8004 Newspaper Files

8004 Newspaper Files

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4/1/80 SIR: Psi-force can be blended into and accompany light rays, sound waves and laser rays!


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A10 THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1980

# Ranchers fight to save cattle as Colorado faces new storm

By ANDREW ROSENTHAL

DENVER (AP) -- Ranchers battled huge drifts in an effort to save freezing cattle from snow and prowling coyotes as the eastern third of Colorado remained isolated Tuesday by a chain of storms that knocked out power to about 3,000 households.

"Baby calves are being dropped and dying right on the spot," said Holyoke rancher Joe Ortner. "Some babies are being separated from their mothers. Now the coyotes are starting to work on the calves. I chased some off last night."

Parts of the snowbound eastern Colorado plains were completely isolated by the storms. Ranchers and farmers had to look to their neighbors for help in digging out and getting ready for what forecasters predicted would be another bad storm.

"You can put on your overshoes and come help," Mrs. Frank Musgrave of Hoyt told a reporter by telephone.

Ortner said some families had been trapped at home since last week.

"The main thing for us is to get to the vets and get some medical supplies out here," he said, adding the snow was so deep that a four-wheel-drive tractor fitted with a 14-foot cutting blade could not get through.

Meanwhile, a National Guard helicopter took off for a reconnaissance flight as the latest in the weeklong cycle of storms abated Tuesday, said a spokeswoman for Gov. Richard Lamm.

"Our main worry at this point is the next storm," Sue O'Brien, Lamm's press secretary, said. "The weather service says it's going to hit us hard late tomorrow."

Ms. O'Brien said state aid likely would be needed beyond the $7,000 Lamm granted last week to help deliver hay to Yuma County herds. But she said Lamm would not make such decisions until "we have a better idea of what kind of a problem we have."

In Kansas, a state disaster emergency was declared in five northwestern counties where the 4 to 5 inches of fresh snow fell early Tuesday. The storm was blamed for holding down the turnout in the state's first presidential primary.

The storm also produced up to 1 1/2 inches of rain just to the east of the heavy snow and Kansas officials were worried that it might cause flash flooding in eastern parts of the state.

Roads were closed throughout the region by the storm, which followed another snowstorm by less than one day. Ground cover of more than 1 foot was reported in several areas, with drifts up to 20 feet.

Disaster crews in Colorado, their helicopters grounded by 30 mph winds, set out in Sno-Cats at daybreak to help ranchers bring hay to starving herds in Yuma County, which was declared a disaster area late last week after the storms.

The storms snapped utility poles by the hundreds and power lines were coated with up to 3 inches of ice.

Officials of the three rural electric associations serving eastern Colorado said crews began work at dawn. Power would be restored in some areas by late afternoon, but others would be without electricity for up to three more days, officials said.

Of primary concern were newborn calves and lambs in northeast Colorado. An estimated 4,000 cattle were stranded in Yuma County.

"We've got huge drifts. I'm not sure how deep it is," said Vicky Grey of Ordway. "My husband is out trying to see if he can feed now."

Some ranchers said they were able to save their herds by bringing them into feedlots or sheltering them in the lee of farm buildings.

"Sometimes they take them right into the house," said extension agent Jane Esarey of Cheyenne Wells. "It's been three years since we had one this bad."

"I'm afraid there's not much we can do," said Dave Lawton, operations officer for the Division of Disaster Emergency Services. "We have kind of ruled out helicopter feeding. That gets to be way too expensive and they just can't carry enough hay."

The storms were blamed by the state patrol for at least four traffic deaths and may have contributed to the crash of a light plane last Thursday in which 10 persons died.


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power Attack" file together and
shocked, and frightened,

Miami Herald April 2 1980

# April Pool--Storm Was No Joke

By MIKE CLARY
Herald Staff Writer

A violent April Fool's Day thunderstorm, flashing an arsenal of lightning bolts and winds up to 25 miles per hour, roared through South Florida Tuesday, downing power lines flooding streets and taking everyone by surprise.

Even forecasters at the weather bureau were fooled.

"April is a tricky month," said Bob Case, lead forecaster at the National Hurricane Center. "Time and time again we get burned by something developing right over us. It's like not seeing the forest for the trees."

Just three hours before the storm turned the 1 p.m. skies over Miami into nighttime darkness, Case had predicted partly cloudy skies with only a 20 per cent chance of showers.

Instead, in the 90 minutes ending at 3 p.m.,

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the Hurricane Center offices in Coral Gables received 1.96 inches of rain; Miami International Airport was pelted with 2.09 inches; and the gauge in one forecaster's backyard near SW 87th Avenue and Miller Road (SW 56th Street) recorded 2.8 inches of rain.

THE NORMAL rainfall total for all of April is only 3.06 inches.

The cause of the sneak attack was what Case called "a mid-level disturbance" that rammed into a stationary front that had passed through South Florida late Monday and was considered spent.

"The counter-clockwise disturbance recharged the front, and the thing just came screaming through," said Case. "It didn't show up on radar. I never saw it."

Approaching from the west, the storm blew thick black clouds over Miami and sent a shower of lightning strikes to the ground below. The temperature dropped rapidly, from 83 between noon and 1 p.m. to 75 at 2:30. Photocells turned on street lights all over Dade.

Winds downed power lines in both north and south sections of the county, disrupting service to thousands of Florida Power and Light Co. (FPL) customers, according to a company spokesman. Most power was restored within two hours.

STATIC FILLED some phone lines in some older residential neighborhoods, where fuses on above-ground wires from poles to houses were blown out by power surges. Burglar alarms were set off by lightning. Radio station WTMI-FM was off the air for nearly two hours after lightning struck its downtown Miami transmitter.

Broward County had rain -- half an inch through the day, the first substantial rainfall since March 1 -- but there was little if any electrical storming.

Despite the storm, Case was sticking to his forecast for today: "partly cloudy, warm and muggy." And the chance of rain remains slight, he said. Highs in the mid-80s and lows near 70 are predicted.

March statistics show that the 31 days just past offered a potpourri of weather extremes and contrasts: record cold, record heat, two days soggy with rain and 29 days of bone dry.

April 5, 1980

# Boston hit by storms

United Press International

Skies cleared in Louisiana where floodwaters receded storms caused power blackouts in several Boston suburbs and hay was airlifted to cattle stranded by snowdrifts on the eastern Colorado plains.

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# Floods swamp South as snow hits midlands

oregonian

BY DAVID L. LANGFORD
of The Associated Press

April 15, 1980

Swollen rivers poured over their banks across the South Monday, routing thousands of people and snakes, while up to 6 inches of snow smothered spring flowers from Arkansas through the Midwest.

At least nine people had been killed by Monday afternoon in storms which brought a weekend deluge to Dixie, record April cold to some towns in the Southwest, and the heaviest snowfalls ever to come so late in the year in Missouri.

The abnormal snowstorm brought traffic to a halt on some interstate highways in the Midwest, also closing schools and knocking out power in scattered areas.

Floods covered new ground in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, where relentlessly rising rivers breached levees and spilled over makeshift sandbag dikes.

"Noah said it's got to stop sometime," said F.M. Perce, civil defense director in Louisiana's St. Tammany Parish, one of the several flooded areas. "We're still looking for the dove with the olive branch."

About 1,000 people were evacuated in Jackson, Miss., where the Pearl River drove 17,000 people from their homes on Easter in 1979. The river was expected to crest in the city of 150,000 at about 38 feet -- 10 feet above flood stage -- sometime Tuesday.

Exactly one year ago Sunday, the Pearl River reached 43.25 feet at Jackson, sending muddy water to the rooftops of hundreds of homes and businesses.

Mississippi Gov. William Winter toured flooded areas by helicopter Monday and said he was "cautiously optimistic" that there would not be a repeat of the 1979 flood.

"It looks like we're going to avert the kind of disaster we had last year."


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(Did this game on TV. Owens.)

# Gift shots propel SuperSonics past Portland

Oregonian April 3, 1980

SEATTLE -- Seattle scored 19 of its 25 fourth-quarter points at the foul line Wednesday night to hold off the rallying Portland Trail Blazers 120-110 and take a 1-0 lead in their National Basketball Association best-of-three playoff series.

The second game of the miniseries will be played at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Memorial Coliseum.

Give the Blazers "E" for effort. They had trailed the SuperSonics by as much as 19 points in the third quarter, they had been burned repeatedly by the transition game. They were ready to come unraveled.

Give Gus Johnson credit for that. The Sonics' guard poured in 19 of his game-high 35 points in that period, hitting nine straight field goals in the process. He countered a fine performance by Ron Brewer, who regained his shooting touch, and topped a 29-point effort by Billy Ray Bates.

Sonics guards were big in Portland Coach Jack Ramsay's game plan. He asked for pressure, he wanted them outside.

More than that, though, he wanted to make sure the Blazers understood the importance of being earnest -- early. In Sunday's regular-season finale, Seattle erupted at the tip and Portland played catchup.

So the Blazers borrowed the page, hit their first five shots on the way to a 20-14 lead. Seattle called time and returned to outscore the Blazers the rest of the way and take a 30-25 lead at the break.

It would get closer, but Portland would never lead again.

Bates, who entered the game late in the first period, ran off a string of seven points in the next period to pump life in the Blazers. But Seattle Coach Lenny Wilkens had a counter -- Fred Brown, who got 10 quick points in a 14-4 spurt. Brewer came to the rescue that time.

But when Williams got it cranked up in the third quarter, Portland had no answers. Worse, it forgot what Ramsay said about giving the Sonics a running start.

They outscored the Blazers 11-2 to start the second half, getting a big lift from Dennis Johnson and rookie James Bailey. Brewer and Bates were busy, but the rest of the Blazers were curiously quiet.

When Williams wasn't at the foul line, cashing in on a defensive lapse, he was flitting through the lane or pumping up jumpers from the baseline. In one stretch, he hit nine straight points; in that stretch he had 11 of the Sonics 13 points.

By then, however, the Sonics had dug themselves into a little trouble. Jack Sikma and Dennis Johnson were on the bench with foul problems, Bates and Brewer were still calling for the ball and shooting jumpers.

They took turns, Portland pulled within four, 101-97. Kermit Washington's rebound deuce answered Tom LaGarde's free throws to keep it close for a moment then the Blazers grew impatient.

John Johnson hit two foul throws, Dennis Johnson hit two more and Williams scored his final field goal of the game -- not his final points, however.

All the Blazers had left in their arsenal was a Brewer jumper and Bates three-point bomb. Seattle the first back with interest -- as J.J. and Sikma hit free throws -- and its final two points, appropriately, from Williams at the line.

Seattle hit only 3 of 18 field goal attempts in the fourth quarter but made 19 of 20 free throws.

PORTLAND (110)

| | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natt | 38 | 7-13 | 1-2 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 15 |
| Washington | 38 | 7-13 | 1-2 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Owens | 25 | 3-7 | 3-3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| R. Brewer | 29 | 10-23 | 4-7 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 24 |
| Twardzik | 17 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Gross | 20 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Bates | 33 | 11-18 | 6-8 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 29 |
| J. Brewer | 23 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Paxson | 16 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Dunn | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 240 | 47-88 | 15-22 | 35 | 18 | 32 | 7 | 18 | 110 |

SEATTLE (120)

| | MP | FG | FT | R | A | P | ST | TO | TP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey | 19 | 1-5 | 4-7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| J. Johnson | 32 | 7-9 | 7-8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 21 |
| Sikma | 24 | 4-8 | 4-4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| D. Johnson | 35 | 7-17 | 6-6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 20 |
| Williams | 41 | 12-27 | 11-11 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 35 |
| Shelton | 5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Brown | 17 | 5-11 | 0-0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| LaGarde | 24 | 1-5 | 2-2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Silas | 11 | 1-5 | 2-2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Walker | 16 | 2-3 | 4-5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| V. Johnson | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 240 | 40-88 | 40-45 | 50 | 25 | 17 | 13 | 16 | 120 |

| | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland | 25 | 27 | 33 | 25 | 110 |
| Seattle | 30 | 28 | 37 | 25 | 120 |

Team rebounds -- Portland 7, Seattle 0
Turnovers

Oregonian April 3, 1980

# Blazers? Bah!

To the sports editor:

A frenzied, demoniac coach; a team constantly crying injuries, fatigue and varied excuses for losing; a team enriched by what was a rape of San Diego's personnel; a curly-haired babyish guard who should be called for charging every time he creates a foul for the opposition by swiveling through the positioned opponents.

These are the infamous Trail Blazers. And the majority of Portlanders think allegiance is mandatory. Bah, humbug.

Jeanne M. Grimm
319 S.W. P St.

(Ha ha ha!! Owens.)


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# Plains stay snowy; Texas flood kills 2

THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1980

By The Associated Press

Wintry weather refused to release its grip on parts of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska on Wednesday as the third snowstorm in a week swept out of the Rockies, frustrating attempts to rescue stranded livestock.

The latest storm forced postponement of a haylift to about 6,000 stranded cattle on the eastern plains of Colorado. Authorities said hundreds of families on farms and ranches remained without power some for the third day, as the latest storm dropped up to 8 inches of snow.

Thunderstorms raked the southern Plains. Twisters were sighted in the Wichita Falls, Texas, area, but did no damage. However, more than 2 inches of rain fell in a 20-minute period, prompting flooding.

A woman and her 3-month-old grandson were killed at Wichita Falls when a flash flood swept down a drainage ditch where they took refuge as tornado warning sirens sounded.

Police said the dead woman, Oma Crawford, 48, of Wichita Falls had taken a safety measure and abandoned a car along with her grandson, Jerry Crawford, and four other people when the tornado siren sounded.

A year ago, 46 persons died in a tornado that tore through Wichita Falls.

In southeastern Louisiana, nearly 5 inches of rain added to flooding problems. Parochial schools in four parishes around New Orleans closed in the middle of the school day as the downpour threatened to cause flash flooding.

And heavy rains deluged Mississippi again, triggering flash floods in southern counties and delaying the hoped-for fall of streams statewide.

The haylift had been ordered by Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm for the hard-hit Yuma County in the northeast corner of the state. But snow and zero visibility grounded the National Guard helicopters that were to undertake the mission.

National Guard Col. Richard Hatten, who was to direct the operation, flew over the area Tuesday and described the situation as "bad."

Some cattle are already dead in the fields and others are down in deep snow and will die unless helped, he said. Four-wheel-drive tractors are scattered across the landscape, abandoned by ranchers who tried but failed to reach their herds with feed, Hatten said.

Most roads in Yuma County are blocked, Hatten said, with some drifts reaching 15 feet.

Accumulations of an additional 4 to 8 inches of snow were forecast for eastern Colorado by the National Weather Service.

Columbian 3-31-80

# County homes lose electricity

A car struck a power pole Sunday night, cutting electrical service to more than 800 homes in the area between Battle Ground and Yacolt. Clark County Public Utility District spokesman Mick Shutt said the crash occurred at 8:50 p.m. at Northeast 279th Street and 172nd Avenue. It left 540 homes without power for 2 hours 15 minutes, while another 270 homes were dark until about 1:30 a.m. today.

THE OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1980 3M B5

# Anchorage mayor seeks help after freak windstorm

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Anchorage Mayor George Sullivan has asked Gov. Jay Hammond to declare the city and its surroundings a disaster area following a storm with winds up to 120 mph which caused damage estimated at $20 million.

The violent winds early Tuesday snapped trees and utility poles and flipped mobile homes and light planes.

Shingles, fences, aluminum siding and other debris littered many roads and yards, and entire roofs were torn off some houses in the eastern section of Anchorage.

No deaths were reported as a result of the storm which raked Anchorage and then moved north into the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. Authorities reported numerous minor injuries, however.

"It looks like a war zone," said Chugach Electric Association spokesman Larry Markley.

He said more than half the 200,000 residents in the Anchorage Bowl were without power at times Tuesday, some for more than 24 hours.

The National Weather Service said the gusts resulted from a weather front which forced violent winds across the Chugach Mountains, into the Anchorage Bowl, then north into the Mat-Su Valley.

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# Power loss kills Viking

Oregonian 4/3/80

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Viking Lander 2, one of two historic spacecraft that searched in vain for life on the surface of Mars, has finally ran out of power and turned itself off after working for 3 1/2 years, space agency officials said Wednesday.

The billion-dollar mission, long since cut back to monitoring Martian weather and taking periodic pictures to chronicle changing conditions, was described by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a complete success.

A twin of Lander 2 is still operating on the surface and "we expect it to go on into the decade of the 1980s," said Frank Bristow of the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.


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Oregon Journal April 5, 1980

# Myths surround Mount St. Helens

Myths have evolved over the centuries from legends and stories concerning Mount St. Helens.

Many of the stories came from Indians who once roamed what is now the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

The main tales about the 9,671-foot peak are that the mountain was identified with gods, that evil spirits haunted Spirit Lake below the mountain and that strange apes occupied a nearby canyon.

Long ago, a large natural rock bridge spanned the Columbia at a point just above Cascade Locks, according to tribal testimony. The natural arch was known as the Bridge of the Gods.

Indians claimed that a wrinkled old witch who was known to them as Loowit or Lady of Fire lived in the center of the bridge and kept what they said was a sacred fire. Tribes from all points came to the bridge for the flame because it was said to be the only fire in the world.

Because of the witch's faithfulness to the Indians, their great chief Tyee Sahale bestowed the Lady of Fire with eternal life. But the ugly witch cried as she did not want to live forever as an old, wrinkled woman.

Because Sahale could not take away a gift once it was bestowed, he asked the witch to name one wish. She asked that she be young and beautiful, and this desire was granted.

When word of the transformation spread, Loowit attracted several admirers. One, Young Wyeast, came from the Land of the Multnomahs to charm her. Another paramour, Klickitat, came down from the north to see her.

Young Wyeast and Klickitat, both sons of Sahale, fell in love with Loowit. But she could not choose between them and they began to fight over her. Sahale became angry over the situation and crumbled the Bridge of the Gods, leaving the Columbia River to boil in rath at the point where the arch once spanned the waterway.

Mount St. Helens, because of its perfect cone-shaped summit and dazzling white slopes, came to represent Loowit to the Indians.

Mount Hood, which rises prideful above the valley floor, represented Young Wyeast.

Mount Adams, more rough hewn, was representative of Klickitat.

Indian superstition also caused fear of Spirit Lake among the tribes. They weaved stories of demons in and around the lake.

One spirit, known as Seatco, forbade the Indians to hunt or fish in the region around Mount St. Helens because they had allowed white men to encroach on their lands.

The Indians also told about seeing large, hairy apes in the region. These tales have since been perpetuated by reported sightings of Sasquatches.

A group of miners in 1924 returned from working on the east side of Mount St. Helens with stories of being attacked by mysterious apemen at least 7 feet tall with long black hair.

March 31, 1980

nia-Davis who set up four dust-sampling instruments near St. Helens.

The volcano's activity Sunday was by and large the same -- though the ash may have been a bit thicker -- as the two previous days, when it sat camera-shy behind dense clouds.

THE VIEW of St. Helens' peak finally cleared near midnight Saturday, and scientists aboard a Forest Service airplane saw not one but two craters cut into the ice at the peak of the 9,677-foot mountain.

The new crater sat 10 yards east of the one first observed when the volcano erupted Thursday. Geologists could not tell if either crater actually cut into rock or just represented holes in the ice capping the volcano's 1,000-year-old original crater.

The larger crater was about 150 yards across and the smaller was one-third that size. Scientists said they could easily coalesce as the mountain continues to dry itself out by boiling water in its cone.

During the night, a small blue flame could be glimpsed inside the smaller crater. It apparently was produced by burning gases.

During one of the thicker belches of ash early Sunday, scientists saw lightning bolts -- some nearly two miles long -- flashing near the ground in the middle of the ash clouds.

THEY SPECULATED that the fine ash particles were rubbing together as they tumbled down the mountain's slopes, causing static electricity to discharge.

The U.S. Forest Service advised residents of towns sprinkled with ash that the stuff could be mildly corrosive due to sulfuric acid compounds clinging to the ash particles.

A few people in Stevenson reported mild irritation of their noses and throats. The ash also had the ability to eat almost imperceptively at cloth and metal, as well as irritate the skin. But the Forest Service said it posed no serious health hazard.

The biggest problem for the Forest Service was the hoards of airplanes, all claiming to carry news photographers, clamoring to get near the mountain.

At midafternoon, 70 small planes circled the mountain counter-clockwise in an oval 10 miles west of the mountain and 20 miles east. The planes were allowed 10 at a time to within five miles of the mountain.

A FEW FLEW illegally to within several hundred feet of the summit.

Note:
(Spirit entities
Lightning bolts
Big Foot
...all 3 in my work and activity! Owen


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# Air controller may have sent jet toward thunderstorm

Knight news service
Seattle Times April 17, 1980

MIAMI -- An air-traffic controller at Miami International Airport was removed from his duties during a federal investigation into charges that he deliberately tried to divert a Braniff airliner into a thunderstorm last Thursday.

The controller, whose name is being withheld until the Federal Aviation Administration investigation is completed next week, made "references" during the incident to Braniff's policy of refusing controllers free rides, an F.A.A. spokesman confirmed yesterday.

The pilot of Braniff Flight 343, carrying 105 passengers from Dallas aboard a Boeing 727, refused the controller's directions, received a new route, and landed without further incident.

Braniff filed a complaint with the F.A.A.

"The controller (made) references that are quite inappropriate for an air-traffic controller to make," said Jack Barker, F.A.A. spokesman, "and he did make references to the jump seat." The cockpit jump seat is where controllers ride free.

The F.A.A. would not give details about the weather conditions the pilot observed. Planes routinely fly safely through rain, but flying into the middle of a large thunderstorm would be hazardous. Sudden updrafts and downdrafts of more than 200 miles an hour can be found in a thunderstorm cell.

Braniff is the only airline that does not give controllers free rides, which help controllers understand cockpit procedures.

Some airline-industry officials have complained, however, that some controllers abuse the privilege by taking personal trips. A Braniff spokesman said the free rides were suspended because Braniff needed the seats to train new pilots.

Florida psi-force still active??

Oregonian 4/19/1980
## Aquifers tapped for energy depo

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Scientists say they're studying ways to turn the nation's underground rivers into huge energy storage batteries, a $1.1 million idea financed by the Department of Energy.

It's similar to geothermal energy except that instead of tapping naturally hot underground water, "We're going to heat some up," says program manager Ken Fox of Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories.

The idea, he said, is to pump hot or cold water into natural aquifers from which the heat or cold can later be retrieved for heating or cooling.

It's a simple idea, Fox said, compared with other energy technologies.

You take excess heat from a power plant or factory and pump it into the aquifer for storage. Later you pump it back up into some kind of heating system.

Note: See my recent Xerox w/ message from SI 2 on storing power (energy).

Oregonian April 18, 1980
## Refinery line blows fire

CHALMETTE, La. (AP) -- Fire broke out in a high-pressure natural gas line at the Tenneco Refinery south of New Orleans Thursday, sending a billowing torch 75 feet into the air.

Firemen got the flames under control in about an hour, after pressure in the line was reduced.

Company officials said there were no injuries.

Extent of damages was not immediately known, nor were company officials able to determine the cause.

The fire was in a natural gas line which feeds cracking units in which crude oil is converted into butane, propane and gasoline.

LA.

Oregonian April 18, 1980

(Both at same time)

MINN.

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PIPELINE FIRE -- Associated Press Laserphoto
Pipeline company workers Rick Partridge and Walter Mason managed to run to safety and extinguish their burning clothes after a spark triggered an explosion and fire while a pump was being installed in Roseville, Minn. One person was killed and three were injured.


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note: I PKd this game on TV. Owens.

# Sonics cut off power to Blazers

BY STEVE KELLEY April 7, 1980
of The Oregonian staff

SEATTLE -- When they have to turn it on, the Seattle Sonics know where to find the switch. They found it early Sunday and turned off the Portland Trail Blazers' season with a 103-86 win.

The Sonics' aggressive, switching defense forced the Blazers into a miserable shooting afternoon and was the deciding factor in the decisive third game of the National Basketball Association playoff miniseries. The Sonics begin a best-of-seven series at the Seattle Coliseum Tuesday against Milwaukee.

It was their jump shooters who shot the Trail Blazers into the playoffs but Sunday it was the jump shooters who shot them out of it.

Calvin Natt and Ron Brewer, who scored 27 points each Friday when the Blazers evened the series at one game each, shot a combined 6 of 30 Sunday against the double-teaming Seattle pressure.

The Sonics have been together for three seasons, while some of the Blazers are barely on a first-name basis with each other. The Sonics exploited that very basic difference all afternoon.

"The best way to handle them (the Sonics) is to use a lot of switches on defense to beat their double picks, but we can't handle that," Blazer forward Bob Gross said. "No one is confident of their switches because we haven't been together long enough. Indecision on defense will kill you."

He who hesitates will get burned by the Sonics' horde of radar-sharp passers. The Seattle left hand is confident of what the right hand is doing. The Blazers' unfamiliar offense still stumbles too often on two left feet. Seattle had 26 assists in the game, the Blazers only 11.

"You can go over before a game when you're supposed to switch and when you're not, but the situations don't always work the way you talked about them in the locker room," Blazer guard Jim Paxson said.

"You need to be together," he added. "It has to be instinct. We have three or four guys who are new to the organization and that makes it tough to play good, switching defense. That's not an excuse, but there was a lot of indecision."

The Sonics took control of this game with a 14-2 spurt early in the third quarter. Their fluid transition game, as graceful as anything you'll see at the Joffrey Ballet, ran the Blazers out of the Kingdome.

John Johnson, who had another splendid game, had six points and Dennis Johnson had four in the streak that gave Seattle a 71-48 lead with 7:10 left in the third.

"He (JJ) was the key in this game," said Blazer center Tom Owens, who snapped out of his slump and into an 18-point, 16-rebound game. "He's such a good passer and he gets the other players involved. We were able to hold him down in Portland (Friday). He wasn't that involved then, but he had a good game today."

As good as JJ's offense was however, his defense was better. He rode Natt into a 3 of 16 shooting day. And when Natt would get by JJ, there was DJ, Gus Williams or some other Sonic parked on his shooting arm.

"They were double-teaming me a lot," Natt said. "But my shot was bad. I had the shots and I could have shot better. He (JJ) and the rest of them really made it tough on me when I received the ball up high. If I made a move past my man, there was always someone else. This place (Kingdome) is so spacious that it's hard to shoot here, but they (Sonics) do all right, so that's no excuse. He (JJ) is a good defensive player, but I'm not saying he's the best."

Owens, however, was saying that the Sonic team defense might be the best anywhere.

"There's always someone else there to deflect the ball," Owens said. "They've been together so long and it shows. It seems every time you take a few dribbles and spin, there's someone to come by and flick the ball away and then they always have a guard releasing. Their transition game comes from their defense and they play very, very good defense."

All season long, however, the Sonics had had a bad habit of relaxing with big leads. It's as if they know they can turn the switch back on when it gets tense. The switch was flicked off long enough Sunday to let the Blazers cut the lead to 82-73 with 8:26 left. But Seattle flicked the switch back on during a 12-2 spurt -- six points from Fred Brown -- that had Seattle in front 94-75 with 4:46 to go and looking ahead to Milwaukee.

The Blazers shot .409 from the field and when you are playing the Sonics at the Kingdome, that kind of shooting won't do.

BLAZER NOTES -- Blazer guard Billy Ray Bates was called for his fourth foul with 2:57 to go in the first half but still finished with a team-high 26 points. . . . The Blazers had 21 offensive rebounds, 10 by Owens. . . . Williams led the Sonics with 21 points and six assists. . . . All of the Blazers will undergo physicals Tuesday. . . . Wally Walker on the Sonic defense: "We didn't allow many open shots. Owens got a few off tips on the other side when we were giving help, other than that, they (Blazers) had to work for all their shots." . . . Sunday's Sonics were much more emotional than the ones who lost 105-95 Friday in Portland. "We were mad," JJ said. "The way we played in Portland, we let them off the hook. There's no damn way they should have won that game." . . . DJ had only 11 points, but he added six steals, six assists, seven rebounds and defensed Ron Brewer.


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Bart Wright
Oregonian
April 7, 1980

# Blazers' loss lifts burden

SEATTLE -- The Portland Trail Blazers reacted to their 46th and final loss of the 1979-80 National Basketball Association season as if a great weight had finally been removed from their shoulders.

Players greeted reporters graciously and talked with an ease that indicated they were well prepared for this inevitable conclusion.

"There are no regrets," said Coach Jack Ramsay of the season that began with nine consecutive wins and ended with four losses in the last five games. "I told the players they had nothing to be ashamed of. It has been a season replete with all kinds of problems and inconsistencies and we overcame most of them to gain a playoff spot."

No one could have expected the Blazers to outplay the defending champions on their home floor before 23,546 fans and a national television audience, least of all Seattle forward John Johnson. On Friday, Johnson expressed his thoughts about this Easter afternoon game after Portland whipped Seattle in Memorial Coliseum. At the time, Johnson requested reporters not to print the quote until after Sunday's game.

"It's a 12:30 game on Sunday?" Johnson asked Friday. "Well, we're going to run them out so fast they'll be back in Portland in time for Easter services at the church."

Johnson was off the mark slightly on that one. Portland came with an underdog's pocket full of desire. For a few brief moments in the final quarter, it appeared as if the Blazers might close with the same kind of rush that lifted them to their overtime win Friday.

They had closed a 21-point gap to nine with more than eight minutes to play, but Seattle was in no mood for a repeat. The Sonics soon put Portland to rest, much to the delight of Sonics fans who read a quote in a local paper Saturday in which Billy Ray Bates was predicting a Blazer blowout.

"We got it back to nine and had a chance, but they got the momentum back," Bates said. "Instead of us blowin' them out, they blew us out."

In a nut shell, that's what happened Sunday, but the thoughts on most Blazer minds were not so much what happened against Seattle, or why they deserved the ignominious fate this season delivered, but rather what shape the team will take next year.

Bob Gross, one of three survivors of the championship Portland team of three years ago, was asked Sunday what lies ahead for him with respect to his future Blazer employment.

"I don't know," he said. "Limbo, I guess. I really don't know what is in store over the summer or next year."

BOB GROSS


=== Page 10 of 88

4-3-80 Oreg. Journal

# Anchorage storm damage hits $20 million

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) -- Damage has been placed at $20 million in Anchorage alone from a storm that packed hurricane-force winds.

The Anchorage Daily News called the violent windstorm the worst disaster to hit the city since the great Alaska earthquake of 1964.

Wind and rain battered east Anchorage Tuesday, hammering the city and nearby military bases with gusts clocked up to 130 mph.

No deaths were attributed to the sudden, violent storm, but there were many minor injuries.

Mayor George Sullivan sent a telegram to Gov. Jay S. Hammond asking the state to take all action necessary to provide disaster assistance.

Col. Edward Newbury, head of the state Division of Emergency Services, said that if the extent of damage is beyond the ability of the state to handle, "it would be my recommendation that the governor seek a presidential disaster declaration."

The storm struck with little warning in the early morning, demolishing mobile homes, uprooting trees, ripping roofs from homes, flipping light airplanes over and cutting electrical power through a broad swath of the city.

The storm also battered Eagle River and Chugiak, towns 14 miles east of Anchorage.


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# 'Super' defense snuffs Portland

Related story on page 27.

April 7, 1980

By AL CROMBIE
Columbian Sports Writer

SEATTLE -- Through the regular season, the Portland Trail Blazers had the worst offense in the league, and that facet of the game sent them to the sidelines Sunday as they bowed to Seattle's SuperSonics 103-86.

The win gave the SuperSonics a 2-1 victory in the playoff miniseries and sends them against the Milwaukee Bucks. The first of that seven-game series is slated Tuesday in the Seattle Coliseum.

"You must execute on offense, and you must hit the open shots. We didn't do that. Seattle deserved to win," Blazer coach Jack Ramsay said.

Both teams opened the action with an inept display of shooting, but the Sonics ran off to a 10-point lead at 19-9. The Blazers spent the rest of the afternoon in a futile game of catchup.

Portland trailed by as few as three and as many as 16 in the second quarter. They fell behind by 23 in the third period, but closed that gap to nine in the final period in their last serious challenge.

Sonic coach Lenny Wilkens and one-time Blazer John Johnson said it was Seattle's defense that did the trick, and Portland center Tom Owens gave the defending world champs a nod of congratulations in that department.

"They play maybe the best team defense of anybody in the NBA," Owens said. "You can beat your man, but then there will be two or three others coming at you."

"We made good switches and it made it difficult for them to get open. We put good pressure on Bates and Ron Brewer," Wilkens said.

"I pressured Calvin Natt hard from the first, and he wasn't hitting his jumper. He's good, but he's still just a rookie," John Johnson said.

The key objects of the Sonic attention blamed themselves more than their defenders.

"I thought I got the open shots, but I just couldn't make the ball drop for me," Ron Brewer said. He was one-for-eight in the first half and finished the game at three-for-14 from the floor. The majority of his shots were short-range jumpers.

Natt said he didn't feel any special pressure as he put up his 16 shots, except they wouldn't go in for me today, and I thought I had the opportunities." He hit only three of his 16 shots.

Rookie Billy Ray Bates, an object of Sonic concern, shrugs off defense. He led all scorers for the game with 12-for-22 shooting, including a three-point bomb, but with Natt and Ron Brewer not contributing to the scoring, Bates' effort was in vain.

"I thought we played hard, but not well," Ramsay said. "We did a good enough job on rebounding and defense to be in it, but our shooting was not the kind you need to win playoff games."

"Seattle gambled and double-teamed on defense, but we have the things to counter that. We just couldn't hit the shots we had."

Heading for summer vacation after the loss in the Kingdome, Ramsay looked back over the year.

"I have no regrets on the season" Ramsay said. "I told the players we had some goals this season -- making the playoffs. We have had a season replete with all kinds of problems and inconsistencies. We overcame them and reached the playoffs. That is a major accomplishment," he said.

Jim Brewer, the castoff forward who became a strong backup center, felt the

# SuperSonics --

Continued from page 25
The Columbian
April 7, 1980

series was decided in last Wednesday's opening game.

"This was a lot closer than the scores," he said. "In the opener, when we came from way back and had their lead down to four -- if we could have held it there, pecked away, we could have won that game, and then our home game becomes the big one. Seattle may go around talking loud about being number one, but I think they know we were right there, could have won this series even with the problems we have."

Bob Gross, who gave the Blazers a lift in their final rally, shrugged off the loss.

"We have so many new people, we don't react automatically on offense or defense. Still, if we could have shot a little better, we would have been in this one all the way."

"Calvin (Natt) had shots he normally makes, Ron (Brewer) seemed to be getting clear for those short little jumpers all the time -- but they wouldn't go in. Give each of those guys another four baskets -- that wouldn't be good shooting for them -- and you've got a 16-point swing. It's that simple."

"Bill (Bates) is so new he doesn't really know the offense, so when he's in there we have to run everything for his shots. That really limits what we can do."

Owens felt that weariness was a factor, although he had his strongest game of the playoffs with 18 points and a game-high 16 rebounds.

"They played well, but I think playing down the stretch -- the last games with San Diego -- that made every game there tough, and I think that took a toll," he said.

Kermit Washington summed it up in a word, "Confidence."

"I don't think we really played with all out confidence in the playoffs or most of the season. When we won those nine straight at the start, we just knew we could go out and win, and we did -- with a lot less talent than we have now. But then we had people hurt, changed people, lost that confidence and some games, and never really got it back. I think that hurt our shooting, too," he said.

*JUST BEFORE HALLOWEEN!!

Note: Blazer demonstration post-mortem. Owen


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# Heavy clouds cover St. Helens on day of rest

By LEVERETT RICHARDS April 7, 1980
of the Oregonian staff

Mount St. Helens, after spewing ash, steam and fumes for 10 days, wrapped itself in heavy clouds and took a rest most of Easter Sunday.

"There has been essentially no change in the level of activity," said Donal Mullineaux, chief of the U.S. Geological Survey geologists monitoring the mountain. "It seems to have established a pattern of tremors and minor emissions which remains unchanged," he said.

"This does not indicate either a lull before the storm or a peak of activity to be followed by a decline," Mullineaux cautioned. "It may still go either way."

Mullineaux said the peak vented some steam about 7:30 a.m. Sunday, but no emissions were sighted at the time.

Later Sunday, however, a crew of scientists landed on the Plains of Abraham on the mountain's northeast side -- near the 5,000-foot level -- and found about three inches of ash on top of six inches of fresh snow that fell Saturday.

Meanwhile, earthquakes continued to rock the mountain. Quakes measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale were reported at 10:59 p.m. Saturday, at 4.1 at 9:16 a.m. Sunday and 4.2 at 3:27 p.m. Sunday, officials said.

Dave Johnston, a Geological Survey scientist in charge of monitoring the gas, ash and fumes emitted by Mount St. Helens said the mysterious blue flame detected flickering faintly from the bottom of the volcano crater March 29 seemed to always precede a burst of steam and ash by about 15 minutes, "which makes it hard to study."

He said this is the first time this phenomenon and its timing has been reported in any volcano before an eruption, although the blue flame has been seen in streams of magma (lava) from erupting volcanoes in Hawaii.

He said scientists would use a special "emission spectrometer" like those used by astronomers to analyze the flickering flame the next time it is visible at night.

He said a U-2 "spy plane" operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Ames, Calif., would be used to follow fumes if a major eruption should occur, shooting vapor into the stratosphere above 35,000 feet.

He said scientists were interested in measuring the volume of gases injected into the upper atmosphere by volcanoes as a first step in measuring the impact of any man-made pollutants which might reach the stratosphere.

Johnston said that the volcano Tamboro on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa erupted in 1815, ejecting enough dust into the upper atmosphere to reduce the sunlight reaching the earth by 60 percent. The result in 1816, he said, was "the year of no summer."

He said there is no indication that St. Helens could rival Tamboro.

The Washington National Guard, which was called out Friday night to assist with roadblocks and crowd control in areas near the mountain, remained on the scene Sunday and would remain "as long as they are needed," officials said.


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- World "Power" Attack

2 THE COLUMBIAN Monday, April 7, 1980 Vancouver, Wash.

Note: This makes three overturned oil rigs in as many weeks!

Another platform dips

North Sea oilfield hotel platform Henrik Ibsen tilts at a dangerous angle in Stavanger, Norway, harbor Sunday. The 57 persons aboard the platform were rescued after it began to collapse. The Henrik Ibsen was being prepared to replace the Alexander Kielland platform which capsized in the North Sea on March 27, killing 123 men. Cause of the Ibsen collapse was not immediately explained. (AP photo)

Note: The Force is using any and all means to attack "Power" sources... including a volcano reaching out to attack hydroelectric power plants!

from deeper within the mountain greater ash content, longer eruptions, style of ejection (continuous and towering as opposed to the present inconsistent and moderate plumes) and the material emitted.

Meanwhile, Pacific Power & Light Co. officials said that Swift Dam directly south of the volcano was unharmed after being hit on the north and south shores by earthquakes registering 4.7 and 4.8 on the Richter scale. The worst earthquake recorded thus far inside the volcano registered 4.8.

Leonard Bacon, a PP&L spokesman, said the quakes occurred early Tuesday, but that the utility was not officially notified of them until Wednesday afternoon. An inspection of the dam revealed no damage, he said.

Swift and Yale reservoirs below it have been lowered in anticipation of mud flows which frequently occur in connection with volcanic activity.

In other developments, 60 Washington National Guardsmen were called out to assist with roadblocks and crowd control in areas near the mountain. Washington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray declared a state of emergency Thursday in order to provide such assistance to Skamania and Cowlitz counties.

Flocks of tourists and sightseers also have forced authorities to move the roadblock on Washington 504 from milepost 34 to milepost 15.

The Washington State Patrol also established four vantage points for those wishing to watch the eruptions without interfering with traffic. The sites are: Stan Hedwell Park at the southbound Interstate 5 exit No. 76; Old U.S. 99, Jackson Highway, south of Mary's Corner at Exit 63; the State Patrol weigh station on I-5 northbound, 15 miles from the Oregon border; and the Washington state Department of Transportation stockpile site on Highway 503 south of the hamlet of Amboy.

MT ST HELENS VOLCANO

4/5/80


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Phone 773-94778

Monday Eve April 7-80

ALFONSO DOMEZ
Master Decorator of Fine Homes, Offices
22414 COLONY SAINT CLAIR SHORES, MICH. 48080

Jeffrey

Dear Ted Owens, you ask me to let you know of any specific changes when I got my disc. Well I am very happy to say my wife Mary Domez is out of hospital & its more than amazing she was so near death couldn't possibly be any closer to death, & now being alive. Easter morning she was able to attend church its just a joyable miracle which I'll never forget. she was so near death the hospital Dr. started to use an electric charger to stimulate her heart, but Mary was awake, & told them not to use stimulator as she was ready to die, & didn't mind dying. Of course by that time you probably had her picture on the wall, & you can see by this writing, how she has improved. We are all amazed, we had the entire church congregation praying for, & that seemed to do no good in fact she got worse. Today April 7th she attended church & was so happy to drive her car. Praise God & the others who ever they are. you may use this letter as a testimonial if you so wish.

Mr Owens I sent for a copy of your Physic Powers to San Francisco & sent the seven dollars Money Order, the money order stub I still have as proof, that was nearly a month ago. & I have not received any answer. So again that doesn't look good. what do you think about that?

Of course we all thank you & whoever the others may be.

Our very best wishes for your success I will try & help you as much as I can because as I said before I am sure you have a great great thing going. Maybe you can prod those people in San Francisco, to wake up & find out why I haven't received my copy.

Alfonso Domez

THERE'S NO SUBSTITUTE FOR MASTER WORKMANSHIP


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4-8-80

April 7, 1980

Mr. D. Scott Rogo
18132 Schoenborn St.
Northridge, California 91324

Dear Scott:

Well, as you can see by the enclosed newsclips, I have successfully done in the Portland Trailblazers, as I told you I would when you were visiting here some time ago getting material for your book on my life. (Incidentally, the completed manuscript that you sent me is excellent not to mention brilliant...what's the current action on it?)

As you point out in your and Dr. Mishlove's book, I have been able to successfully demonstrate empirically the application of psi force to pro basketball and pro football games...thoroughly documented, as is this Blazer demonstration since Halloween...ahead of the scientific community. That is, I have trod where scientists fear to tread...and brought it off in a manner to satisfy scientists with proper documentation and procedure.

You and Dr. Mishlove have been able to "observe" me, as it were, through newsclips and proper documentation...while I controlled the Portland Trailblazers to an ignominious end in their season. (Bearing in mind that I had nothing against the team itself; but due to the double-cross of Bosley and Boule it was necessary to select a symbol for the city that humiliated me, and teach it some manners (we would hope that they have been taught something.) Of course I will not repeat any further with the Trailblazers...unless I am further double-crossed, insulted, or challenged in some way by the Portland community.)

In this Trailblazer file you will easily recognize my "pattern"...crazy, weird happenings a la the Trailblazers...to the extent that they actually contacted a psychiatrist to try and figure out what was wrong with the team; and later on a psychologist to help one of the team. I struck the team, during their games, over either radio or TV with psi force...threw them off their game, made them miss shots they should have made, made them commit errors, and so on. Just as I have done in the past with other teams elsewhere (Baltimore Bullets, Virginia Squires, Philadelphia 76'rs, Phila. Eagles, L.A. Rams, Baltimore Colts, etc., all thoroughly documented and "empirically demonstrated.")

I am glad that you were able to actually sit in my study at home...and witness my control of the Trailblazers during your visit, as described in your and Dr. Mishlove's book, which will be published next winter.

Best wishes to you and yours...

Sincerely,

Ted Owens (PK Man)

* By Prentice Hall
Ted is / was informed


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- World "Power" Attack -

# Severe Storm Cuts Power, Snarls Dade Traffic

## Homestead Pummeled by Golf-Ball-Sized Hail

Miami Herald April 8, 1980

By JOHN ARNOLD
Herald Staff Writer

Big, slow-moving rain clouds over South Florida Monday poured more than three inches of rain over parts of Dade County, shorting out powerlines, stalling cars and snarling traffic.

Hail the size of golf balls fell during a severe thunderstorm that buffeted Homestead with high winds in the early evening. Lightning strikes set fire to utility poles and a vacant house, Homestead police said.

In Hialeah, Mayor Dale Bennett declared a citywide emergency Monday afternoon after inspecting flooded intersections where traffic signals had failed and cars sat stalled in hubcap-deep water.

It was the first time in the city's history the mayor had declared a weather emergency in anything but a hurricane, said Russ Marchner, city communications director.

During Hialeah's state of emergency, motorists were urged to stay off the streets.

"It just means that if you don't have to go out, then don't go out," said Hialeah spokeswoman Carmen Gicobbe.

HIALEAH CITY officials said six to eight inches of water was surging around apartments at 29th Street and Okeechobee Road. Several vehicles had stalled in water at that intersection.

At Palm Avenue and 30th Street, water in the intersection was half a foot deep.

The National Hurricane Center at Miami International Airport said three inches of rain had fallen in the Miami Springs area by mid-afternoon. The rain gauge at Miami International recorded 2.42 inches of rain during the 24 hours ending at 7 p.m.

Rainfall figures for other parts of the county will not be available until today.

Along with rain and high winds, hailstones pummeled the county from North Miami to Homestead, weather forecasters said. Hail in some sections of North Dade measured an inch in diameter.

As rain continued to pour through the night, North Miami Beach police advised officers to "find a high piece of ground and sit on it."

THE RAIN caused power outages in all areas of the county. A Florida Power and Light Co. spokesman said scores of small, scattered outages occurred throughout Dade all day because of wind, rain and lightning.

The spokesman said most outages averaged only a few minutes, but one Miami Shores neighborhood around NE 105th Street was without power for more than four hours because of a lightning stroke to powerlines.

Scattered outages occurred in Dade shortly after 7:36 p.m. due to a breakdown in a water pump at FPL's Turkey Point nuclear power plant. One of the reactors was shut down temporarily and other generators took up the load minutes later. The breakdown had nothing to do with "the radioactive part of the system" and was expected to be repaired early today, FPL spokesman Dave Wolverton said. The plant is tied into a regional power network and power was disrupted as far away as Jacksonville, where 53,000 users were without electricity for up to an hour.

Weather forecasters had predicted only a 30 per cent chance of rain for Monday, but boosted their estimate of the probability of rain to 70 per cent about six hours before raindrops started to fall.

The rain was expected to continue falling through Monday night with a 50 per cent chance of showers today.

Today's high may be near 80, he said; the low temperature around 70.

Herald Staff Writer Jeffrey Weiss also contributed to this report.

World Power Attack

Colombian 4-11-80

### Shrimper towed to port

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) -- A shrimp boat, adrift for three days in the Pacific, was towed to safety at Yaquina Bay Thursday by the U.S. Coast Guard. The tow had been delayed by rough weather. The disabled boat out of Tampa, Fla., had been drifting for three days without power.

4-15-80 Seattle Times

### Cable fire blacks out part of U.S. capital

WASHINGTON -- (UPI) -- A fire yesterday morning in an electric cable above an unfinished subway station blacked out a television and radio station and left several thousand Northwest Washington residents without power for hours.

A spokeswoman for the Potomac Electric & Power Co. said the fire knocked three 13,000-volt cables out of service.

She said about 1,000 electric meters, including those serving television station WTTG, radio station WASH-FM and several apartment buildings and businesses, were out.

Several radio and TV stations in the area were able to continue broadcasting by using emergency generators.


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# Tornadoes, high wind rip through Midwest, South

World "Power" Attack

By United Press International

Tornadoes and high wind raged from the Gulf Coast to Wisconsin, killing at least two persons, injuring dozens and causing millions of dollars in property damage.

The National Weather Service said at least 34 tornadoes in the eastward-moving storm system have touched down since about noon Monday. Severe weather warnings were in effect from Arkansas to Illinois.

One man was killed and four persons were injured by twisters in central Texas.

A tornado descended the Mississippi town of Corinth early Tuesday.

Alcorn County Civil Defense Director Edwin Byrd said the damage was confined to the southeastern section of the city where seven businesses -- including a motel and automobile dealership -- received extensive roof and glass damage. One house and a barn were destroyed and seven homes received roof damage.

An Illinois Central Gulf Railroad boxcar was toppled from the tracks and trees and power lines were downed. Electricity was off in the area for several hours.

Byrd said the tornado, traveling on and easterly direction from the southwest, touched down several hours after twisters were reported in Tunica County, Miss. and Memphis, Tenn.

In Missouri, thunderstorms and a handful of tornadoes caused several injuries and damaged or destroyed at least 50 homes in a fashionable northern subdivision of St. Louis.

No deaths were reported in the tornado that hit the Florissant area in north St. Louis County shortly before midnight, police said, and most of the injuries were believed to be cuts and bruises from flying glass and furniture.

Other tornadoes were reported in at least three other counties in Missouri. And another twister damaged about 15 houses in Godfrey, Ill., during the night of turbulent weather.

Police Chief Gene Collier of Round Rock, Texas, said Majin Ortega, 51, was killed by a twister that flattened a two-story home he was visiting. Another man in the house escaped with a minor injury.

Collier said he watched the tornado take the roof from a Round Rock plant nursery, auto supply building and a feed store, and then damage the house where Ortega was killed.

Travis County Sheriff Raymond Frank said he estimated damage would be high even though the tornado had hit in a rural area.

"I would think we're looking at $1 million plus in damage, but it's hard to assess it all," Frank said.

Another twister cut a swath 2 to 3 miles long and 1 1/2 miles wide through Lund, Texas, injuring three persons.

The storm moved into central Illinois where a tornado caused several injuries and property damage.

A rash of tornadoes swept through northeastern Oklahoma and winds in excess of 60 mph buffeted other parts of the state, leaving at least 10 persons injured and millions of dollars in property damage.

Authorities said a 9-year-old boy drowned when gusty winds overturned his family's boat on Foss Lake.

Herold Chanley and his wife were watching television when the storm struck. Mrs. Chanley said the first indication of severe weather came when their television antenna snapped off. She said she looked out the window and saw the path of the funnel approaching the house.

"It hit and then it was gone, just like that," Mrs. Chanley said.

Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms moved across Arkansas, causing widespread reports of injuries and property damage. Dozens of trees were uprooted and power lines downed. Hail up to 4 inches in diameter also was reported.

In Wisconsin, a series of tornadoes destroyed mobile homes, uprooted trees and snapped power lines.

Near Beaver Dam, at least 23 persons were hurt when a tornado destroyed a dozen mobile homes. Arvid Mielke watched as the twister flattened one of the mobile homes he owns.

"The whole home is gone entirely," he said. "It picked it up and took it away. I saw the chassis about 2,000 feet away. It just demolished it. There are just the cement blocks laying there."


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# Crippling drought hits Southern Australia

SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) -- Australia was reported Monday to be on the verge of a crippling drought that could turn the southern half of the continent into a giant dustbowl in a month.

Thousands of kangaroos already have perished in the Outback areas of the states of Queensland and New South Wales and agricultural experts said millions more will die of thirst and starvation unless rain comes soon.

Towns in New South Wales are running low on water and plans are being made to transport water from other areas for domestic use. The use of garden hoses to water lawns has been banned.

4/7/80

## news scope

April 9, 1980

Prime Minister of Australia

Dear Sir:

I can save your country. Can give Australia all of the rain that it requires, immediately that you accept my services.

For your information I ended the killer drought in England a few years ago...see the hardcover book "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson (Putnam and Sons)...where this is documented.

You can secure a scientific report on my work by sending $7 to Washington Research Center, 3201 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. This report was done by scientists led by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Just ask for the scientific report on Ted Owens (PK Man).

A book has recently been written about my life and work (including the ending of droughts) by D. Scott Rogo (published author with 18 books) at 18132 Schoenborn St., Northridge, California, 91324. He is a parapsychologist and scientific investigator, and collaborated with scientists in the writing of the book, which is a critical, scientific evaluation of my work.

If you have access to copies of Fate Magazine, a popular American magazine, secure the copy for February, 1979, and read the article written by a scientist entitled "Angry UFO Prophet Creates Psychic Havoc." The December 1979 copy has my rebuttal to a critic in "Report from the Readers."

I am half human, half alien, and work for and with UFOs.

Sincerely,

Ted Owens (PK Man)

200 NE 76th St.
Vancouver, Washington 98665

PS...I recently controlled the State of Florida. Ended its drought and caused other things to happen there. All thoroughly documented with scientists. You can check with Wayne Grover, Air Force Weather Expert, 3282 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, and you will find that it is true.


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Crippling drought hits southern Australia

SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) - Australia was reported Monday to be on the verge of a crippling drought that could turn the southern half of the continent into a giant dustbowl in a month. Thousands of kangaroos already have perished in the Outback areas of the states of Queensland and New South Wales and agricultural experts said millions more will die of thirst and starvation unless rain comes soon. Towns in New South Wales are running low on water and plans are being made to transport water from other areas for domestic use. The use of garden hoses to water lawns has been banned.

4/7/80

news scope

38

April 9, 1980

Prime Minister of Australia

Dear Sir:

I can save your country. Can give Australia all of the rain that it requires, immediately that you accept my services.

For your information I ended the killer drought in England a few years ago...see the hardcover book "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson (Putnam and Sons)...where this is documented.

You can secure a scientific report on my work by sending $7 to Washington Research Center, 3201 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. This report was done by scientists led by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Just ask for the scientific report on Ted Owens (PK Man).

A book has recently been written about my life and work (including the ending of droughts) by D. Scott Rogo (published author with 18 books) at 18132 Schoenborn St., Northridge, California, 91324. He is a parapsychologist and scientific investigator, and collaborated with scientists in the writing of the book, which is a critical, scientific evaluation of my work.

If you have access to copies of Fate Magazine, a popular American magazine, secure the copy for February, 1979, and read the article written by a scientist entitled "Angry UFO Prophet Creates Psychic Havoc." The December 1979 copy has my rebuttal to a critic in "Report From The Readers."

I am half human, half alien, and work for and with UFOs.

Sincerely,

Ted Owens (PK Man)

200 NE 76th St.
Vancouver, Washington 98665

PS...I recently controlled the State of Florida. Ended its drought and caused other things to happen there. All thoroughly documented with scientists. You can check with Wayne Grover, Air Force Weather Expert, 3282 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, and you will find that it is true.


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10 3M THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1980

Associated Press Laserphoto

TWISTER'S PATH -- Woman hunts through debris of Charles Mate home in Florissant, Mo., where a tornado heavily damaged or destroyed more than 100 houses. Florissant twister was one of a "family of storms" that whipped several states. More tornadoes are likely, National Weather Service said.

Oregonian April 9, 1980 - World "Power" Attacks -

# Tornadoes kill 4 in 13-state region

By DAVID L. LANGFORD
By The Associated Press

Dozens of tornadoes born in a "family of twisters" splintered scores of homes and businesses, killed four people and injured about 100 others in a two-day assault on 13 states.

The National Weather Service said that from noon Monday to Tuesday night, 14 tornadoes had hit Arkansas, six had touched down in Wisconsin, four in Missouri, three in Oklahoma, three in Michigan, three in Texas, two in Illinois, two in Mississippi, two in Indiana, one in Kansas and one in Tennessee. Twisters were also reported in Kentucky and Ohio.

The National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City warned that more were likely. Tornado watches were posted Tuesday afternoon for parts of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The National Weather Service said the tornadoes and thunderstorms that lingered in the region were "part of a family of storms."

While hail the size of baseballs pelted parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas, the twisters tore roofs off houses, schools and churches, ripped down power lines, flattened barns and wrecked airplanes parked at airports, leaving damage in the millions of dollars.

Two people died when a tornado hit a trailer park in Kentucky. A man in central Texas died when a building collapsed on him and a boy in Oklahoma drowned when a boat capsized.

In the St. Louis suburb of Florissant, where 96 homes were damaged and five were flattened in a tornado late Monday, housewife Janet Eisele told what it was like.

"We heard the noise," she said. "My husband and I each reached for a kid to head for the basement, but the pressure was so strong we just couldn't move."

The house was damaged, but the family was not hurt.

"I didn't hear a thing," said Claude Lunbeck, who had gone to bed minutes before the storm roared through. "It was over in the wink of an eye. I looked up and the roof was gone."

In southeastern Kentucky, near Whitley City, a tornado touched down at a trailer park, killing two persons and injuring at least seven. The victims were Vickie Stephens and Leslie Hatfield, according to state police dispatcher Steve House at London. Eight trailers were destroyed and a house was knocked off its foundations.

Forty-two persons were injured in Arkansas, including 20 hurt early Tuesday when a twister hit West Memphis, just across the Mississippi River from its sister city in Tennessee.

At least $1 million in damage was reported at the West Memphis Municipal airport where a dozen private airplanes were destroyed and at least 10 other planes were damaged. Airport facilities also were hard hit, officials said.

In the south Mississippi community of West Lincoln, near Brookhaven, a twister about 6 a.m. ripped the roof off an elementary school, destroyed a school van and damaged several cars.

About 16,000 electric utility customers in Arkansas were without power Tuesday after the winds toppled huge steel transmission towers in several areas.

Reginald Strunk, his daughter Michelle and his niece Ann were hospitalized after their mobile home near Witcherville, Ark., was lifted 75 feet into the air and dumped onto a pickup truck.

In central Texas, one man was killed, another was injured, 15 houses were destroyed and 12 were damaged as tornadoes struck Round Rock, Lund and Elgin.

Mijim Ortega, 52, died in his home near Austin. "The building collapsed on him," said Police Lt. Wesley Wolff.

In Oklahoma, a 9-year-old boy drowned when a boat on Foss Lake in the west central part of the state capsized in high winds.


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Mr. Bruce Kell
4 TORRINGTON ROAD
STRATHFIELD NSW 2135
AUSTRALIA

MR. TED OWENS
200 N.E. 76th Street
Vancouver . WASH . 98665
U.S.A.

April 9th 1980

Dear Sir,

You have been given the mind of "future man" to help the human race if possible. The S.I. have made you their only link with the human race so that the S.I. can step in and help the human race with your human choice and permission.

Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in Australia? If the size of Australia is too big to contemplate please consider relieving the drought for say a tenth of the area for a start.

How about starting on the northern tablelands and north coast of the state of New South Wales? Would you please consider helping to relieve the drought in these areas? Thank You.

Do you want me to send you any newspaper articles to confirm the drought and the breaking of the drought if you agree to consider bringing this relief?

Best wishes

Yours faithfully
Bruce Kell

P.S. $10 enclosed with thanks BK


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Crippling drought hits southern Australia

SYDNEY, Australia (UPI) -- Australia was reported Monday to be on the verge of a crippling drought that could turn the southern half of the continent into a giant dustbowl in a month.

Thousands of kangaroos already have perished in the Outback areas of the states of Queensland and New South Wales and agricultural experts said millions more will die of thirst and starvation unless rain comes soon.

Towns in New South Wales are running low on water and plans are being made to transport water from other areas for domestic use. The use of garden hoses to water lawns has been banned.

news scope

April 9, 1980

Prime Minister of Australia

Dear Sir:

I can save your country. Can give Australia all of the rain that it requires, immediately that you accept my services.

For your information I ended the killer drought in England a few years ago...see the hardcover book "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson (Putnam and Sons)...where this is documented.

You can secure a scientific report on my work by sending $7 to Washington Research Center, 3201 Washington St., San Francisco, California, 94115. This report was done by scientists led by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Just ask for the scientific report on Ted Owens (PK Man).

A book has recently been written about my life and work (including the ending of droughts) by D. Scott Rogo (published author with 18 books) at 18132 Schoenborn St., Northridge, California, 91324. He is a parapsychologist and scientific investigator, and collaborated with scientists in the writing of the book, which is a critical, scientific evaluation of my work.

If you have access to copies of Fate Magazine, a popular American magazine, secure the copy for February, 1979, and read the article written by a scientist entitled "Angry UFO Prophet Creates Psychic Havoc." The December 1979 copy has my rebuttal to a critic in "Report From The Readers."

I am half human, half alien, and work for and with UFOs.

Sincerely,

Ted Owens (PK Man)

200 NE 76th St.
Vancouver, Washington 98665

PS...I recently controlled the State of Florida. Ended its drought and caused other things to happen there. All thoroughly documented with scientists. You can check with Wayne Grover, Air Force Weather Expert, 3282 Parade Place, Lantana, Florida, 33462, and you will find that it is true.


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April 10, 1980.

# Cattlemen hard-hit by Australian drought

By PETER O'LOUGHLIN

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Farmers and ranchers around Australia are anxiously scanning the skies for signs of rain that would break what threatens to be the continent's worst drought since the turn of the century.

"This drought has all the portents of being a widespread disaster," said Jack Hallam, Minister for Agriculture for the state of New South Wales in southeastern Australia. The state, the nation's most populous and economically important, is also the worst hit by the dry spell.

"It's different from other droughts because it covers such huge areas," Hallam said Wednesday after inspecting hard-hit areas.

"Even if rain falls soon, the situation is critical. But if we don't get rain, it will be a national disaster," he said.

Much of Australia's prime agricultural land has been without substantial rainfall for nine months. In some cases, it has been three years since enough rain fell to fill the reservoirs.

"The federal and state governments must realize that the drought conditions are creating a state of emergency in rural Australia," said Maurice Binstead, president of the Cattlemen's Union.

"National disaster relief provisions must be reassessed and the buck-passing from state and commonwealth governments must cease," said Binstead. Several state governments have declared disaster areas in their jurisdictions, although responsibility for relief efforts is disputed.

Authorities already have declared a drought over an area of 656,000 square miles, almost the size of Western Europe.


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# Volcano Sends Lightning Daggers Down Slope

Miami Herald
March 31, 1980

BY PATRICK MALONE
Herald Staff Writer

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Mount St. Helens tossed away its veil of rain clouds Sunday and put on a fuming spectacle for a swarm of small airplanes circling the volcano.

Jets of steam sent five-foot blocks of ice hurtling into the crisp blue sky above the volcano. Bursts of steam and ash lasting three and four minutes billowed up to a mile above the mountain and set up a gray haze drifting southeast into neighboring Oregon.

At night, the ash touched off long daggers of yellow lightning rolling down St. Helens' slopes.

The volcano continued to shake with small earthquakes. Scientists could find no changes in St. Helens' behavior to give any clue as to how long its current modest eruptions might last. As long as the molten rock fueling the ash and steam ejections remain buried deep within the volcano, the belches will be harmless.

The volcano's semi-hourly show was largely for the benefit of people who could afford to spend $50 to $275 an hour for an airborne view aboard a helicopter or airplane. That was mostly scientists and news photographers.

Sightseers stuck on the ground were not so fortunate. Low-lying cotton-puff bands of cumulus clouds afforded only occasional glimpses of the symmetrical slopes that on a clear day dominate the northern horizon of Portland, 50 miles to the south. Finally, just before dusk, the clouds cleared and the mountain rewarded patient observers with a 10-minute eruption of thick ash.

Hundreds of cars stopped along Interstate 5 west of the mountain, hoping for a look at a phenomenon no American in the lower 48 states has seen since 1917.

Ash from St. Helens Sunday settled in Glenda Kallas' eyes, 35 miles away, and on Jerry Creek's car, 60 miles to the south.

Creek, a Forest Service ranger at Zig Zag, a village near Oregon's tallest peak, Mount Hood, said he planned to collect the ash from his car and put it in a vial. "I just want to show it to my two-year-old son when he gets older."

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# "World Power" Attack

# Trojan to close for maintenance, refueling work

April 1, 1980

BY ED MOSEY
of the Oregonian staff

Portland General Electric Co. shut down the Trojan Nuclear Plant at 5:22 p.m. Friday for refueling and extensive maintenance.

PGE, the plant's operator, had announced earlier that Trojan would be out of service for at least 10 weeks. The company has been gradually winding down production of electricity at the plant for the last several weeks.

Skip Orser, Trojan maintenance manager, said refueling would take about six weeks and maintenance would continue for four more weeks after that. The company usually replaces one-third of the 193 fuel assemblies in the reactor core and places the used units in the spent fuel pool at the plant.

This time, however, PGE and specialists from Westinghouse Corp., designer of the reactor system, will pull all fuel assemblies from the reactor vessel so its interior can be inspected. When this is done, the usable assemblies will be returned to the reactor from the spent fuel pool, along with 64 fresh assemblies to replace the used ones.

The reactor core contains 95 tons of enriched uranium, divided into three segments. One segment is in the center of the reactor vessel, and the other two surround it. The center segment burns up faster than the fuel in the outside sections and must be replaced.

PGE engineers said one of the outside fuel assembly segments would be moved to the center and replaced by fresh fuel.

PGE chose this time to refuel the plant because consumption of electricity declines when spring weather turns warm. PGE will call for power it traded to other utilities earlier in order to replace Trojan generation. The company also will buy power from other utilities as needed, spokesmen said.

PGE engineers, at the direction of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will remove tubes from Trojan's steam generator to determine what caused them to leak radioactive water from the reactor into the steam system. The tubes were sealed off last year to stop the leakage.

Orser said other inspections would be conducted as required by the regulatory commission. In addition, PGE will conduct preventive maintenance on the steam turbine, dismantling it to inspect blades and bearings.

The cost of the 64 new fuel assemblies was $27 million, PGE said. An oil-fired plant would burn $500 million worth of petroleum to produce the energy contained in the nuclear fuel, the company said.


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Oregonian April 13, 1980

# Official links power failure to sabotage

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Power was restored and life returned to normal across this island of 3 million people Saturday after a blackout that lasted through the night. Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo said he suspected sabotage.

A radio station reported a previously unknown organization, associating itself with an electrical workers' strike in 1978, claimed responsibility for the power failure and the kidnapping of a plant engineer who was released unharmed. A later call said the group had kidnapped the engineer but was not responsible for the blackout.

Executive Director Alberto Bruno Vega and other officials of the Puerto Rico Power Authority said the cause of the blackout that began at 8:30 p.m. Friday had not been determined and it was not known whether sabotage had been involved. Bruno Vega said full service was restored at 2:50 p.m. Saturday. He said there was nothing to tie the blackout to current negotiations with union leaders on a new contract.

But Romero, governor of this U.S. commonwealth, told reporters, "I assume it was sabotage" and said police were investigating a possible terrorist link. He said he suspected present or former union members might be behind the blackout.

Romero declared a state of emergency, placing the island's 7,000-member police force on alert shortly after the lights went out. The Puerto Rico National Guard also put its 2,000-member force on standby alert.

The San Juan Star newspaper quoted power authority sources as saying an explosion in a San Juan power plant may have triggered the outage.

The Spanish-language radio station WKAQ quoted a male anonymous caller as saying that "Grupo Estrella," named for an electrical worker who was killed during a power workers' strike in 1978, was responsible for the blackout and the kidnapping of a power authority chief engineer about three hours before the outage.

The engineer, Manuel Vazquez Santiago, was released later in a field where the worker was killed in 1978. His hair was cut, his eyebrows shaved and a purple-colored star was painted on his forehead, but he was otherwise unharmed.

Bruno Vega said Vazquez Santiago, chief engineer at the authority's Palo Seco plant on the outskirts of San Juan, was kidnapped between 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Friday.

WKAQ quoted the caller as saying: "We did no physical harm to him. We cut his hair and shaved his eyebrows to demonstrate that we had him in our power. We could have harmed him if we had wanted to."

According to WKAQ, the anonymous caller accused the power authority of "violating the collective bargaining agreement" but did not specify how. The caller added, the station said, that the blackout and the kidnapping of Vazquez Santiago were in honor of Saul Rodriguez Estrella, who police claim was killed while trying to sabotage a transmission tower in the 1978 strike. The union denied the police claim at the time.

But several hours later, an anonymous telephone caller, in the name of the same group, told the Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Dia that the group was responsible for the kidnapping but not for the blackout.

Note: The Force is using any and all means to attack "power"... weather, human error, cars, animals, etc. Owens

4/14/80 (this gen. area.)

## Area blacked out

A car ran into a power pole on Southwest Cedar Hills Boulevard in Beaverton Sunday night, knocking out a Portland General Electric Co. feeder line.

Utility officials said between 1,000 and 1,500 homes were without power for a short period. Oregonian

April 15, 1980

## Critter cuts juice

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Electricity was being restored to the sprawling Michigan State University campus early Monday after a raccoon shorted out some power lines and left about 26,000 students in the dark, campus police said. Oregonian


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Note: Of course it must be assumed that power was knocked out in other places below! Owens

A.M. FINAL

● ● Monday, April 14, 1980 15¢

- World "Power" Attack -

Orleans flood

Oregon Journal April 14, 1980

By United Press International

Poisonous snakes wriggled through river-like New Orleans streets in the aftermath of a weekend of torrential rains and tornadoes were blamed in the deaths of eight persons in the South. Winter-like conditions hit the nation's midsection.

Parts of the Midwest woke up Monday to a surprise spring snow storm. As much as 4 inches of slushy snow fell in parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. The National Weather Service predicted wet snow mixed with sleet and rain for Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois and travelers advisories were posted for the areas.

Winter wouldn't release its grip on Arkansas and Oklahoma, either, where temperatures plunged to the upper 20s and lower 30s. Oklahoma City's 27-degree reading early Monday broke a 23-year record.

In Louisiana, hundreds prepared to flee their homes Monday in what officials labeled the state's worst flooding in two years. Floodwaters were receding in parts of metropolitan New Orleans, but residents found it impossible to navigate their way to work through parts of the city because of high water.

Sandbagging operations continued in low-lying subdivisions near the Pearl River, which was expected to crest at near 20-feet - the same level reached two weeks ago, when hundreds of residents evacuated their homes. The area last week was declared a federal disaster area from the April 2 floods.

At least two persons drowned in separate boating accidents in New Orleans floodwaters Sunday and three others died in traffic accidents caused by the weather, authorities said.

Extensive flooding in Mobile, Ala., was blamed for at least one death, a youngster who was swept into a drainage ditch by the raging waters.

In Georgia, heavy thunderstorms, which touched off high wind and scattered tornadoes during the weekend, posed the threat of serious flooding Monday and Tuesday.

was in effect for Mobile and Baldwin counties and all of north and west central Alabama.

The National Weather Service warned of possible flooding along the Oostanaula River in Georgia. The river was expected to reach 22 feet early at Resaca today and crest between 25 and 26 feet.

Georgia was battered by heavy rains all weekend and forecasters warned of still more storms brewing in the west-central part of the state.

In Mississippi, tornadoes touched down in two Gulf Coast counties, causing widespread property damage but no injuries.

"Our shirt-sleeve estimate of the damage is around $10 million," a Harrison County civil defense spokesman said.

Winds clocked at 102 mph raked the Mississippi Gulf Coast, causing an estimated $10 million in property damage. Two persons died in flood-related accidents and at least four others were injured.

Tornadoes also caused extensive damage in South Carolina and Alabama.

New Orleans police said they had no reports of anyone being bitten by one of the poisonous snakes.

Some minor looting was reported in the uptown area, where as much as 9 inches of rain fell.

People paddled small canoes through the streets, covered by as much as 10 feet of water, as ducks near the Audubon Park zoo basked in the waters.

A few blocks away, two groups of college students paddled their canoes with brooms.

"It's the annual New Orleans flood festival," Chris Riviere, one of the students, said.

Electrical power was knocked out in Hahnville, La., and deputies were planning to evacuate about 600 persons from the areas of Bayou Gauche and Des Allemands.

"Let me tell you, this is a real emergency," one official said. "The real emergency is the flooding - not river flooding - but rain flooding. The entire parish is being flooded in low-lying areas."

Tornadoes raged through south and central Alabama, injuring more than a dozen people, and damaging houses and trees.

Mobile authorities were also searching for an unidentified man and woman who had last been seen motorcycling and were feared drowned by flood waters.

Numerous city streets were flooded throughout the state and a flood watch

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# Hundreds flee rampaging New Orleans flood

Oregon Journal April 14, 1980

By United Press International

Poisonous snakes wriggled through river-like New Orleans streets in the aftermath of a weekend of torrential rains and tornadoes were blamed in the deaths of eight persons in the South. Winter-like conditions hit the nation's midsection.

Parts of the Midwest woke up Monday to a surprise spring snow storm. As much as 4 inches of slushy snow fell in parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. The National Weather Service predicted wet snow mixed with sleet and rain for Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois and travelers advisories were posted for the areas.

Winter wouldn't release its grip on Arkansas and Oklahoma, either, where temperatures plunged to the upper 20s and lower 30s. Oklahoma City's 27-degree reading early Monday broke a 23-year record.

In Louisiana, hundreds prepared to flee their homes Monday in what officials labeled the state's worst flooding in two years. Floodwaters were receding in parts of metropolitan New Orleans, but residents found it impossible to navigate their way to work through parts of the city because of high water.

Sandbagging operations continued in low-lying subdivisions near the Pearl River, which was expected to crest at near 20-feet -- the same level reached two weeks ago, when hundreds of residents evacuated their homes. The area last week was declared a federal disaster area from the April 2 floods.

At least two persons drowned in separate boating accidents in New Orleans floodwaters Sunday and three others died in traffic accidents caused by the weather, authorities said.

Extensive flooding in Mobile, Ala., was blamed for at least one death, a youngster who was swept into a drainage ditch by the raging waters.

In Georgia, heavy thunderstorms, which touched off high wind and scattered tornadoes during the weekend, posed the threat of serious flooding Monday and Tuesday.

Winds clocked at 102 mph raked the Mississippi Gulf Coast, causing an estimated $10 million in property damage. Two persons died in flood-related accidents and at least four others were injured.

Tornadoes also caused extensive damage in South Carolina and Alabama.

New Orleans police said they had no reports of anyone being bitten by one of the poisonous snakes.

Some minor looting was reported in the uptown area, where as much as 9 inches of rain fell.

People paddled small canoes through the streets, covered by as much as 10 feet of water, as ducks near the Audubon Park zoo basked in the waters.

A few blocks away, two groups of college students paddled their canoes with brooms.

"It's the annual New Orleans flood festival," Chris Riviere, one of the students, said.

Electrical power was knocked out in Hahnville, La., and deputies were planning to evacuate about 600 persons from the areas of Bayou Gauche and Des Allemands.

"Let me tell you, this is a real emergency," one official said. "The real emergency is the flooding -- not river flooding -- but rain flooding. The entire parish is being flooded in low-lying areas."

Tornadoes raged through south and central Alabama, injuring more than a dozen people, and damaging houses and trees.

Mobile authorities were also searching for an unidentified man and woman who had last been seen motorcycling and were feared drowned by flood waters.

Numerous city streets were flooded throughout the state and a flood watch was in effect for Mobile and Baldwin counties and all of north and west central Alabama.

The National Weather Service warned of possible flooding along the Oostanaula River in Georgia. The river was expected to reach 22 feet early at Resaca today and crest between 25 and 26 feet.

Georgia was battered by heavy rains all weekend and forecasters warned of still more storms brewing in the west-central part of the state.

In Mississippi, tornadoes touched down in two Gulf Coast counties, causing widespread property damage but no injuries.

"Our shirt-sleeve estimate of the damage is around $10 million," a Harrison County civil defense spokesman said.


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Jeffrey

April 14, 1980

SCIENTISTS AND CONTACTS

The Space Shuttle has just landed safely, and my son and I are having some refreshment to celebrate...because we had feared for the lives of Crippen and Young.

As you know...my UFOs had promised to destroy the Shuttle if their base was not supplied.

Now, always before it was I who performed the psi-force work...utilizing a "PK Map" and activating it constantly to bring about the desired result in cooperation with my UFOs.

But in this case...and with new modus operandi by my UFOs...the power was not placed into my hands but kept by the UFOs (keep in mind the hundreds of times I caused seemingly impossible things to happen; well documented in advance of the fact.

Last night, Monday night, I received a telephone call. The person gave me a strange message. IF THE SPACE SHUTTLE LANDED SAFELY NEXT DAY (today) THEN THE UFO BASE WOULD BE FORTHCOMING AS MY UFOs AND I WISHED.

My son Beau and I were puzzled by this call...because as far as we knew my UFOs still were intent on destroying the Shuttle. Knowing full well that my mind is monitored around the clock by my UFOs...all of my thoughts and actions...I wondered if this call might be acted upon by my UFOs.

This morning my son and I watched the Shuttle get down safely. I telepathd to the SIs to try and get an answer why they had changed their minds...because as far back as I can remember this is the first time (with the exception of Idi Amin) they have not done what they have announced. Their reply was most interesting.

They replied that a top secret government agency had determined to have me "hit" by one of their special assassins...killed...if the Space Shuttle were destroyed. The SIs, in their own way of monitoring, had found this out. Therefore they held their hand this time around with the Shuttle. They did not want to lose me...and then have to wipe out the United States in retribution...it simply was not a part of their game plan.

Just before the Shuttle began to descend, this morning, I telepathd Control of the SIs, and requested that they somehow save the astronauts when they destroyed the Shuttle.

In my new role of "middle man" simply reporting the SI action, things tend to get a bit confusing.

But what is not confusing is...is that Crippen and Young are safe at home with their families. So Beau and I are celebrating while we puzzle over the situation.

Ted Owens (PK Man)

Owens


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# Snowstorm shuts Midwest schools

Oregon Journal April 15, 1980

United Press International

A furious winter storm gripped the nation's midlands, knocking out power in some areas, delaying travelers and closing schools. In the South, floods spawned by weekend rains subsided in New Orleans, but rivers rose in Alabama.

At least nine people -- eight in the South and one in Michigan -- died in weather-related incidents.

As much as 8 inches of snow fell in parts of the Midwest Monday.

A freeze gripped Arkansas, setting new records. The National Weather Service said the low temperature dipped to 34 degrees, breaking the record set in 1950, and the high was only 45, eclipsing a record set in 1907.

The flooding triggered by a weekend of torrential rains from Louisiana to North Carolina began to subside Monday.

Police through central and northern Illinois reported snow, slush and rain Monday. Chicago's annual snowfall hit 39.5 inches for the season, just about normal and about half as much as last year.

The storm knocked out power to about 70,000 Chicago-area homes at various times during the morning because of a variety of weather-related problems, including high winds.

O'Hare International Airport reported delays of more than two hours on many incoming flights.

The National Weather Service issued a lakeshore warning from Waukegan, Ill., to Michigan, Ind. Forecasters warned gale-force winds could stir up waves of 6 to 12 feet during the night.

In Michigan, a cold spring rain combined with heavy winds to push western Lake Erie over the flood stage from the Ohio line to just south of Detroit.

Police using school buses evacuated more than 100 people from their Lake Erie shoreline homes in Gibraltar, one of Detroit's downriver suburbs, and took them to local churches.

The flood waters, described as the worst in the area in about seven years, began subsiding by mid-afternoon Monday and many of the dozens of persons evacuated were allowed to return to their homes, police said.

Hundreds of homes, however, suffered flood damage, authorities said.

Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen, accompanied by state and federal disaster officials, helicoptered over flood-stricken New Orleans Monday as residents mopped water from homes and worked on stalled cars.

Water slowly receded from homes but covered streets and parking lots in portions of Jefferson Parish, west of New Orleans. Traffic was restricted on many Jefferson thoroughfares and all schools were closed.

The National Weather Service said small rivers and streams from east central Louisiana to the Mississippi line were rising. Residents along the Pearl River and other waterways were warned to prepare for high water.

The National Weather Service recorded 9 inches of rain in New Orleans during the weekend, but workers said an unofficial gauge at a Jefferson pumping station soared to 15 inches.

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- World "Power" Attack

# Snowstorm Dwindles As Helicopters Aid Stricken Cattle Herds

Miami Herald April 4, 1980

United Press International

A severe snowstorm in the western Plains dwindled Thursday, permitting helicopters to begin delivering supplies to snowbound residents and feed to starving cattle stranded among huge drifts.

Three major snowstorms hit Colorado and the western Plains in less than a week, forcing ranchers to recruit snowmobiles and other snow-going vehicles to reach herds isolated by 20-foot drifts.

The National Weather Service reported scattered areas of light snow in parts of the Plains, but sunlight shone in many areas.

In northwest Kansas, National Guard helicopters delivered supplies to snowbound residents and feed to stranded livestock that had not been fed for days. Five counties in the area have been declared disaster areas.

The break in the snowstorm allowed a helicopter to take off Thursday morning from Otis, Colo., with a load of hay for stranded livestock in the eastern part of the state.

"In visible deaths so far, we've got 109 calves and 31 adult animals, but we know lots more animals are just plain buried," Yuma County Undersheriff Frank Scarpella said. "We've got areas that have 22-foot-high drifts."

An estimated 2,600 cattle in eastern Colorado were fed Wednesday. Officials have issued a plea for additional feed, helicopters and snow-removal equipment. Several Denver residents volunteered snowmobiles for the work.

"Even getting the feed out there, the animals are severely dehydrated," Scarpella said. "Some of them are so far gone, they are going to die anyway even with the feed."

Power was restored to some snow-crippled areas of eastern Colorado, but officials said several hundred ranches still were without electricity.

The Nebraska National Guard's 195th Armor Battalion, acting on orders from Gov. Charles Thone, began dispatching manpower and equipment to the snow-stricken west and central areas of the state.

Guard Capt. John Nollett said jeeps and heavy trucks with chains would be used, mostly for medical emergencies.

Leon Vallentine, 15, who has a kidney disease and had been stranded by the storm, was listed in stable condition at Northwest Kansas Medical Center after he was rescued by a Guard helicopter.

"It wasn't a life-threatening situation where minutes and seconds mattered, but it was important that he receive care as soon as possible," a hospital spokesman said.

Meanwhile, the Automobile Club of Michigan announced profits at Michigan's snow-starved ski resorts skidded by an estimated 33 per cent from last year's banner winter tourist season.

4-15-80 Seattle Post-Intelligencer

# Freak Rain Squall Rips Through Seattle Area

A rain squall with wind gusts up to 68 miles per hour raced through the Seattle area yesterday afternoon, causing power outages, a rash of minor traffic accidents and knocking down trees and ripping limbs.

Seattle City Light's weather monitoring equipment at its power control center near Southcenter recorded gusts up to 68 mph. The weather service said wind gusts up to 52 mph were recorded at Lake Union.

There were four or five small power outages scattered throughout the city, said City Light spokesman Mike Walter. Some 100 to 200 customers were affected by the outages, which lasted only two to three minutes.

Puget Sound Power and Light did not have any power outages due to the storm.

Police said numerous fender-benders occurred all over town during the squall. There were no serious injuries.

A tree was knocked down at 20th Avenue and Union Street, and a traffic signal was knocked down at Lake City Way N.E. and N.E. 115th Street.


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4-15-80 Seattle Times

# Storm slams Seattle area, knocks out power

City Light crews were working overtime last night to restore power in scattered pockets throughout the Seattle area after a brief but feisty thunderstorm yesterday afternoon.

The midafternoon storm was characterized by driving rain, darkened skies and lightning strikes. City Light recorded gusts up to 68 miles an hour at its weather-monitoring station near Seattle Center.

City Light said power was cut in about 50 places from the Federal Way area north to Lake Forest Park. Outage pockets included as many as 200 homes in the Three Tree Point area.

"Most of our problem areas involved only 10 to 15 customers, and in many cases only individual homes were hit," said Hugh McIntosh, City Light spokesman.

The Weather Service recorded wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour at its Lake Union station. Rainfall from midnight Sunday to 4 p.m. yesterday totaled .36 of an inch at Lake Union. "All it amounted to was an unstable air mass that followed a front that went through here in the morning," a Weather Service spokesman said. "Call it a typical spring storm."

4-15-80 Seat P-9.

# Rivers Rampage On in the South

Associated Press

Bloated rivers poured over their banks across the South yesterday, routing thousands of people and snakes, while up to a half-foot of snow smothered spring flowers from Arkansas through the Midwest.

At least nine people had been killed in storms which brought a weekend deluge to Dixie, record April cold to some towns in the Southwest and the heaviest snowfall ever to come so late in the year in Missouri.

The abnormal snowstorm brought traffic to a halt on some interstate highways in the Midwest and closed schools and knocked out power in scattered areas.

Floods claimed new territory in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, where rivers on a relentless rise breached levees and spilled over makeshift sandbag dikes.

About 1,000 people were evacuated in Jackson, Miss., where the Pearl River drove 17,000 people from their homes on Easter in 1979. The river was expected to crest in the city of 150,000 at about 38 feet, 10 feet above flood stage, sometime today.

- World "Power Attack" -

$\theta$

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08

Dr. Mishlove

MORIN

...WHAT IS THIS? SOME KIND OF JOKE?

TAKE US TO YOUR LEADERS

MORIN © 1980 MIAMI HERALD

Miami Herald April 6, 1980 (Note: lightning insignia on St. Owens.)

Some coincidence.

Owens


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4-15-80
postmark

April 15, 1980

Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove

If, perchance, you are putting this "World Power Attack" file together and following it intelligently...then you must be becoming shocked, and frightened, as I am.

Being the only human who could do such a thing...I have taken an "idea" and applied psi-force to that idea, utilizing the alien half of my brain to do so. Moreover I have "joined" with my alien UFO contacts and their other-dimensional power...also have "joined" with the ancient Egyptian power entity that I am linked with telepathically...and their infinite powers (each quite different) have joined mine to knock out "power"...any kind of power...electric, nuclear, oil, gas, coal, etc...all around the world.

And in this ever-expanding file the pattern of results is easily observable.

Let us assume that D. Scott Rogo is accurate in his book...as he may well be...and that what I am really working with is an infinitely-intelligent over-all Intelligence which he has named "The Phenomenon" (but which I prefer to think of as "The Force"...well, what's in a name, eh? They both are the same thing.

The Force seems to be able to go through, under or over any obstacle to reach its end. It seems to be able to utilize animals (see the raccoon herein); inanimate objects (see the car herein); human error; storms; lightning attacks; hurricane winds; tornadoes...any and all things to reach its end...which is, in this case, to knock out "power".

If anyone wants to argue "co-incidence" such as stupido Hynek...this file has too many cases, and varied cases, which would rule out coincidence.

Since this demonstration seems to be following the usual pattern or results...then I expect that, as time goes by, the power will increase in "the idea" and bigger and more dramatic happenings will occur than what has occurred so far into this experiment on my part. So far the largest "area" of power knock-out has been Puerto Rico...all of Puerto Rico. It might well be that The Force will, eventually in this experiment, knock out the "power" in an entire country...even, although it might sound unbelievable...knock out the power over the entire world! It would seem, on the face of it, totally impossible...but from what I have observed of the results of my UFOs and PyrCre, the Egyptian power...and "The Force"...absolutely nothing is impossible!

Sincerely,

Ted Owens (PK Man)

Owens


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12 Contaminated at San Onofre

San Onofre, S.F. Chronicle
San Diego County April 17, 1980

A dozen workmen at the San Onofre nuclear power plant were slightly contaminated by radioactive material while trying to repair a leaking steam generator, an inspector disclosed yesterday.

Bob Pate of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the contamination of the workers last weekend apparently was minor and "all of the people took showers afterward."

"A few took two or three showers," Pate said. "One guy had to wash his beard three or four times."

The plant was shut down last week after the leak was discovered and is expected to remain closed for up to two months for refueling.

"The people who went inside the generator didn't get much contamination with their plastic suits on, but they got minor contamination on their skin," Pate said.

But, outside the generator, he said, "the people didn't anticipate the amount of contamination that would be airborne and didn't have on full face masks, probably because when the sampling was done nobody was in there stirring it up."

Maintenance workers and operators were involved. Pate said only about a dozen men underwent decontamination.

Associated Press

- World "Power" Attack -
# Nuclear workers contaminated

SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (AP) -- A dozen workmen at the San Onofre nuclear power plant were slightly contaminated by radioactive material while trying to repair a leaking steam generator, an inspector disclosed Wednesday.

Bob Pate of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the contamination of the workers last weekend apparently was minor and "all of the people took showers afterward."

"A few took two or three showers," Pate said. "One guy had to wash his beard three or four times."

The plant was shut down last week after the leak was discovered and is expected to remain closed for up to two months for refueling.

"The people who went inside the generator didn't get much contamination with their plastic suits on, but they got minor contamination on their skin," Pate said.

But, outside the generator, he said, "the people didn't anticipate the amount of contamination that would be airborne and didn't have on full face masks, probably because when the sampling was done nobody was in there stirring it up."

Maintenance workers and operators were involved. Pate said only about a dozen men underwent decontamination.

The generator in Unit One converts water taken from the nuclear reactor to steam. Two other units are still under construction.

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# The nation
Oregonian April 16, 1980
# Reactor shuts off

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- A broken wire caused one of three reactors at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant to shut down Tuesday and another unit cut its power output in half, officials said.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials called it a routine shutdown at the Tennessee Valley Authority plant and said there was no escape of radiation.

Ken Clark, an NRC spokesman, said the plant's Unit 2 reactor tripped off at 7:15 a.m. because of a broken wire in the input signal mechanism for the steam feed flow.

"The safety systems are such that on certain indications they automatically signal a low-level trip," he said. "It's not a major problem."

Craven Crowell, a spokesman at TVA's headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., said a maintenance employee working on a steam-flow recorder apparently was responsible for the broken wire.

4-11-80 Oreg Journal
# Radioactive water leak closes N-plant

SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (UPI) -- Leakage of radioactive water from a steam generating unit at the San Onofre nuclear plant forced operators to start a seven-week refueling operation ahead of schedule.

Bob Hull, a spokesman for Southern California Edison Co., operators of the plant, said Thursday the leakage occurred in a contained area and presented no threat to plant employees.

The volume of leakage amounted to about 150 gallons a day, below the maximum allowable amount set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

- World "Power" Attack -

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Associated Press Laserphoto

DISASTER DRILL -- Third graders at Hancock Elementary School in San Francisco huddle together under a desk as part of a mock disaster Friday. The drill was the largest in California history.

With mock disaster Oregonian April 19, 1980

# Bay area practices for earthquake

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Helicopters ferried gore-smeared "victims," children crouched beneath their desks and radios cracked with news of disaster Friday as San Francisco, leveled 74 years ago, rehearsed for the next great quake.

The exercise, called Cal Medex 80, was the largest in California history. It began at 5:23 a.m. when officials said an earthquake hit registering 8.3 on the Richter scale. That was the same time the earthquake of April 18, 1906, jarred the city into flaming rubble.

Much of the action -- involving some 2,500 people, including about 900 National Guard members -- took place at some of the city's hospitals, where triage, a system for choosing and treating the most seriously injured first, was practiced on Guard members in dramatic makeup.

Four state helicopters shuffled the injured in and out of casualty centers, including a huge area in Golden Gate Park. Telephones were avoided, simulating expected trouble with phone lines. Radios crackled with messages from medical crews evaluating the hordes of injured in ghoulish makeup.

City officials say the test was desperately needed, because experts insist another big quake is on the way.

One of the most ominous predictions comes from Bruce Bolt, head of the University of California's seismograph station at Berkeley. He says there is a 50-50 chance that a paralyzing temblor will devastate San Francisco before the '80s pass, leaving thousands dead and much of the city in ruins.

Dr. Donald Trunkey, chief of surgery at San Francisco General and a member of the state's Office of Emergency Services medical team, says flatly that the city is not prepared to face a major quake.

"It would be a disaster," he said. "It's that simple. We're not prepared."

Planners admit they are just beginning to fill the gaps in the city's emergency plan. They expect at least 5,000 deaths, thousands of injuries and acres of destruction, including falling buildings, buckled roads, fires, failed water supplies and a host of other major and minor problems when the great quake hits.

The exercise was guided from the main fire station, where Tom Jenkins, an architect with the Office of Emergency Services, directed activities.

In a real disaster, Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Phil Day, a retired Army colonel who now is director of emergency services, would run the show. They both traveled around the city Friday, viewing the action.

Note: April 16 has passed and no base. Owens.


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April 23, 1980

Jeffrey Mishlove

As you are aware, I am doing a personal private experiment, utilizing the Davis-Besse N-Power, plus my own subtle, yet fierce powers... to attack all forms of life on a world-wide basis. I do believe that this newsclip confirms all the city-wide life I've set out to snuff out the effective way in my life. I hope you Jeffrey Mishlove, can see that we have an admitted anomaly called "unique" by an expert... Truly the power was knocked out in the nuclear facility even though it was shut down.

How many of my demonstrations have been called "one of a kind" or "special" or "the worst within a century" and so on?

For a world-wide experiment, it is frightening!

Ted Owens

PK / Man S

*results of my experiment thus far

# Contaminated Water Spills From Reactor

PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) -- About 2,000 gallons of contaminated water spilled from a nuclear reactor at the Davis-Besse power plant after a power loss triggered a surge of water in the shut down reactor's cooling system, officials said yesterday.

Some contaminated water splashed on the pants of a worker and 40 to 60 other workers were evacuated because a ventilation system was knocked out by the power failure, and heat exhaustion was feared, a company spokesman said.

The reactor was not operating during the weekend accident, and no radiation escaped from the plant, said Roger Buehrer, public information officer for Toledo Edison Co.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent two more inspectors to the north-central Ohio plant after the accident. Jan Strasma, an NRC spokesman, said a breakdown at a shut down facility was "unusual, nigh unto unique."

The accident occurred Saturday during maintenance, officials said.


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Washington Research Center
3101 Washington Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

April 29, 1980

Dear Ted,

I've been thinking about you and your situation lately, so I thought I would drop you a letter to share some of my thoughts with you.

As you know, I've been receiving your information about shutdowns at nuclear power plants lately and I think that this is very interesting. Of course, I have no background statistical data base regarding these events, and as I've told you many times, this is necessary to make any logical evaluation of your demonstrations. However, as I recall, you originally stated that this one was not for the scientists.

Back in 1976, when we first met and I started following your career, it was my intention to help you then establish some credibility for your work in the eyes of the larger public. My attempt was in terms of well-written, logical letters--and the scientific report on you. The impact of this has been largely minimal. I think there are several reasons for this, which I shall list as follows;

(1) Probably most important, what you have done is mind-boggling. Many people are simply not willing to accept that weather control or prediction is even possible. In fact, they are not even willing to seriously examine data, such as the report, which suggests such a possibility. It is too much of a challenge to people's belief systems.

(2) There are a number of people, however, who accept the reality of psi. They don't exactly disbelieve your powers, rather they dislike your flamboyant style. It will be to your advantage if you can understand their point of view with sympathy, even if they cannot understand or sympathize with your position. To many of these people you seem evil and dangerous (injuries, plane crashes, forest fires, droughts, accidents, storms, deaths, etc.). To some people you seem crazy, with your insistence on exorbitant (or at least unrealistically negotiated) fees for your services. To some you seem paranoid in your belief that government agents are out to destroy your career, with apparently little thought with how you yourself interfere with your own best interests. To others you seem, at times, like a braggart and egotist--even if your abilities are real. From my point of view, frankly, you are all of these things and also none of them. I think you understand me.

Now that I have finally received my doctoral degree, I am in a position where what I have to say is given greater legitimization and credibility. I have the ear of the newspapers, wire services, the business world and the academic world--at least to a larger extent than before. So, to a degree, the first objection that I mentioned above is being overcome. This leaves the second one for us to deal with, if we wish to achieve mutual goals.


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# Sparks Fly, But Most Of Old Base in Dark

Miami Herald March 7, 1980

By JANET FIX
Herald Staff Writer

KEY WEST -- When a power cable feeding the old Navy base blew up this week, causing a major power outage, switchboards at the City Electric System and U.S. Department of Navy in Washington lit up.

And then the sparks started flying. Meanwhile, many of the 35 leaseholders using property on the Truman Annex remain without power.

"We've been sitting in the dark since Monday," said Nancy Slickner, head of the Community Mental Health Clinic, a leaseholder. "Everybody knows the power is out, but everybody says it's somebody elses responsibility to fix."

WHAT DOES IT mean when the lights go out? It means those little luxuries and modern conveniences such as electric typewriters and air conditioners sit idle as well as the secretaries who use them.

The Naval Security Group Detachment was without power for a while. But Navy officials have made sure that the communications group with the capability to monitor ships in the Atlantic Ocean and charged with other top security duties has power by backfeeding through its own line.

"A Navy official said those at the top in Washington called immediately to see to it that they got power," Slickner said. "Those of us at the bottom still don't have lights though."

Leaseholders have been told it could be another week before the cable was repaired and power restored.

U.S. Naval Air Station Commander W. Ivan Lewis said the damaged cable is an out-of-date model that CES doesn't have the capability of repairing.

"We will repair the cable if they will pay for all costs," said Capt. Lewis. "Last night, there was another power line failure at Truman Annex -- a transformer blew out. So we didn't get started on the cable repair this morning."

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The COLUMBIAN
Sunday, March 16, 1980
Vancouver, Wash.

# Outage blamed for fish deaths

WENATCHEE (AP) -- An estimated 26,000 6- to 9-inch coho salmon are believed to have died at the Chelan County Public Utility District's Turtle Rock Island rearing facility because of a wind-caused power outage this week.

A preliminary survey indicated that up to 65 percent of the yearling salmon may have perished for lack of oxygen. They were scheduled for release this spring. Officials say the effect may be cumulative and more may die.

The rearing facility is located behind Rocky Reach Dam.

District personnel as well as representatives of the state Fisheries Department are assessing the damage to the remaining fish.

During Wednesday evening's windstorm, the Rocky Reach substation failed, the PUD reported. At that time, an emergency power supply came on line and repowered the two pumps at the Turtle Rock facility.

When the substation came back on line, the switching gear failed to transfer power to one of the pumps.

As a result of the pump failure, fresh water did not enter the coho section of the raceway, cutting oxygen supplies.


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World "Power" Attack

A10 THE OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1980

# Ranchers fight to save cattle as Colorado faces new storm

By ANDREW ROSENTHAL

DENVER (AP) -- Ranchers battled huge drifts in an effort to save freezing cattle from snow and prowling coyotes as the eastern third of Colorado remained isolated Tuesday by a chain of storms that knocked out power to about 3,000 households.

"Baby calves are being dropped and dying right on the spot," said Holyoke rancher Joe Ortner. "Some babies are being separated from their mothers. Now the coyotes are starting to work on the calves. I chased some off last night."

Parts of the snowbound eastern Colorado plains were completely isolated by the storms. Ranchers and farmers had to look to their neighbors for help in digging out and getting ready for what forecasters predicted would be another bad storm.

"You can put on your overshoes and come help," Mrs. Frank Musgrave of Hoyt told a reporter by telephone.

Ortner said some families had been trapped at home since last week.

"The main thing for us is to get to the vets and get some medical supplies out here," he said, adding the snow was so deep that a four-wheel-drive tractor fitted with a 14-foot cutting blade could not get through.

Meanwhile, a National Guard helicopter took off for a reconnaissance flight as the latest in the weeklong cycle of storms abated Tuesday, said a spokeswoman for Gov. Richard Lamm.

"Our main worry at this point is the next storm," Sue O'Brien, Lamm's press secretary, said. "The weather service says it's going to hit us hard late tomorrow."

Ms. O'Brien said state aid likely would be needed beyond the $7,000 Lamm granted last week to help deliver hay to Yuma County herds. But she said Lamm would not make such decisions until "we have a better idea of what kind of a problem we have."

In Kansas, a state disaster emergency was declared in five northwestern counties where the 4 to 5 inches of fresh snow fell early Tuesday. The storm was blamed for holding down the turnout in the state's first presidential primary.

The storm also produced up to 1 1/2 inches of rain just to the east of the heavy snow and Kansas officials were worried that it might cause flash flooding in eastern parts of the state.

Roads were closed throughout the region by the storm, which followed another snowstorm by less than one day. Ground cover of more than 1 foot was reported in several areas, with drifts up to 20 feet.

Disaster crews in Colorado, their helicopters grounded by 30 mph winds, set out in Sno-Cats at daybreak to help ranchers bring hay to starving herds in Yuma County, which was declared a disaster area late last week after the storms.

The storms snapped utility poles by the hundreds and power lines were coated with up to 3 inches of ice.

Officials of the three rural electric associations serving eastern Colorado said crews began work at dawn. Power would be restored in some areas by late afternoon, but others would be without electricity for up to three more days, officials said.

Of primary concern were newborn calves and lambs in northeast Colorado. An estimated 4,000 cattle were stranded in Yuma County.

"We've got huge drifts. I'm not sure how deep it is," said Vicky Grey of Ordway. "My husband is out trying to see if he can feed now."

Some ranchers said they were able to save their herds by bringing them into feedlots or sheltering them in the lee of farm buildings.

"Sometimes they take them right into the house," said extension agent Jane Esarey of Cheyenne Wells. "It's been three years since we had one this bad."

"I'm afraid there's not much we can do," said Dave Lawton, operations officer for the Division of Disaster Emergency Services. "We have kind of ruled out helicopter feeding. That gets to be way too expensive and they just can't carry enough hay."

The storms were blamed by the state patrol for at least four traffic deaths and may have contributed to the crash of a light plane last Thursday in which 10 persons died.


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my birthday. Owens

THE MIAMI HERALD Saturday, March 8, 1980

# Eight Suspended In Reactor Probe

From Herald Wire Services

ATHENS, Ala. -- A reactor at the nation's largest nuclear plant was mysteriously shut down three times in less than a week, prompting the suspension of eight employees and an investigation by the FBI, federal officials said Friday.

The shutdowns occurred last month at one of three reactors at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Officials would not say whether the incidents were believed deliberate.

John Schlatter, a TVA spokesman at the agency's headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., said the shutdowns posed no danger to the public.

The first shutdown occurred Feb. 10 as the Unit Two turbine was wheeling through its million-kilowatt peak. The reactor turned itself off again on Feb. 12 and 15.

After the first two shutdowns, or "trips," the reactor was restarted within a matter of hours. But when the third unexplained trip occurred, engineers ordered operations halted until the cause was determined.

On March 3, the unit went back on line though no operational reason for the shutdowns could be found.

Schlatter said the eight plant employees were suspended for the duration of the investigation. He would not identify the employees or say what type work they performed.

"I can't tell you what they are," he said, "but I can tell you what they aren't. They aren't operators, they aren't control-room employees."

Oregonian March 21, 1980

# Protest disrupts royal tour

BRIDGWATER, England (AP) -- Police Wednesday dragged protesters from the path of Prince Charles' car as he arrived to inspect Britain's first commercial gas-cooled nuclear reactor.

About 35 protesters, including women with children, moved to block the car carrying the heir to the British throne as it approached the Hinkley Point power station in Somerset County near here.

Three demonstrators flung themselves in front of the car, slowing it almost to a standstill. Police pulled them to the side of the road.

The demonstrators said they feared the power station would pose health and environmental dangers, and cited the leak of nuclear material last year from the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor near Harrisburg, Pa.

Briefly Miami Herald

# N-Plant Out 2-3 Months Fla.

march 12, 1980

The Crystal River nuclear plant, shut down by an electronic failure two weeks ago, will stay down for two or three months for repairs and refueling, a Florida Power Corp. spokesman says.

Utility officials said they hope the troubled unit can be returned to commercial operation by late May or early June, in time to meet peak summer demand.

"We hope to begin the refueling cycle shortly after the first of April and be able to run the unit hard this summer" said William Johnson, company spokesman.

An alternative that had been considered was to make the repairs mandated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and restart, waiting until fall to take the unit off-line for the weeks-long refueling operation. But this would have meant operating at limited capacity through the summer.

March 8, 1980

# Faulty Circuit Shut N-Plant Fla. Miami Herald

ORLANDO (AP) -- A missed connection between an electrical circuit board and a tiny pin caused the emergency shutdown of the Crystal River nuclear power plant, federal officials said Friday.

They said, however, investigators still are not sure whether the problem was caused by a flaw in the circuit board or by faulty installation, or if similar problems exist at other nuclear plants.

Florida Power Corp. spokesman William C. Johnson said the investigation determined the circuit board "did not make a firm connection with one of the pins. That resulted in an eventual shorting out of the 24-volt circuit in the drawer which then set off a chain of events leading to shutdown. The exact scenario of the shutdown is still being studied."

The plant, situated on the Gulf Coast about 70 miles north of Tampa, automatically shut down Feb. 26 when the power supply to the control systems was suddenly interrupted.

Then 43,000 gallons of radioactive water from the plant's cooling system spilled onto the floor of the containment building, which houses the nuclear core.

The water was pumped out and the plant is in "cold shutdown." No exact time has been set when it will become operational.

WORLD "POWER" ATTACK!!

Owens


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Miami Herald March 9, 1980

# Aqueduct Officials: Keys Have Only Half-Day Reserve of Water

By JANET FIX
Herald Staff Writer

KEY WEST -- Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority officials Saturday said that there isn't enough drinking water in reserve tanks to last a half-day, and warned residents that they must cut all but essential water use immediately or there won't be any water at all.

"This time there's no other choice. People either conserve or we'll be out of water," said Billy Ladd, engineering supervisor for the desalination plant on Stock Island. "We're in really bad trouble."

Water reserves throughout the Keys dwindled to a 4 million gallons Saturday. The normal daily consumption is about 8 million gallons.

WATER PRESSURE has been reduced to the lowest level allowed by state law, 20 pounds per square inch (psi).

To make matters worse, the reverse osmosis plant on Rock Harbor, which generally produces 600,000 gallons a day, broke down at 5:30 p.m. Officials didn't know when the plant would be back in operation.

"We either have to conserve water or we'll be sucking mud instead of water by midnight."
-- FKAA board member Ed Jackson

water or we'll be sucking mud instead of water by midnight," FKAA board member Ed Jackson said.

After struggling for two days, workers managed to get the desal plant, Key West's primary source of drinking water, back into operation late Friday night.

The breakdown coupled with heavy water demand by residents and tourists have made the situation critical. Only a week ago, reserves, which normally total 25 million to 30 million gallons, was at about 10 million gallons. Anything below a 15-million-gallon level is considered "critical."

Much of the reserve supply may be unavailable anyway. At several of the tanks around the county, pressure may be lost if water levels dip below about 2.5 feet.

MEANWHILE, the demand for water remained high Saturday as residents complained bitterly of insufficient water pressure. Nearly 8.7 million gallons were used -- about 300,000 gallons more than the entire aqueduct system is able to produce.

"We're selling everything we can pump," one desal plant worker said.

"I don't see how they can let the situation get as bad as this," exclaimed Kathy Greenwood, who lives in a second-floor apartment here. "I can't even flush my toilet. We haven't had a dribble of water in the faucets since Friday night. I have stuff floating in my toilet. It's unsanitary."

Aqueduct board members Ed Jackson and Joe Balbontin Saturday sought help from state Sen. Vernon Holloway (D., Miami). Holloway said he has arranged an emergency meeting between FKAA officials and Gov. Bob Graham in Miami today.


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Miami Herald March 10, 1980

# Ocean Becomes the Bathtub As Keys' Water Runs Short

By JANET FIX
Herald Staff Writer

KEY WEST -- Residents and tourists flocked to swimming pools and beaches here Sunday, not to worship the sun but to take baths that many couldn't get at home because of a critical water shortage.

Water reserves in the Florida Keys dwindled to about four million gallons -- the lowest point water officials could remember. The normal daily consumption is about 8.5 million gallons -- about the same amount that is produced daily.

"I've never seen so many locals coming out for a swim," said a pool manager at one of Key West's luxury hotels. "One guest called to ask if the pool was clean enough to swim in because so many people came out to bathe in the pool yesterday."

"People used to ask for rooms by the water," quipped one employe at the Pier House Inn. "Now they ask for rooms with water."

Dwindling reserves have also caused pressure levels in the tanks to drop so low that water only dribbled out of first-floor faucets. And many residents in upper-story homes have been without water since Friday.

Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority and state officials apparently can't decide whether a crisis exists.

Three FKAA board members Saturday asked Sen. Vernon Holloway (D., Miami) to seek help from Gov. Bob Graham.

But Graham called Holloway Sunday afternoon to say he had been told there was no emergency.

"How embarrassed could I be?" Holloway said later. "I got several calls from commissioners saying the problem [Sunday] was worse than on Saturday, that people are using buckets of water to flush toilets.

"Then the governor says that Billy Ladd [engineering supervisor at the Stock Island desalinization plant] told him that there no longer was an emergency down there. I don't know what's going on down there. I know this thing isn't contrived."

LADD COULD not be reached for comment Sunday night.

But FKAA board member Joe Balbontin said that "some wires got crossed" when Ladd's message was relayed to Graham through several state officials.

Sunday night, Holloway said he had spoken again with Graham, who said he would check into the legality of using emergency money for a reverse-osmosis plan. The governor also said he would check this morning to see that a plant is built immediately, Holloway said.

But aqueduct officials say a reverse-osmosis plant is not an answer to the immediate problem. It would take months for a plant to be put in operation. In the meantime, no decisions have been made to ration water.

The Keys depend on the mainland for much of its water supply. About 6.2 million gallons of fresh water are pumped daily from Florida City through an 18-inch, 130-mile pipeline. Built in the 1940s to supply the Navy installation here, that line now serves 60,000 residents and thousands of tourists annually. A new pipeline is two years away from completion.

The Keys also depend on a reverse-osmosis plant at Rock Harbor, which produces about 540,000 gallons daily, and on production from the 13-year-old desalination plant on Stock Island. In particular, continual breakdowns at the desalination plant, which produces 2.2 million gallons daily, aggravate the problem. The latest breakdown, on Thursday, shut the plant for two days.

Key West's Conchs have grown accustomed to continual water shortages.

"We use buckets of water to flush our toilets," said Ellen Martin, a Key West retiree. "And we laugh at the looks on tourists' faces when they ask for a glass of water and the waitress says, 'We don't have any.'"

Some don't laugh, however.

"We've got a lot of old folks out here who have to go down to the first floor to get water from the fire hydrants to drink," said a 68-year-old man living on the fifth floor of the Senior Citizens Center. "We haven't been able to take a shower in two months."

Turn to Page 10A Col. 1

10-A THE MIAMI HERALD Monday, March 10, 1980

# Keys' Water Is Critically Short

Note: "Linger effect" from Florida demonstration.

Owens.


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# n-plant explosion injures 3 workers

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) -- Three construction workers remained hospitalized Monday -- one of them in critical condition -- following in a gas explosion at Consumers Power Co.'s nuclear plant construction site near Midland, officials at a Saginaw hospital said.

The explosion occurred Saturday in the auxiliary building at the plant, while construction workers for Bechtel Corp. were checking a leak in a "Mapp" gas line, said Consumers project superintendent Thomas Cooke.

The gas was used for steel-cutting construction equipment, and is similar to that used to fuel an acetylene torch, Cooke said. He could not be more specific.

The damage, which Cooke called "not major," was confined to an electrical junction in the auxiliary building, and did not involve any nuclear elements.

MARCH 18, 1980

Miami Herald
March 11, 1980

## TVA Suspects Worker

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -- An investigation into a series of mysterious shutdowns at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama was narrowed Monday to one worker. But Tennessee Valley Authority officials said no motive or cause was apparent for the "trippings" that cost users $2.8 million.

Miami Herald

# Turkey Point Turbine on List For Inspection

March 7, 1980

Herald Staff and Wire Reports

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered inspections at 11 nuclear power units nationwide, including the Turkey Point unit south of Miami, to detect possible cracks in Westinghouse turbines in use at the plants.

NRC spokeswoman Sue Gagner said the cracks pose no nuclear danger. The turbines are located outside the containment structure that protects the nuclear reactors.

Turbines are driven at high speed by steam power produced by the nuclear reactor. The turbine spins a shaft that powers electrical generators.

"We do not consider this a terrible serious safety concern," Gagner said. "It is something that we're looking at."

She said one Westinghouse turbine failed last month at the Yankee Rowe nuclear plant in Massachusetts. Excessive vibration damaged the turbine discs and blades, she said.

Gagner said the NRC was concerned about the remote danger that a turbine or piece of a turbine could become detached while spinning at high speed and penetrate the nuclear containment structure. "It is highly improbable, but it is something we're looking at in order to be conservative," she said.

Florida Power and Light spokesman Tony Bruns said the utility was aware of the problem before the NRC warning. The utility had discovered cracks in the turbine at Turkey Point III.

That turbine on the Turkey Point III unit has already been replaced, Bruns said. The turbine in Turkey Point II will be inspected when the unit shuts down for refueling later this month.

The turbine for FPL's St. Lucie I nuclear plant will be inspected when the unit routinely shuts down next week, Bruns said.

Other plants receiving the NRC warning include Commonwealth Edison's Zion I unit north of Chicago; the Surry II in Surry, Va.; Robinson near Darlington, S.C.; Point Beach I near Manitowoc, Wis.; Palisades near South Haven, Mich.; Indian Point Units II and III, 25 miles north of New York City; Beaver Valley I, near East Liverpool, Ohio, and Arkansas I near Russellville, Ark.


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oh yes? if "commonplace" then why are they trying "to determine what caused the current crisis"?!!

20-A THE MIAMI HERALD Tuesday, March 11, 1980

# Tourist Finds Soft Drink Order Doesn't Mix With Water Crisis

(Note: Result of Fla. Demonstration)

By JANET FIX And ROBERT RIVAS
Herald Staff Writers

KEY WEST -- Dalon Schmidt couldn't even get it his way at Burger King Monday. He got his Whopper -- no cheese -- but was told to forget the orange soda.

"Sorry, it's the water shortage," a Burger King employee said sheepishly. "There isn't enough water to mix with the soda."

Schmidt, of Marion, Ohio, shook his head and muttered something about reliving a bad dream.

"I was here last year at this time," he said. "The Keys were having a water crisis then."

WATER CRISES have become commonplace in the Florida Keys over the last few years. Newspaper accounts dating to 1976 reported that water reserves "are critical" and "immediate and severe conservation measures" must be started.

Monday, after water reserves had already dwindled to 4.5 million gallons -- about half the normal daily consumption -- Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority (FKAA) Manager Dennis Wardlow ordered mandatory conservation measures that will remain in effect until reserves rise above 15 million gallons.

Water pumped into homes and businesses will be shut off between midnight and 5 a.m. every day in an effort to fill reserve tanks.

# Florida News

Drug Bills OKd .......... 8C

they knew a water shortage was imminent, called upon Gov. Bob Graham to investigate the Keys water crisis.

THE CHAMBER want the governor to appoint a "blue-ribbon" panel of engineering and accounting experts to determine what caused the current crisis. HA HA

Meanwhile, FKAA officials were awaiting word that Graham would release state money to buy a reverse-osmosis plant.

But Graham's press secretary, Steve Hull, said Monday night that the governor has been monitoring the Keys water situation for several weeks and doesn't plan any immediate emergency action.

"The governor plans to talk with members of the legislative delegation from the keys while their in Tallahassee during legislative hearings and then make a determination what the next step will be.

"OUR OFFICE of Disaster Preparedness is in constant contact with the officials in that area and is monitoring the situation, but in terms of any emergency action, there is none planned at this time," Hull said.

FKAA officials said consumers don't have to worry that the water is contaminated, even though it's being pumped at below standard pressures. Officials said that purity tests are made daily, boil order would be issued if tamination is found.

But many residents say don't believe the FKAA officials. "Are you kidding? I'm not to drink that water," said Chris Faden, 69, one Key Wester boils water or buys bottled water. "It's got to be unsanitary. I have use three buckets of water just flush my toilet."

WARDLOW ALSO announced that the pressure would be reduced to 10 pounds per square inch (psi) in the aqueduct system, except during peak consumption hours of 7-8 a.m., noon to 1 p.m. and 6-7 p.m. when the pressure would be raised to 25 psi.

State health laws require that water pressure be kept above 20 psi.

But Wardlow said the actions were necessary because of "critical water storage levels ... and the failure of the general public to curb consumption." He warned that anyone caught washing cars, watering lawns or filling swimming pools will have the water cut off completely.

Marathon resident Fletcher Brown, 73, says the mandatory conservation orders don't bother him. "Heck, that's been going on already," he said. "I got up in the middle of the night last week for a drink of water and I couldn't get a drop of water out of the faucet ... not one single drop."

The conservation measures failed to appease Key West businessmen. The Greater Key West Chamber of Commerce, accusing FKAA officials of "sitting on their hands" while


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Would First N-War Strike In U.S. Kill 185 Million?

Miami Herald March 12, 1980
London Observer Service

LONDON -- About 88 per cent of the population of the United States, or nearly 185 million persons, would be killed outright by a full-scale Soviet first-strike at the American homeland.

This is just one of a number of horrifying scenarios set out in dry scientific detail in an American report, The Effects of Nuclear War, compiled by the Office of Technology for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The report examines the effects of a range of nuclear attacks, including the ultimate horror of an all-out strike by all but 10 to 15 per cent of the Soviet Union's 22,000 warheads, aimed at U.S. military sites and industrial and population centers.

Similar U.S. attacks on the Soviet Union would produce a lower number of fatalities: between 40 and 50 per cent of the population if there had been no warning and evacuation; between 22 and 26 per cent if the Kremlin had had time to order evacuation. These lower figures are explained partly by the more scattered nature of the population of the Soviet Union, and partly by the higher yield of Soviet warheads.

The document concludes that even a limited nuclear attack would do "enormous" damage. An attack on U.S. oil refineries by 10 Soviet missiles could produce as many as 20 million deaths.

Post-blast damage could be equally catastrophic. Millions injured in the blast eventually would die from lack of medical attention. Millions might starve or freeze.

Cancer and genetic defects would affect many millions over the 40 years after the attack.

"What is clear is that from the day the survivors emerged from their fallout shelters a kind of race for survival would begin," the report says.

One side of this race would be the restoration of production of food, energy, clothing and the means to repair damaged machines. The other side would be the consumption of food and goods, which might be at a rate that would destroy all means of economic recovery.

Note: I can handle this... so that it does not happen!!

But not... without the Base.

Gwenz


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3-14-80 Oregonian

# Quake preparedness focus of hearings in California

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A state Assembly subcommittee, spurred by a federal agency's statement of concern, plans hearings next month aimed at preparing Californians for disastrous earthquakes.

Recent developments suggest more strongly than ever that "we had better start, as responsibly as possible, to make people aware that these things (earthquake disasters) are liable to happen, they can happen and we have got to be prepared," Assemblyman Frank Vicencia, D-Bellflower, said.

He quoted from a letter received Tuesday from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It said scientists have made "a number of observations in Southern California which suggest that a substantial earthquake may be more probable now than we would normally expect."

It said scientists don't know whether unusual geologic changes signal an approaching quake but "it is clear ... that these anomalies must be taken very seriously."

Vicencia emphasized that no earthquake is being predicted and he warned against overreaction.

But, he told a news conference, "If anything should happen after we have received this information and we had not made the public aware of those concerns, then I think that would be irresponsible."

Vicencia said a subcommittee of his Committee on Governmental Organization concluded in January, after 18 months of hearings, that California "is not prepared to respond to a major disaster affecting a metropolitan area."

That alleged shortcoming, plus the federal concerns, mean government at all levels must "begin to move ahead" quickly with disaster planning and public education, he said.

Ted - Here is a 2nd copy if needed

Note: In this file you can see that the people of California have been warned, just as my earlier letter to you (stating that California will be wrecked by the UFOs & Ps. Cs. if the Base is not forthcoming)... also contained my statement that the California people should be warned of possible disaster ahead!

Owens

2


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Miami Herald March 16, 1980

# Brown Snow Shakes Up Folks in Central Maine

AUGUSTA, Maine -- (UPI) -- Snow falling in central Maine was dirty even before it touched the ground and no one seemed to know why.

The snow started turning yellow or orange-brown late Friday afternoon. Bewildered residents started putting calls through to the Bureau of Air Quality Control for answers.

Officials at the Department of Environmental Protection were just as confounded by the occurrence.

"We've taken samples and put them in the refrigerator for tests," said David Leake, the DEP's public information director. "Evidently, it ranges from a yellowish color to an orangey-brown color. We don't have any way of knowing what's causing it."

Leake urged residents everywhere in the state to write the agency if they notice discolored snow in their communities.

"We know it's happened in central Maine," said Leake. "But we want to know what kind of area this stuff fell over, for some idea of tracking this thing or what caused it."

He said the dirty snow should not be dangerous, or a health hazard, but was just a "scientific phenomenon."

Note: Red Sweat & Brown Snow.

# Snow, Rain Plaster Northeast, Big Cities

Miami Herald March 15, 1980

Associated Press

The season's "first real nor'easter" plastered the Northeast with up to a foot of snow Friday, shutting down schools, darkening homes and giving commuters fits in the slushy big cities.

At least four deaths were attributed to the storm which moved in late Thursday and spent the night unloading snow and freezing rain from Virginia to northern New England.

Snow was up to 13 inches deep in the mountains of New York and five inches deep in Manhattan. Maryland got about seven inches and depths across New England ranged from three to six inches, with up to a foot expected in some of the mountains.

TWO PEOPLE were killed on slick highways in New York, one in Maryland and one in Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, flooding hit parts of South Carolina and northern Florida and residents of Ocean City, Md., were patching up damage from gale winds Thursday night that ripped the roofs off two beachfront motels and caused widespread beach erosion.

"I heard, like, trumpets going through my house," said Dennis Sesplankis, manager of the Gateway motel in Ocean City. "It was a weird experience. We lost about four rooms completely -- torn off and blown away."

An earthen dam holding back rain-swollen 100-acre lake near Fairfax, S.C., burst Friday morning, sending water five feet deep across U.S. 321 and knocking out two bridges and secondary roads. It sent a 50-foot wide stream of water across about six miles of woods and farmlands, washing away the foundation of one unoccupied house.

In the Virginia suburbs of Washington, freezing rain that turned to snow during the night toppled tree onto power lines, blacking out 15,000 homes.

BOSTON SCHOOL children got an extra holiday as the storm brought three inches of snow, and rains that flooded parts of the Massachusetts Turnpike and Route 128.

"A lot of cars are getting washed out when they hit the water," said Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Paul Beloff.

Rush-hour traffic also was snarled in New York City, where the overnight snow turned to rain and hail and then back into snow. A multiple bus-car accident in the Lincoln Tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey backed up traffic for miles.

On Long Island, police said 200 cars were disabled along the Long Island Expressway and the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway. One officer described it as "a mess with cars all over the place."

Oregonian

# Tornado injures 2

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- A tornado ripped through a gymnasium roof Monday, destroyed six homes, leveled three buildings, cut off power and injured two persons.

Elam Carlton, superintendent at Oakland High School, said: "The roof was blown off part of the gymnasium, and there was scattered damage throughout the school. Many of the students were inside when it hit, but there were no emergency procedures under way because it hit without warning."

March 28, 1980


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N-plant explosion injures 3 workers

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) -- Three construction workers remained hospitalized Monday -- one of them in critical condition -- following in a gas explosion at Consumers Power Co.'s nuclear plant construction site near Midland, officials at a Saginaw hospital said.

The explosion occurred Saturday in the auxiliary building at the plant, while construction workers for Bechtel Corp. were checking a leak in a "Mapp" gas line, said Consumers project superintendent Thomas Cooke.

The gas was used for steel-cutting construction equipment, and is similar to that used to fuel an acetylene torch, Cooke said. He could not be more specific.

The damage, which Cooke called "not major," was confined to an electrical junction in the auxiliary building, and did not involve any nuclear elements.

MARCH 18, 1980

Miami Herald
March 11, 1980

TVA Suspects Worker

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- (UPI) -- An investigation into a series of mysterious shutdowns at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama was narrowed Monday to one worker. But Tennessee Valley Authority officials said no motive or cause was apparent for the "trippings" that cost users $2.8 million.

Miami Herald
Turkey Point Turbine on List For Inspection
March 11, 1980

Herald Staff and Wire Reports

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered inspections at 11 nuclear power units nationwide, including the Turkey Point unit south of Miami, to detect possible cracks in Westinghouse turbines in use at the plants.

NRC spokeswoman Sue Gagner said the cracks pose no nuclear danger. The turbines are located outside the containment structure that protects the nuclear reactors.

Turbines are driven at high speed by steam power produced by the nuclear reactor. The turbine spins a shaft that powers electrical generators.

"We do not consider this a terribly serious safety concern," Gagner said. "It is something that we're looking at."

She said one Westinghouse turbine failed last month at the Yankee Rowe nuclear plant in Massachusetts. Excessive vibration damaged the turbine discs and blades, she said.

Gagner said the NRC was concerned about the remote danger that a turbine or piece of a turbine could become detached while spinning at high speed and penetrate the nuclear containment structure.

"It is highly improbable, but it is something we're looking at in order to be conservative," she said.

Florida Power and Light spokesman Tony Bruns said the utility was aware of the problem before the NRC warning. The utility had discovered cracks in the turbine at Turkey Point III.

That turbine on the Turkey Point III unit has already been replaced, Bruns said. The turbine in Turkey Point II will be inspected when the unit shuts down for refueling later this month.

The turbine for FPL's St. Lucie I nuclear plant will be inspected when the unit routinely shuts down next week, Bruns said.

Other plants receiving the NRC warning include Commonwealth Edison's Zion I unit north of Chicago; the Surry II in Surry, Va.; Robinson near Darlington, S.C.; Point Beach I near Manitowoc, Wis.; Palisades near South Haven, Mich.; Indian Point Units II and III, 25 miles north of New York City; Beaver Valley I, near East Liverpool, Ohio, and Arkansas I near Russellville, Ark.


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entists Agree: No One Can 'Win' a Nuclear War

Oregonian March 18, 1980

by DR. FREDERIC SOLOMON And DR. MARY COLEMAN

A BELIEF that the United States should be able to win an all-out nuclear war with the Soviet Union appears to be one foundation of George Bush's approach to military and foreign policy. He rejects the idea that nuclear war has no winners. Bush foresees "survivability" of industrial potential, command and control functions, and a "percentage of the citizens" - even if "everybody fires everything he has" in a nuclear exchange.

As physicians, we are dismayed and alarmed by these pronouncements of a respected political leader, because current medical knowledge shows Bush's assumptions to be dead wrong.

Earlier this month, a group of distinguished physicians and natural scientists met in Cambridge to review the medical consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Harvard and Tufts medical schools and Physicians for Social Responsibility. At the conference, renowned authorities documented the futility of medical disaster planning for nuclear war. Effective civil defense and ecological recovery were likewise shown to be essentially impossible.

CONSIDER this information, presented at the symposium:

The single bomb dropped on Hiroshima had the explosive force of about 15 kilotons (15,000 tons of TNT). Nuclear weapons in present-day arsenals range in size from one kiloton to 20 megatons (20 million tons of TNT). Today the United States has over 30,000 nuclear bombs, and the Soviet Union has 20,000.

In an all-out nuclear exchange, all major population and industrial centers would be hit, both in the United States and the Soviet Union. Such an exchange could be complete in one hour. At least 90 percent of the population of both countries would die as a direct result of the thermonuclear blast and radiation.

The survivors, many of them blind and grievously injured, would have to cope with an environmental and ecological catastrophe. Worldwide fallout would contaminate the earth for thousands of years. Plant and bacterial mutations, the disappearance of most birds and mammals, alterations in the earth's temperature, and other atmospheric changes would result in disease, famine, and floods on an unprecedented scale.

Drs. Solomon and Coleman have practices in Washington, D.C.

AFTER an all-out nuclear war, most of the ozone layer in the earth's atmosphere would be destroyed, according to Professor Henry Kendall, a physicist at M.I.T. The sun's rays would then become terrifying and dangerous. Anyone in the world whose uncovered skin is exposed to daylight would risk incapacitating sunburn within 10 minutes and lethal sunburn within an hour. Skin cancer would become rampant. In the long run, only insects can be assured of survival in such a post-war world.

The Cambridge conferees offered conservative estimates of the effects of one 20-megaton thermonuclear bomb upon one large city. Such a bomb would be 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb used on Hiroshima.

If the bomb exploded on ground level on a clear day it would create a fireball 1 1/2 miles in diameter, with temperatures of 20 million to 30 million degrees Fahrenheit. Every structure and every living thing in the downtown area would be vaporized.

Within a 10-mile radius the blast wave, 180-mph winds, and fire would inflict death or injury on almost every human being. At least 50 per cent would die immediately. Even at 20 miles from the explosion, half the population would be either killed or injured by the blast pressure and heat. Thus a single nuclear device would result in tens of thousands of life-threatening burn injuries. The entire United States has intensive-care facilities for fewer than 2,000 such cases.

Many would be killed by random spontaneous fires fueled by oil-storage tanks, natural-gas lines, gasoline, and liquid-natural-gas tanks. These fires might coalesce into an enormous firestorm, 1,200 square miles in area, fanned by 100-200-mph winds, creating temperatures capable of cooking and asphyxiating those in shelters. Altogether, immediate death would come to 2.2 million inhabitants of a metropolitan area like Boston with a population of three million.

Survivors of the fires would be exposed to lethal or sublethal doses of radiation from short-term fallout. Even mild winds of 20 miles per hour would carry fallout as far as 150 miles, where everyone exposed would receive a lethal dose within 24 hours. This would cause incurable acute-radiation sickness, with decreased resistance to infection, and inevitable death within one to two weeks. Sublethal doses would produce stillbirths, fetal malformations, leukemia, and cancer. In subsequent generations, if any survived, genetic damage would appear.

Hospitals would be destroyed, and most medical personnel would be among the dead and injured. There would be millions of corpses. Food, air, and water would be contaminated. Survivors would die soon from starvation, dehydration, radiation sickness, and infections.

These estimates are for only one bomb. Population centers are known to be targeted with many bombs. Yet some political leaders still talk confidently of "winning" a nuclear war, including one in which, as George Bush puts it, "everyone fires everything he has."

Note: Read this carefully. Then you can comprehend why my UFOs are desperately trying to get me the Base, so that I can block the above action. (Even to wrecking California.)

Owens


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Note: Like the UFOs at Dallas airport some years ago, the cover-up... the people in Fla. were getting scared... it was hurting business... so they thought up the life-vest ploy. Owens

Thursday, March 20, 1980 THE MIAMI HERALD 15-A

# Red Ink Culprit in Flaky Mystery

'We're convinced within the realms of science and the realm of the universe that this is our problem and that we have solved our problem.'

-- Dr. David P. Millet
Eastern Airlines' medicine director

FROM PAGE 1A

they do not have carbon dioxide cartridges for inflation.

New vests with new, thick deposits of ink tend to flake when pulled on and off over the head. The flakes then tend to spread on the skin -- unnoticed and usually helped by a victim's own hands. They lodge in the sweat pores and masquerade as a rash or even, when smeared or viewed through beads of sweat, as red sweat.

Before the vests first came under suspicion last Thursday, the airline had checked everything from stewardess cosmetic kits to water to air-liner cleaning fluids looking for the source.

Two flight attendant supervisors, Arnie Petrosino and Sandy Wheeler, finally found what the airline was looking for, last Thursday on Flight 406, a night coach from Fort Lauderdale to Newark.

Petrosino questioned a flight attendant shortly after takeoff. She said she had just experienced the itching and tiny rash after taking off the "demo only" vest. The same thing happened the day before after she demonstrated the vest. But the day before that, she demonstrated a different type of vest and got no rash.

When Wheeler tried on a vest, she also developed the rash.

The next day, red flecks taken from attendants' skin were compared in the laboratory with flecks removed directly from the vests. Eastern used a computerized energy dispersive X-ray attached to a scanning electron microscope and a computerized micro infrared spectrophotometer, which isn't even on the market yet.

The flecks matched.

Other airlines using the same company's life vests have reported no red rashes, but Millett said he did receive some "rumors and anonymous calls" about possible outbreaks elsewhere.

The vests flake easily. Winnie Gilbert, Eastern's vice president for in-flight services, got a dot of "red sweat" above her right eyelid after demonstrating the vest at a news conference Wednesday.

One nagging problem is that a few of the reports of red sweat, 3-5 per cent in Millett's estimation, didn't seem to involve life vests. The company is continuing to investigate those, he said.

Physicians from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati aided in the investigation.

The Transport Workers Union, representing the flight attendants, was hesitant to lay the case finally to rest.

"We hope this cures it all," said Dorothy Payne, health and welfare officer for TWU Local 553. "All we can do is wait and see if the reports end."


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Miami Herald

Mystery Solved: No Sweat

3/20/80

By PATRICK MALONE
Herald Medical Writer

The combined resources of two federal health agencies and the nation's second-largest airline say they have cracked the mystery of red sweat afflicting Eastern Airlines flight attendants.

The answer: red ink.

The ink flakes off the words "DEMO ONLY" stenciled on Eastern's demonstration life vests.

The high-altitude medical mystery had spooked Eastern employees and puzzled officials since January. Red spots and a pinkish ooze were the symptoms. Eastern flight attendants flying usually in A300 Airbuses, usually between Florida and New York, always on routes that passed over deep water, were the sole victims.

The vests, worn only by flight attendants and demonstrated only on flights over water, were stenciled in red ink, "Demo Only." Tiny flakes from the ink produced what seemed to be a rash and pinkish-red sweating in nearly 100 Eastern flight attendants during the past three months.

It took a scanning electron microscope, a computerized micro-infrared-spectrophotometer, two federal health agencies, the full medical resources of the nation's second largest airline plus two very shrewd flight attendant supervisors to solve the great red sweat mystery.

The demonstration vests have been removed from the planes.

"We're convinced within the realms of science and the realm of the universe that this is our problem and that we have solved our problem," Eastern's director of flight medicine, Dr. David P. Millett, announced Wednesday.

The ink flecks caused itching in some of the victims but are no health hazard, he stressed.

The red sweat was so nicknamed because it seemed to color its victims' sweat as well as give them a tiny rash on the face, neck, hands, chest or thighs. The disease was laid to rest as no disease at all barely a week after it was revealed as a baffling ailment unheard of in medical science.

The vests, manufactured by American Safety Equipment Corp., of Miami, are stamped "Demo Only" to indicate that

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- BILL FRAKES / Miami Herald Staff

Source of the Red Sweat: the Words 'DEMO ONLY' on Life Vest

Eastern Airlines' Diane Dillon displays culprit in 'mysterious disease'


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Power, blankets earth in a red glow. I believe this "Red Sweat" is Pyr-Cee's "signature" on its work just as in my UFO demonstrations the SI's have used people named "Owens" as their signature!!

Owens

# dicts EAL Attendants

Miami Herald

By PATRICK MALONE
Herald Medical Writer

It happens about 1 1/2 hours after takeoff. Always on Eastern Airlines planes. Usually on New York to South Florida trips. Usually on the European-built A300 jet.

A flight attendant feels light-headed, then experiences a stinging sensation on the skin. Then wetness on the face or neck. The attendant wipes at it, and the hand comes away with a pinkish-red fluid.

It is another case of red sweat.

More than 80 Eastern flight attendants have complained of red sweat, dubbed that for lack of a better term.

Most cases have occurred this year, though some date back several years. The sweat affects both sexes. Pilots and passengers have not been afflicted.

It appears suddenly along with a pinprick red rash on the skin, sometimes on the face and neck, also on the chest, abdomen, back and thighs. The red sweat usually lasts only a minute or so, but the rash can linger for hours and cause itching and burning.

IT DOES not seem to be blood. It may or may not be sweat. What causes red sweat is a mystery to Eastern officials and aviation medical experts around the country.

Skin specialists say the outbreak is unheard-of in medical history.

The flight attendants union is upset enough that it may call for grounding of the Airbus A300, a 240-passenger plane that Eastern has flown since December 1978, if a solution is not forthcoming within a month.

But Eastern officials are frustrated by a lack of evidence. The skin oozing usually is gone by the time a doctor can see it.

Eastern's director of flight medicine, Dr. David Millett, rode three round trips from New York to Miami, looking for cases. He found four attendants with isolated red dots on their skin, but no red sweat.

One evening, Eastern sent investigators to Fort Lauderdale to pick up a towel smeared with red sweat. The laboratory analysis of the pink blotch reported human perspiration mixed with makeup. Nothing else.

"Spooky," says Dr. Millett. But very real, he says.

"A will-o'-the-wisp," says Eastern's public relations chief, Jim Ashlock.

REPORTS OF the malady are

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# Is Baffling An Airline

FROM PAGE 1A

pouring into Eastern and the Transport Workers Union. Some attendants have experienced it two and three times.

A male flight attendant noticed it on a flight from Kennedy Airport to Mexico City Jan. 25. "Bleeding slightly from the pores on my face," he described it.

On Feb. 1, a woman attendant noticed it on a flight from Miami to Kennedy. "I once again broke out in blood spots on my upper chest and upper-left forehead," she reported. "I feel this incident is happening all too frequently. I am naturally very concerned."

On Feb. 16, another woman attendant: "On a Fort Lauderdale turnaround I noticed a small amount of blood on my forehead on the southbound trip. Then when we switched planes to return to LaGuardia, just before we started boarding, I noticed many small red pinpricks in the pores on both hands, the majority on my right hand. Several when touched smeared red."

Eastern has turned the Airbus inside out looking for a cause. The atmosphere in the plane was checked for irritating gases.

CLEANSERS USED on the plane were checked for anything unusual not used on other airliners.

Cosmetics used by the flight attendants now are being checked.

So far, all leads have produced nothing.

Concerned about the reputation of its new plane, Eastern officials are quick to note that no other airline using the A300 has had problems with red sweat; that cases have been reported, though isolated, on L1011s and DC9s; that in most cases, only New York to Florida flights have been affected.

SEE ABOVE!!

And the victims are predominantly flight attendants based in New York and New Jersey. Only a few living in Miami have sweat red.

Dr. Harvey Blank, chief of dermatology at the University of Miami, has never heard of an epidemic of colored sweat, whatever the color.

"There's nothing that makes sweat red. Physiologically, it just can't happen," says Dr. Stephen Mandy, a South Dade dermatologist who treats many Eastern flight attendants, though none with red sweat.

Veterinarians note that one animal has naturally red sweat. But the hippopotamus has answered no questions so far for the Eastern attendants.

A HEREDITARY condition can make people develop colored sweat, but it is constantly that color, not just for a few minutes. The condition itself is rare and doctors have seen black sweat, violet sweat and brown sweat -- but not red sweat.

Some chemicals can turn sweat or the oil on the skin colors, and doctors believe one will eventually prove the culprit. For example, ninhydrin, a chemical commonly used by police detectives to pick up latent fingerprints, can turn sweat blue.

Actual blood in the sweat is a sign of a serious blood disease and would not occur without other signs of illness. All of the Eastern victims have been otherwise healthy.

Eastern officials first thought the ailment could be a kind of mass hysteria but now believe its cause is something as yet undetected in the environment.

The oozing and the rash don't last long, and the worst problem, besides cosmetic embarrassment, seems to be itching and burning of the skin for a few hours. Long-term problems are unknown, but that is no comfort to the Eastern attendants.


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Oregonian March 21, 1980

# Brewer s

**By STEVE KELLEY**
**of The Oregonian staff**

Ron Brewer gets paid for shooting the basketball.

When he's hitting his jump shot, leaping off the court and flicking his wrist with that textbook follow-through, he is as big a bargain as the Portland Trail Blazers have.

When the jump shot isn't falling -- and lately it hasn't been -- Brewer's game is no bargain at all.

He doesn't have the overall floor game, the ball-handling skills and defensive instincts to carry him when he is in a shooting slump.

When he's not hitting, Brewer does a lot more sitting.

Brewer's shooting difficulties have lingered for more than a month. The Blazers thought it was serious enough that Dr. Bruce Ogilvie, a pioneer in sports psychology, met with Brewer in Salt Lake City earlier this month to discuss the problem.

"I was going through my slump, and the Blazers made him (Ogilvie) available to me," Brewer said Thursday. "He had seen me play at the first part of the season and then later, when I was in my slump. He told me I was second-guessing myself. I wasn't playing with those killer instincts. I was just laying back and watching for the outcome."

As the slump worsened, Brewer became more reluctant to shoot. He began to pass up open shots, and that stalled the rest of the offense.

"I had already seen some of the things he (Ogilvie) was talking about," said Brewer, who probably will be matched against Paul Westphal when the Blazers meet the Phoenix Suns at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Memorial Coliseum.

"But I didn't think that I should just keep shooting when I was shooting bad. I thought it was better to get my teammates involved."

Brewer has hit only 39 percent of his shots during the last six games, but there have been some signs that he is climbing out of his prolonged slump. He hit 11 of 17 shots Tuesday in the victory over Milwaukee and scored 12 fourth-quarter points in the overtime victory Wednesday at Golden State. But when he was asked if Ogilvie's counseling helped him, Brewer just smiled.

"I think I helped myself more than anybody," he said. "No one else can tell you how to solve a problem, when you know what you've been doing for a long time. I just realized that you got to keep on doing the thing that got you to where you are. I'm a good shooter, and I've got to take my shots."

A slump can have a snowball effect. Brewer said he got caught in an avalanche of self-doubt.

"At first I was missing shots I normally make, and then I started thinking to myself, 'I shouldn't be missing those shots.' That's when I started to take time and started aiming the ball.

"Now, I've settled down and just started shooting," he said. "You just have to keep your head together when you're in a slump, and it will take care of itself."

Like most of his teammates, Brewer also is reaping the benefits of a 6-foot-4 phenomenon known as Billy Ray Bates.

Just as Magic Johnson gave the Los Angeles Lakers a joie de vivre this season, so Bates, called "an acorn of gold" by Utah Coach Tom Nissalke, has done it for Portland. He's enthusiastic and loose. He's done wonders for the mental state of the uptight Blazers.

Bates is a motivator, one who influences, and that is what Brewer has needed. Earlier in the season, the Blazers always went to Brewer when they needed an important basket. Now, however, Bates has taken some of that scoring responsibility off Brewer.

"With him on the floor, you tend to get a lot of open shots," Brewer said. "When he has the ball in his hands, things happen. He's what I call a miniature Darryl Dawkins.

"He does all those artistic dunks and that pumps us all up. We always go to Billy Ray first in layup drills. He does one of those dunks, and that gets the fans ready. It's not just a routine drill after that, because everybody is watching us.

"He is so effective. All he needs is the ball in his hands."


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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MARCH 23, 1980

# Unseasonal storm batters Northeast; fi

By DAVID L. LANGFORD
of The Associated Press

Newborn spring threw a tantrum Saturday, assaulting the Northeast with roof-ripping winds, heavy snows and driving rains that caused the worst floods in 25 years in some areas.

Communities were awash across New York and New England, where up to 9 inches of rain fell. Many bridges were gone, water was waist deep across some roads and highways. Hundreds of families abandoned their homes, others were isolated.

At least five persons were killed in weather-related accidents Friday and Saturday. They included a 26-year-old Maryland woman blown into the path of an oncoming car in the suburbs of Washington, where winds were clocked at more than 60 mph.

While gale-force winds pounded the Eastern states from Virginia to New England, 2 feet of snow were dumped in parts of western New York state near Buffalo and parts of northwestern New Jersey and Massachusetts got at least a foot.

"It looks like we've got kind of an isolated section of New Jersey that's getting clobbered," said Ben Scott, chief meteorologist at the weather service bureau at Newark International Airport. "Some places had 10 to 12 inches and it's still coming down."

Flooding caused the greatest problems in upstate New York.

"We've got people stranded all over the place," said Sheriff Thomas Mayone in Ulster County, N.Y., one of the regions under a state of emergency. "It's a heck of a mess."

The Town of Middleburgh in Schoharie County, N.Y., was cut off from the outside world as floods blocked two state highways. But many of the residents had been evacuated Friday when the creeks started to rise.

All roads in Kingston, N.Y., were closed and 60 to 80 families were evacuated. Also hard hit by flash floods were the New York towns of Woodstock, Saugerties, Olive, New Paltz and Shandaken.

The National Weather Service said the flooding in parts of New York and New England was the worst since 1955, the year of the last major flood in the Northeast. The town of Tannersville in southeastern New York State had received 9 inches of rain since Friday morning.

In Massachusetts, where the Westfield River surged over its banks after 3 inches of rain fell, Westfield Police Chief Gerald O'Connor also said the water was the highest it's been in his city since the 1955 flood.

Students attending a dance at a high school in Huntington, Mass., found their routes home blocked by water. While state police led some of them home in a convoy, 23 students and a dozen adults spent the night in the school. At 3 a.m. they were playing basketball in the gym.

Massachusetts police closed several stretches of U.S 20 between West Springfield and the Berkshires hilltown of Becket.

Winds clocked at more than 60 mph Friday night at National Airport in Washington knocked out scores of windows in high-rise buildings in the Virginia suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria.

Falling trees damaged houses and brought down power lines in several areas around Washington, and winds toppled some trucks on the highways.

Winds in the Newark, N.J., area lifted the entire roof from a bank and part of the roof of a department store.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms on Friday also caused flooding in Mississippi and Tennessee and at least 17 persons were injured when tornadoes touched down in Alabama and Georgia.

In New York, the giant twin towers of the World Trade Center swayed in 50 mph winds Friday, triggering an automatic shutoff that briefly trapped 60 people in high-speed express elevators.

Freak winds in Los Angeles ripped a bench from the pavement and hurled a 73-year-old woman 50 feet into the street, but she escaped serious injury.

In Detroit, electrical service was out in some homes and businesses for as long as 18 hours, after a storm swept into southeastern Michigan early Friday.

In Jackson, Miss., the Pearl River flooded city streets, and flash flooding in Tennessee forced evacuations in Nashville, Chattanooga, and Fayetteville.

# quickly
Columbian
March 27, 1980

Power fails, homes go dark as sun rises

An unexplained equipment failure today plunged 6,400 Clark County homes into darkness, just as many persons were preparing to leave for work.

The outage hit three substations from Felida north to Ridgefield and lasted up to an hour.

Clark County Public Utility District spokesman Mick Shutt said the substations were knocked out when a Bonneville Power Administration transmission line shut down as if there were a short in the neighborhood distribution system.

PUD crews checked main lines and, finding nothing amiss, flipped switches, returning power. One area had its lights restored after 35 minutes but most were closer to one hour, starting at 6:50 a.m.

In Ridgefield, postmaster Chet Scott said carriers had to use flashlights to sort mail. He laughed and added: "I thought (Mount) St. Helens had erupted, and we were all covered up with ashes."


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Sunday
9 PM to Sign-off

Street II," Lottie (Lalla Ward) arrives on a holiday with a new interest in men. Louisa: Gemma Jones. Olive: Helen Ryan. Howard: Richard Morant. Major Smith-Barton: Richard Vernon. Pearl: Pauline Quirke. Mary: Victoria Plucknett. (60 min.)

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Lionel and Jenny's hopes for their first home are dashed when their mortgage application is rejected. George: Sherman Hemsley. Louise: Isabel Sanford. Lionel: Mike Evans. Jenny: Berlinda Tolbert. Helen: Roxie Roker. Tom: Franklin Cover. Sweeney: Arthur Rosenberg. Bentley: Paul Benedict. Florence: Marla Gibbs.
12 GOOD NEWS

10PM 3 SHADES OF GREENE--Drama
Two stories: "Alas, Poor Maling" and "Mortmain." In the first, a man is embarrassed by his stomach's imaginative rumblings. Sir Joshua: John Boxer. Hythe: Clifford Parrish. (60 min.)

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6 TRAPPER JOHN, M.D.--Drama
Trapper's ex-wife Melanie (Jessica Walter) brings an abandoned baby to the hospital unaware the infant is infected with a contagious--and deadly--disease. Trapper: Pernell Roberts. Gonzo: Gregory Harrison. Riverside: Charles Siebert. Starch: Mary McCarty. Ripples: Christopher Norris. Jackpot: Brian Mitchell. Slocum: Simon Scott. (60 min.)

Guest Cast
Veronica .......... Imogene Coca
Mother .......... Kaye Ballard
Father .......... Philip Bruns
10 FREE TO CHOOSE--Economics

MARCH 23, 1980

10:30
11P
8 HOT HERO SANDWICH--Children
Author Judy Blume, Hal Linden, Olivia Newton-John and Christopher Reeve are interviewed. Also: the Persuasions sing "Train a-Comin'" and "Return to Sender." (60 min.)

11:
11:
10 MYSTERY!
The new Mrs. De Winter (Joanna David) finds Manderley dominated by the memory of "Rebecca" in Part 2. Maxim: Jeremy Brett. (60 min.)

3:30 2 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
The Atlanta 500, taped at the Atlanta International Raceway. Among the NASCAR drivers expected in the field are Buddy Baker, who won this event last year at a record average speed (165.951 mph); and Bobby Allison, the 1978 winner. Estimated purse: $175,000. . . . The Triathlon, an incredible test of endurance in which competitors swim 2.5 miles on the open ocean, bicycle 112 miles around the Hawaiian island of Oahu and run a

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Sunday
3 PM to 5 PM

regulation, 26-mile-plus marathon--all on the same day. Commentators include Jackie Stewart, Al Michaels and Jim Lampley. (90 min.)
6 FISHING WITH ROLAND MARTIN
Featured: swampland bass-fishing.
4 PM 3 EIGHT LIVELY ARTS
6 FISHIN' HOLE
Bass fishing in La Grange, Texas.
8 JACQUES COUSTEAU
The adventures of two young fur seals who join Cousteau's ship Calypso on a voyage to the Caribbean. (60 min.)
10 WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW
4:30 3 CONSULTATION--Health
6 FACE THE NATION
10 WALL STREET WEEK--Louis Rukeyser
12 IN SEARCH OF
An examination of earthquake detection features a look at California's San Andreas fault.
5 PM 2 6 8 NEWS
3 BOOK BEAT
"The Divas" is discussed by baritone

TENSPEED AND BROWN SHOE
8 PM 2

SAVAGE SAYS:
THE MOST DANGEROUS BIRD IS THE JAILBIRD

It was one of those days. First, a visit from E.L.'s parole officer, who suspects the slippery Tenspeed (Ben Vereen) of "scamming some penthouse again." Then there's Phyllis Lattiger with a "ticklish problem." But before she can explain, two goons haul her away. "You wanna stay alive?" they advise. "Forget this."

But Lionel (Jeff Goldblum) can't forget--about Phyllis or his partner's brush with the parole board. "I'm staying in George Hamilton's beach house," E.L. reluctantly confesses. "I'm feeding his hawk. I just delivered it and offered to take care of it while he's in Europe." Re-enter Phyllis, who wants the boys to help her get free of her hotheaded mobster boy friend--the same Tommy Tedesco Lionel and E.L. once sent up the river. Tommy's idea of justice: "We're gonna dust these guys."

Tommy: Richard Romanus. Phyllis: Shelley Smith. Johnny: Richard Dimitri. Chip Vincent: Larry Manetti. Craig: Woody Eney. (60 min.)

Jeff Goldblum and Ben Vereen

TV GUIDE A-29


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March 23, 1980 Oregonian

# Rally fails, Blazers fall to Suns

I picked this game on radio

Paul Westphal and Leonard Robinson squelched a Portland Trail Blazer rally in the fourth quarter to preserve a 111-100 National Basketball Association victory for the Phoenix Suns at Memorial Coliseum Friday night.

The Blazers lost no ground in the race for the final Western Conference playoff spot, however. Seattle nicked San Diego 103-95 to keep Portland one-half game ahead of the Clippers in the Pacific Division standings.

Portland is 35-41; San Diego is 35-43. Portland will play San Diego at 7 p.m. Sunday in the coliseum.

Portland trailed by as many as 19 points early in the third quarter, but an 11-point period by Tom Owens brought the Blazers back back to within 10 at 80-70 going into the final 12 minutes.

Phoenix moved out to a nine-point lead midway through the final period, but Billy Ray Bates came off the bench for an eight-point spree in a span of 2:55.

His last basket in the spurt brought the Blazers within 94-92 with 4:27 left, but Robinson hit two baskets and Westphal hit a pair of free throws and two field goals to make it 104-94 for the Suns with 1:34 left.

Robinson and Westphal each scored 23 points for Phoenix, while Bates led the Blazers with 16.

A comatose second quarter put the Blazers in a 53-38 hole at halftime.

The speedy Suns ran fastbreaks through the muddied Blazer defense for repeated layups and foul opportunities. The Suns hit 13 of 15 at the line for the half while Portland hit 2 of 4.

It was poor shooting, rather than fouls, that put the Blazers behind. They hit a respectable 11 of 22 to stay within four (27-23) at the first-quarter break, but went in the tank for just seven field goals in 24 shots in the second period.

Portland had only three points to show for the last 3:27 of the second quarter.

PHOENIX (111)

Oregonian

# Bart Wright

March 23, 1980

# Bates reflects changing times

Phoenix Suns assistant coach Al Bianchi was moved to reflect on events of another time Friday night after watching his team methodically wear down the Trail Blazers 111-100 at Memorial Coliseum.

Bianchi was talking in moody, sentimental tones. Certainly, this wasn't Portland, this place where rowdy fans turned ugly and littered the basketball court with coins, ice and garbage in displeasure over the officiating of Jake O'Donnell.

And what happened to the Trail Blazers, that well-disciplined unit of efficiency? The team Phoenix had just beaten had no sense of its own offense in the first half, and when it made its run at the Suns in the second half, it was led by some freewheeling free agent fresh out of the Continental Rat Ball League.

"That was scary out there," Bianchi said of the shower of litter. "This crowd never used to be like this. It was always hard to win here, but at least the crowd wasn't like this."

"Bates?" Bianchi said, "Yes, we've heard of him, we know he can play. What surprises me is not that he's in the NBA, but that he's with this team."

"It really tells you something about this league, doesn't it," Bianchi asked rhetorically. "When you consider it wasn't that long ago that this team was on top of the world and people were talking about dynasty and all that. Now, it's just three years later and they are relying on a guy from the Continental League to get them into the playoffs."

What it says about the league is that a team can tear itself apart a lot faster than it can build itself up. And the shower of refuse indicates how frustrated the fans can get when they see their beloved winners deteriorate into a collection of mismatched parts with no apparent sense of purpose.

Until the Blazers are finally relieved of the misery of this unpleasant season, there is little on the team to get excited about outside of that aforementioned refugee from the nether world of pro basketball, free agent Billy Ray Bates.

BILLY RAY BATES

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Oregon Journal 3-24-80

# Powerful spring storms bring blizzards, floods

By United Press International
Powerful storms brought torrential rains and a blinding blizzard on the first weekend of spring. Floods claimed at least four lives and a fifth person was presumed drowned.

A flash-flood warning was in effect Monday for Connecticut and flash-flood watches were posted for parts of Illinois, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. Heavy weekend rains forced about 440 New York families from their homes.

A concoction of rain, sleet, snow and whistling winds hit Iowa Monday morning, temporarily knocking out power for at least three suburban Des Moines towns. The National Weather Service said the state could expect 3 inches of snow.

A blizzard warning was issued Sunday night for southwestern and south-central Kansas. In parts of the state, 35 mph wind, whipping as much as 15 inches of snow, made traveling almost impossible.

In New York, the Red Cross said more than one-quarter of the evacuated families lived in Schoharie County. Many rivers in central and southeastern New York reached their highest levels in several years.

A man trapped in his car in the Greene County hamlet of Leeds was washed away Saturday by the flooding Catskill Creek, troopers said.

State police reported another storm-related fatality when Randall Wood, 19, a Hobart College freshman from Auburn, Mass., was killed when he fell into a runoff gorge of Seneca Lake south of Geneva early Saturday.

In Connecticut, two youths died and a third man was presumed drowned in weekend boating accidents on rivers swollen by 5 inches of rain.

John Throckmorton, 16, and John Sussenguth, 17, both of Wilton, were swept into the gushing Norwalk River in Wilton and drowned after a raft they and another teen were riding capsized. Gregory Wilson, 16, was pulled to safety by police and later treated for exposure and released.

In another boating accident, police called off a search at nightfall Sunday for Donald Cornwall, 44, of North Haven, who was presumed drowned when a canoe he and a companion were in capsized as it went over a falls on the Mill River in Sleeping Giant State Park. The search resumed Monday.

The Connecticut River crested at 2 to 3 three feet above its 16-foot flood stage and the Housatonic crested but was expected to be above flood stage until Monday.

Northern Mississippi residents braced under a flash-flood watch Sunday night as a new storm system threatened to dump more rain on the state's already swollen rivers and streams.

"The ground is still saturated from last week's heavy rainfall," the Weather Service said. "Therefore, most of what falls tonight will run off into streams and rivers that are already swollen."

In Kansas, a Dodge City resident said the conditions were dangerous there, as drifting snow and 30 to 35 mph wind made travel hazardous.

"Everybody's just kind of dug in," said Frank Guff of Dodge City. "Nobody has any business being outside."

3-24-80 Oregon Journal

# Flood-swollen lake receding

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (UPI) -- Flood-swollen Lake Elsinore -- now three times its normal size -- has finally started to recede.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers measured a nearly half-inch drop in the water level Saturday, the first time the spreading lake has stopped growing in more than a month.

The lake crested Friday at 1,265.72 feet above sea level -- 20 feet deeper than it was earlier this year -- then fell four-tenths of an inch Saturday. Officials said the trend will continue if there are no heavy rains.

The rising waters left many homes submerged -- rooftops pock the lake surface and utility poles poke out of the murky marsh.

Riverside County spokesman John Jacobs said up to 300 houses, mobile homes and businesses were flooded, and 230 more were damaged. Nearly 700 permanent trailers and mobile homes, and 250 permanent businesses were damaged or moved to higher ground.

The small resort community suffered an estimated $34 million in damage -- $25 million to private property and at least $8.7 million to public property.

Oregonian 3-25-80

# Blizzard maroons travelers

JETMORE, Kan. (AP) -- More than 100 travelers huddled in a church in this small southwestern Kansas town Monday after spending the night on pews and behind the pulpit when they were stranded by one of the worst blizzards in the state this century.

The 135 unexpected guests at the United Presbyterian Church, including a baseball team from a Colorado junior college, were among thousands across the state who took refuge from the snowstorm at motels, National Guard armories and even a city jail.

The storm left up to a foot of snow in the Oklahoma Panhandle, where rescue crews freed dozens of people stranded in snowbound vehicles Sunday night.

Near Dodge City, in western Kansas, an armored personnel carrier was pressed into service to break through drifts and rescue more than 40 motorists, some of whom had been stranded in their cars for up to 16 hours. Drifts as deep as 3 feet and abandoned cars prevented snowplows from getting through.

"The area is paralyzed," said Phil Shideler of the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds up to 45 mph accompanied the fast-moving storm and reduced visibility to near zero in some spots.

"You could write a novel about this," said the Rev. Stan Adamson of the church in Jetmore, which has a population of about 1,000. He described how two young mothers and their children were separated from other families in their party when their car made it to Jetmore but two other cars became marooned north of town.

"They were really worried because there were children in the other cars. The mothers were here from 6 o'clock until about 9:30, and then the sheriff came in carrying the kids. It was quite a poignant reunion. There were a lot of tears and kisses," Adamson said.

The Storms are "The Force" reaching out to knock out power forms. Owens


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PK'd on radio. Owens.

# Clippers' expectations pfttt . . .

By NORM MAVES JR. March 24, 1980.
The Oregonian staff

Now is as good a time as any to file the San Diego Clippers under "great events that forgot to happen." Right in there with the Spruce Goose, Anzio, Adlai Stevenson and the reunion of the Beatles.

Mathematically, it's not over. The Clippers are 1 1/2 games behind Portland in the race for the last Western Conference playoff spot with three to go. But only a near-perfect combination of San Diego wins and Portland losses will save the season -- temporarily -- for a team which had every reason last fall to anticipate participation in the National Basketball Association playoffs.

Remember last September? The Clippers, who had barely missed the playoffs last season, had just signed perhaps the best center in the NBA. They had a reborn Lloyd Free running a backcourt full of prospects. They were predicted to finish anywhere from second to fifth in the Pacific Division.

Now that same franchise is fighting for air, knowing that its next breath could be its last. If Sunday night's 98-91 loss to the Trail Blazers is indeed the end of the road, it somehow figured to end the way it did.

There were the Clippers, down 64-44 early in the third quarter and seemingly putting up only a token fight. Then they summoned what was left of their strength and their depleted bench nearly brought it off. Expectably, a couple of bonehead plays at the end contributed to the loss.

But consider for a moment how the Clippers have managed to stay in it this long. In order to obtain Bill Walton, they had to give up the heart of their 1979 rebounding strength, Kermit Washington; then, Walton broke a bone in his foot and missed the first 60 games. During all that time, three guards -- Lloyd Free, Freeman Williams and Brian Taylor -- and a playing-out-of-his-mind Swen Nater carried them.

Free sulked about his contract, and even when Walton came back for 14 games, the combinations never clicked. Then Free declared himself out for the season.

"It's been frustrating for me," said Taylor. "I've known what it's been like to be on a championship from the ABA (New York Nets) and I thought that when we signed Bill that we could be right back there.

"But Kermit was still in the picture back then. When he left, he took a real rebounding force with him. After giving him up, we lost Bill for 60 games. Back then we figured that if we could just hang on until he came back, we could make a run at the playoffs."

Even the addition of Walton didn't change much.

"When Bill came back, his feet were still hurting him," continued Taylor, who talked while bags of ice were being taped to his shooting shoulder. "The combinations didn't click."

It was a lesson, said Taylor, on distinguishing potential from reality.

"We hoped to be, on paper, a great team," he said. "But all season long it's been like trying to put the pieces in the puzzle. Everybody hopes to have a great team on paper, but it's one thing to be a great team on paper -- it's another to have that manifest itself on the court."

Williams, who in his second season has become a bona fide NBA player, felt the same way.

"It was such a big thing then," he said. "They all said 'San Diego is going to be a winner, San Diego is going to be a winner,' but it never came off. We have made a good run at the playoffs, and we're not out of it yet. It took us a while to get together, but we have stayed alive this far."

Now San Diego's chances look slim. They get a home court crack at the Blazers Thursday, but finish at Los Angeles and Phoenix; Portland plays Kansas City at home Tuesday, then finishes at San Diego, Phoenix and Seattle.

"It doesn't look good," conceded Taylor. "But even if we don't make it, we can still say we gave it our best shot. I think that I, and the team, can say we gave it our best shot under these circumstances, then we can still hold our heads up."


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4-8-80

Note: This rig Scotland rig destroyed within days!!

Of course, oil & gas are (Power) source. Owens

Tuesday, March 25, 1980 THE MIAMI HERALD 5-

# Warning of Blowout Unheeded; 2 Dead, 4 Lost on Offshore Well

Miami Herald 3/25/80 (See rig overturn off Scotland within days.)

GALVESTON, Tex. -- (UPI) -- An offshore gas well exploded during drilling operations Monday. Crewmen -- warned in advance of a possible blowout -- jumped into the Gulf of Mexico to escape the flames. Six workers apparently were killed and 29 others were injured.

Two bodies were recovered from the platform 95 miles southeast of Galveston, and another four crewmen were listed as missing and presumed dead.

An emergency medical technician flown to a Shell Oil Co. rig where the injured were taken in the predawn hours by boat said he learned from talking with survivors that they tried to save the well after experiencing drilling problems. Pennzoil of Houston operated the platform.

"The drill hit a gas pocket and bucked back up. They said they tried to drill on through it but it didn't work. I think they were trying to save the rig, trying to keep it from blowing out," said David White, senior supervisor for Galveston Emergency Medical Services.

He said the men had "six minutes warning" but chose not to heed it.

When the well blew, "most of them jumped over the edge into the water and then the boats picked them up," he said. "They had emergency ropes. There were a lot of rope burns on hands."

Pennzoil spokesman Bob Harper said one well had been drilled from the platform.

The well blew out about 12:15 a.m. and burned throughout the day. Wildfire expert Red Adair of Houston sent crews to the platform to try to extinguish the blaze.

The first helicopter flight of injured left the rig about 6 a.m., White said. John Sealy Hospital admitted 11 of the 29 persons treated for burns, fractures and other injuries. By late afternoon, all 11 were reported in fair condition or better.

The victims were not identified.

All but one of the workers were employed by Pool Offshore Co. of Harvey, La. The other worker was employed by Pennzoil.

The dead were identified as Richard D. McDonald, 30, of Friendswood, and Douglas James Sparks, 23, of Houston, by the Galveston County Medical Examiner, who ordered autopsies.

Columbian 4/2/80

- World "Power" Attack -

# Snowstorms kill calves, leave homes powerless

By AP, UPI

The third snowstorm within a week was moving today into the Great Plains where heavy snow already on the ground hampered efforts to restore electricity and rescue cattle.

In the South, rivers climbed in Louisiana, flooding homes and an interstate highway.

As a new storm began to move in from Arizona, Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm on Tuesday ordered a National Guard helicopter to drop hay to 6,000 snowbound cattle. A thousand families were without power on the state's eastern plains.

"Baby calves are being dropped (born) and dying right on the spot," said rancher Joe Ortner of Holyoke in northeast Colorado. "Some babies are being separated from their mothers. Now the coyotes are starting to work on the calves. I chased some off last night."

The snow storm which dumped up to 4 inches in northern Arizona was heading northeast toward the Plains and winter storm watches were posted for southeastern Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska.

"It will be dangerous for young livestock," said John Eakin of the National Weather Service in Denver.

A surprise April Fools' Day storm blustered into Southern California Tuesday and floodwaters from the rising Pearl River trickled into Louisiana homes near New Orleans.

The National Weather Service said the Pearl approached 20 feet Tuesday, exceeding the highest officially recorded crest of 19.7 feet in April 1900.

A low-pressure system over Arizona spread rain across sections of the extreme southwestern United States. Travelers advisories for snow were in effect for the central Arizona mountains and northwestern New Mexico.

The NWS said the low would move across Colorado toward the mid-Mississippi Valley today, bringing more snow to the Central Rockies and Western-Central Plains tonight.


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Oregon Journal 3-27-80

# Sea floor 'collision' bends NW, spawns its volcanoes

By PHIL ADAMSAK
Journal Staff Writer

The Pacific Northwest's volcanoes and California's earthquakes have the same cause, according to a leading Oregon geologist.

And the San Andreas fault is involved in both.

Professor Brian Baker of the University of Oregon geology department says the Northwest slowly is being bent out of shape by a "collision" with the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

He says the bending causes "stretch marks" -- deep cracks in the crust -- that fill with molten rock and occasionally erupt as volcanoes.

Baker is a scholar of "spreading," which is the way molten rock flows to the surface of the Earth through cracks, and pushes the sides of the cracks apart.

He lived for 17 years in the Great Rift Valley of Africa, one of the few places where spreading happens on dry land and can be watched.

Mostly it happens on ocean floors. About 200 miles off the Oregon Coast a rift called the Juan de Fuca Ridge shoves the Pacific floor toward land.

It doesn't move fast -- only about 2 meters a century. But in geological terms, in a million years it amounts to 20,000 meters or about 11 miles of movement by a sheet of rock 4 miles thick.

Pressing northeast, the oceanic plate slips beneath the continental plate, slanting toward the planet's molten depths.

The friction is immense, and the strain is felt through most of the Western states, all the way to the east slope of the Rocky Mountains.

Coastal California releases the pressure in earthquakes along the San Andreas fault. Up here, it's different.

A pattern of stretch marks begins in Western Arizona, runs through Nevada and Northern California, arcs through Central Oregon, along the Cascades and northward into Puget Sound.

A pattern of volcanoes follows the cracks.

Some of these hardly fit popular notions of volcanoes. They form low, gently sloping shield-shaped mounds slowly piled up by oozing magma.

Others, like the pinnacles of the high Cascades, become so-called composite volcanoes. A series of eruptions builds like a layer cake. Mount St. Helens is one, and so is Mount Hood.

Occasionally one explodes.

That's what happened at Crater Lake 7,600 years ago.

Ralph Mason, retired state geologist, says red-hot ash, pebbles, and even boulders roared out of Mount Mazama in a glowing red cloud on 100-mph wind, scorching the countryside for 35 miles.

In a few hours the firestorm halted, but a plume of steam and pumice shot 14,000 feet into the sky and drifted on a south wind for days.

Traces of it can be found in Washington, more than 200 miles from the volcano.

Eventually the top of the mountain collapsed into a huge bowl scoured out by the eruption and was filled by rain and snow to form Crater Lake.

CRACKED UNDER STRAIN -- Tugged crosswise by the Pacific Ocean floor, the Pacific Northwest is wrinkled and cracked, and molten rock breaks through to make volcanoes.

I.E. Mt. St. Helens activation presumably could ignite the San Andreas fault (affect it) causing massive Calif. earthquakes.

Oregon Journal 3-24-80

# Rainier UFO sitings climb

SEATTLE (UPI) -- Fighting in Afghanistan and unrest in Iran has prompted numerous visits by unidentified flying objects to the Mount Rainier area, according to Wayne S. Aho.

"When there is unrest in the world, the U.F.O.s start coming, to warn us of our folly," says Aho, whose New Age Foundation has been studying U.F.O.s for 25 years. "There is almost a mathematical curve for these things."

Aho says a number of sightings of "bright, moving lights" have been reported near Elbe and Ashford, Pierce County, just outside Mount Rainier National Park. Aho's group believes the mountain is one of the major landing zones for U.F.O.s, dating from the first recorded "modern-day" sighting of U.F.O.s in 1947 by a Boise, Idaho, lumberman.

Note: It is most interesting that both of my "signs" or "signatures" have now revealed themselves at Mt. Rainier & close by Mt. St. Helens blue lightning & UFOs.


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march 27, 1980

# U.S.'s biggest nuclear utility indicted in security case

By ROBERT PEAR
New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON -- The Commonwealth Edison Co., the country's biggest nuclear utility, and two of its officials were indicted Wednesday on charges of conspiracy and false statements relating to alleged breaches of security at the company's nuclear power plant on the Mississippi River at Cordova, Ill.

A Justice Department spokesman, Dean St. Dennis, said the indictment represented the first time such charges had been brought against a nuclear power company.

The nine-count indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Ill., said the company and two senior employees had conspired to evade compliance with a security plan for operation of the plant, known as the Quad-Cities Nuclear Station. The security plan had been approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the federal agency that licenses atomic power plants.

At its headquarters in Chicago, Commonwealth Edison issued a statement saying, "The company believes it is not guilty of any wrongdoing, has violated no laws and intends to defend itself and its employees vigorously."

William Harrah, a spokesman for Commonwealth Edison, said the company, which provides electricity for northern Illinois including Chicago, was the biggest nuclear utility in the country. He said that about one-third of the company's total generating capacity was nuclear, but that the company used that capacity to generate 40 percent to 45 percent of its electricity.

The superintendent of the Quad-Cities plant, Nicholas Kalivianakis, and the plant's security director, Walter Meehan, were also named as defendants. Harrah said that both men were still working for the company.

The indictment alleged that as part of the conspiracy, the defendants ordered security guards to falsify records by omitting the fact that protective doors leading to the vital area of the plant had been found unlocked and unguarded. The indictment also said that the defendants had ordered the guards to omit from their records the discovery of unescorted visitors in protected and vital areas of the plant.

The alleged conspiracy continued from early 1976 to April 1977, the indictment said.

Company officials said that the Quad-Cities plant consists of two boiling-water reactors with a combined capacity of more than 1,100 megawatts.

Commonwealth Edison was charged in all nine counts of the indictment. Kalivianakis and Meehan were each charged with conspiracy and with six counts of false statements.

The maximum penalty for each count of conspiracy or false statement is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The defendants are scheduled to be arraigned April 9 before Judge J. Waldo Ackerman in U.S. District Court in Springfield.

There are 67 nuclear plants licensed to provide electricity in the United States, and combined they supply slightly more than 10 percent of the nation's electricity.

Wednesday's indictment came amid a continuing controversy over the adequacy of security precautions at nuclear installations. Most of the concern has been directed at facilities that manufacture nuclear material for weapons and fuel for the Navy's nuclear fleet.

But experts also worry about the possibility that a terrorist gang might seize a reactor near a major American city and then use conventional explosives to breach the containment wall, permitting the release of large amounts of radiation. It is because of such worries that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has in recent years upgraded security requirements at all nuclear facilities.

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# Two nuclear plants shut down

By The Associated Press March 24, 1980

Equipment problems prompted the shutdown Sunday of reactors at two nuclear power plants, including one in Connecticut that went out of service for the fifth time in five weeks.

Officials at the Millstone nuclear plant in Waterford, Conn., said operators shut down the No. 2 unit after discovering a malfunction in a device that reheats water as it is circulated through a steam generator. There was no release of radiation, officials said.

In Southport, N.C., the No. 1 nuclear reactor at the Brunswick plant, owned by Carolina Power and Light Co., automatically shut down at 1 a.m. when a water level indicator malfunctioned, according to a company spokesman.

Mac Harris, public relations officer for the utility, said small amounts of radiation were released inside the containment building, but that they were well within permissible levels. No radiation was released outside the plant, he said.

# Washington

Oregonian March 22, 1980

## Fear noted near plant

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Civic leaders from central Pennsylvania told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday that riots could erupt if the agency allows radioactive gas to be vented from the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

Six people, including a psychologist, a clergyman and a hospital administrator, said the fear of radiation might drive thousands of residents near the facility to violence.

"We're fearful of some kind of riots or something up there if the deterioration continues," said Jane Lee, a farmer from Etters, about six miles from the plant.

"As a psychologist, I'm scared. Unless people get a realistic feeling that they're in control of their lives again, their anger is going to be increasing," added Robert Colman of Harrisburg.

The NRC met for about an hour with the spokesmen, who calmly advised the commission that its wisest course might be to abandon plans to restore the stricken plant.

miami Herald 3/14

## N-Plant to Close For Fuel, Repairs

Florida Power and Light Company's nuclear unit No. 1 on Hutchinson Island will be shut down this weekend for refueling, maintenance and minor modifications ordered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

The work will take an estimated eight weeks, said Harry Schindehitte, FPL district manager. "We anticipate having enough generation to meet all demands while the nuclear unit is down, but it will mean using more oil, which is expensive."

Maintenance will include replacing one-third of the steel rods containing uranium fuel pellets and rotating the remaining rods.

The work was ordered by the NRC after the Three Mile Island accident, but FPL was allowed to delay modifications until the shutdown for refueling.

While the plant is closed, drain pans will be installed under motors that run pumps circulating reactor coolant water. In some plants, oil from pumps has dropped onto hot pipes.

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## Fire hits N-site

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) -- Fire destroyed a temporary office complex Wednesday at the site of Consumers Power Co.'s nuclear plant under construction here.

It was the second fire this week at the complex, which was used by utility workers to draft operating procedures for the nuclear facility, said Consumers spokesman Norm Saari. 3/27/80

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# Work stoppage at Hanford ends

Oregonian 3/27/80

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) -- The 2,300 workers idled by a labor dispute at the Hanford nuclear projects Nos. 1 and 4 could begin returning to work Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the Washington Public Power Supply System.

The workers walked off the job March 14.

Neil Strand, WPPSS managing director, said managers involved in the dispute met with management Tuesday to resolve the issues.

The unions agreed to provide the contractor, Atkinson-Wright-Schuchart-Harbor, with assurances that no more work stoppages would occur.

Fred Read, project manager of the contractor, said it would take two or three days to gear up to normal work levels and rehire the 2,300 workers.

Federal Judge Robert McNichols on Monday issued a restraining order against the two unions primarily involved in the dispute.

The order resulted from an unfair labor charge filed by the contractor.

Plumbers

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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1980

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# Blazers get chance at parole

By STEVE KELLEY
of The Oregonian staff

SAN DIEGO -- Who would have thought the Portland Trail Blazers would open the season with nine straight wins?

Who would have thought the injury jinx that hounded them the last two seasons would follow them again to the point that trainer Ron Culp still has a no vacancy sign hanging on the injured reserve list?

Who would have thought the team could rebound from a 10-game losing streak and the loss of Lionel Hollins and Maurice Lucas to still be in a strong position to make the playoffs?

The playoffs are the NBA's way of saying "I'm sorry" to some of its less fortunate teams. It's parole, a second chance for some teams that have struggled to keep their records near .500.

The Blazers could clinch the sixth and final Western Conference playoff spot Thursday with a win here over the Clippers, beginning at 7:30 p.m. (KPTV). Both teams have three games remaining, and Portland has a two-game lead on the Clippers.

If the teams finish in a tie, the Clippers will earn the playoff spot because they will have a better record within the Pacific Division.

**Rookies to rescue**

Who would have believed that San Diego, a team that entered the pre-season with Bill Walton, Lloyd Free, Brian Taylor and Swen Nater, would be missing from the playoffs?

Who would have believed that Portland would have to count on major contributions from four rookies -- Calvin Natt, Billy Ray Bates, Jim Paxson and Abdul Jeelani -- to challenge the Clippers? It has been a strange and strained season for Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay. All the personnel changes have turned the basketball court into a laboratory. He has been forced to experiment with different combinations and different options on his offense.

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# Steele may be facing final days as Blazer

SAN DIEGO -- Larry Steele is still a card-carrying member of the Portland Trail Blazers, but one can only wonder if this may be his last road trip as a Blazer.

An early season knee injury has rendered Steele hors de combat and has placed him on the periphery on the team, which plays the Clippers Thursday.

Contractually, Steele has another year remaining with his Blazer employers, but in reality, because of injury and age, he is a player with one foot out the corporate door. Steele will soon be 30 years old. The addition of Calvin Natt, the expected return of Mychal Thompson and the expansion draft are all working against Steele remaining a Blazer.

Steele is not playing coy over his future with the Blazers. Cornered in a motel coffee shop Wednesday, he was asked what he thought his chances were of not being exposed to Dallas in this summer's expansion draft.

"None," he said.

He gave the same answer when asked what his chances were of being picked up by the new Dallas franchise, then backed off slightly.

"None is pretty strong," he said. "Maybe slim and none would be better."

When Steele departed the scene after damaging his right knee in a game at Chicago, the Blazers were 12-4 and looking, if not like world beaters, at least not like losers. Since then, the season has been one crazy quilt of injuries, trades, losses, slumps, streaks and perhaps the most extended two-team playoff race since Alphonse stumbled into Gaston.

The Portland-San Diego playoff situation has been strained beyond all reasonable lengths and neither club displayed a willingness to stand up and take control until the Blazers dredged free agent Billy Ray Bates from that bastion of basketball effluvia known as the Continental League.

With the benefit of relatively detached sideline observation, Steele was moved to admit that while the Blazers appear to have a playoff berth all but locked up, the prospects for advancement in the impending miniseries with either Seattle or Phoenix do not look encouraging.

Bart Wright

"If you are going to be completely objective about it, you couldn't predict this team could beat either Seattle or Phoenix," Steele said. "But in a (three game) miniseries, anything could happen, especially with a guy like Billy Ray on the team. I'm not saying they can't beat one of those teams two out of three, but it doesn't look good."

The overriding question that has dogged this team all year, is simply, what in heck has gone wrong?

The offense that worked so well two years ago is sputtering along lifelessly, with infrequent shots of courtwise adrenalin courtesy of Dave Twardzik.

"It's been weird, huh?" Steele offered. "They're running a fluid, consistent type offense that needs players who understand the concept. It only takes one player to disrupt that consistency.

"Now, with Billy Ray and Calvin, they have some shooters who can take you out of that continuity," Steele said. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing those guys, they are the ones who are getting them in the playoffs; it's just that anyone who was around two years ago on the 50-10 team knows this one doesn't come close to having that kind of consistency."

The best offense is the one that is suited to the talents of the individual players.

"I don't know if it's suited to this team or not," Steele said. "I'll put it this way: I have my doubts, but how much can you change this late in the season?

"It has been a very unusual year for these guys, so weird that you could probably blame it on anyone and make some kind of case, but I think it goes back to injuries. If you could get statistics on how many games we've had the same lineup and compare that to the teams with good records, I think that would answer a lot of questions."

For himself, Steele will continue rehabilitating the knee that was surgically repaired last month, and if it responds, he'll try to play next year, somewhere, anywhere.

After nine years as a pro, Steele doesn't want it all to end here, standing on the outside looking in at a team that has been inexplicably transformed from a model of efficiency to an inconsistent slam-dunking, jump-shooting club that will inevitably meet its match when it squares off with the more purposeful playoff teams.

Steele sees what's happened, but with his career at the crossroads, he finds explanations for the Blazer's current state of affairs as elusive as everyone else on this junket, who have all observed at various times what a long, strange trip this season has been.

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# Citizens nearest mountain evacuate quickly, calmly

Story on Page One also

By ALAN K. OTA of The Oregonian staff

3/28/80

For some it started with the rattle of window glass. Others heard the loud, explosive "sonic boom." But most didn't know what had happened until hearing about it on television or radio.

The reaction of residents close to the erupting Mount St. Helens volcano was calm, as the Cowlitz and Skamania County, Wash., sheriffs' offices set up roadblocks on two main roads in the sparsely populated area 10 to 15 miles northwest and southwest of the snow-covered peak.

The greatest concern of emergency services officials in Washington and Oregon centered not on what happened initially Thursday afternoon, but on whether the eruption would worsen and raise the specter of damaging runoff, mud slides and emissions of ash or other volcanic material into the air.

Thursday evening, deputies moved the roadblock on Washington 504 on the northwest side of the mountain, the road closest to where the eruption occurred, from about 15 miles to 8 miles away from the mountain, citing an apparently lesser danger.

Jim Thomas, head of programs and plans for the Washington Department of Emergency Services, said decisions on roadblocks and resident notification were being left in the hands of sheriffs.

Gov. Dixy Lee Ray toured the mountain in a Washington State Patrol plane Thursday afternoon but made no decisions about dealing with the eruption, Thomas said.

The man living closest to the action, Harry Truman, 84, owner of the Mount St. Helens Lodge several miles from the northwest foot of the volcano, kept a pledge not to budge despite warnings from sheriff's deputies in the area.

Others weren't so reluctant. Phil Dodd, timber management specialist with the U.S. Forest Service station about 12 miles southeast of the volcano, said he led out a car caravan of 35 workers and their families and about six residents of the North Woods summer cabin development near the station. Their departure was made by planned evacuation route over 26 miles of winding forest road to Carson, Wash., after the initial eruption.

Dodd, like many others near the mountain, heard a loud boom "like a muffled explosion on a rockpile" shortly after 12:30 p.m.

Thursday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration banned aircraft flight below 20,000 feet altitude in a radius of 10 miles from St. Helens, doubling a ban with a five-mile radius that was issued Wednesday as a precaution.

In Oregon, Harvey Latham, administrator of the state Emergency Services Division, said emergency plans were on a "standby" basis.

"It's very small," Latham said. "But I'm sure it's working up to something good." A student of the volcano's history, Latham contended that the last eruption in the mid-19th century scattered debris as far as Montana.

At the earth-filled Swift Creek hydroelectric dam operated by Pacific Power & Light Co. about five miles from the southern flank of the volcano, some workmen opted to leave as a precaution, according to public information officer Glenn Gillespie. It was not a general evacuation, however, he said.

The closest of three dams on the Lewis River south of St. Helens, Swift Creek Dam was built in the 1950s to withstand the equivalent of the worst recorded event on the mountain - a mudslide that occurred about 6,000 years ago, according to PP&L officials. In the event of a major eruption, the dam's reservoir would be partially drained, Gillespie said.

Even a major eruption likely would not be a major threat to the Portland area, according to Latham. One possible problem would be large emissions of ash that could raise the acidity of city water reservoirs, making water distasteful but probably still drinkable, and cause breathing problems for persons with respiratory ailments. Portland city officials said the threat of ash to the city's Bull Run Watershed, about 50 miles from St. Helens, was slight.

"The wind currents aren't likely to pull ash this way, according to our information," said the administrator of the Bureau of Water Works, Carl Gobel.

The sheriff's roadblock on Washington 503 was located just east of Cougar, Wash., about 10 miles from St. Helens on Thursday night.

Margaret Olson, who operates the chateau-style Beaver Bay Cafeteria 1.5 miles east of Cougar, said she wasn't planning to leave yet but wouldn't hesitate when the time came.

"All I'm going to worry about is just getting myself and my dogs out," she said. "That's all I care about. The material things don't matter. They can be replaced."

Note: Within range of this dangerous, exploding volcano, are five hydroelectric power dams plus Hanford Nuclear Power Plant.!!

Oregonian 3/28/80

ERUPTION SITE - Steam and ash erupted from the north side of Mount St. Helens in Southwest Washington Thursday, opening a slash at 7,000-foot level on the snow-covered mountain. The eruption was the culmination of a series of earthquakes which began March 20. It was the first eruption of the volcano since 1857.

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Note: Hazel Dell is where I live; the point from which I am attacking "power." "owners"

# Blackout darkens homes in Hazel Dell, Ridgefield

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- The lights went out Thursday morning in about 6,400 Hazel Dell and Ridgefield homes after three Clark County Public Utility District substations lost their power, said PUD spokesman Mick Shutt.

The outage was from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on the substation involved, he said. Tripped breakers somewhere in the Bonneville Power Administration supply system that feeds the substations caused the 6:50 a.m. outages, Shutt said.

All power loss was west of Interstate 5, he said.

Bonneville representative Gene Tollefson said from Portland that an unidentified problem in the PUD lines caused the breakers to trip.

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- world "Power" Attack - (Oil is a power source. Another such rig capsized last week in Gulf of Mexico)

# Dozens trapped in overturned oil rig

Oregonian 3/28/80

OSLO, Norway (AP) - A "hotel" platform with more than 200 North Sea oilfield workers aboard capsized and overturned Thursday night. Rescuers battled gale-force winds in the darkness to pull men from the towering, frigid waves.

Reports said seven persons were known dead, but dozens were trapped under water or were believed to have been swept away from the rescue area.

Authorities said early Friday morning that 102 persons were rescued and nearly 85 others on a nearby production rig were evacuated by British and Norwegian helicopters, ships and divers fighting winds of up to 80 mph. They said many of the platform survivors were injured.

Edinburgh reporter Mike Lloyd of Independent Radio News, who was in contact with oil men in Scotland, said, "Rescue work is still going on, but nothing much can do done until it gets light." There was a strong feeling that the missing had no hope of survival, Lloyd said.

Some survivors clambered onto an adjacent platform, while others made it to rafts or lifeboats, reports said. About 50 men were said to be trapped, but still alive, in a movie theater that was under water.

Estimates of the number of persons aboard when the platform capsized ranged up to 225, and nearly all were said to be Norwegian.

A spokesman in Norway for Phillips Petroleum Co. said a huge wave driven by winds of about 50 mph collapsed one of the platform's five legs just as men were passing to and from it during a shift change, and the structure turned over in the sea.

"Hotel" platforms, on which oil workers live, resemble apartment buildings on stilts.

Phillips, which made the first strike in the Norwegian North Sea more than 10 years ago, chartered the platform.

A Phillips spokesman said the dead were found in water near the platform. He said 16 of those rescued had clambered onto an adjoining platform and 75 were in lifeboats and rafts. The whereabouts of the other survivors at the time they were rescued were not immediately known.

The spokesman said it was feared that those wearing just life jackets were swept out of the search area by the storm.

The British Defense Ministry said 28 men managed to climb aboard a life raft dropped by a Royal Air Force search plane.

A spokesman at the Royal Air Force rescue center at Pitreavie Castle, Scotland, said a rescue plane acting as a communications link with search teams and rescue centers reported that about 50 persons were believed trapped in the movie theater.

Press Association, the British domestic news agency, quoted a rescue center spokesman at Stavanger as saying that those in the theater were believed alive, that the platform "is floating upside down and we are hoping to send divers and diving bells down."

It quoted a company spokesman in Norway as saying that some aboard could have been Americans and British catering staff. The report could not be confirmed.

A company spokesman said the 85 workers evacuated were from the Edda production rig 300 yards from the capsized platform, including some Americans, were taken to the neighboring Ekofisk field installations. The identities of the Americans were not immediately known. A company spokesman said oil and gas production in the area was halted.

At midnight, the Royal Air Force announced helicopters were abandoning the rescue effort because of continuing bad weather, but that ships and planes were continuing the search.

"This is a catastrophe," said Oyvind Roth, a spokesman for Phillips in Stavanger, Norway, which had chartered the platform owned by the Stavanger Drilling Co. "The accident happened just in the middle of a shift when workers were moving from the production platform to their living quarters."

The Pitreavie Castle rescue center said the stricken rig was beginning to break up in the high seas and that people had been spotted floating below the surface of the water.

The "Alexander Kielland" platform is located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea oil fields in the Edda field, which neighbors Ekofisk where a 1978 Phillips oil rig blowout spilled thousands of tons of oil into the ocean.

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# Conspiracy Charges Filed On Nuclear Power Utility

Miami Herald 3/28/80

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Commonwealth Edison Co., the nation's largest atomic power utility, ordered guards at its Cordova plant to conceal security violations, a federal grand jury has charged in the first criminal indictment of a utility in a nuclear-security case.

The grand jury charged the utility and two employees with fraud and conspiracy in connection with the plant's security operations from January 1976 to April 1977.

The nine-count indictment said Pinkerton guards at the Quad-Cities Nuclear Station were ordered not to record discovery of unlocked and unguarded doors to vital areas and not to record unescorted visitors in such areas.

An Edison spokesman said the charges were not related to the operation of the two nuclear reactors.

He said the company believes it "has violated no laws and intends to defend itself and its employees vigorously."

The utility, its plant superintendent, Nicholas Kalivianakis, and Security Director Walter Meehan are to be arraigned April 9.

The indictment alleged that Edison and the two officials failed "to record such information in security records" as required by NRC regulations.

It said Edison and the officials knew records presented to the NRC "did not accurately and truthfully reflect security operations."

Edison was named in all nine counts. Kalivianakis, 48, of East Moline, and Meehan, 59, of Morrison, were named in seven counts each.

Edison is the nation's largest operating utility and largest nuclear utility, according to spokesman Bill Harrah. It serves the northern fifth of Illinois, including Chicago.

The utility owns 75 per cent of the Quad-Cities Station. Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Co. owns the rest.

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********** THE MIAMI HERALD

# Problems Shut 2 Nuke Plants

Associated Press

Equipment problems prompted the shutdown Sunday of reactors at two nuclear power plants, including one in Connecticut that went out of service for the fifth time in five weeks.

Officials at the Millstone nuclear plant in Waterford, Conn., said operators shut down the No. 2 unit after discovering a malfunction in a device that reheats water as it is circulated through a steam generator. There was no release of radiation, officials said.

In Southport, N.C., the No. 1 nuclear reactor at the Brunswick plant, owned by Carolina Power and Light Co., automatically shut down at 1 a.m. when a water level indicator malfunctioned, according to a company spokesman.

Mac Harris, public relations officer for the utility, said small amounts of radiation were released inside the containment building, but that they were well within permissible levels.

# Shutdown of Trojan requested

Oregonian 4/1/80

Portland General Electric Co. should shut down its Trojan nuclear plant now instead of April 9 because of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, an anti-nuclear participant in federal hearings said Monday.

Eugene Rosolie, member of the Coalition for Safe Power, urged the U.S. Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to order Trojan shut down now rather than in about one week, when the plant is scheduled to be refueled.

PGE announced earlier that it would refuel Trojan and do maintenance on the steam generator. Bruce Landrey, a PGE spokesman, said the reactor is coasting toward a shutdown about April 9. The plant will be out of service 12 weeks, he said.

The federal board began hearings Monday in Portland on the adequacy of PGE's plans to strengthen the plant's control-room walls against earthquakes. PGE discovered in the spring of 1978 that there had been errors in construction of the walls.

The board did not hear arguments on Rosolie's request Monday. PGE officials say the eruption of Mount St. Helens probably will not affect the Trojan site.

Nevertheless, PGE has stationed technicians at the Gifford Pinchot National Forest headquarters in Vancouver, Wash., where scientists are gathering data on the volcano. Landrey said the move was a precaution and that seismic equipment at Trojan had detected no earth tremors there.

He said the Trojan sensing equipment would not register small tremors. It is set to pick up ground movement at levels that might affect operation of the plant, he explained.

# Picket shuts plant

BOARDMAN (AP) -- A single picket shut down Portland General Electric Co.'s coal-fired plant in Eastern Oregon Monday. (POWER PLANT)

PGE spokesman Dave Eagon said the picket was disgruntled about lack of reimbursement for time off and doctor bills attributed to ozone inhalation at the plant last week.

The picket, who was not identified, quit Saturday, then showed up Monday with a sign that read "This job unfair to me." Oregonian 4/1/80


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# Wall Street Goes Wild as Silver Drops

3/28/80
Miami Herald
By MARTIN MERZER
Herald Business Writer

The financial troubles of a Texas billionaire, the world's largest owner of silver, sparked a devastating drop in the price of that precious metal Thursday and one of the wildest days ever endured by Wall Street.

The inability of billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt to repay more than $100 million in loans from some of Wall Street's largest brokerage firms resulted in this series of rapid-fire events:

* The price of silver, which reached a peak of $50.35 an ounce in January and was posted at $15.80 an ounce Wednesday, plummeted by 32 per cent Thursday and closed in New York at $10.80 an ounce.

* The stock market suffered one of its broadest drops in history. Virtually all major indices finished with sharp declines -- all, that is, except the closely watched Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks. Some 705 stocks plunged to 12-month lows; a grand total of two stocks reached new highs.

The Dow fluctuated wildly, plunging by more than 25 points a half-hour before the close and then staging a staggering rally to end the day at 759.98, off 2.14 points from Wednesday's close.

* The financial integrity of several of Wall Street's largest brokerage houses was questioned amid concerns that they could not withstand any losses that might be suffered through loans to Hunt or his group of silver speculators.

In each case, the firms said they could weather the storm.

But trading in the stock of one brokerage firm, the Bache Group, was halted for 10 days on the order of federal securities officials, and trading in the stocks of several other firms was halted temporarily by the New York Stock Exchange.

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# Hunt empire staggers under silver crash, rattles market

**By STEVE LOHR**
New York Times News Service

NEW YORK -- The plummeting price of silver Thursday shook the enormous, $2 billion silver empire of Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt of Dallas, pressing them to raise millions of dollars in cash and throwing Wall Street into a furor.

Fears of a headlong sell-off in silver and the possible collapse of the Hunt empire sent the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 25 points at one stage in hectic trading of more than 60 million shares.

The upheaval threatened at least one major brokerage house, prompting government intervention to prevent stampede selling in its shares and driving the price of silver still lower. Silver closed the day at $10.80 an ounce, down $5 from Wednesday's price and far below its January high of $50.05.

The tumult was touched off by a sharp fall in silver futures prices Wednesday, which generated a flurry of margin calls by brokerage houses, requiring investors who bought silver on credit to put up more cash to maintain their equity in their holdings. Investors routinely buy silver and other commodities largely on credit, or margin. Margin is a down payment of a small percentage of the total purchase price.

Hardest hit were the Hunt brothers, who since last summer have built up silver holdings of more than 200 million ounces. Their widely publicized purchases of silver helped push its price up from $6 in early 1979. According to bankers and silver traders, at least some of those purchases were made on credit.

With falling silver prices and soaring interest rates, their hoard has become all the more costly to carry. Apparently strapped for cash, the Hunts reportedly were forced to sell some of their securities holdings to raise money on their silver futures positions.

According to traders, the Hunts were caught in the classic pinch. If they sold silver to raise the needed cash, they faced the near certainty of driving down the price still further and touching off a snowballing process. By market accounts, the Hunts have lost more than $1 billion in recent weeks.

Equally hard-pressed was Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, a brokerage firm that has been the Hunts' silver brokers for years and is 5.6 percent owned by the Hunts.

A Bache spokesman said the Hunts had failed to meet the margin requirements first imposed late Tuesday, and that the firm had proceeded to liquidate some of the Hunt silver holdings to meet the margin calls on Wednesday morning.

"We've been dealing with the Hunts for about eight years, and Tuesday of this week was the first time they didn't meet (a margin call)," said Elliot J. Smith, executive vice president of Bache.

Smith said that, in accord with the policy of his firm, the Hunts were informed by telephone Wednesday morning that, unless the position were covered, Bache would begin liquidating some of their silver holdings. "They said they were not sending money or collateral," Smith said.

Apparently as a result of the liquidation, the margin debt by the Hunts to Bache Halsey Stuart Shields currently stands at about $100 million, down from more than $200 million a few days ago, according to Wall Street sources. "That's about right," said one Bache executive, who declined to provide any other details.

Hunt could not be reached for comment Thursday.

In an unusual afternoon action, the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday suspended trading in the Bache Group Inc., the parent company of the brokerage house, because of "undisclosed material corporate events relating to commodities futures trading accounts maintained by customers with the firm."

Although commission officials would provide no further details on that action, the statement clearly referred to the Hunts' failure to meet their margin call.

Underscoring the urgency of the Hunt situation and the possible effect on the financial markets, the government decision to suspend trading in Bache took place at an emergency meeting of top SEC and Treasury Department officials Thursday afternoon. The circumstance of the session also reflects the unexpected nature of the problems surrounding the Hunts' financial pinch.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees trading in futures contracts, met twice Thursday to consider curbing silver futures trading but after a late-afternoon session, decided not to act immediately. Instead it scheduled a midmorning meeting for Friday.

Late Thursday night, Bache requested a meeting with the futures commission at which it intends to ask for a suspension in silver trading, officials of the Commodity Exchange Inc. reported.

The concern about the financial health of Bache, and other brokerage firms with which the Hunts held accounts, results from exchange and governmental regulatory requirements on margin accounts. These accounts allow clients, in effect, to borrow from the brokerage firms to buy commodities or securities on margin.

The margin account must be backed up with collateral, usually either in commodities or negotiable securities of some type. The underlying collateral must be kept at a given percentage of the total holdings of a client, such as the Hunts. When the market price of the collateral declines, the brokerage house places a margin call to the bearer of the margin account, telling him to send in more collateral to maintain the required percentage of collateral backing.

![NELSON BUNKER HUNT]

NELSON BUNKER HUNT


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Note: I PK'd game on radio. Owens.

# Phoenix pressure proves too much; Blazers fall 114-100

PHOENIX -- If Portland has a choice of opponents in the National Basketball Association playoff miniseries, Friday's performance in Phoenix indicates the Blazers had better choose Seattle.

The Suns' quick, double-teaming defense pressured the Blazers into 22 first-half turnovers and built up a 26-point second-half lead before Phoenix coasted to a 114-100 triumph.

The victory gave Phoenix, 54-27, a sweep of the season's six-game series against the Blazers and left the Suns one game behind Seattle in the race for second place in the NBA's Pacific Division.

If Phoenix ends its season with a victory over San Diego Sunday and Portland beats Seattle in the Kingdome, Portland will meet the Suns in the best-of-three miniseries. Should Seattle and Phoenix end the season in a tie, the Suns will take second place by virtue of a 4-2 record against the Sonics in head-to-head play.

Eight consecutive points by Paul Westphal moved the Suns from a 22-point halftime edge to a 69-43 lead. The Blazers cut that lead to 14 by the three-quarter mark, but could move no closer than 11 in the final period.

Billy Ray Bates led the Blazers with 20 points, 18 of them in the second half, and Calvin Natt finished with 17. Walter Davis led the Suns with 20, followed by Westphal's 16 and Truck Robinson's 14.

After the tumult and shouting had died down following Thursday's playoff-clinching win over San Diego, the Blazers came crashing quickly back to reality against the Suns.

They committed 12 first-quarter turnovers and allowed Phoenix seven layups in an opening period that must have had CBS wondering why it didn't have a rerun of the "The Rockford Files" to show in place of the game.

Phoenix stole the ball 16 times in the first half, setting a new Veterans' Memorial Coliseum record for steals in a half, en route to a 59-37 lead.

The Blazers finished with an astronomical 22 first-half turnovers, shot .357 for the half and were hopelessly out of the game, trailing 43-26 with eight minutes still remaining.

The Blazers conclude the regular season Sunday in Seattle. The first round of the NBA playoff miniseries will begin Wednesday against either Phoenix or Seattle, the second-place finisher in the Pacific Division. The only Blazer home game in that best-of-three series will be Friday.

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More pictures on Page A21

By JOHN SNELL 3/29/80
of The Oregonian staff

Mount St. Helens stepped up its geologic performance Friday with a series of eruptions that sent smoke more than a mile above the mountain and shot hundreds of boulders nearly 1,000 feet into the air.

The volcano, dormant for nearly 123 years before Thursday, also spewed a cloud of ash, some of which settled in communities more than 50 miles away.

The eruptions on the 9,677-foot peak continued with clocklike regularity Friday, with explosive eruptions occurring every 30 minutes, a federal geologist reported. Light ash had begun to cover the flanks of the mountain by early Friday afternoon, and mud flows were reported to have nearly reached timberline at the 4,400-foot level.

Geologist Dan Miller of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver said the mountain "spent the afternoon pulsing away" in what he called "vigorous eruptions."

Miller said he was on the mountain shortly after 5:30 p.m. Friday and saw "black blobs" of rocks thrown above a cloud cover at 10,000 feet altitude. Miller said hundreds of small boulders shot about 500 feet above the clouds -- nearly 1,000 feet above the mountaintop.

He said the rocks ranged from the size of tennis balls to others more than 3 feet across.

The mountain was obscured by clouds throughout most of the day, and scientists were unable to determine whether additional fissures or craters had developed as a result of the eruption.

No molten rock had been observed as of Friday, and there were no reports of injuries or missing persons.

Ash from the mountain had dusted the Washington communities of Trout Lake and Glenwood, some 50 miles from the summit, and apparently caused a light haze in Goldendale, 70 miles away along the Washington bank of the Columbia River.

The mountain, rocked by increasingly frequent earthquakes since March 20, erupted with an explosion of smoke, steam and ashes at 1:48 a.m. Friday.

"It was really something to see with a man's eyes," said Walt Sutton Jr., 24, a self-employed carpenter from Amboy, Wash., who was on Cooney Point, west of Mount Mitchell, when the volcano exploded.

Sutton said that from his vantage point 11 miles south of the mountain, the eruption could not be felt, "but there was a kind of whistling sound, like elk bugling, or at least that's what it sounded like to me."

"I've hunted and been here all my life, and I know every mountain from here to Mount Adams," he said. "But this was a once-in-a-lifetime thing to see. We were looking right straight at it and it started going off with the moon light lighting it up. It was real beautiful."

Sutton, who escorted an Oregonian reporter and photographer to the vantage point, said the initial eruption was timed at 17 minutes and appeared to have triggered at least one avalanche. A second eruption started at about 2:45 a.m. and was of shorter duration.

"There was more smoke, but it wasn't as pretty, either," he said.

The Forest Service verified a third eruption at about 3 a.m., said public information officer Dave Seesholtz. Steam and ash were seen as high as 16,000 feet above sea level, or more than a mile above the summit, he said. The eruption lasted 57 minutes.

More than a dozen ash eruptions lasting anywhere from two to 45 minutes were observed Friday morning, and by midafternoon the mountain was experiencing "major explosive episodes" occurring every half-hour, Seesholtz said.

James Moore and Don Swanson of the Geological Survey office in Menlo Park, Calif., were taken by helicopter to the 5,500-foot level of the mountain to collect ash samples.

The samples were to be flown to Denver for laboratory examination, said Jim Unterwegner of the Forest Service, but examination using hand-held magnifiers appeared to show that no molten lava had been emitted so far.

Moore said the east side of the mountain was covered with ash. Unterwegner said later that an "ash avalanche" had occurred on the southeast flank of the mountain.

The series of eruptions did not pose any immediate threat to human life, but law enforcement authorities said they would be strictly enforcing the closure of roads to the mountain. Skamania County sheriff's deputies announced shortly after 7 p.m. that no one -- including police -- would be allowed past established roadblocks without written authorization from the Forest Service. Scientists, property owners and reporters had been allowed past the barricades earlier.

An immediate concern of geologists and Forest Service personnel was the formation Friday of a potentially suffocating mass of dust and gases on Shoestring Glacier, moving down the mountain's southeast slope. Such flows can produce a "superheated avalanche" that can move at speeds up to 110 mph, but scientists could not say how fast it was moving on St. Helens because of cloud cover.

Paul Hammond, a Portland State University volcanologist, said the "pyroclastic flow" contains a variety of gases, including carbon dioxide, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide.

"It tends to be quite suffocating," Hammond said. "If people are caught in its path, they can be severely burned. It tends to burn the bark off trees."

If the flow continues down the slope, it could reach Pine Creek and eventually Swift Creek. Geologists said the flow could contaminate the area's water, forcing closure of campgrounds for an unknown length of time.

A Geological Survey bulletin written before the eruption, titled "Potential Hazards from Future Eruptions of Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington" said that a mud flow from the volcano could cause a massive flood in Swift Creek that could lead to the failure of Swift Dam, a hydroelectric project operated by Pacific Power & Light Co.

"A mud flow of very large volume, for example, could raise the level of the reservoir faster than water could be discharged safely," wrote study authors Don R. Mullineaux and Dwight R. Crandell. "If a volcanic event led directly or indirectly to the failure or overtopping of Swift Dam, a catastrophe would result."

PP&L engineers lowered the Swift Dam reservoir Friday morning by running water through the turbine. Company spokesman Glenn Gillespie said the reservoir would be brought 100,000 acre-feet below its maximum capacity to protect against flooding.

The Geological Survey study urged a drawdown of at least 100,000 acre-feet and said additional storage capacity would be desirable as a safety margin, the volume of which could change from season to season according to the likelihood of very heavy precipitation and runoff that could result from a major storm.

The study also said that gases emitted from the volcano could injure both


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Note: There's an odd synchronicity here. I work with UFOs, probably called "gods" by the Indians. They refer to "The Great Spirit" which equates with the Rogo/Mishlove "The Phenomenon" (which I prefer to call "The Force." And The Basis for my UFOs and I is for the purpose of bringing peace to the human race!

# Indian legend reveals St. Helens' lonely spirit

"Loo-Wit" was the sole guardian of the Bridge of the Gods.

"PK Man," you could say, is the sole guardian of "the Bridge of the UFO Gods."

Owen

By JEANIE SENIOR 3/29/80
Correspondent, The Oregonian

TROUT LAKE, Wash. -- In Klickitat Indian legend, Mount St. Helens is called Loo-Wit, the guardian of the Bridge of the Gods.

Loo-wit tried to keep peace between "the great snow mountains," the brothers Wy'east (Mount Hood) and Klickitat (Mount Adams) when they fought over beautiful Squaw Mountain, today called Sleeping Beauty, in the Trout Lake Valley.

In his book "Legends of the Klickitat," published in 1933, Clarence O. Bunnell relates the story of the fall of the Bridge of the Gods as told to him by members of several mid-Columbia Indian tribes.

During their battle over beautiful Squaw Mountain, the legend says, the two mountains "stomped upon the ground and shook the earth in their wrath; again they darkened the heavens with their smoke and ashes and, casting aside their beautiful white robes, poured forth great streams of liquid fire that painted their sides in blazing colors of war."

The two mountains blew so many white-hot stones at each other that the Bridge of the Gods collapsed under the weight of the rocks.

Loo-Wit, an old, toothless woman in the form of a mountain, was posted by the Great Spirit to guard the bridge and to remind the brothers of their folly in fighting over Squaw Mountain, and to show them that beauty in women is never permanent.

Loo-Wit tried valiantly to stop the fight.

"Failing in her efforts, she stood by her post and did her best to save the bridge from destruction," Bunnell wrote.

Because she was caught between the warring mountains, Loo-Wit was "badly burned and battered by the great hot rocks which they threw at each other."

When the bridge collapsed, Loo-Wit fell into the Columbia River with it. THE FORCE *

The Great Spirit heard her moaning and saved Loo-Wit from the river, telling her she would be rewarded for her bravery and integrity.

Loo-Wit asked to be made young and beautiful once more. The Great Spirit changed her physical appearance, but did not make her young in spirit.

Loo-Wit took her place among the great snow mountains, but remained solitary because her family and friends had all passed on.

So, the legend concludes, she withdrew from the main mountain range and settled herself far to the west, "aloof, unconcerned, . . . the youngest and most beautiful, yet the oldest of all the snow mountains."

* The Force (my term) = "The Phenomenon" in Rogo/Mishlove book.

-- World "Power" Attack --

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A8 2M THE OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1980

# In America, Europe Arrests, vigils mark TMI date

By The Associated Press

Fifty-six anti-nuclear protesters were arrested Friday at the New Jersey headquarters of the utility that owns the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in one of several demonstrations on the first anniversary of the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident.

At Middletown, Pa., about 200 people, including reporters, gathered in a yard just a few hundred feet from the damaged Three Mile Island plant.

The nuclear foes lit white candles and sang a protest song at 4 a.m., exactly the time when a series of mechanical breakdowns and human errors triggered the accident March 28, 1979, and radioactive gas escaped from the plant.

The plant now sits virtually silent on a speck of land in the Susquehanna River, 10 miles from the state Capitol in Harrisburg. It has become a symbol of anti-nuclear activism around the world and was the focal point of protests across America and Europe.

Peaceful anti-nuclear observances were conducted at power plants and utilities in Connecticut, Virginia, California and Texas, and more were planned throughout the weekend.

About 200 people demonstrated peacefully at the corporate headquarters of General Public Utilities in Parsippany, N.J.; 56 of them were arrested after they entered company property.

Some of the protesters jumped a 4-foot snow fence, and others tried to shoulder through police lines. Police carried away some of the demonstrators and loaded them into buses. Those arrested were being charged with criminal trespass.

About 40 people demonstrated outside the gates of Northeast Utilities in Berlin, Conn., and two women handing out pamphlets were arrested for interfering with employees entering the facility, authorities said.

At Three Mile Island, area residents paraded before a microphone to express fear and anger over the accident. One of several signs and banners read: "Close TMI Or We'll All Die."

"Now's the time to talk about that monstrosity just behind me. I hate that plant, I hate that plant," said Terry Roth of the anti-nuclear March 28 Coalition, which organized the two days of commemorative observances.

"Shutting down that plant is one of the most important things of my life," she added.

A woman who said she survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 35 years ago called the crowd "hibakkusha," a revered Japanese word that means survivor of a nuclear catastrophe.

"Although my health is now weak, I have come all the way from Hiroshima to here to appeal for a world that is free of nukes," said 59-year-old Chisako Odoriba through an interpreter.

Some speakers carried babies, shed tears or spoke in trembling voices.

"My life has been a total disaster since the accident. I'm tired of being lied to. I feel like a hostage in my own home," said Barb Nace of Harrisburg.

Cailin Patterson, an 11-year-old Harrisburg girl, added, "So-called accidents like TMI affect children the most. We don't want to grow up thinking that someday we may get cancer. We don't know whether to believe grownups anymore."

- World "Power" Attack -

Note: "The Phenomenon" will utilize any means to neutralize "power" around the world! (Electric, nuclear, coal, oil, etc.)

Owen

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Note: Bev + I recently spent 3 days in Hermiston.

# Ozone leak fells 33 at Boardman

3/29/80

HERMISTON (AP)) -- At least 33 construction workers from the Boardman coal-fired power plant have been treated at a Hermiston hospital for minor exposure to ozone, a doctor said Thursday.

Dr. Bruce Carlson, an attending physician at Good Shepard Hospital, said 24 workers were treated Wednesday and another nine on Thursday.

Some 400 workers ended a one-day walkout at the plant site early Thursday after complaining of the smell of ozone during the testing of equipment.

The 33 workers were treated in the emergency room but none was admitted to the hospital, Carlson said. The symptoms included chest pains, dizziness, nausea, headaches, sore throat and nose irritation, he said.

Portland General Electric Co. officials had said there was no danger from the ozone leakage during testing of an electrostatic precipitator. The machine removes fly ash and normally produces ozone while operating.

Plant construction manager Ad Starner said it was hard to tell the number of workers absent from the site Thursday because there is normally a 10 percent absentee rate every day.

At least one state health inspector was at the site Thursday.

Starner said the ozone leaked into the main part of the plant because two dampers were opened during some duct work. He said monitoring equipment would be used during further testing.

PGE spokesman Dave Eagon said the ozone was measured at .01 parts per million Wednesday noon, or 10 times less than an amount to become concerned about. The walkout occurred about 10 a.m.

He said about 1,100 persons are currently employed at the site.


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Oregon Journal 3-29-80

# Suns burn lethargic Blazers

By KEN WHEELER
Journal Sports Writer

Note: This game I PK'd over the radio.

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Luckily for the Trail Blazers, the Suns stayed inside. Had they worked the outside of Veterans Memorial Coliseum here Friday night they likely would have swiped the tires off the bus in which the Blazers planned their escape.

That's about all the gambling, quick-handed Suns didn't steal, though, in pasting the Blazers 114-100 to make it a season's 6-0 sweep as the two readied themselves for the playoffs next week.

Luckily for the Blazers, this wasn't a game they had to have, not after they clinched the only playoff berth they could reach with their win in San Diego a night earlier.

Maybe that's where the makings for this whacking were formulated, too. At least most of the Blazers laid the blame there for this flat showing. An emotional letdown, they explained.

Only Coach Jack Ramsay wouldn't buy. There were times during the first half, times during those minutes when the Blazers were being buried by an avalanche of Phoenix fast breaks, that the frustration and dissatisfaction Ramsay felt was as evident as though the words had been tattooed on his forehead.

"I don't like to play that kind of basketball," he said later. "That is ridiculous under any kind of circumstances."

Ramsay, you could say, had suffered no emotional letdown after Thursday's win.

Still ahead for the Blazers is a final game of the regular season Sunday night in Seattle -- and, with it, the determination of who they will meet in the first round of the playoffs next week.

Should the Blazers beat Seattle, it's likely they would be matching themselves against these same Suns in the opening three-game series, scheduled for next Wednesday and Friday night with a third game, if necessary, set for Sunday afternoon. Only the Friday game will be played in Portland.

Phoenix trails the Sonics by one game in the battle for second place in the division and has only to play San Diego here Sunday to finish its season.

If the Suns win that game and the Blazers beat Seattle it would move the Suns ahead of the Sonics in the seedings because they built a 4-2 margin in their head-to-head meetings. They then would play the Blazers.

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Highest Paid

According to Hollywood producers, the highest paid screen star is Steve McQueen, born March 24, 1930. McQueen--whose last film, "Enemy of the People," was so bad it couldn't get a full release in this country--has two additional films scheduled for release this year, "Tom Horn" and "The Hunter."

Reportedly he was paid $3 million for each, now wants $5 million before he will even read a script.

"The way it goes with McQueen," explains one producer, "is that you send a check for $5 million to his agent, Marvin Josephson. After the check clears, you send the script to McQueen. He has script approval, director approval, cameraman approval, leading lady approval, publicists approval, and a couple of other approvals. If he agrees to star in your production, he keeps the check. If he doesn't, the check is returned to you.

"There is such a shortage of bankable film stars that the superstar now rules the roost. Can you imagine Marlon Brando asking for and getting $2.75 million for 11 days' work on "The Formula"? The way inflation is going, McQueen is almost sure to ask for $10 million per picture in another five years."

Note: I stay broke... can only control cities and countries with my mind. McQueen gets millions imitating people. Human values. Gwen

Steve McQueen in film "The Hunter," to be released this year

Paramount Pictures

PARADE • MARCH 30, 1980 9


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The Seattle Times Sunday, March 30, 1980

The Times' opinion and comment:

A volcano erupts: The view from down here

"We are dancing on a volcano."
- M. De Salvandy to the Duke of Orleans, 1830

THE word volcano derives from Vulcano, an island north of Sicily that the Romans thought to be the entrance to the netherworld - the domain of Vulcan, god of fire.

In his subterranean furnace, Vulcan made thunderbolts for his father, Jupiter, and arms and armor for other gods and heroes. Each year, the Romans celebrated "Volcanalia," a festival with special rites aimed at protecting mere mortals from Vulcan's destructive fire.

Today we can laugh at such ancient, pagan rites. Or can we?

The eruption of Mount St. Helens has touched a deep chord in most of us. There is something elemental, almost mythical, about the mountain's violent stirrings. It rivets our fascination.

We go about our normal business, calm on the surface, making little jokes - but there is something vaguely unsettling underneath. One of our most basic reference points is transforming itself before our eyes.

All of our modern achievements in science, technology and engineering are humbled by the awesome spectacle of an active volcano. We can dam or bridge the widest rivers, harness or unleash the atom, even send men to the moon and back. But all our efforts seem to pale next to the prodigious powers of the planet itself.

Earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, cyclones and other natural phenomena humble us, too, but volcanic eruptions are especially mind-boggling, perhaps because the biggest of them have been so staggering in scope:

- When Oregon's Mount Mazama blew its top centuries ago, almost 10 cubic miles of mountain filled the air, falling as ash as far away as Montana.

- When the island of Krakatoa was obliterated in 1883, the explosion was heard 3,000 miles away; ash encircled the world and turned sunsets red for more than a year.

- When Mount Pelee exploded on Martinique in 1902, 30,000 people were killed by a glowing cloud of incandescent gas more than a mile thick.

- The spectacular steamblast eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea in 1924 tossed eight-ton boulders a mile from the volcano's vent.

As a figure of speech, we sometimes use the word volcano to describe wars, revolutions or other political or religious upheavals. Such analogies are not apt. We flatter ourselves and slight nature.

There are no human powers or forces that can rival those of nature. As the old saying goes, one touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We stand in awe of this rumbling, smoking, steaming mountain. As we watch, wait and listen, we are all kin.

Note the tie-ups to the Indian Loo-Wit, the spirit who guarded the entrance or bridge to "the Gods." !! See xerox attached.

Owens

Synchronicity

Lightning is my sign. (And we just had blue lightning (eerie, they called it) at Mt. St. Helens.

Owens

Toledo

MAYFIELD DAM

MOSSYROCK DAM

COWLITZ R.

Silver Lake

Castle Rock

TOUTLE R.

SO. FORK

MT. MARGARET

New crater opens

MT. ST. HELENS

SPIRIT LK

COWEEMAN R.

Kelso

I-5

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

KALAMA R.

Kalama

ARIEL DAM

Woodland

LEWIS R.

SWIFT CR. DAM
YALE DAM
YALE LAKE

Cougar

Amboy

ORE.

Portland

45 miles

NORTH

3/23/80


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Oregonian 3/30/80

World "Power" Attack

# Anniversary of Three Mile Island accident sparks protests nationwide

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, MARCH 30, 1980 3M A15

By The Associated Press

About 7,000 people heard anti-nuclear songs and speeches Saturday at a rally in Harrisburg, Pa., to commemorate the anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident. It was the largest of a series of protest rallies around the nation.

In Missouri, 26 demonstrators were arrested on charges of trespassing on the grounds of a nuclear generating station.

In Oregon, the state Democratic Party voted at a convention in Seaside to include an anti-nuclear plank in its platform. It calls for the shutdown of the Trojan power plant near Rainier, the state's only nuclear generating station.

Organizers of the Harrisburg demonstration hoped to draw 10,000 people to the state Capitol, which is just a few miles from the plant, but a cold drizzle cut into attendance. One banner held by a participant read, "Hell No, We Won't Glow."

Entertainment was provided by singers Stephen Stills, Pete Seeger and Linda Ronstadt, who said she felt strongly enough about nuclear power to overcome a reluctance to "mix music and politics."

Seeger said, "If we don't stop nuclear power the poor may inherit the earth, but they'll inherit such a dump they won't want it."

Rock music was also heard on the Capitol lawn at Montpelier, Vt., where about 100 people gathered as a prelude to a demonstration Sunday at the Vermont Yankee atomic power plant in Vernon. In Austin, Texas, about 200 people heard anti-nuclear speeches and music outside the statehouse.

A solar-powered sound system carried the music in a rally by about 200 people outside the Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah nuclear power plant near Chattanooga, Tenn. A rally also was held in Baltimore Saturday, and another was staged in Russellville, Ark.

Police arrested 26 persons who entered the grounds of a nuclear generating station in Callaway County, Mo., and charged them with trespassing. They were released on their own recognizance and ordered to appear April 18 in county circuit court.

Other protesters were arrested Friday in New Jersey, Texas and Connecticut. The New Jersey arrests were at the Parsippany headquarters of General Public Utilities Corp., which owns the Three Mile Island plant.

Trespassing charges were filed against 67 of the approximately 200 people participating in the rally.

Protests were also held Friday in Nebraska, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Maryland, Arizona, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Tennessee.

A few hundred feet from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Middletown, Pa., 200 people began a candlelight vigil at 4 a.m. Friday, the same time when a series of mechanical breakdowns and human errors triggered the accident March 28, 1979. It was the worst accident at a commercial nuclear plant in the United States.

Overheating and loss of cooling water brought the reactor close to a meltdown and caused some release of radioactive gas.

In a televised debate on nuclear energy in Harrisburg, panelist Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., said: "The people of America and the people of Harrisburg don't trust the experts any longer. The experts don't have any credibility. Nuclear power is a failure and doesn't have a future."

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- World "Power" Attack Oregonian 3/30/80

# Radio broadcast panics islanders

PORT ALBERNI, British Columbia (AP) -- A realistic radio documentary about a 1964 tidal wave combined with a power outage to frighten many residents of this Vancouver Island town, officials said.

"One man left work to get to his family," after hearing the Friday evening broadcast, said Wayne Moore, an announcer for radio station CJAV. "One man tried to charter a plane."

The station was broadcasting a documentary on a tidal wave that hit 16 years ago. The program began with a simulated news report on the approach of a wall of water, and at that instant a failure at a local power substation blacked out the Alberni Valley.

Power was restored five minutes later, but by that time a lot of people were jittery.

"I know that MacMillan Bloedel (a pulp company) was making plans to evacuate," said Mike Kindratsky, an auxiliary constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Moore said company employees began moving trucks to higher ground.

Officials said they didn't know whether anyone actually left town after hearing the tidal wave report.

CJAV employees said the 35-minute documentary was promoted in advance, although it appeared some people had not heard about it.

"We had a bunch of calls about that ... asking if it was true," said Kindratsky.

Moore said the station switchboard "was lit up solid for about 15 minutes."

After power was restored, CJAV began the program again from the beginning. However, 10 minutes later it was forced to interrupt the show again to offer reassurance that there was no tidal wave and that the program was a dramatization.


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3-30-80 Oregonian

# Radio broadcast panics islanders

PORT ALBERNI, British Columbia (AP) -- A realistic radio documentary about a 1964 tidal wave combined with a power outage to frighten many residents of this Vancouver Island town, officials said.

"One man left work to get to his family," after hearing the Friday evening broadcast, said Wayne Moore, an announcer for radio station CJAV. "One man tried to charter a plane."

The station was broadcasting a documentary on a tidal wave that hit 16 years ago. The program began with a simulated news report on the approach of a wall of water, and at that instant a failure at a local power substation blacked out the Alberni Valley.

Power was restored five minutes later, but by that time a lot of people were jittery.

"I know that MacMillan Bloedel (a pulp company) was making plans to evacuate," said Mike Kindratsky, an auxiliary constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Moore said company employees began moving trucks to higher ground.

Officials said they didn't know whether anyone actually left town after hearing the tidal wave report.

CJAV employees said the 35-minute documentary was promoted in advance, although it appeared some people had not heard about it.

"We had a bunch of calls about that ... asking if it was true," said Kindratsky.

Moore said the station switchboard "was lit up solid for about 15 minutes."

After power was restored, CJAV began the program again from the beginning. However, 10 minutes later it was forced to interrupt the show again to offer reassurance that there was no tidal wave and that the program was a dramatization.

When the broadcast was repeated later, only one person called the station, Moore said.

Seattle Times 3-28-80

# Disaster

## Phones out in Ore. test, but radios worked

HERMISTON, Ore. -- (AP) -- Not everything went smoothly yesterday in a drill to test emergency-services readiness for any disaster that might hit Umatilla County in Northeastern Oregon.

Among the phony disasters that were part of the scenario were a nerve-gas leak at the Umatilla Army Depot, a crack in the Cold Springs Dam, a gas-line break between Hermiston and Umatilla and a school-bus crash near McNary.

In Salem, State Police Supt. John Williams said his telephone in the capitol command center didn't work.

And he said there was no one in the teletype room at the state police headquarters to receive a message sent from the Hermiston state-police office.

Williams and Harvey Latham, administrator of the state Emergency Services Division, said their agencies' teletype machines are outdated and inadequate in any case, and that they need money to buy more modern machines.

On the plus side, Williams said, the drill gave his agency a chance to test a new radio-signal-relay network that allowed the Salem headquarters office to talk directly to the Pendleton and Hermiston offices by a two-way radio.


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- World "Power" Attack -

# Democrats' platform asks Trojan shutdown

By SANDRA McDONOUGH 3/30/80
of The Oregonian staff

SEASIDE -- The Democratic Party of Oregon began hammering out a typically liberal party platform Saturday, taking stands against nuclear power and capital punishment and in favor of gay rights, gun control and legalizing cultivation of marijuana.

About 500 Oregon Democrats gathered at the Seaside Convention Center this weekend for the party's biennial platform convention. Following the pattern of the last decade, the convention was dominated by young, liberal Democrats.

An example of the platform convention's liberal overtones was debate over the energy planks for the 1980 platform, particularly its proposal calling for decommissioning of Portland General Electric Co.'s Trojan Nuclear Plant. A similar proposal was adopted for the party's 1978 platform.

During debate over the Trojan plant issue, opponents of nuclear power said the volcanic activity on Mount St. Helens illustrates the precariousness of the Trojan plant site near Rainier.

"The fault that Trojan exists on is engaged in nuclear activity -- and for the people of Portland there is no evacuation plan," said John Stewart, a Lane County delegate to the convention.

Some Democrats opposed the anti-Trojan platform, saying it was "extremist and irresponsible" at a time when the nation faces an energy shortage.

"We have no alternative if we shut down Trojan at this time. Are you going to shut off your electricity if we shut down Trojan?" asked Terry Ogle, a Clatsop County delegate.

"Yes," yelled scores of convention delegates.


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Oregonian March 30, 1980

# Spokane silver traders bemoan crash

SPOKANE (AP) -- "It's the worst crash in the history of metals," said an anguished Spokane silver trader after the price of the precious metal plunged to around $10 an ounce.

Two months ago, silver, the lifeblood of the Spokane Stock Exchange and of the Coeur d'Alene Mining District of northern Idaho, was selling for a heady $50.

The drop sent shock waves around the mining district, and Tom Dillon, president of the Spokane exchange, said, "A lot of people will be hurt."

There was no margin trading allowed on the exchange, he said, and brokers discouraged people from getting too extended about trading.

As an example of the volatile nature of mine stocks, Dillon cited Hecla Mining Co. In 1979, it was a star performer on the New York Stock Exchange when it rose from $4.50 to $55. Thursday, Hecla closed at $21, down 4 3/4. The one-day drop in price was 21 percent.

Analysts say the long-term outlook for silver prices after Thursday's drop is a mystery.

The price began to collapse Wednesday when rumors circulated that Nelson Bunker Hunt might sell his vast holdings because Hunt announced that he and four Arab investors wanted to borrow money by issuing bonds backed by more than 200 million ounces of silver.

Hunt is widely believed to be responsible for the huge gains in silver prices since it was $6 per ounce 15 months ago. The bond offer was interpreted to mean that even the huge Hunt fortune could not keep the price of silver up, and the panic to sell was on.

Earlier this year, brokers estimated an average price of $25 an ounce for this year. At that price, the value of the Coeur d'Alene Mining District's estimated 1980 production of about 15.6 million ounces would be $390 million.

If the average price for the year remains at $10, the district's silver production would be worth only $156 million. "It hurts the district, and it hurts the entire state economy," Dillon said.

At Pacific Coast Coin Exchange, there was no silver at hand on Thursday, in sharp contrast to earlier scenes when crowds lined up to sell silver at about $30 and $40 an ounce.

Oregonian March 30, 1980

# Reverberations in market expected from silver crash

By KRISTIN GOFF

NEW YORK (AP) -- The upheaval in financial markets this past week may have widespread and lingering effects.

The tailspin centered on problems in the silver market and worries about the fortune of the late Texas billionaire H.L. Hunt's heirs, who amassed huge amounts of silver.

But with confidence in the economy already sinking in the face of high inflation and low economic output, some analysts think the silver crisis may go a long way to further erode confidence.

Caught in a squeeze of high interest rates and slumping silver prices, Nelson Bunker Hunt and associates were unable to meet a call of in excess of $100 million additional margin, according to Bache Group Inc., the parent company of the brokerage house which handled the Hunt family's silver trading.

The result was a liquidation "in excess of $100 million" of silver futures contracts held by the Hunts and sales of some of their stock holdings, according to Bache. That sent a scare through financial markets in general.

The New York Exchange's Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 25 points at one stage during panicky trading Thursday before recovering almost all of that loss in the final half hour.

Silver prices dropped $5 an ounce Thursday to $10.80, which was the lowest close since last August. Gold and commodities, ranging from grain to pork bellies, also dropped.

Things calmed down a bit Friday.

But as one broker said, "The reverberations will be felt for a long time."

"When you see markets falling so fast, it chills people's thinking about everything," including capital expenditures and business inventories, Albert H. Cox, president of Merrill Lynch Economics, told a reporter.

Lawrence Chimerine, chief economist at Chase Econometrics, however, cautioned against making too much of the economic consequences.

"I have been somewhat pessimistic (about a recession) for a while. What's happening in the commodities market (reflects) the realization that a recession is coming and a reaction to speculation" in silver.

The price of silver jumped from about $6 an ounce 15 months ago to more than $50 in January before falling back to its recent lows.

The markets' responses, said Chimerine, "is consistent with a significant recession and some moderation of inflation this year. But when you consider all the factors, I wouldn't reach the conclusion that the world is coming to and end."


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# Silver's luster dims after Wall Street fright

By CHET CURRIER 3/30/80 Oregonian

NEW YORK (AP) -- After the events of the past few days, some Wall Streeters might be just as happy if the word "silver" weren't spoken in their presence for a while.

But it will be some time before the last is heard of the silver crisis that rocked the stock and commodity markets, the wealthy Hunt family of Dallas and the Wall Street firm of Bache Group this past week.

The biggest jolt came Thursday afternoon amid forced selling of huge amounts of silver the Hunts had accumulated, financing their purchases in part with loans from Bache and other brokerage firms.

After soaring from $6 an ounce a year ago to about $50 by January, silver prices suddenly lapsed into a decline, apparently putting the Hunts in a bind. Not only were their profits rapidly disappearing, but the silver they owned was losing value as collateral on their loans.

At the middle of this past week, Bache said it issued a "margin call" to the Hunts, requesting more than $100 million worth of additional collateral. When the Hunts didn't respond immediately, Bache began selling silver to cover the debt.

That selling accelerated the decline in the silver price, driving it down to $10.80 late Thursday from $15.80 the day before in New York. On Friday it edged back up to $12.

The stock market also nosedived briefly to its lowest level in five years. It quickly rebounded in the final minutes of Thursday's session and continued to rally sharply Friday.

For the week, however, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials still posted its seventh straight weekly loss with a net decline of 7.50 at 777.65.

The New York Stock Exchange composite index dropped 1.42 to 56.82, and the American Stock Exchange market value index tumbled 23.89 to 228.89.

Big Board volume averaged 46.16 million shares a day, against 37.14 million the week before.

Though the markets steadied Friday, it was still an anxious day in the financial community.

Harold Williams, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, was among the financial leaders and regulators on hand to oversee efforts to untangle Bache's problems resulting from the silver squeeze.

Trading in Bache's stock remained under a suspension ordered Thursday afternoon by the SEC. The shares last traded at $8, down $1.25 from their close Wednesday.

At the same time, various authorities were beginning what is likely to be a lengthy inquiry into the causes and lessons of the situation.


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March 30, 1980

Howard
Main Street Pawn Shop

Dear Howard:

Last Saturday, March 22, while I was there, you said: "Ted, if you are a world famous psychic, why can't you tell me whether silver and gold are going up or going down...and the timing is important."

I explained to you that ordinarily I do not do that sort of thing...work with stocks or stock market or gold or silver.

That night, at 6 PM, my mind gave me the answer...gold and silver would fall, go down, drop, in the days ahead.

Early next Monday morning I phoned you and told you that.

By Monday evening gold had dropped $33 an ounce. crashed Wed. & Thursday

On Tuesday the bottom dropped out of the silver market, and it went down.

I had told you that I am 93% correct, ordinarily. Does that check out?

If you had been a rich man acting on my advice...we'd both be rich by now...

The watch I bought from you for $150...is utterly worthless. You had it fixed. Okay. Just days later it ceased to function. I sent it to a very real expert on old watches (see xerox of his letter, enclosed) and there is a part missing...no way to get another or make another...so the watch is just junk. Dammit.

Sincerely,

Ted Owens (PK Man)

200 NE 76th St.
Vancouver, Wash. 98665

* You explained that you do business in gold and silver.

PS...Hunt and I are old enemies...we have a genuine personal feud. What happened to him couldn't happen to a nicer feller.

PPS... In other words, my friend, it only took two days for my prediction to be completed accurately!!


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Get diff. forms of Power* merge it, and store the merged, for future use.

* Elec., nuke, etc.

March 30, 1980

Above is the definitive formula and massive answer to energy-power for the United States.

----------

Electric power is generated, then stored.
Nuclear power is generated, then stored.
Solar power is generated, then stored.
Etc.

Next, the various forms of stored-up power are blended into a whole; you might say a "summed-up power," and then the "summed-up" power is stored, for present and future use.

Ted Owens (PK Man)


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By JOHN SNELL
and JOHN PAINTER JR. 3/31/80
of The Oregonian staff

Blocks of ice 5 feet across were thrown from the peak of Mount St. Helens on Sunday afternoon, and ash from the smoldering volcano began falling in parts of northwest Oregon, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist reported.

The ice-carrying eruptions began at 1:08 p.m., said Don Mullineaux, a U.S. Geological Survey geologist who specializes in volcano hazards.

A second ice-carrying eruption occurred at about 2:30 p.m. and was followed 15 minutes later by a "sharp" earthquake, which apparently helped trigger an avalanche on the north side of the volcano at the 6,000-foot level, officials said.

Mullineaux said the ice blocks ranged between 3 and 5 feet in length and were "the biggest chunk of anything that has come out of the volcano thus far."

Scientists said they believe that the two craters that formed on the peak of the 9,677-foot mountain would soon merge into one, giant crater. The first crater formed early during the volcanic eruptions. The second crater was discovered Saturday night.

The mountain erupted earlier Sunday morning for nearly 20 minutes, and an eerie blue lightning was seen arcing between the two craters on the summit.

Forest Service information specialist Sylvia Brucchi said geologists believe

Coverage of the eruption of Mount St. Helens has been aided by reporters Steven K. Wagner, Stan Federman, Beth Fagan, Leverett Richards, Steve Erickson and Don Bundy. More pictures, stories about the mountain on Pages B1, 3.

the lightning was caused by static electricity discharges, much like those caused when shoes shuffle across a carpet.

The early-morning eruption threw a cloud of smoke and ash as high as 16,000 feet above sea level -- more than a mile above the peak. Geologists said it was the highest plume measured thus far.

During the eruption, a black cloud of ash with a frosting of white steam rose, drifting south and a little east on the wings of a northwest wind. For 20 minutes, the restless mountain spewed tons of grayish ash that boiled and tumbled east. At 7:51, the ash cloud was lit by the brilliant flash of lighting.

At 7:57 a.m., the performance ended as abruptly as it began, leaving a drifting cloud of black ash at least 10 miles long.

Note: my "sign:"

ANGRY MOUNTAIN -- Mount St. Helens belches ash and steam early 3/31/80 Oregonian Sunday in a continuation of its daily spectacle. Volcano threw gritty pumice as far south as Wemme in eastern Clackamas County near Mount Hood. Observers noticed lightning flashing between two craters on peak. Staff photo by RANDY WOOD

3 3/4


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- WORLD "POWER" ATTACK -

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SHUT DOWN

# Arrests made in nuclear plant protest

CHRISTOPHER GRAFF 3/31/80

VERNON, Vt. (AP) -- Dozens of anti-nuclear demonstrators in a crowd that had numbered 1,000 were arrested Sunday night for blocking the main gate of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.

Police began making arrests around 7 p.m., when plant workers who were going off duty sought to drive their cars out the gate but found the way blocked.

About 50 protesters had been arrested by 9 p.m.

The demonstration, timed to coincide with the anniversary of last year's accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, followed a rally in nearby Brattleboro, Vt.

The demonstrators marched the five miles to the plant carrying American flags and banners proclaiming "No Nukes" and "Yankee Go Home."

Soon after the more than 1,000 demonstrators had arranged themselves outside the 540-megawatt plant Sunday afternoon, plant security chief Bill Penniman told them to leave.

"You are trespassing and you are not welcome on these premises," he said. "Please leave immediately."

Then police waited three hours for darkness and falling temperatures to thin the crowd to several hundred before making arrests.

Under a glare of lights from the huge plant, troopers walked into the crowd and began choosing individuals for arrest. None resisted, although some had to be carried to police vans. The vans carried them to state police barracks where officials said they would be cited for trespassing and then released.

At about 8:30 p.m. some 50 state troopers marched through the crowd to the main gate, clearing a path for the departing plant workers' cars.

In an earlier protest, about 7,000 persons gathered for anti-nuclear songs and speeches in Harrisburg, Pa., on Saturday to commemorate the TMI anniversary.

In addition, 13 persons -- eight of whom refused to give their names -- remained in jail in New Jersey on Sunday following their arrest for trespassing on the corporate headquarters of General Public Utilities Corp., the owner of the stricken Three Mile Island reactor.

Vermont authorities had prepared for similar civil disobedience. Unlike last September, when Vermont's correctional and court systems were clogged by protesters withholding their identities, police said they would photograph and fingerprint arrested demonstrators but would not ask for their names.

"The state is willing to do what it can to prevent a crippling of the courts and justice system," said R. Paul Wicks, who represented Vermont Gov. Richard Snelling at the scene.

Inside the plant, workers began shutting down the reactor to allow technicians to repair a leaky steam valve and make other minor adjustments.


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Sonics hand humbling defeat to Blazers

By STEVE KELLEY 3/31/80
of The Oregonian staff

SEATTLE -- Maybe the Portland Trail Blazers were playing possum Sunday, or maybe Seattle is that much better than the Blazers. That will be decided in this week's playoff miniseries.

But the Blazers were emotionally flat for the second game in a row and suffered another humbling defeat, 135-104 to the Seattle Sonics.

The Blazers and Sonics will meet in the opening of the three-game series Wednesday at the Kingdome. Seattle will enter the playoffs with five straight wins over Portland.

The Sonics, 56-26, got the Blazers down early and stomped all over them. It was 44-26 after 18 minutes and only got worse.

When Ron Brewer hit a jump shot with 5:40 to go in the first half, it was the first points scored by a Trail Blazer guard. The Sonic guards already had scored 25 points.

The Blazers, who lost 114-100 Friday at Phoenix after clinching a playoff spot Thursday with a win over San Diego, closed the season at 38-44 with two spiritless performances.

The question that must be answered is whether they can turn back on the emotion that helped them overtake San Diego in the stretch run.

"The way we played tonight, it was like we just wanted to get the season over with," forward Calvin Natt said. "They (Sonics) let us know what they can do tonight, but the guys on our team won't play like that Wednesday."

"I'm physically real tired from that stretch drive we made to get into the playoffs," center Tom Owens said. "He (Blazer Coach Jack Ramsay) told us after the game that we have no chance to do anything if we play like this in the playoffs.

"We have to get mentally adjusted to playing the way we were playing. We have to get it back together."

Even though they lost five of six to the Sonics this season, most of the Blazers think they have a better chance in the playoff against Seattle than they would have had against Phoenix.

If the Blazers had beaten Seattle on Sunday, they would have started the playoffs against the Suns.

"I think the forwards have an easier time against Seattle, but the guards might have had a harder time with Seattle," Natt said. "I've asked a lot of the guys about that."

The Blazers had a hard time Sunday with the forwards, guards, centers and reserves. All 10 Sonics scored in double figures.

"This game meant a lot to us and not very much to them," Sonic forward John Johnson said. "We wanted to get them down early so there wouldn't be any mistakes. Once we got them down we demoralized them.

"But this game is irrelevant now," JJ continued. "This game was really unfair. We got their key people in foul trouble, and by the second quarter it was over with. I wanted to put them away early because I know this isn't the end of them seeing us."

Just as the Trail Blazers prefer to play Seattle in the miniseries, Seattle is pleased to be playing Portland. The alternative for the Sonics, if they had lost Sunday, would have been Kansas City, 47-35.

"I'd rather play Portland because it's closer, Kansas City's had a better year, and they (Kings) are playing better now."

JJ simply smiled when he was told that Natt preferred to play the Sonic forwards.

"I could understand why," he said. "It's because our forwards don't get the acclaim that our guards get. But our total frontline is a good as any frontline in basketball. You win championships with the frontline.

"Guards, of course, are important, but you look at the teams with only good guards and most of them are on vacation now unless they have a good front line."

"When Lonnie Shelton comes back (out with an injured knee), he'll be another positive factor for us."

The game was meaningless for Portland as far a playoff positions were concerned, but Ramsay kept the locker room doors closed longer than usual after the game and lectured the team on the importance of intensity.

"We need a complete turnaround by Wednesday," Ramsay said. "We had a long run to make the playoffs. We were emotionally satisfied with that. We had no spirit in these games."

Do the Blazers know what they can do?

"No," said forward Bob Gross. "We have too many new faces who aren't familiar with what we can do. We're just not well organized now. They (new faces) are not familiar with what we can do and we're trying to incorporate them into our offense. It limits us in what we can do."

The game may have been meaningless but the margin of victory was noticeably upsetting to the Blazers.

"It wasn't even a game," said a Blazer who asked not to be named. "It's better not to say anything about this one."

BLAZER NOTES -- There were many examples of the Portland futility hidden in the statistics. Seattle scored nine of its 14 first-quarter field goals on layups. . . . Portland had 13 turnovers in the first quarter, 20 by halftime. . . . All 10 Sonics who played scored in double figures. . . . Shelton had an arthroscopic examination Tuesday on his injured right knee but the Sonics say he'll be ready by Wednesday's playoff opener. Shelton said Sunday that he hoped to practice on Monday. . . . The series will continue at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Portland, then come back to Seattle, if necessary, on Sunday. . . . Blazer backup center Jim Brewer missed the game because of an injured right winner of the mini-se west Division winner best-of-seven series. Billy Ray Bates score points in the fourth qu 12 Blazer points in a ro ers finished 12-29 on finished 22 games behi sion leader Los Angele the second-place Sonics

PORTLAND (

| | MP | FG | FT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natt | 23 | 5-8 | 2-2 |
| Washington | 38 | 8-17 | 2-2 |
| Owens | 28 | 6-11 | 2-5 |
| R.Brewer | 30 | 4-15 | 2-2 |
| Twardzik | 18 | 1-3 | 2-2 |
| Paxson | 11 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| Bates | 21 | 6-16 | 2-4 |
| Jeelani | 29 | 4-15 | 2-4 |
| Dunn | 16 | 1-9 | 0-0 |
| Gross | 30 | 7-9 | 2-3 |
| Totals | 240 | 43-107 | 16-24 |

SEATTLE (1

| | MP | FG | FT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey | 25 | 6-11 | 0-0 |
| J. Johnson | 26 | 7-11 | 1-2 |
| Sikma | 21 | 5-7 | 0-0 |
| D. Johnson | 30 | 5-12 | 2-2 |
| Williams | 23 | 10-19 | 3-5 |
| Silas | 23 | 5-13 | 4-4 |
| Brown | 25 | 6-7 | 2-2 |
| LaGarde | 27 | 3-8 | 4-7 |
| Walker | 22 | 4-9 | 3-3 |
| V. Johnson | 18 | 4-6 | 4-4 |
| Totals | 240 | 55-103 | 24-31 |

Portland
Seattle

Team rebounds -- Portland 17, 4, LaGarde. Blocks shots -- Natt 2, Owe

*Three-point attempts -- Bal Williams 0-1.

Technical fouls -- none.
Turnover-points -- Portland 11-7.
Officials -- Rush, Bavetta.
Attendance -- 24,520.