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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1977
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SAN ANTONIO — Everyone
may possess the same psychic
ibilities usually thought to belong
only certain “gifted” persons like
Jeanne Dixon, according to a re
searcher at the Mind Science Foun
dation.
Dr. William Braud, one of per
haps 20 fulltime parapsychologists
in the nation, heads a team of re
search specialists. They are inves
tigating why persons dream about
events before they happen, antici
pate a telephone ringing an instant
before it does, “know” what some
one else is thinking before he
speaks, or what is happening in
anothe room.
Officials of the foundation say
they believe many of the coinci
dences which take place in people’s
daily lives are genuine occurrences
of extrasensory perception.
The Mind Science Foundation
claims to be one of a half-dozen such
organizations in the United States
seeking to explain such phenomena
as mental telepathy, clairvoyance,
precognition and psychokinesis
(mind over matter) by testing aver
age volunteers.
The research began full time two
years ago, based on a permanent
endowment from the estate of
oilman-philanthropist Tom Slick,
whose bequests also helped found
the Southwest Research Center and
Southwest Foundation for Research
and Education.
From the outset, officials of the
Mind Science Foundation carefully
separated their research from the
practice of fortune telling, seances
or witchcraft. They maintain the
phenomena of the mind in which
they are interested are shared by all
humans.
Ms
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British firemen strike;
overnment won’t budge
United Press International
LONDON — Soldiers and volun
teers turned out in force Wednes
day to battle a fire at a power station
in Tilbury, east of London, when
itriking firefighters refused to an
swer the call.
Nearby resident fled their homes
as choking clouds of smoke rolled
across the area.
The fire started in a cable duct
id troops and volunteers rushed to
issist employees of the Tilbury “B”
rawer station, about 30 miles from
he capital.
Police evacuated people in the
area when the fire was still out of
mtrol after five hours.
Thick smoke posed the major
problem to troops fighting the fire
with their World War II-vintage
“Green Goddess” fire trucks as none
of the soldiers has breathing ap
paratus.
The main danger was at the 30-
foot level of the power station where
large oil tanks were housed, a police
spokesman said.
The government, meanwhile,
remained firm on refusing to treat
the striking firefighters as a “special
case” and meet demands for in
creased pay as the stoppage went
into its third day.
The British parliament voted
overwhelmingly to support the gov-
Campus Names
Vet dean accepts
high Italian honor
Dr. George C. Shelton, dean
of the College of Veterinary
Medicine at Texas A&M Univer
sity, has received one of Italy’s
highest awards — that of honor
ary membership in the Order of
Knights of the Italian Republic.
The medallion and the ribbon
were presented to Shelton re
cently by Dante Graziosi, presi
dent of the Italian Institute for
" Foreign Trade and head of that
country’s veterinary medical as
sociation.
The award to Shelton was in
recognition of his outstanding
leadership in the education and
research fields of veterinary
medicine.
Staff member
attends program
John Tucker, assistant to the
director of Continuing Education
at Texas A&M University is a
participant this week at a Corpus
Christi conference of the Texas
Association for Community Serv
ice and Continuing Education.
Tucker serves as a panelist on
co-sponsorship of programs.
The three-day conference is
focusing on mid-life assessment
and career changes.
ernment’s hard-line stand against
the nation’s 35,000 striking
firefighters.
The firefighters stood fast on their
demands for a 30 percent pay in
crease and left their picket lines
Tuesday only to save lives. They
watched one factory burn to the
ground.
The government wants a 10 per
cent ceiling on pay raises.
Soldiers and voluntters battled
hundreds of blazes but lacked the
equipment and training to do the
job and were plagued by a rash of
false alarms. Scotland Yard
launched a secret plan to track down
the hoax callers.
At least four people have died in
fires since the walkout began
Monday, but none of the deaths was
attributed to the strike.
Near Manchester, the strikers
watched a leather goods factory that
employed 40 workers burn down.
“The fire brigade would have
dealt with this in 10 minutes if they
had not been on strike,’’ the owner
said. “The army lads and police have
done a great job, but they are not
specialists.”
But firefighters, in separate inci
dents, broke into their own
firehouse to get a ladder to rescue
an injured man from a building,
helped infantrymen rescue four per
sons in a burning apartment and
rushed to the scene of a bus-truck
collision to pull out the injured.
Fire Brigade Union leaders called
another meeting Wednesday with
city officials to press their demands
for higher pay. They now earn $118
a week.
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The foundation last month
brought in acclaimed British psychic
Matthew Manning for a week, but
Braud said Manning’s ESP exhibi
tion, “wasn’t that spectacular.
“He definitely has abilities, but
whether he has more than you or I is
hard to say,” Braud said.
“Generally, we work with ordi
nary, average, everyday people in
our effort to test and measure
psychic experience phenomena. But
occasionally, we like to have some
one who is especially endowed with
these abilities.”
Most of the testing is done on
specially designed random event
generators and a computer. The
Foundation also has begun compil
ing a parapsychology library.
Larry Johnson, public informa
tion officer for the foundation, ad
mits the research suffers from public
misunderstanding.
“It’s difficult to discern fact from
fiction,” Johnson said.
Now You Know
By United Press International
Until the 7th century, European
hosts seldom provided table knives
to their dinner guests, who brought
their own utensils.
“It’s a common practice to either
accept everything or reject every
thing. A l6t of facts have come about
through serious scientific investiga
tion, but a lot of questions are still
unanswered. ”
One of the tests involves a com
pletely relaxed person in one room
describing his or her impressions of
a “target” being projected out of
sight in an adjoining room. The de
scriptions often are accurate, Braud
said.
Another test is on an “electronic
dice thrower in which a person at
tempts to foretell which of four col
ored lights will shine by pressing
one of four buttons.
The researcher said an average
person often is startled when the
testing reveals psychic abilities.
“They’re generally impressed,”
Braud said. “Some are excited. It
scares other people and they say,
am I a witch?”
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