Page 2 RAIN February/March 1976 RAIN is supported by your subscriptions and a grant from the N.W. Area Foundation, administered through the Oregon Museum of Science and • ·Industry. For subscription prices, see subscription blank on next-to-last page. This blank can also be used to send us change of address messages. RA/N's office is at 2270 N.W. Irving, Portland, OR 97210. Phone 503227-5110. RAIN I Full Circle Staff •Anne McLaughlin Mary Wells Nancy Lee Tom Bender Lane de Moll Lee Johnson Steve Johnson Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing: Times Litho Cover Photo: Ancil Nance Graphics on pages 9 & 10 by Meg deMoll. WHAT ABOUT BACK ISSUES? For you who are wondering what past issues exist and how to get them, RA/N's first volume consisted of Issues 1-9, plus a four-page flyer. We are out of issues 1-6, except for a couple of precious copies. We use these copies as masters when someone wants an excerpt badly enough to pay 25<//page for us to copy and mail it. Issues 7, 8 and 9 are available at 75</ apiece. The yellow flyer is just about gone. (It was a reminder to subscribe and noted our change of address to Irving Street from PSU. It didn't really include any of RAIN's usual meaty stuff.) Last year's RAINs between February and June were - wrapped around some essay-suggestionhow-to sheets called Roughdrafts. These were 4-6 pages, each on a particular topic. Here are what they were about and what they would cost you (again at 25<//page) if you'd like some. No. 1, Brainstorming ($1) No. 2, Funding ($1.25) No. 3, Centers ($1.25) No. 4, Networking ($1) No. 5, Creative Instability ($1.50) We're now into Volume II, consisting of No. 1 in October, 2 in November, and so on. They're also available at 75</. each. The deadline for material is approximately the 28th of each month. We are selling RAIN through retail out- , lets. If you have some suggestions, please send 'them along. Maybe you could distribute in your area? RAIN DROPS • ON BACK ISSUES: Volume I, Nos. 1-6 are out of print. The rest of Vol. I consists of Nos. 7, 8 & 9, each of which can be yours for 75</.. The same goes for Vol. II, 75</. apiece. • ON CONFUSION: The issue before this one got mislabeled. It should have been "January, 1976, Vol. II, No. 4." Instead, it says "January, 1976, Vol. II, No. 3," so that both the December and January issues were labeled No. 3." And there isn't an issue labeled "No. 4." To make matters worse, we decided this month to change our dating system; since RAIN is printed during the third week of the month, we're going to use the coming month's name to date our future issues. The one you're reading is "February/March, 1976, Vol. II, No. 5," and the next one will be "April, 1976, Vol. II, No. 6," and from then on through No. 10, which will end Vol. II, we'll hopefully be consistent. By now you are probably either more or less confused than before. • ON FREE LUNCHES: When you contact the groups we list, expecting a reply, please enclose a stamped, selfaddressed envelope. • ON MOVING AROUND: When your address is going to change, please let us know ahead of time, or else you'll probably lose at least one copy of RAIN to the Post Office's magazine-eating address change notification system. • ON EXACTITUDE: Please use correct, current, full addresses, including zip codes. For us, or anyone, to take adyantage of the PO's third and fourth class rates for printed matter, we can't ask . the PO to look up parts of addresses. The advantage we gain is that it costs us 1.8</. to bulk-mail a copy of RAIN, or 13 </, for a single copy, instead of 3 5 </, CORRECTIONS Please note the following corrections: 1. in the ORE Plan Recyclers & Resource People List, p. 14, Jan. '75 issue, under "OREGON," Cloudburst Recycle, Inc., address should have read 2440 N.E. 10th, not 2440 N.E. 19th. 2. in the "Accountants for the Public Interest" article, p. 18, Dec. '75 issue, the phone number of the Oregon Accountants in the Public Interest should have been 503-225-0224, not 225-1224. for first class treatment: For 3 5</. the PO can afford to look up a zip code. • ON FREE RAIN: We'll send a couple of free copies of RAIN to friends of yours if you '11 send us their addresses. (I get especially angry when these requests don't include zip codes, so please mollycoddle me and protect the good vibrations of your RAIN-as-emissary. • ON ANONYMITY: If you write to us and don't want your letter printed asis, say so. • ON BEING LOST: When you write to us, or to anyone, and expect an answer, please write your name AND ADDRESS on your letter itself. Sometimes envelopes get lost, and with them the only record of the writer's address. This happened recently to a Craig Savage. If you read this, Craig, please write again. • ON PROPER PLACEMENT OF INFORMATION: If you write a newsy note on your subscription blank, we either have to re-copy the note or the subscription info, or else one of them will probably get lost. Almost the same goes for any conglomeration of info and requests. Routing one letter to lots of people, and through lots of processes, is risky in most offices. It's like writing your shopping list on the same paper with that important phone message and your aunt's address and the new casserole recipe you found. • ON THE FUTURE: The next issue of RAIN will be a special poster issue done by Tom Bender, Lane deMoll and Meg deMoll. There will be four beautiful fold-out posters on Ecotopia, Human Waste Recycling Alternatives, Finances and "Make Where You Are a Paradise." Intrigued? Wait till next month. A.M.MOSTLY €GRICULTURE•FOO~ Chickens, Eggs & You, by John A. McGeorge, 17 pp., 1976, send 3 9</ in stamps to: Chickens, Eggs and You John McGeorge 11 Ells St. Norwalk, CT 06850 If you like the idea of 46</. per dozen, non "egg-factory" eggs with superior flavor and texture for 10 minutes daily plus half a day once a year shoveling chicken litter into your garden, this Continued on page 4
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