000-barrel Texaco tank near Bank and Mauden streets, South Hill.

Acting Fire Chief D. S. Keay said the flames died suddenly about 3:30 a.m. while two huge streams of water cooled the tank. Two Navy foam trucks arrived as the flames died.

No one was hurt by the blaze. Fire fighters admitted they were concerned, especially after reports of fatalities in an oil fire in a Franklin, Pa., storage area Friday and Saturday.

The lightning and fire ruptured the tank top. Fire fighters said the tank was about half full and no flaming liquid reached the ground.

Two deluge water guns, one atop an aerial ladder, continued to pour water on the tank until about 6 a.m. when Texaco officials said the tank's internal temperature was back to a normal 73 degrees.

Many residents reported seeing the fireball erupt during the lightning-punctuated storm.

Scott Sherman, occupant of a home less than 100 yards from the tank, said he saw the lightning hit.

Photo by Clinton Hirdlinger

Flames erupt from burning storage tank.

"I saw so much light," he said, "and I thought the house was on fire."

Sherman said a three-pronged bolt hit, and fire erupted from the top rear of the tank.

Sherman said he and his wife ran from the house into the rain. Moments earlier he had closed windows as the rain began.

Acting Battalion Chief James Doughtie said the strategy used to fight the fire involved handheld lines to cool the fire as soon as the first four pumpers arrived.

Four 2 1/2-inch lines were attached to an unmanned deluge gun and fire fighters retreated to a safer distance to await foam units from Norfolk Naval Base and Air Station.

A Norfolk aerial ladder, called when Chesapeake's ladder failed to operate, projected a second large stream atop the tank from Bank Street.

Elizabeth City, N.C., five cutters, and four utility boats searched the James River, Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Beach and North Carolina coasts.


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Clearing
High Today 85
Low Tonight 63
N, 10-20 m.p.h.
For current report call 336-1212
105th Year. No. 213

# The Virginian-Pilot

Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and Chesapeake, Virginia, Monday, June 22, 1970

![Twisted sections of roof blown from the Quality Courts Motel on Willoughby Spit lie in the parking lot. Virginian-Pilot Photos by Bill Randolph]

Twisted sections of roof blown from the Quality Courts Motel on Willoughby Spit lie in the parking lot. Virginian-Pilot Photos by Bill Randolph

# Tidewater Storm Hits Buildings and Boats

By DON HUNT
Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer

Winds gusting to 58 miles per hour in the midst of a severe thunderstorm Sunday afternoon quickly cooled off one of the hottest days of the year.

The high winds apparently forced the Coast Guard cutter Sebago to go aground in Sewells Point Spit, knocked half the roof off an Ocean View motel in Norfolk, left more than 21,000 homes without electricity for several hours, and capsized numerous small boats.

The 5th Coast Guard District headquarters in Portsmouth received more than 65 distress calls during the storm, and a Coast Guard spokesman said that one man apparently drowned.

Leon Hodge, 35, believed to be from Hampton, was washed off the sailboat Totem II, near Buckroe Beach. He had not been found when a search was called off at dusk.

A high of 95 was recorded at 1 p.m. The mercury dropped to 73 shortly after 2 p.m., during the peak of the storm. The Weather Bureau said about half an inch of rain fell during the storm.

A Coast Guard spokesman said the Sebago, a Pensacola, Fla.-based cutter, went aground at 1:30 p.m. about three-fourths of a mile southwest of Ft. Wool.

The 255-foot former gunboat was freed at high tide about 8:30 p.m. Three Navy tugboats were unable to free the cutter Sunday afternoon.

The cutter, en route to Pensacola from Curtis Bay, Md., was headed to a Hampton Roads anchorage to load explosives, the spokesman said.

Many pleasure boats, from small outboards to luxury sport fishermen, were caught in the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by the blow.

The Coast Guard reported picking up boaters throughout the area. Other rescues were reported by private boats.

A Coast Guard airplane from Elizabeth City, N.C., five cutters, and four utility boats searched the James River, Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Beach and North Carolina coasts.

The Touche II, a 36-foot sport fishing boat owned by Al Loziato

(See Storm, Page A4)

![Workmen begin repairs to the roof of the motel.]

Workmen begin repairs to the roof of the motel.


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June 20, 1970..........TO ALL CONTACTS Dr. Sprinkle

I bring you very good news. Through the past few years you've seen me write in advance...that I would cause this major power blackout, produce multiple hurricanes for the season, end the drought on the East Coast, end the killer-drought in India...and so on and on and on. Now, at long last, two top scientists have checked me out, my work out...and I have letters from them stating that they are willing to be one of my regular Contacts and observe this continuing "PK"/Si phenomena as it occurs. I deeply regret that they were not in on all the earlier miracles...but, better late than never, as the saying goes. They will now watch, objectively...not disbelieving, not believing...but being the top scientists that they are, in the U.S., constantly observing what the Si's are doing to prove their (Si) reality and their communication with me as their human observer. These two scientists are:

Dr. Leo Sprinkle
University of Wyoming

Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Northwestern University

It is entirely possible...that with these two eminent gentlemen coming into this action as observers...that in the near time ahead...we may be communicating with the Si's face to face, somehow, somewhere. Which, of course, has been my goal all along.

(2) On June 16, 1970, an article appeared in the Ledger-Star newspaper here...to the effect that this area is in a terrible drought. Naturally, seeing this, I contacted the Si's, and they gave the go-ahead. (Remember the chain of storms I made in Phila. and it was confirmed in the newspaper story there? As well as other places; Miami, Florida, more recently.) So I gave Mrs. Niki Dyer, a court-reporter in this office, a document stating (1) I would make it rain substantially here in this area within one week from 6/16; (2) I would keep it raining here in this area all the summer long; (3) I would give this area such a soaking as to be almost beyond belief; (4) It would all be marked, the storms, with my own personal trademark...heavy lightning attacks; (5) I will try to bring a hurricane up from lower Florida this season...to shed more rain on this area. Now: I also sent this notice to the Editor of the Ledger-Star. Since that time...this area has had two night-storms, and today a rocking-socking rainstorm accompanied by spectacular lightning! I want to quote you from that news article: "Let's see, the last time it rained was uhhh...June 6. But that was hardly worth remembering... only .28 inches. June 5 was worse. Only .01 inch fell - not enough to justify even one bar of "Singing in the Rain." The dry weather is having a serious effect on area crops lawns and shrubbery. If it (corn) receives no meaningful rainfall within two weeks, the corn crop will be a disaster."..... Well, Contacts, I've helped that situation already, within the week, as I specified in writing.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134, CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

P.S. If you think it is easy to bring this about...consider that the various elements of weather combinations along the eastern seaboard and elsewhere must be put together like a jig-saw puzzle to bring about this desired effect!


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June 13, 1970..........TO ALL CONTACTS Dr Sprinkle

The Si's have just successfully completed another "miracle", which I have dutifully reported, for them and from them, to you.

As you know, I sent you, some time ago, a message from the Si's...saying that they would give a world-wide demonstration of violent, savage weather phenomena...earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tornados, hurricanes and so on. This has come about in dramatic fashion...Worst avalanches in 30 years in Europe; worst floods in history in Roumania and Germany; worst tornado to ever hit Texas (clobbered Lubbock recently); worst earthquake in 20 years to strike Peru (last week); and the list goes on and on, long long list... since I sent you that letter.

Now...also in that letter I told you that the Si's would appear and be reported in the newspapers...as their "signature" to the reality of the whole situation, of them, and their link with me. This morning this "signature" appeared in the newspaper here in Norfolk, The Virginian Pilot, as follows: "RA 2 CREW SIGHTS UFO IN ATLANTIC. Clearwater, Fla. (UPI)---A radio message Friday from explorer Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra 2 said crewmen sighted an unidentified flying object (UFO) on their voyage across the Atlantic Ocean toward Mexico. The message, by shortwave radio from navigator Norman Baker, said the UFO moved across the horizon for several minutes and disappeared in "a bright orange flash." The North American Air Defense Command, headquartered at Colorado Springs, Colorado, doubted that the UFO could have been connected with any space shot. An officer at NORAD suggested, "It might have been a meteor." Baker said the sighting was made Thursday morning as the Ra 2 made good headway in a voyage that started last month from the Moroccan port of Safi. Heyerdahl is trying to prove that ancient Egyptians could have used papyrus boats to bring their culture to the Western Hemisphere centuries before Columbus landed. At last report, Ra 2 was 750 miles west of the African coast in the mid-Atlantic. One member of the crew, Ait Madani, spotted the UFO as he was at the helm of the Ra 2."

I am very excited about this...it has been a beautiful, perfectly executed demonstration by the Si's, for you. Now I believe, I hope, they will stop the earthquakes and other savage destructive weather phenomena...I asked them to last week, when Peru was devastated. They produced the weather phenomena and "signed" the demonstration with this nationally-reported UPI newspaper write-up of their dramatic appearance to the Ra 2. Perhaps it is the end of the demonstration. I hope so. But...I don't know for sure, either. At any rate they've told you, as plainly as can be, that they are responsible for the world-wide floods, quakes, etc., that have taken place. THIS HAS ENORMOUS IMPLICATIONS, as is quite obvious to you.

Now, I'd like a confirmation on this, if any of you would care to give me one, for my files. Because remember...it is only by this means that I have been able to prove my link with the Si's this far.; It is vital to my work. So...any volunteers? (Of course the new "members" of the Contacts will not have this letter I sent which set up the world-wide weather demonstration followed by the Si "signature," so they couldn't confirm anything if they wanted to.)


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Now, since some of you are new members of my Contact group (and I must apologize for using that term to Brinsley in London, since my contacts are a relative handful of people and Brinsley's CONTACT is a world-wide organization...but how else to put it?) so at this point I'll fill you in on what the Si's (UFO intelligences) are doing.

Because a friend in London asked me to have the Si's demonstrate in England, currently...I have contacted "Control" (top Si intelligence) and requested that the Si's (1) appear over England in numbers, (2) cause weather aberrations around the area of England, and (3) cause the wide appearance of "ghosts" and "poltergeists" in the area of England. I specified for a time-frame the month of June. Of course, I do not know whether they will comply or not. They do not like other humans to suggest experiments...practically all of the "miracles" I've demonstrated through the Si's have been thought up by the Si's and dictated to me...by the Si's. But...I'm trying, with this. And let me explain another problem: the Si's have a different "time" than our time. They have to work from their dimension into our dimension through "time windows". I.e., instead of the above phenomena happening in June...it could take place in July or August. This has occurred before. The phenomena does in fact occur...but out of the time-frame I try to force it into.

A friend in New York and a friend in New Jersey...have requested I ask the Si's to appear and thus create more interest in UFO's than is currently being shown by the layman on the street. I have taken this request to "Control" who has promised me that they will appear (as they just have) and be written up in newspapers and mags, to stir up more interest in them.

The Si's had promised my Contacts "an earthquake summer"...i.e., violent, savage weather phenomena around the world...to continue through the summer into the fall season. Peru was the latest country to be struck. And day before yesterday 12 towns in Oklahoma, I believe it was, were chewed up by tornados. These are the most recent events. I have a hunch the Si's will strike our east or west coast with a big earthquake during the summer; and I have sound reasons behind that hunch.

The Si's some time ago...stated they would harass the Pan-Am (and now other airlines) Jumbo Jet 747's. They have done so very much; their latest actions being the Pan-Am 747 that went off the runway at NY last week; and the shooting on board the Pan-Am 747 last week. You can watch this harassment with interest, knowing it is Si-caused.

This coming fall...the Si's are going to "PK" all football stadiums where pro football teams will play...which will cause freak accidents and injuries...and have the effect of causing pro football teams to be regular traveling hospital wards.

After the appearance...of some articles coming out in July and August about them...the Si's will reward humans for it...(because it is of the utmost importance to them to have their work known around the world)...by not touching or interfering with the next Apollo shot (they certainly "touched and interfered" with the last two Apollo shots!)


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The Si's are going to cause something strange and unusual...to happen in the Washington, D.C. area, as you know from a recent communication from me; and they are going to "spank" the Miami, Florida area in some way, for reasons of their own.

I believe that's the extent, right now...of what they are working on, and reporting to you through me.

Before I forget it...let me explain an interesting point. The term "SI" as you know...stands for Space Intelligence, or "Saucer" Intelligence, if you will. However, just recently...the Si's have added to my education from them...by adding sound to the symbols which they've given me to use with them for purposes of communication. This for the first time...and I've been communicating with them for five years now just with symbols. So they've just taught me how to combine sound with the symbols. All right. So now I'm using Sound and Images, right? Which also, if you put that together, comes to "SI". Interesting coincidence.

Why the sound with the mental images I use? The best I can explain, from the little explanation they've given me...is that the sound acts as a carrier of the image, giving the mental image more force and carries it truer...they gave me the example of my throwing a light knife (remember I'm a pro knife-thrower) which can wobble and waver in flight and drop off-target. But by adding an amount of tape to the handle...enough weight is given to the knife to throw it hard and true. And so it is with the different and varied sounds they give me to go along with the mental images I'm supposed to use in various assignments they give me.

That's it for now. I won't be able to write you very often, because of no postage and no money and very little time to write. But I'll try to keep you abreast of the Si's actions as often as I can, because it is of prime importance to them, and to you, that I do so.

For those of you who are new, and might be puzzled by some of the things written herein...get Otto Binder's excellently-written articles re the Si's coming out in SAGA Magazine on the stands in July and August.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134, CHS
NEW ADDRESS ---------- Norfolk, Virginia 23514


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Dr. Sprinkle

June 24, 1970

The Editor, Ledger-Star
The Editor, Virginia-Pilot
Larry Maddry
Mrs. W. Dyer, Court Reporter

So...you do not even blink with astonishment...when a man calls in lightning, tornadic winds, and rain...on a certain relatively small geographical area...within a relatively short space of time, specified. And documented in advance in writing.

Well, well.

I reckon then that some more demonstrations will have to be made.

I am setting up an unusual apparatus to cover this area... from the Si's (UFO's) tool-kit of ODE forces and effects (ODE is other-dimensional...which is where the Si's originate... from another dimension).

This mechanism will have the effect of highly-charging the Norfolk/Virginia Beach, etc. (Tidewater area) with magnetic and electro-magnetic force. An ODE "grid" has been placed over this area, and is now in operation. The grid acts just like the gimmick that charges a car battery....and this will also draw water from the nearby ocean to this area, besides drawing lightning to this area...

So, in the near future things will get lively here. All sorts of weird unusual magnetic and electro-magnetic effects. Lots of lightning...could be even on nice days in the daytime... lots of electrical storms. And so on.

I've done this before, using the Si power, and it was fantastic...the results....over the area it was used on.

Watch, and see.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens

Received same day, June 29, 1970
(in different envelopes)
RLS


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72-Inch Deluge In Storm

6/26/70

By ETHEL A. STEADMAN
Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer

A storm punctuated by severe lightning dumped more than 2 1/2 inches of rain on Tidewater Thursday. Better than an inch of precipitation was recorded at Norfolk Regional Airport between 6 and 7 p.m., the Weather Bureau reported.

Thunderstorms covered 75 per cent of the state Thursday, according to the Weather Bureau. This was unusual, even if not phenomenal.

Two men from the Tidewater area were the object of a Coast Guard search in the Atlantic off Cape Hatteras Thursday night after their 18-foot outboard was reported overdue about 7 p.m. Air surveillance will resume today at first light.

A spokesman at 5th District headquarters in Portsmouth said the outboard departed Hatteras about 7:30 a.m. Thursday, and was expected to return well before night.

Seas were rough and winds of 25 knots, gusting higher, were reported off the cape during the afternoon, the Coast Guard said.

A Coast Guard plane and 44-foot cutter probed the ocean for the tiny boat until high winds and poor visibility forced them to suspend operations about 11 p.m.

The men were not identified.

The intensity of the rainfall flooded streets and low-lying sections, creating instant lakes and headaches throughout the four South Hampton Roads cities.

A mudslide inundated the eastbound lanes of Granby Street at Taussing Boulevard, where the rain washed out dirt from the Inter-state 64 overpass under construction, Norfolk police said.

Street crews were scraping away the muck, which some reports said was 6 feet deep, late Thursday.

Residents of a three-story brick apartment house in the 900 block of Brandon Avenue, Norfolk, were told by firemen to evacuate the building after an accumulation of water caused the roof to collapse.

Water seeped through to the ground floor and presented a potential hazard in combination with the electrical system, the residents were informed.

Lightning set off a multitude of small fires in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach. Authorities said none of the fires was extensive.

A freak bolt of lightning caused damage in three widely separate spots at the home of Hubert Bass on Pefley Drive in Norfolk.

Bass said the bolt knocked a hole through a garage wall at one end of the five-bedroom brick house, damaged another wall at the opposite end, and shattered a low brick wall he had been building around a tree about 6 feet away from the house.

In Virginia Beach, fire officials reported that lightning hit the Lakeville Estates apartments at Indian River Road near Military Highway and struck several residences.

Power failures were widespread, mostly the result of lightning striking transformers, authorities reported.

Norfolk police reported heavy flooding at all underpasses. The water was 4 1/2 feet deep in places, they said. The deluge left eight automobiles stranded in the underpass on Tidewater Drive at Virginia Beach Boulevard and water was over the top of car wheels on Tidewater Drive around the 2nd Precinct, police said.

Virginian-Pilot Photo by Neal V. Clark Jr.
Brambleton Avenue becomes a running river between Tidewater Drive and Chapel Street.

All right. So far, so good. Within ten days time I've made two knock-down drag-out storms... "signatured" by my trademark, lightning attacks!. And I think surely that the crops must be safe by now... my primary goal. Secondary goal, to give a real demonstration to this area, Mattry et al of the Si's power, when called in by me to do a job.

You've got one of the biggest news stories of all time... and you're sitting on it. That in itself... is significant.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens

P.S. You can expect a lot more "Ted Owens Specials" from now on, this summer. The point is to bring the truth of this out to the public... when that is done, there'll be no more point to any more specials.


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THE WIZARD OF ID

ON WHAT GROUNDS?

IMMATURITY

A2 Virginian-Pilot, Friday, June 26, 1970

Data From U.S. WEATHER BUREAU - ESSA

FORECAST

Figures Show High Temperatures Expected For Daytime Friday

Isolated Precipitation Not Indicated - Consult Local Forecast

# Rains to Continue

More thunderstorms, some with strong and gusty winds, are in the offing for storm-struck but refreshed Tidewater today.

Thursday night's sharp series of storms, some with pea-sized hail downtown, left 2.65 inches of rain in Norfolk to 11:15 p.m. and raised June's total to 3.49 inches. Downtown streets were like running rivers at the peak of the downpours. Winds gusted to 40 m.p.h. at Norfolk Airport.

More drought-breaking rains are likely. The forecast is for partly cloudy weather tonight and Saturday, but with a continuing (50 per cent) chance of thundershowers.

The high today is to be in the 80s; the low tonight in the 60s; and high Saturday again in the 80s.

Strong and gusty winds are likely in some thunderstorms. Otherwise, between showers, winds are to be variable at 10 to 15 m.p.h. through Saturday.

Heavy thunderstorms rumbled along and south of a stationary front that extended Thursday night from the Atlantic across Southern Maryland to a storm center over north-central Virginia. A particularly severe squall truck the Newport News (Denbigh) area between 5 and 6 p.m. Wind gusts were estimated up to 70 m.p.h.

in Norfolk... one end of the five-bedroom brick house, damaged another wall at the opposite end, and shattered a low brick wall he had been building around a tree about 6 feet away from the house... In Virginia Beach fire officials reported that lightning hit the Lakeville Estates apartments at Indian River Road near Military Highway and struck several residences... Power failures were widespread, mostly the result of lightning striking transformers... Norfolk police reported heavy flooding at all underpasses. The water was 4 1/2 feet deep in places, they said... the deluge left eight automobiles stranded in the underpass on Tidewater Drive at Virginia Beach Boulevard and water was over the top of car wheels on Tidewater Drive around the 2nd Precinct, police said."

All right. So far, so good. Within ten days time I've made two knock-down drag-out storms... "signatured" by my trademark, lightning attacks. And I think surely that the crops must be safe by now... my primary goal. Secondary goal, to give a real demonstration to this area, Mattry et al of the Si's power, when called in by me to do a job.

You've got one of the biggest news stories of all time... and you're sitting on it. That in itself... is significant.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens

P.S. You can expect a lot more "Ted Owens Specials" from now on, this summer. The point is to bring the truth of this out to the public... when that is done, there'll be no more point to any more specials.


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June 26, 1970

The Editor, Virginian-Pilot Newspaper
The Editor, Ledger-Star Newspaper
Larry Maddry
Mrs. N. Dyer, Court Reporter

Dr. Sprinkle

About ten days ago...when it was hot, and hadn't rained for two months...and the crops hereabouts were in danger of being lost...I wrote you and informed you I would save the crops by bringing rain...not just rain....but I would "inundate and soak the area", drown it out, so to speak...and my proof of this, that the storms would be my own "Ted Owens Specials" would be powerful lightning attacks.

Last night you had your second "Ted Owens Special" storm. About 3 inches of rain flooded down. Does it follow the pattern I specified in my "prediction" letter to you of ten days ago? It certainly does. I'll now quote from the newspaper, Virginian-Pilot:

"A storm punctuated by severe lightning dumped more than 2 1/2 inches of rain on Tidewater Thursday....Thunderstorms covered 75 percent of the state Thursday,...this was unusual, even if not phenomenal.....The intensity of the rainfall flooded streets and low-lying sections, creating instant lakes and headaches throughout the four South Hampton Roads cities.....Lightning set off a multitude of small fires in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach.....A freak bolt of lightning caused damage in three widely separate spots at the home of Hubert Bass on Pelley Drive in Norfolk. Bass said the bolt knocked a hole through a garage wall at one end of the five-bedroom brick house, damaged another wall at the opposite end, and shattered a low brick wall he had been building around a tree about 6 feet away from the house...In Virginia Beach fire officials reported that lightning hit the Lakeville Estates apartments at Indian River Road near Military Highway and struck several residences....Power failures were widespread, mostly the result of lightning striking transformers....Norfolk police reported heavy flooding at all underpasses. The water was 4 1/2 feet deep in places, they said.....the deluge left eight automobiles stranded in the underpass on Tidewater Drive at Virginia Beach Boulevard and water was over the top of car wheels on Tidewater Drive around the 2nd Precinct, police said."

All right. So far, so good. Within ten days time I've made two knock-down drag-out storms..."signatured" by my trademark, lightning attacks. And I think surely that the crops must be safe by now...my primary goal. Secondary goal, to give a real demonstration to this area, Mattry et al of the Si's power, when called in by me to do a job.

You've got one of the biggest news stories of all time...and you're sitting on it. That in itself...is significant.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens

P.S. You can expect a lot more "Ted Owens Specials" from now on, this summer. The point is to bring the truth of this out to the public...when that is done, there'll be no more point to any more specials.


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Bright 'Halo' Likely Result Of Poseidon

A high, bright "halo" was reported in the sky southwest of Tidewater by callers to police, the newspaper, and the Norfolk Weather Bureau Monday night from 9:40 until about 10:30. A definite cause for the astral light was not assigned but United Press International reported that, "The Navy's Poseidon roared into the night from Cape Kennedy at 9:31 p.m. in the 20th test of the new weapons system Monday. The Bureau said cirrus clouds at 30,000 feet would normally reflect a light into a halo effect. But the bureau spokesman knew of no light, such as the moon, specifically situated Monday night. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's rocket installation at Wallops Island reported no firings Monday.

6/30/70

June 30, 1970

Dr. Sprinkle

Editor, Virginian-Pilot Newspaper
Editor, Ledger-Star Newspaper
Guy Friddell
George Maddry
Joseph Dyer, Court Reporter

I direct your attention to my letter to you of June 24, 1970. In this letter...I told you that I was employing an effect from another dimension...an unusual apparatus to cover this area with a "grid"...and I said: "So, in the near future things will get lively here. All sorts of weird and unusual magnetic and electro-magnetic effects...."

All right. So last night I was watching the 11 o'clock news and the announcer said "Strange object seen in the sky..." and covered all three stations on the subject...hundreds of people had phoned in to the police that they'd seen a mushroom cloud which changed into a giant multi-colored object over the Chesapeake area of Norfolk (where I live, incidentally)...and the different announcers were all trying to guess what it could be, and said frankly that nobody knew what it was. They'd contacted Wallops Island, but nothing was being done there. They all carefully and cautiously and painfully endeavored to not say the word "UFO". But one man, of them all, was at least honest: "There was a time," he said, "when I didn't believe in THOSE THINGS, but then I saw one, and now I'm a believer."

In the paper this morning there was just a small blurb...and it tried to give it the old "marsh gas" treatment. No mention of a "UFO". They called it a "halo". I just looked at the Ledger-Star and they don't even mention it. At least I could find no mention of it.

So...in the space of two weeks I called in my UFO's to give this area a flood of rain and storm...and they did, certainly did. Then a genuine UFO appears over Norfolk last night.

If that all doesn't fit into the "lively" pattern, I don't know what would. But Ill say one thing. The radio and press and TV here...do a marvelous job...of covering up. But it is going to be increasingly harder to do...as the UFO's I'm connected with...get livelier here.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens


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| East | | | | | | | | | | Standi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore | .......... | 47 | 31 | .603 | - | | | | | |
| New York | .......... | 43 | 32 | .573 | 2 1/2 | | | | | |
| Detroit | .......... | 40 | 34 | .541 | 5 | | | | | |
| Boston | .......... | 37 | 37 | .500 | 8 | | | | | |
| Cleveland | .......... | 33 | 40 | .452 | 11 1/2 | | | | | |
| Washington | .......... | 32 | 43 | .427 | 13 1/2 | | | | | |
| West Division | | | | | | | | | | |
| Minnesota | .......... | 44 | 28 | .611 | - | | | | | |
| California | .......... | 41 | 33 | .554 | 4 | | | | | |
| Oakland | .......... | 43 | 35 | .551 | 4 | | | | | |
| Kansas City | .......... | 30 | 47 | .390 | 16 1/2 | | | | | |
| Milwaukee | .......... | 25 | 47 | .347 | 19 | | | | | |
| Chicago | .......... | 21 | 52 | .288 | 23 1/2 | | | | | |

June 30, 1970

Dr. Sprinkle

Editor, Virginian-Pilot Newspaper
Editor, Ledger-Star Newspaper
Larry Maddry
Mrs. N. Dyer, Court Reporter

I direct your attention to my letter to you of June 24, 1970. In this letter...I told you that I was employing an effect from another dimension...an unusual apparatus to cover this area...a "grid"...and I said: "So, in the near future things will get lively here. All sorts of weird and unusual magnetic and electro-magnetic effects...."

All right. So last night I was watching the 11 o'clock news and the announcer said "Strange object seen in the sky..." I covered all three stations on the subject...hundreds of people had phone in to the police that they'd seen a mushroom cloud which changed into a giant multi-colored circle over the Chesapeake area of Norfolk (where I live, incidentally)...and the different announcers were all trying to guess what it could be, and said frankly that nobody knew what it was. They'd contacted Wallops Island, but nothing was being done there. They all carefully and cautiously and painfully endeavored to not say the word "UFO". But one man, of them all, was at least honest: "There was a time," he said, "when I didn't believe in THOSE THINGS, but then I saw one, and now I'm a believer."

In the paper this morning there was just a small blurb...and it tried to give it the old "marsh gas" treatment. No mention of a "UFO". They called it a "halo". I just looked at the Ledger-Star and they don't even mention it. At least I could find no mention of it.

So...in the space of two weeks I called in my UFO's to give this area a flood of rain and storm...and they did, certainly did. Then a genuine UFO appears over Norfolk last night.

If that all doesn't fit into the "lively" pattern, I don't know what would. But Ill say one thing. The radio and press and TV here...do a marvelous job...of covering up. But it is going to be increasingly harder to do...as the UFO's I'm connected with...get livelier here.

Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 3134 CHS
Norfolk, Virginia 23514

Owens


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Halo in sky puzzles even weather bureau

Dr. Sprinkle

NORFOLK -- What caused the halo in the sky last night?

Presumably light reflected off circus clouds which were made up of ice particles. The clouds were at 30,000 feet.

What was the source of the light?

The Norfolk Weather Bureau could not say today.

Willie Pegram of 4 Lawrence Circle, Portsmouth, said he observed the halo at 9:20 p.m. from a position near the Elizabeth Manor Golf and Country Club.

The halo was south to southwest from that position Pegram said, and as it enlarged it became fainter.

Miss Jean Chapman of the weather bureau said that the moon reflecting off cirrus clouds can cause the phenomenon, but the moon did not rise last night until after midnight.

Miss Chapman checked with the Richmond and Hatteras, N.C. weather stations and the halo was not reported seen by either. However, an unidentified caller reported seeing the halo at Hatteras, Miss Chapman said.

She said Hatteras advised that Cape Kennedy reported that reflected light from a high altitude research rocket fired there was visible as far north as South Carolina. The rocket was fired at 9:31 p.m.

With Pegram seeing the halo at 9:20 p.m. the firing and the halo appear unrelated. Persons in Norfolk and Virginia Beach reported seeing the light between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

ter clipping that I found in tonight's

to the letter-copy I sent you from

s of Norfolk on June 24.

sely, you will see that by now...I

this past week here, in advance in

called this phenomena which occurred

hich puzzles everyone including the

ance in writing...re my "grid" which

cro-magnetic effects, other-dimensional.

Owens

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Dr. Sprinkle

June 30, 1970

Please append this later clipping that I found in tonight's Ledger-Star newspaper, to the letter-copy I sent you from me to the local editors of Norfolk on June 24.

If you will attend closely, you will see that by now...I have called the storms this past week here, in advance in writing...and have now called this phenomena which occurred last night here, and which puzzles everyone including the weather bureau, in advance in writing...re my "grid" which will cause weird electro-magnetic effects, other-dimensional.

Owens

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