~e can't have the horse and buggy days forever. It-was a good act. I don't know how 1t was done or how long they were in the ice, but the "chopping them out" with the ic~ picks and hurrie~ly wrapping 'them in blankets was impressed ·on my small-boy mmd. ' ' Well, I do have to break this off and g~t back to the drawing board. l'ITl enclosing a press release I used to use. Don't h\lve to advertise or send them out any more-they are beating the pathway to my door. . As a publisher, to show how times have changed, in '·25, when I was editing my first country paper, at the publishers' convention it was mentioned that if newsprint ever went to $20 a ton we would all be in bad shape. I think it's over $200 now. Miles Laboratories (now makers of Alka Seltzer) furnished us with a casting box, (3 col. 10"), advertising mats-, comics, .and features, in exchange for runni'ng their ads on Miles Nervine. If we didn't have eriough type for local news, we used boiler plate-that was pre-cast columns of features we set on a notched base. It looked like the rest of the paper, but sometimes the·type didn't match. The other substitute was READYPRINT---4 and 8 page sections printed on one side with features and ads, and we printed the other side with local stuff. I think Howard Maple, a classmate of mine in Peoria High (class of '24), was manager of your state fair for many years-or was.it Washington State F~ir. He pass~d on several years ago. He was a 4 letter athlete, and I, who weighed 90 lbs. at the time and·got third in the quarter mile of a class meet (there were three runners), outlived him. Such is life. Sincerely, A. K. Brill A. K. Brill's 30-foot diameter Major Merry'(-go-round), built in 19,50. A lot of the exercises in Strange and Familiar, as in the· rest of several series, expand a theory of teaching by·the use of metaphor, improving our ability to mak~ connections. It is an important form of poetic and scientific discip_line, exercise and game. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a 'step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be , when you have tamed me! The grairt, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you." (From The Little Prince) ) Tf:,e Communicators, •an energy contacts directory, available for $4.50 postpaid from: American Nuclear Society 244 W. Ogden Ave. Hinsdale, IL 60521 312-325-1991 A regional listing of over 250 local experts willing to t-alk to the pubHc and media on solar, nuclear fission, fusion and other energy forms. A publications catalog and a public service radio series are also available. February/March 1976 RAIN Page 7 The Directory ofNuclear Activists and mailing lists, $7 and $5, respectively ($25 and $10 if profit-making business,· utilit;y, government and persons associated with the nucleal'. industry), from: Environmental Action of Colorado 1100 14th St. Denver, CO.80202 303-534-1602 New Mexico Ene;gy Research Resource Directory, $20 from: Technology Application Center Publications & Documents Division University of New 'Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87181 A cumulative directory of energy-related projects and the people working on . them, 'conducted in New Mexico through June 30, 1975. Bituminous Emulsions for Highway • .Pavements, Synthesis of Highway Prac- , tices, No. 30, $4.80 from: Transportation Research Board 2101 Constitution Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20418 More than 300 million gallons of petroleum products could be saved each year if water rather than oil distillates were used in asphalt paving, this rec~ntlyissued government report concludes. The Energy History of the United States, 177i6-1976, a 3'x4' wall chart, 50¢ from: John M. Sullivan Office of Public Affairs· ERDA Washington, DC 20545 Traces fuel resources from colonial times to the present. Highly recommended for schools, public libraries, energy-environment groups. What is a Kilowatt Hour?, copies free from: Consumer Affairs Dept. Room 1625S Con Edison 4 Irving Place New York, NY 10003 A booklet which defines the KWH unit of energy ,and explains how one can determine daily usage·__ Regional Electric Maps, Cat. No. FPC M-104, 60¢ per region from: Assistant Public Printer u.s~ Government Printing Office Washington, DC 20402 The 1975 edition of the Federal Power Commission's regional "Principal Ele½- tric Facilities" maps, refl-ecting data as of June 30, 1974, 'are excellent for sch_ool and state energy office' use. Continued on page 8
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