Clairvoyants In Chaos

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31865, 18 December 1968, Page 6

Clairvoyants In Chaos

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) . PALERMO (Sicily), ; December 16. A national meeting j : of Italian clairvoyants . I i and occultists dissolv- > ed into chaos yesterday when they were , unable to agree on t I their future, the As- i; sociated Press report- j , ed. The clairvoyants hid, ealied the meeting to seek social security benefits and , sickness insurance and to weed out, what they call ; charlatans. But nothing went according to plan. The leading member of the , group, the Wizard of Tobruk —known to the non-initiated i ' as Vittorio Scifo—walked out j of the meeting. Another! ! leading member, identified j only as Madame Rosa, tried >

■ to prevent his departure by, going into a violent trance. 1 jShe called on the spirits and; 'invoked their protection to| unite the clairvoyants. But to no avail. Scifo, whoi drives a sports car and lives, in a plush Rome hotel, | ■ stomped out. “You cannot pretend to s ■ represent thousands of, occultists throughout the I country, who are not at this, 50-person meeting. You cannot decide for them,” he said; Scifo also disagreed on the clairvoyants’ plans to establish unified rate schedules. "Whoever consults me will pay how much I want him to pay, or else he is not my client, just like scupe.doctbrs ask‘ for 1000 lire a >isit and some for more,” be said. " Scifo said he was Manning a counter-assembly Of Italian occultists: in J .’Rome in j February. ( Hundreds of Italians consult their occultists before i making -decisions. <

'•■ After Scifo left, the clair■jvoyants approved their ' statutes, which included the 'founding of an academy of i occultism. After recovering from her I trance Madame Rosa released i these predictions for 1969: l The Italian lira will be devalued in March . . . Arisi totle Onassis and his wife i will be separated ... the actress, Sophia Loren, will have no children . . . Presi- ; dent Nixon will survive an • assassination attempt ... De Gaulle will retire from political life. Farter Hate.— The Keiaooi Borough Council ha» approved 1 by special order that a new street formed a» an extension r of Hodgson Avenue be called I Porter Place, named after Joshua C. Porter, a solicitor. : and a chairman of the Kalapoi Municipal Council and the sec- . ond Mayor, in 1869. The new , street opens up a council subdivision of 12 sections, known as the Darling block.