Page 2 RAIN May 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 Staff Lane deMoll Mary Wells Lee Johnson Tom Bender Anne McLaughlin Nancy Lee Steve Johnson Rhoda Epstein Typesetting: Irish Setter Printing: Times Litho Cover Photo: Tom Bender Requests: If you know anything about running an automobile using a process of conversion of methyl alcohol and water, please get in touch with Colin Messer. He's a mechanic and can be reached at the Student Resource Center, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR 97405, phone 503-747-4501, ext. 230 or 333. CORRECTIONS 1. The Directory of Nuclear Activists is available from Environmental Action of Colorado, 2239 E. Colfax, Denver, CO 80206, phone 303-3206537 or 321-1645. The address and phone listed in the Feb./March 1976 RAIN on page 8 are incorrect. So if you get it late, it's our fault and not theirs. 2. In last month's P<?Ster issue (April 1976, Vol. II, No. 6) the Piggy Potty quote was originally from Pete Russell (from Undercurrents). Ken Bossong's name was misspelled as Bossing in "April Showers." ■ ON SPREADING THE WORD: If you send us $1, we'll send a copy of RAIN to five friends of yours. Please write these names and complete addresses with zips on a separate sheet of paper. (If you wrote them on address labels I'd go into ecstasy). ■ ON EXCITING MAIL: If you're a RAIN subscriber, you will from time to time get some wonderful free magazines and things in your mail. They will only be things we really think you would like to know about, but if you don't want this to happen at all, note it on your subscription blank. RAIN DROPS / \ _,---~ .\<: ,. ' ; '··. \ • t\ ..,.r: ;\\ ' [;--. )\ :~-?.-='.-~-...~ ON FINANC°:ES-;we seven who work at RAIN had a meeting this week to talk about our money situation. We looked at what we now have, what we can reasonably expect to see as income in the next few months, and what we'll be spending during the same months. We met basically to decide on the flow of money within RAIN itself: who would get paid what and who would pay what. Our decision was to pay Steve and Anne $400 per month each; Nancy has a CETA position through June 30, and the other four will not be paid. Lane and Tom will continue to pay rent to RAIN through June 30. We based our decision on a commitment we have to two things: expanding the information services we as a center provide and continuing the magazine as one of our modes of information exchange. For the most part those who are not being paid by RAIN have the ability to earn outside money as consultants for other projects able to pay. This work also contributes to our information base and is passed on to our readers. We expect that in the fall our income from subscriptions and sales will be nearly sufficient to cover office and production costs, due mostly to increasing the subscription price, anticipated renewal rate, and the addition of new subscribers, which has been steady for six months. Just wanted to let you know where we're at. ■ ON SUBSCRIPTION PRICE INCREASES: Due to the increasing impact of the dwindling of our foundation grant, we're raising subscription prices as of April 1. Regular subscriptions are $10/year (10 issues). If your budget is pared down and $10 means you can't do it, $5 will suffice. If we have to bill you, please add $5 to your rate. And, if applicable, add foreign postage (it's all listed on the subscription blank). We won't be having a 3-fer $10 institutional rate any more. If anyone still does want multiple copies of each issue, write an_d ask for arrangements. Anyone who subscribed at the old rates will still get the number of issues originally agreed upon. • ON FREE LUNCHES: When you contact the groups we list, expecting a reply, please enclose a stamped, selfaddressed envelope. J/;;:~-- • 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 a\lnt's address and the new casserole recipe you found. • ON.EXACTITUDE: Please use correct, current, full addresses, including zip codes. For us, or anyone, to take advantage 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 35¢ ■ ON DOUBLE ISSUE: This RAIN is Volume II, No. 7/8. It's got lots of pages and information, and if you expected 240 pages of RAIN for your annual subscription, this issue brings this volume up to 200 pages, with two more (at least 24 pages each) issues left. • 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. (Eve·ry month l ask people to do this, and still there are subscribers who don't. Next month I may print an ENEMIES LIST). ■ ON BACK ISSUES: Those available are Vol. I, Nos. 7, 8 & 9, and Vol. II, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6. $1 each, write to us if you want any. (AM)
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