Post #325439 by pappythesailor on Mon, Aug 13, 2007 7:53 PM

(from the Abilene (Texas) Reporter 11 August 1963)

Overseas Calls Tulsa Rainmaker

TULSA. Okla. (AP) - Tulsa's
mysterious rainmaker has become
an international figure, the
Tulsa World said Saturday.
The rainmaker, who has kept
both his identity and method secret,
has been contacted by Donn
Beach, president of Don the
Beachcomber Enterprises in
Honolulu, to fly to Hong Kong to
relieve a nine-month drought
there.
Beach contacted the rainmaker
alter reading of the Tulsan in a
national news magazine. The rainmaker
now claims to have
brought rain to Tulsa in five announced
attempts out of five. One
of the rains was a nine-inch deluge
that flooded streets and
paralyzed Tulsa traffic briefly on
July 27.
Beach told Tulsa World columnist
Troy Gordon The Royal Air
Force has tried many times to
end the Hong Kong drought with
cloud seeding, but there has been
no rain there.
Beach said he "thought maybe
we could get some dough to bring
the rainmaker over to do his
stuff."
The rainmaker has offered to
bring rain to San Angelo, also in
the middle of a drought, for $10,-
000 and expenses. Businessmen in
the town are trying to raise the
money.
"Beach seemed very enthusiastic
about this." The rainmaker told
Gordon. "I told him I could bring
them Rain in Hong Kong). He
said the ground is so dry they
could use up to 20 inches."
Beach said he asked the rain-
maker to mail some background
to show Governor Robert Black of
Hong Kong.
"I don't want anything out of
this," Beach who owns Don the
Beachcomber restaurant in Hon-
olulu told the World. "I just want
some rainfall.
The rainmaker's reaction?
"This is the biggest thing that
has ever happened to me," he
said. "Anybody would be an idiot
not to enjoy it."

(I wonder if he was successful????)

"I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver."
Phil Harris

[ Edited by: pappythesailor 2007-08-13 19:59 ]