BANACHEK then set fire to the other two envelopes and promised the woman if he was wrong he would give her $150. After the fire was extinguished, the envelope was ripped open and sure enough, there was the $100 bill. BANACHEK gave it back to her but asked her not to return it from whence it came while on stage.

A puzzled look suddenly crossed the young man's face.

"Is someone here thinking of Steak and Eggs?" He asked and a woman raised her hand. "I wasn't sure if you were serious."

During the course of the act, he asked someone from the audience to join him on stage and select one of several books he had with him. After that, BANACHEK directed the person to choose five others in the audience and allow them at random to select a page and then write that page number down. After doing so the man returned to the stage and was asked to add up the five figures. While he was doing that BANACHEK pointed out a sealed envelope that contained his "prediction."

The man who was doing the adding reported the figures totaled 605. The envelope was opened and inside it read "Five people will choose numbers adding up to 605."

His finale for the evening was to have WSTV radio personality Ed Warren come up on stage. Warren said that at BANACHEK'S show two weeks prior, he had been given an envelope that was then sealed in his presence. He said that the box had been undisturbed in his home since November the 16th. BANACHEK asked Warren if he could have had access to the box or the envelope.

"You don't know where I live and fortunately neither do my creditors," quipped Warren.

Warren opened the heavily taped box and took out the sealed envelope. Inside was a rolled up piece of paper which read "Ohio House Looks Over Salary Hike Bill."

The headline from that day's paper read "Ohio House Eyes Salary Hike Bill."

BANACHEK was born on November 30th, 1960 in Middlesex, England and still has a bit of an accent. He said he may well have had theseTalents from birth and did not realize until he was in his teens that it was something special. In 1969, his mother remarried and the family moved to South Africa.

Things in his young life that he can recall but never thought anything special of at the time include the time he and a friend were playing a game of jumping down a flight of stairs . His friend told him to go first and, BANACHEK said, as he looked down the steps that he had leaped many times, he decided not to.

"I'm not going to break my leg like you're going to," he told his friend who then made the jump and broke his leg.

In 1975, BANACHEK was living in Colorado and it was while watching a psychic on television that he first realized he was able to do these kind of things. He said he was holding a spoon in his hand and by concentration, he broke the spoon, a feat he recreated at the Boulevard.

BANACHEK said one question that is commonly asked of him is why he does not use his powers of precognition to pick out a winning lottery number. He said first of all, he would feel guilty about abusing his powers that way and fears that if he ever did such a thing, he would lose them. He said friends tell him it must be great to read what a girl is thinking.

"It's none of my business what a girl is thinking," he said. "I don't go around and read people's minds."

BANACHEK has come to be a performer at the Steubenville Supper Club because he met Rick Mikula of Wierton. Mikula was present for BANACHEK'S very first performance at the Washington Mall in Washington, PA.

Mikula was among several people BANACHEK handed a piece of paper to and told them to write down their middle name. Suddenly, Mikula recalls, he stopped in front of him and told him not to write anything down. Mikula does not have a middle name. Instead he told him to write down the name of his older brother and BANACHEK was able to tell him the name. Mikula was impressed and, because he knows Danny Stagani, owner of the Boulevard Supper Club, decided to set up the show.

Following Thursday's performance, I tried to interview BANACHEK. He is anything but an easy subject. All of a sudden his eyes will gleam and he will jump up and get some prop to show me something. In response to the question what is the hardest thing he does, BANACHEK got up and fetched a deck of cards. He placed a red card and a black card face up on the table, had me shuffle the rest and hold them face down. He then told me to place the cards on the pile I thought they should go without looking at them. In the end I was wrong five times.

"That's the hardest thing I do, mind control," he said. I, who am about as psychic as a snow tire, just stared at him.

BANACHEK said he feels everyone has these abilities within them, they just do not realize it. He said his sensitivity to them may have stemmed from the emotional aspects of his life or a strong electrical shock he can remember receiving. BANACHEK thinks there are many people who have these powers and are aware of them but do not want it to be public knowledge. He said people who are said to have charisma probably have these abilities to one extent or another.

What is in the future for BANACHEK? He told me he hopes to keep on entertaining. One thing he plans to do is to drive a car blindfolded as a publicity stunt for a car rental agency that will be opening in the near future.

A final demonstration he did for me was to have me spin a coin on a table and he announced before I even spun the coin what it would be, heads or tails. Ten times in a row he was right, and the odds double for each occasion. The tenth time it was heads. Then he said "how about one more for luck!" He said tails, I spun the coin and it came up heads. "I guess I should have quit while I was a head," he said.