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                                             (logo)OPPENHEIMERFUNDS
Denis Mouller                                OppenheimerFund, Inc.
Vice President and                           Two World Trade Center, 34th Floor
Associate Counsel                            New York, New York 10048-0203
                                             212 323-2000 Fax 212 323-0558


                                             October 18, 1996



Securities and Exchange Commission
OFICS File Support
Mail Stop O-7, SEC Operations Center
6432 Alexandria, VA  22312

         Re:      Oppenheimer Main Street Funds, Inc.
                  Reg. No. 33-17850; File No. 811-5360

To the Securities and Exchange Commission:

         An electronic  ("EDGAR") filing is hereby made under Rule 497(e) of the
Securities Act of 1933 on behalf of Oppenheimer Main Street Funds,  Inc. and its
two series  (the  "Funds"):  Oppenheimer  Main  Street  Income & Growth Fund and
Oppenheimer  Main  Street   California   Municipal  Fund.  The  filing  includes
supplements  dated  October  18,  1996 to Main  Street  Income &  Growth  Fund's
Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, each dated November 1, 1995,
and a supplement  dated October 18, 1996 to the prospectus of  Oppenheimer  Main
Street California Municipal Fund, dated November 1, 1995.

                                               Very truly yours,


                                               /s/ Denis Molleur
                                              ------------------
                                              Denis Molleur
                                              Vice President &
                                              Associate Counsel
                                              (212) 323-0560
DM

cc:      Allan Adams, Esq.
         Deloitte & Touche LLP
         Ms. Gloria LaFond



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                  OPPENHEIMER MAIN STREET INCOME & GROWTH FUND
                        Supplement Dated October 18, 1996
                    To the Prospectus dated November 1, 1995

         The Prospectus is amended as follows:

         1. The Supplement dated September 13, 1996 is replaced with this 
Supplement.

         2. The  parenthetical  in footnote 1 following the table in the section
captioned  "Shareholder  Transaction  Expenses"  on page 4 is revised to read as
follows:  "($500,000 or more for purchases by "Retirement  Plans," as defined in
"Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge" on page 27)."

         3. The first and second sentences in the sub-section captioned "Class A
Shares" in "How to Buy  Shares-Classes of Shares" on page 23 are revised to read
as follows:

         If you buy  Class A  shares,  you may pay an  initial  sales  charge on
         investments  up  to  $1  million  (up  to  $500,000  for  purchases  by
         "Retirement  Plans," as defined in "Class A Contingent  Deferred  Sales
         Charge"  on page  27).  If you  purchase  Class A shares  as part of an
         investment of at least $1 million  ($500,000 for  Retirement  Plans) in
         shares of one or more  Oppenheimer  funds,  you will not pay an initial
         sales  charge,  but if you sell any of those shares within 18 months of
         buying them, you may pay a contingent deferred sales charge.

         4. The first and second  paragraphs in the section  captioned  "Class A
Contingent Deferred Sales Charge" on page 27 are revised to read as follows:

         There is no initial  sales charge on purchases of Class A shares of any
         one or more of the Oppenheimer funds in the following cases:

         o Purchases aggregating $1 million or more.

         o Purchases by a retirement  plan qualified  under  sections  401(a) or
         401(k)  of the  Internal  Revenue  Code,  by a  non-qualified  deferred
         compensation plan (not including  Section 457 plans),  employee benefit
         plan, group retirement plan (see "How to Buy Shares - Retirement Plans"
         in the Statement of Additional Information for further

                                                                    [continued]

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         details),  an employee's  403(b)(7)  custodial  plan account,  SEP IRA,
         SARSEP, or SIMPLE plan (all of these plans are collectively referred to
         as "Retirement Plans");  that: (1) buys shares costing $500,000 or more
         or (2) has, at the time of purchase, 100 or more eligible participants,
         or (3)  certifies  that it projects to have  annual plan  purchases  of
         $200,000 or more.

         o Purchases by an  OppenheimerFunds  Rollover IRA if the  purchases are
         made (1)  through  a  broker,  dealer,  bank or  registered  investment
         adviser that has made special  arrangements  with the  Distributor  for
         these purchases,  or (2) by a direct rollover of a distribution  from a
         qualified  retirement plan if the  administrator  of that plan has made
         special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases.

         The Distributor  pays dealers of record  commissions on those purchases
         in an amount equal to (i) 1.0% for  non-Retirement  Plan accounts,  and
         (ii) for Retirement Plan accounts, 1.0% of the first $2.5 million, plus
         0.50%  of the next  $2.5  million,  plus  0.25%  of  purchases  over $5
         million. That commission will be paid only on those purchases that were
         not  previously   subject  to  a  front-end  sales  charge  and  dealer
         commission.  No sales commission will be paid to the dealer,  broker or
         financial  institution  on sales of Class A shares  purchased  with the
         redemption proceeds of shares of a mutual fund offered as an investment
         option in a Retirement Plan in which Oppenheimer funds are also offered
         as investment options under a special  arrangement with the Distributor
         if the  purchase  occurs  more than 30 days after the  addition  of the
         Oppenheimer funds as an investment option to the Retirement Plan.

         5. Effective January 1, 1997, the second sentence in the section 
captioned "Special Arrangements with Dealers" on page 28 is deleted.

         6. The seventh  subparagraph  under the section  captioned  "Waivers of
Class A Sales Charges - Waivers of Initial and Contingent Deferred Sales Charges
for Certain  Purchasers"  on page 29 is deleted and replaced  with the following
subparagraph:

                  |_| (1) investment  advisors and financial planners who charge
                  an advisory,  consulting  or other fee for their  services and
                  buy shares for their own  accounts  or the  accounts  of their
                  clients, (2) Retirement Plans and deferred  compensation plans
                  and trusts used to fund those Plans  (including,  for example,
                  plans  qualified or created under sections  401(a),  403(b) or
                  457 of

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                  the Internal Revenue Code), and "rabbi trusts" that buy shares
                  for their own  accounts,  in each case if those  purchases are
                  made through a broker or agent or other financial intermediary
                  that has made special  arrangements  with the  Distributor for
                  those purchases;  and (3) clients of such investment  advisors
                  or  financial  planners  who buy shares for their own accounts
                  may also  purchase  shares  without  sales  charge but only if
                  their  accounts  are  linked  to a  master  account  of  their
                  investment  advisor  or  financial  planner  on the  books and
                  records of the broker,  agent or financial  intermediary  with
                  which the Distributor has made such special arrangements (each
                  of these  investors may be charged a fee by the broker,  agent
                  or financial intermediary for purchasing shares).

         7. The section captioned "Waivers of Class A Sales Charges - Waivers of
the Class A  Contingent  Deferred  Sales Charge for Certain  Redemptions"  as it
appears for the second time on page 30 is revised to read as follows:

         The Class A contingent  deferred  sales charge is also waived if shares
         that would otherwise be subject to the contingent deferred sales charge
         are redeemed in the following cases:

                  o to make Automatic Withdrawal Plan payments that are limited
                    annually to no more than 12% of the original account value;

                  o involuntary redemptions of shares by operation of law or
                    involuntary redemptions of small accounts (see "Shareholder 
                    Account Rules and Policies," below);

                  o        if, at the time a purchase  order is placed for Class
                           A shares that would otherwise be subject to the Class
                           A contingent deferred sales charge, the dealer agrees
                           in  writing  to accept  the  dealer's  portion of the
                           commission  payable  on the sale in  installments  of
                           1/18th of the  commission  per month ( and no further
                           commission will be payable if the shares are redeemed
                           within 18 months of purchase);

                  o for distributions from a TRAC-2000 401(k) plan sponsored by 
                    the Distributor due to the termination of the TRAC-2000 
                    program.

                                                                  [continued]

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                 o for distributions from Retirement Plans, deferred 
                   compensation plans or other employee benefit plans for any 
                   of the following purposes:  (1) following the death or
                   disability (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) of the 
                   participant or beneficiary (the death or disability must
                   occur after the participant's account was established); (2) 
                   to return excess contributions; (3) to return contributions 
                   made due to a mistake of fact; (4) hardship withdrawals, as 
                   defined in the plan; (5) under a Qualified Domestic 
                   Relations Order, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code; 
                   (6) to meet the minimum distribution requirements of
                   the Internal Revenue Code; (7) to establish "substantially 
                   equal periodic payments" as described in Section 72(t) of 
                   the Internal Revenue Code; (8) for retirement distributions 
                   or loans to participants or beneficiaries; (9) separation 
                   from service; (10) participant-directed redemptions to 
                   purchase shares of a mutual fund (other than a fund
                   managed by the Manager or its subsidiary) offered as an 
                   investment option in a Retirement Plan in which Oppenheimer 
                   funds are also offered as investment options under a special 
                   arrangement with the Distributor; or (11) plan termination 
                   or "in-service distributions", if the redemption proceeds 
                   are rolled over directly to an OppenheimerFunds IRA.

October 18, 1996                                                     PS0700.013




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                  OPPENHEIMER MAIN STREET INCOME & GROWTH FUND
                    Supplement dated October 18, 1996 to the
           Statement of Additional Information dated November 1, 1995

         The Statement of Additional Information is amended as follows:

         1. The section captioned "How To Buy Shares" on page 26 is 
revised by adding the following to the end of that section:

         Retirement Plans. In describing certain types of employee benefit plans
that may purchase Class A shares without being subject to the Class A contingent
differed  sales  charge,  the term  "employee  benefit  plan"  means any plan or
arrangement,  whether  or not  "qualified"  under  the  Internal  Revenue  Code,
including, medical savings accounts, payroll deduction plans or similar plans in
which  Class A shares  are  purchased  by a  fiduciary  or other  person for the
account of participants  who are employees of a single employer or of affiliated
employers,  if the Fund account is  registered  in the name of the  fiduciary or
other person for the benefit of participants in the plan.

         The term "group  retirement  plan" means any qualified or non-qualified
retirement plan (including 457 plans,  SEPs,  SARSEPs,  403(b) plans, and SIMPLE
plans) for  employees of a  corporation  or a sole  proprietorship,  members and
employees of a partnership or association  or other  organized  group of persons
(the members of which may include other  groups),  if the group has made special
arrangements with the Distributor and all members of the group  participating in
the plan purchase Class A shares of the Fund through a single investment dealer,
broker or other financial institution designated by the group.


October 18, 1996                                                     PX0700.005











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                OPPENHEIMER MAIN STREET CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL FUND
          (formerly Oppenheimer Main Street California Tax-Exempt Fund)
                        Supplement dated October 18, 1996
                    to the Prospectus dated November 1, 1995


         The second  paragraph  in the  section  captioned  "Class A  Contingent
Deferred  Sales  Charge" on page 27 is revised by replacing the second and third
sentences with the following sentences:

                  The  Distributor  pays dealers of record  commissions on those
         non-  retirement  plan  purchases  in an  amount  equal to  1.0%.  That
         commission will be paid only on the amount of those purchases that were
         not  previously   subject  to  a  front-end  sales  charge  and  dealer
         commission.











October 18, 1996                                                     PS0725.006




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