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Subject: Alcor Laughlin News
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 00:33:36 PDT
ALCOR LAUGHLIN CHAPTER NEWS
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Alice Black Katie Kars Alice Manforlaba
Elizabeth P. Casafranca Richard Kars Carina Russell
Art Gerstztyn Eric Klien Jerry Searcy
Lila Guzma'n Don Laughlin H. Jackson Zinn
CHANGE OF LOCATION AND TIME
Our next Alcor Laughlin meeting will be held in Las Vegas at 6 PM on
Sunday, October 11th. We will be meeting at Ranata's on 4451 E.
Sunset Road. To get there from the airport take Russell Road east,
then make a right on Mountain Vista, then make a right on Sunset
Road. Their number is 435-4000 if you get lost. The time has been
moved forward so Don Laughlin will have time to fly in. The location
has been moved because 1) the local Las Vegas NBC channel wishes to
publicize our meeting 2) the manager of Renata's wishes to attend as
well as provide us with free food.
SPECIAL GUEST - H. JACKSON ZINN
H. Jackson Zinn attended this meeting. He is President of the
International Cryonics Foundation, was co-counsel on the Mitchell vs.
Roe case that Alcor recently won which made cryonics legal in
California, and has considerable experience in cryonics law.
At his suggestion, a mailing was done to 170 names that Saul Kent
provided. Saul's Life Extension Foundation list was high quality,
with three of the six Southern Nevada Alcor members on that list.
The mailing was done with fairly professional materials which are
available to anyone on request. Unfortunately, the only response to
this mailing was someone who returned every sheet of material with a
message on each sheet saying that we should look forward to
reincarnation. Jackson Zinn suggested that we should call the people
who received our mailing to increase our success rate. No one wanted
to do this so Jackson Zinn volunteered to do the calling. Eric Klien
gave him an initial deposit of $100 to cover the long distance phone
bills that would be incurred by this project. Don Laughlin provided
him with a Nevada phone book so he would be able to look up these
numbers.
Jackson also showed a video tape from TransTime about their baboon
experiments and other interesting experiments that they have done.
He would like to use the material as part of a tape for the public
access channels available on cable. His idea is that they would be
required to air such a tape frequently as there are no other cryonics
tapes competing with it and the courts have forced diversity on
public access channels in the past. Eric Klien offered to finance
such a project.
Don decided that Jackson's suggestion of advertising our meetings on
the huge electronic sign outside his casino was impractical. He
didn't think many people would even understand what the word
"cryonics" meant.
EMTS
Don decided that an even better idea than training some level one and
level two EMTs would be to hire Mercy Ambulance to do the
stabilizations for us instead. Mercy covers nearly all of the state,
including Laughlin and Las Vegas, and could provide us with
paramedics instead of less trained EMTs. He has contacted a friend
who knows the CEO at Mercy and we hope to arrange a meeting with
Mercy in the near future. Hopefully no later than our November
meeting. H. Jackson Zinn should be attending the November meeting
and his legal expertise in the area of cryonics would prove to be
valuable when we speak with Mercy.
Two of Don's employees are now in EMT training, but it is more likely
that we will pursue the Mercy Ambulance idea instead.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
I have followed up with the Acting Paramedic Coordinator at the Clark
County Fire Department and he has promised me that he will soon
distribute the memo about our bracelets. Unfortunately, it has been
over a month since his original promise. I will contact him a third
time and it is possible that the mayor will be attending our Las
Vegas meeting, and if she attends, I will bring up the matter with
her as well.
PUBLICITY
Our monthly ad in the Las Vegas Review-Journal failed to attract any
people to the latest meeting. I have not received evidence of the
free ad that the editors at Nevada Senior World promised to run.
On the positive side, Sue Tripathi, an anchor on the local NBC
station seems to have taken an interest in us. Not only did her news
segment with Cindy and Ron Piturka run at least three times during
the Olympics, but she has gotten back to us saying she would like to
give us even more publicity. As part of this publicity promotion,
she will advertise our next meeting on TV. Other publicity ideas are
also in the works.
POLITICS
Katie Kars mentioned that after reading It's Time For A Change she
felt like quitting Alcor. She was reassured at the meeting that
progress is being made at reforming Alcor. Eric Klien passed around
a copy of the article United Way vote expands board from the August
20th issue of the Las Vegas Review-Journal to give everyone an idea
of how Alcor may be changed. This article showed how the United Way
changed its bylaws to enlarge the board of governors from 30 to 45
members, with at least one third of them being elected as
representatives from local United Ways. Similar ideas of regional
representation are currently being discussed amongst Alcor members.
INFORMATION FROM CURTIS HENDERSON
Curtis Henderson provided me with two more video tapes. The first
contained The Ice Men Commeth 1967-1968 C.S.N.Y., Alcor NY 1991,
Donahue Show, and Beauty and the Beast. The second contained Larry
King Show, People are Talking, On Ice, and Cross Fire. These tapes
are available at request to interested parties.
NEXT MEETING
Our next meeting will be on the second Sunday of this month, October
11th, at 6:00 PM at Renata's on 4451 E. Sunset Road. To get there
from the airport take Russell Road east (there is no west option),
then make a right on Mountain Vista, then make a right on Sunset
Road. Their number is (702) 435-4000 if you get lost. For more
information, call Eric Klien at (702) 255-1355.
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