TOUCH and GO September east winds bring some of the clearest skies to Portland, though sometimes slash burning east of here brings an odd haze which ambers things. The wind comes in and parts the hair of the city the wrong way; most of the year the winds come from the southeast. It feels very dry; the dust jacket of the Oregon desert looking in on the usually ·cool evergreen forests. Firelike and kidlike exuberance in the wind; kites and newspapers go nuts. BILL GABRIEL runs the cosmic auto repair in Sweet Home, Oregon; he also operates a kind of "switchboard," according to Bill Thomas in a Capital Journal article. He operates out of his garage his own social agency: "taking calls for the people in the area without phones, running a casual sort of employment agency, finding places for people to live." Bill Thomas goes on to describe others in the area, like Bill and Cindy Wooten in Eugene and Jack Eyerly in Portland, who run their own information and referral operations. Thomas concludes: "by using our skills and talents to help our neighbors, we will not only be reducing the dependency upon governmental programs, we will be fostering the positive aspects of inter-dependency among people, more community and national self-awareness and our own personal growth." .. . TALL GRACEFUL MEN who are seen only for seconds. Ringing bells in the middle of the forest. Seasoned climbers who were foicibly turned back from their climbs by impassible energy barriers. The city of Mt. Shasta, California, where there are more religions per capita and per square mile than any other piece of real estate on earth... . THIS WAS YOUR LIFE was sent to us from Chick Publications. How did that happen? . . . "I HAVE FOUND HENNY PENNY, Cocky Locky, Goosey Poosey, Ducky Daddies and Turkey Lurkey, but not a sign of Chicken Little, except for one obscure reference under Henny Penny's name. It appears Henny Penny was d.b.a. (doing business as) Chicken Little at one time."- Joseph Alioto, San Francisco mayor. ... THE SOUNDSCAPE people (see elsewhere in this issue) have suggested an FM radio service that would listen in rather than broadcast from a remote area so we could listen to the sounds of wilderness without having to go there.. . . SUGAR BEETS in Oregon showed the largest single crop acreage increase in 1975. Five times or more than others.... GLEN T. SEABORG, former chairperson of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, has predicted that by the 1990s America will be a recycle society. ... AVERAGE U.S. HOUSEHOLD SIZE dropped below 3 persons in 1974 for the first time in history. .... CAPTAIN COMPOST and the Eco Freaks recently climbed the "Before Handel" sculpture on the Huxley College campus.... AUG. 15: East West journal interview with Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, authors of Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain. . .. "THE GREATEST THREAT to the environmental movement is the environmental movement itself. Over the past several years, it has fallen into the hands of a small, arrogan·t faction which is dedicated to bringing our society to a halt. I call this faction the Prophets of Shortage. They are the anti-producers, the anti-achievers. The doctrine they preach is that of scarcity and selfdenial.-Don Hodel, Bonneville Power Administration, quoted in Western Aluminum News. ... HARPER'S WEEKLY did some experiments with pyramids, having some success growing bean sprouts, which grew better in the pyramid than in the "control" box. They are looking to publish results of any other research done by folks. 2 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Sept/Oct 1975 RAIN Page 27 . . . TASHIRE HARDWARE CO. (109 Prefontaine Place, Seattle, WA 98104) sells Japanese tools. Send for catalog. There is a real zen and the art of tool loving salesman there, who more or less told us how to sharpen a plane by clearing our heads. . . . MISSING is a nationwide magazine about missing persons, like teenagers and D.B. Cooper. ... CAPTAIN JACK is building a spacecraft in the hills southwest of Portland and calling it his home. "I was born on Saturn, but our family got kicked off the planet because my dad was fired from his job. We went off to Mars, but it was horrible there, so bushy and no social life. One night I was out with my chick and we ran out of gas. The gravitational pull brought me down to earth and every since I've been trying to figure out how to get back. "Instead of food, Captain Jack said, he drinks what he calls "motor cola," and needs only one bottle of this a day to sustain himself. ... IN SWEDEN a plant is being built to process 8,000 tons of chicken feathers into 3,000 tons of protein. . . . POST ALASKA PIPELINE rents in Fairbanks: cabin, no running water, $300/month; 3 bedroom apartment, $600/month plus electricity; 1 bedroom apartment, $400 including utilities. .. . RODALE PRESS conducted a modest experiment. For one month, toilet paper rolls used in the main building of Rodale Press were trimmed by 1/2 inch in the print shop. Unsuspecting employees went through just about the same number of rolls as before, using 11 % less paper without even knowing it. Trivial? The savings translates into over 2-1/2 million trees,
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