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It looks like the good people of
Covert are determined to keep perform­
in the kind of f 'on that will
guarantee their appearance in thi column
ch as - th recent housing com­
mi 'on meeting postponed. A room
full of people had come out to be
brought up to date on the statu of the
eommi . n t plan to put up the ne
hou in the to n and to be told ho
many local peop ould be employed
10 help build them.
Then it announced that the
meeting cancelled, Variou reasons
ere given but most of tho in atten-
dance erned to think that it a becau
the chairman h d decided to go vacat­
ioning in Europ and didn't tru t anybody
el to conduct the meeting. Some of
the spiciou one felt that he as not
prepared to ccount for all of the money
that have been spent. hen he comes
k e ill let you know.
A D THE ... there is the matter
of that preacher. Some folks think that
some of the local elected officials ere
respon ible for him being in the town
because as soon he got there me
to nship money w made available
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SENIOR
CITIZENS
TUESDAY
SEEUDYT
FOR SSS MAXING OPPORTUNITIES
p
'NOI1h it?
ofacar
lMiIlabIe b you k>
a day - from Mercy and
APRIL 13-19,19 3 THE CITIZE
ur n CountY
young We'
for making every trip
moreDlei .....
For more � you're' . to the
department either hospital (Mercy. 9Z7-5239;
Memorial, 983-8277) between 8:30 a.m and 3:30 p.m ,
� thRx.9t Fridays.
And remember, when you're in a car, your lap not
best place b your chid. More than 75 pen:ent of
mobile acddeI.as oc:cta' 25 of home. Take a
moments k> use a car eYeIl for
short
to do repair or on the par n e
here he li e ( paration of church
and state?).
Soon after he arrived the local B c
man ho 0 ned businei on the main
reet suddenly lost his busin (a
he t up?).
The preacher immediately too over
that choice commerical corner and
tatted antagonizing the customers and
har the neighbor so much
that some of the to n people are b gin­
ning to realize that they don't ju HAVE
to partronize his busin .
Before he was there they found other
p ces to buy grocerie . bile the place
clo d they found other place to
buy gasoline. Before he took over that
comer, the neighbor had coexisted for
years ith the Blac operator of that
busine . While other gasoline station
in this are have policy of pumping
your gasoline before you p y why
must cu tomer t his tation h ve to
pay before they can pump gasoline?
OULD YOU UKE for your child to
grow up to be an ronaut? H d you
ever thought about paintlng him bite?
Think about it - Did you realize that
have been nding men to outer
pace for 20 years ithout one of them
being Blac? Had you thought bout
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be happy k> derrllOl .uite proper use of a car
for you and provide for �
nding your child to Cub ? They ha e
only nt one man to outer sp ce d
he a Blac .
In ey conducted by our It ch
Department, 87.7 percent of the people
con cted agreed ith this tement:
ABc child born ye erday live
to be as old ethuselah (969 y
nds le than a 50-50 c ce of becom-
ing the pilot on an American p ce Ship.
I ed my If,· hy ould anybody
to be ron ut"? After a
short wait a small oice answered, "dami­
fino",
H OUR PRESIDE ppointed
panel of 'distinguished citizen" to
m e recommendatio for chang in
the Social Security Act to the Congr
h conventi ntly forgot to include
BI cks. en the recommend tion
ere brought in and ccepted by the
pre . ent and the co e e ual
got the ort end of the t' .
Among the c is one that ill
- rai the retirement e and since the
older you are when you start, the I
time you will have to dra . And . ce
all actuary table 0 that Blac di
at younger e than bite, this m ans
that e ill get even le compared
to other segments of the populati n
- the short end of the t' .
Had B c person b n on that
panel he/she could ve pointed that
out and m ybe prevented the higher
age recommend tion from being in­
cluded.
On local level our County' soon to
receive 690 000 to t up a job training
and employment program. It will be
controlled by bo rd that i to b
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appointed in the near fu ure. Som
Blac folks ought to be talkin to their
County Commi . ner about be' a part
of th t board be u e h got B
folks ho need trainin and B c fo
ho need jobs and ithout som con­
cerned outspo en B c peopl on that
bo d e kno here t money .
going to be nt and ho ill get the
benefits from it. e kno that it is
easi r to prevent fire than it is to put
one out that is buring out of control.
THE CIVIC ORG IZ TIO and the
Covert School Dram Club hav joined
to bring the 'zoo Blac Th tre Group
to the Covert School Auditorium for
two plays on April 24th. Th ir ppear­
ance here st ye r en received
- let' upport this kind of programmin
that they ill continue mak:in it
vai ble to u and for u .
The Van Buren United Civic Or ani-
zation regul monthly meetin tur-
d y, April 16th t 2 p.m. at the Civi
Center in Covert.
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