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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 18, 1981
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II. Cost
PRODUCTION
DISTRIBUTION
TOTAL UNIT
TOTAL
ISSUE
QTY.
COST
COST
COST
COST
French
3,000
.23
.35
.58
1,740
German
1,650
.23
.41
.64
1,056
Dutch
500
.23
.46
.69
345
Spanish
1,400
.23
.61
.84
1,176
PER ISSUE GRAND TOTAL
$4,317
The 10 issues a year will be mailed directly from Pasadena to members world
wide because the circulations are so small. With a standardized format and
centralized production, Dexter says it is easy to add other languages as
the need arises. The new International Edition of The GOOD NEWS is a great
blessing to help the multi-language membership of the Body of Christ serve
God with "one heart and one mind."
I have another telex from Bob Morton:
Greetings. Would you like some more good news? Since he was in the
area visiting members with Bruce McNair, I asked Bill Sidney to contact
the manager of the radio station in the Solomon Islands that once car
ried the World Tomorrow broadcast. The local Solomon Islands Christian
Association (SICA) put pressure on the station to have us put off the
air several years ago. Bill found that a door we thought closed, mirac
ulously opened.
The manager is prepared to do battle with SICA for control over who de
cides what religious programs are broadcast and is willing to have us
back on. Last Friday, the Board of Directors for the station voted to
grant us time. They have also voted to charge all religions for broad
casting time (up to now we were the only ones who had ever paid}.
They feel SICA will be hopping mad on both counts and are digging in for
a fight.
Solomon Islands Radio has good coverage and the signal reaches as far
as Fiji plus thousands of other Pacific islands that need to hear the
Gospel.
Will send you more details when we have them.
Mr. Armstrong has given the okay for the German Office to run a full-page ad
for The PLAIN TRUTH in DER SPIEGEL.
Canada has agreed to provide the
$30,000 space cost. The ad is scheduled to run just at the end of the Feast
so the expected 15,000 responses requesting a year's subscription to KLAR
UNO WAHR will start to come in when the office reopens after Tabernacles.
In the United States things are also humming! So far this year, more new
subscribers have been added to The PLAIN TRUTH mailing list than in any pre
vious whole year! In 1973, the best year on record, we added 629,000 new
subscribers. As of the second week in September '81, we have added 657,000!
Of course, this results in extra requests, books, booklets and everything