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...Ford Taurus, she thinks now, because its alignment held her on the road those treacherous few seconds it took to compose herself. This was on a Wednesday night, at 10:15. Rita had been out installing drapes; she has her own concern. She went on home to Fostoria, one of those clean, pretty Ohio villages with high-hipped houses on fresh-clipped lots. For four days Rita did not mention her vision to another soul, largely because "I didn't want to be put away." It was hard withholding the news because she "wanted to share it so badly with...
...next night Rita took another friend, "and she went bananas. She's Spanish, and they can really get excited." Over the next week the word spread through Fostoria like prairie fire. One night there were twelve cars out there next to the golf course; another night 20. Soon there were 150. One witness reported it took an hour and a half to drive from Putt 'N' Pond Park to the soybean tank, a distance of two miles. Rita called a photographer named Andy Duran at the paper, the Review Times, and asked for a picture, but Andy said...
...religious person, but you can't let that affect your coverage" -- the editor decided to go with the story. His front-page banner headline: IMAGE OF CHRIST REPORTED WEST OF TOWN. "What many people have said appears to be an image of Christ can be seen just west of Fostoria . . . Those who have contacted or have been contacted by the Review Times say the image can be seen when it's dark, around 9:30 p.m. or later, from the area between the Hi-Lo Oil gas station up to the grain bin itself and can only be seen coming...
...agency Reuters picked up the piece and moved it on the wire. All of a sudden Carl Hunnel's phone began to ring ceaselessly as the press at home and abroad smelled a newsworthy aberration, always the cause of a stampede, especially in August, when Presidents are on holiday. Fostoria, a town of 17,000 that until Rita Ratchen's sighting was best known for the Fostoria Shade & Lamp Co., a fine glassworks that burned in 1895, went under the glare of world attention. "Yes," the Review Times wrote on Aug. 21, "Fostoria...
Also: Joshua M. Farber of Mather House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Arthur B. Feinsod of Eliot House and Roslyn, N.Y.; Harry M. Flechtner of Winthrop House and Fostoria, Ohio; David I. Folkerts-Landau of Winthrop House and London, England; Bobby Fong of Adams House and Oakland, Calif.; Thomas L. Force of South House and Vandalia, III.; Richard D. Friedman of Winthrop House and Rockville Centre, N.Y. and, William F. Ganong III of Dunster House and Albany, Calif...