Page 6- RAIN February/March 1976 ECOTOl'IA continued from page 5 Tbe Performing Arts Index Contact Center 1532 S.W. Morrison 1 Portland, OR 97205 503-226-4746 Tode·Oshin or Wayne Waits Funded by proceeds from the last two Performing Arts Martahons, contains over 750 listings, including 415 performers and performing groups, 82 instructors and many support services. In addition to thei;e sections on dance, music, poetry and theatre, it has information on promotion, places to perform (including contact persons) and on legal and funding matters. Within its 112 pages there are 100 graphics and photos by ~3 Portland artists and a list of 50 graphic artists inttirested in working with performers on posters, brochures, etc. Although the Index primarily contains Portland people, performers from throughout the Northwest are included and are welcome to send information for future publications using a format similar to the one used in RAIN. We would also be available to assist others in doing a similar project in a diffe'rent · area. We will be maintaining mes and hope to turn this project into an ohgoir'ig resource and referral office for performing artists. Cost of the first issue is $2.00, proceeds going toward the 1976 Performing Arts Marathon, which will begin on April 23. (Last year's went six full days, 24 hours a day. How long this year .. .?) An excellent model for other cities or tow.ns. 3rd Annual BPA Energy Conservation Management Conference, Mar. 18-19, free, but write or call to register: Energy Coordinator Bonneville Power Administration 1002 N.E. Holladay St. Portland, OR 97208 , 5().3-234-3361, ext. 4551 Will cover l~ng-term aspects of.conservation of all forms of ener_gy, with speakers ' from around the nation on such topics as building heat exchangers and energy management systems, sola, thermal -en- ' ergy, electric vehicles, the NW Energy Policy Project, TVA's heai pump experience, and the U.S. Navy's conservation efforts. The public is invited to attend. ' I I PI.AMS OF AMUSEMENT DEVICES FOR PARKS AND CARNIVALS C .ll.. l[. IRILL- Addreaa Corre■po~d•nc• to P, 0. lox 875, Peoria , Ill. 61601 Phone (.309)673•1777 . 1216 1, No. UniYerally SI. Pa,orla, IIIIDoa Dear Rain: Under separate cove,r I'm sending you my "A. Brill's Bible of Building Plans" for outdoor carnival, fair and park amusement rides and devices. Watch for it. It's 4-1/4 x 5-1/2" and more than }:ialf an inch thick. This is the new edition, received from the printer last Wednesday; haven't had new circ;ulars on it yet, so I've doctored up the old ones. I had to leave out the three-phase motor detail,. but I did include "How to Bapbit a Bearing." You see, the old merry-go-rounds still have babbit bearings, and it's s~ch_a simple matter to replace the babbit as it wea~s, but this generation doesn't know how. I've been roused from bed several times'by a desperate owner with a· broken down ride to impart the information. I'm inclu:ding a few photos of rides I have built-yes I built the major merry, buying an antique with a wooden center pole, and made a modern jumper machine of it. This,was about 1950, and I didn't learn to make horses in aluminum from the wooden ' ones till 1953, so I used the old wooden ones in this•photo. • I have color pies of the calliope trucks covered with my carvings (cast aluminum •reproductions) if you want these or the sta'nding horse or my 6-ft. long jumping beauty. I'm including a couple of my most simple concession frames-the Beach Umbrella and the open ~rame of the 4-way joint (3-frames art in-eluded in the plans). I do this to show how simple the equipment can be to start. Incidentally, one need not give up his job. There are always plenty of week-t;nd celebrations you can reach by car or truck and still hold a job, till you become firmly established in the business. Please state in the review that the Bible is sold by mail at $1 with a refund certificate. On the newsstands and bookstores it's $1.50-with the same $1 refu~d certificate. The 43 whistle air calliope is my greatest achievement so far, but I'm working on "~rying Eggs on a Cake of Ice," An electrical engineer is trying to get this "secret" info, which deals with a magnetic field, etc. I was afraid to touch it myself, because it requires 15,000 watts of electricity to set_up the magnetic field . I don't mind sticking my neck out _on a complete wiring diagram for a carnival, but I didn't want anyone killed, so I sought help. Don't know -when it will develop, but I generally get wh~~ I go after. I started to h~nt for the old "Man or Woman Frozen in a Block of Ice," which I remember.seeing in Lincoln, Illinois, in about 1916 or 1917. It was a Fourth of July feature along with the balloon ascension. But I dropped it before pressing too far, when I found no one made the large cakes of ice they usea in refrigerator cars. A city the size of Peoria has no ice plant any more-they get packaged cubes from a-plant in a neighboring town, and I'm sure the same condition exists elsewhere. Oh, ~ell, Aerial Photo Remote Sensing Short Course, Mar. 15-1~, 1976, $100. To register, write: Aerial Photo Short Course Conference Assistant c/o Coordinator of Forest Extension School of Forestry Business Office Oregon State University • Corvallis, OR 97331 Designed for practicing foresters, engineers and land use planne-rs, the course will cover the fundamentals of photo interpretation, photo timber cruising, photogrammetry, and remot'e se'nsing, as well as the most advanced methods of practical field application. R,1.IN readers who enjoyed "The World from Above" article might find this to be their next step. (eoucATION ) • Strange and Familiar, $6.67 postpaid from: Synectics Education Systems 121 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA 02138 , When we notice the differences and similarities between two thin,gs we are -learhing ther-e's an odd sensation that accompanies trying to relate "incongruities"- maybe ,it's the physical effects of stretching the imagination. Many of the 1~2- . page exercises in Strange and Familiar stretch the imagination: "Which is a better dessert, a sweet lemon or a sour banana? (Circle your choice and tell why you made it.)" -
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