Plowing Up the Field
PLOWING Up the FIELD
Two late August visitors to The ABERREE were John and Lillian Bloomquist, who found the heat of Kansas and Oklahoma a bit too much for their Illinois-tempered constitutions. So they bought an air conditioner for their new car in Kansas. They were headed for a two-week vacation in Phonyx (where it never gets hot) and California (where it's so smoggy you can't tell whether it's hot or cold.) For four hours, John and Ye Ed let what little hair we have left down on the entire roster of Scientologists and Dianeticists, and 0! what we didn't find out about you! and you!! and you!!!... Julia Lewis, C.A.D.A. president, whose occupation of MEST space is as hard to keep track of as a thetan doing Change of Space processing, is reported back at her old address in Compton, Calif ... Also, the CADA BULLETIN now boasts of a 900 circulation -- free to those who won't donate -- which doesn't begin to compare to the circulation of Ye Devil's FLAME-THROWER, which gets less and less free with every edition ... Bob Gardner has moved from Okla. City to Austin, Tex., and reports his search for kindred Scientology-Dianetic spirits in his new environment is being held up by the many things his wife can find for him to do around their new home...Ray Kinney, 'tis reported, is in Nebraska on a month's visit with relatives, and just daring anyone to look like he or she might be willing to be a preclear...
If the czar of E-therapy doesn't get his full $18,125, he can blame the editor of The ABERREE, who stopped a $5 -- repeat: FIVE DOLLAR -- chain letter, and just as his name got to the top, too. In addition, of all people taking a chance on this type of racket, was a certain Eidetic "Reverend" from the South -- the deep South, that is. Things must be getting a bit tough down there in Fairhope... Alma Hill, in a confidential "members-only report" to her Boston group, commented that The ABERREE "is not yet $2. Not worth it." She also added that 'it is informative once you sift the chaff". So, if you've been undecided about subscribing, there are some who do and some who don't...Peggy Conway, "Bachelor, Doctor, and Deacon, no less", reports the hanging of five degrees from the top of a tree in her Connecticut retreat. And she sends us a Christmas card -- with a couple green "blankets" to keep us warm!...It took all the strength six nurses could muster to keep Harry Crass, of Phoenix, in bed after an operation. It seems that Harry can make some pretty powerful postulates...Ross Lamoreaux is being very, very mysterious over some new project he's cooking up in Phoenix -- that is, when he can find time from his auditing practice...Aside to Joe Wallace: We know people who make a living trying...
Confessed "Dianologists" at the OKLACON (a convention of science fiction fans) held in Oklahoma City over the Labor Day weekend included: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns of Dallas, W. P. Mullen of Tulsa, and Jim Lear of Norman, Okla., as well as Ye Ed (who was one of the speakers) and Ye Publisher (who went to check up on the speaker.) Next year's OKLACON will be held in Tulsa over the July 4 weekend so as not to interfere with the national convention, it was decided...Stanley Stromfield, HCA, of Brooklyn, N.Y., stopped in Enid on
