Plowing Up the Field

Readers may have one guess as to who sent in the following : "When the Ghost was on the ascending, she acted like a Ghost, splitting the field asunder with sound and fury, meaning nothing. The Aberree is her aberaction, bringing the fold quietly back to the field -- the point of beginning -- Dianetics and Scientology. The fact that The Ghost and The Aberree are brethren-in-law (oh, yeah?) like all accidents, happened by choiceóof the cistern." Some of the first to guess correctly will be sent free an early copy of the now defunct Journal of Scientology...A review of Dianetic and Scientological development since 1950 -- and that's quite a fieldówill be covered Wednesday evenings at the Psychological Research library in Boston, Alma Hill informs us.. "No charge, nothing official, much work" the announcement says...

An undertaker friend of ours -- an ex-communicated H.D.A. -- parked his hearse in front of our door recently, and during the course of an hour's visit, suggested he scrape the sign "Scientolog" off our window. Some p.,ace in this.. incident -- an undertaker destroying the word 15cientnlogy" and having a hearse ready to carry off the remains -- -- struck us as funny, but we knew that if we wrote it up, no one would believe it happened. So we didn't...Anyonewant the high-toned low-down on Ron Howes,Jm Welgos, Ferry Chapdelaine, et al? We hear they have a special department for such theta communication in ABILITY. (Subscription price: $8.50 per year )...Which reminds us: we hear a rumor that ABILITY MINOR No. 2 is out -- but we wouldn't know. We don't print the magazine, we o subscribed for it. And that guarantees nothing, apparently, in Phoenix...Anyone seen an ABILITY MAJOR?...

This is the type of item we don't like to report -- loss of a friend and fellow Infinite: Harold Snell, who died in Albuquerque, N.M., on February 5 of a heart attack...Also, the death of Wade Tozer, treasurer of DIANOTES, was revealed in a supplement to that magazine's February issue..Earl Cunard, formerly of Detroit and now living in Crescent, Okla., recently tradedall his books on Dianetics and Scientology-a huge armload -- to us for an extension of his subscription to The ABERREE. Earl likes to have his bubbles come to him already bursted.. .Engraved announcements sent. out by "Tamara Owen Otteson" and "Theodore-J:-Otteson" (Ted and Tam to we-all) anent thoopening .of their Scientology offices at 14 East 72nd Street, New York, look like "Fifth Avenoo class" -- and we hope they drag we mean "entice") in mobs we mean "many clients")... A visit with his grandparents in nearby Pond Creek gave Scientist Harold Rarrick of Albuquerque, N.M., all. the excuse he needed to drop in at The ABERREE office. He assured us there was little danger of A-bombs hlawins up this planet, and we reciprocated by telling him the HASI -- despite everything he may have heard -- is almost as safe... is Janke, whose "One and only" WAD was such a mouth-twitcher, warns that he's going to do it again -- and his decision is irrevocable...A tired stork on his way east, or wherever it is storks go, stopped in Enid to tell us he'd left another red-headed bundle in the Hubbards' Phoenix mansion. Mary Suzette Rochelle Hubbard, her name is...Someone was trying to prove to us. that Philip Friedman is in error by pointing out similarity of meaning in words when different vowels are added to one set of consonants. They cited the letters "m-n s-tr" as an example, which can be made "minister" or "monster". "We thought you were trying to disprove Friedman's theory," we said...And speaking of Opening Procedure, which everyone in Scientology always seems to be doing, anyone ever try putting together 86,000 sheets of paper? "ZURDER GANG" IS BUSY IN NEVADA DESERT AGAIN With scientists predicting the fall-out' fran atom bomb clouds- will' affect and maybe completely wipe out any prospects of future generations, the "murder gang" continues to play its game of blast-and-be-damned out in the Nevada desert. Five have been fired so far in this year's "mock war".

And around the. globe, a "canopy of death" circles, a radioactive cloud that -- the head of the Atomic Energy Commission. insists in his effort to lull the panic among his innocent victims -- "won't do any more harm than a chest x-ray".

Did you have any trouble filling out your A- and HBomb asseaament (income tax) form this year?