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Out in Van Bur n County
AY 16-22,19 4 lHECITIZENo
Are you from one of tho famille
flo inherited grand p' farm land but
it a n't enough land to plit up and
upport veral famili ? Did one child
t y at home nd or th farm bile
th r of you ent your vario ay
d raised famille ? ere ny legal step
ta en to con lidate 0 nership or 0
that farm no in the statu of "heir
property"? Has it been or is it being
bought up for' back tax "by someone
else ho friend in the county
courtho -? ould you like to kno
ho °bly reclaim the property
receive it value? ell
like m 'things if you just it there and
ait nothing 0 going to happen - but if
you write: Emergency Land Fund,
564 Lee Street S. ., Atlan , Georgia
30310. Phone (404)758-5506 - Chi go
phone (312)493-3165.
Give them your name, the family
name and here the property is located.
They will tell you the current status of
the property and what eps you will
have to ta e to reclaim it - for the price
of a po tage tamp this is the biggest
bargain in town.
DID YOU
o that the office of
Tre urer of Van Buren County is vacant
( of June 5th)? The County Com
mi loner 'are accepting pplications to
fill the job. It will only la t until election
time but hoever gets in now has the
be t chance of being elected in the fall.
y don't YOU apply for the job? The
only official qualification is that you be
a citizen of Van Buren Count .
The most important skill required is
(1) be able to keep boo or (2 hire
mebody to keep them for you. Past
experience h shown that bility to
read arid write, count, add and subtract
or even po common n is not even
nece
Fi n cing Avai lab
. . . I think that I have found out
hy the good Lord left us in charge of
the world while He went off to a better
pi ceo H knew that e were going to
get bogged down in lot of tupid
details. t e when I went into one
of the towns over on the other . de of
the county the 'native" were up in
rms, they had rted putting barricades
up in the treet but had to stop because
the i ue that they ere fighting about
as intricate that it had to be decided
on person-to-person ba 0 • One family
arted to build a moat around their
house but after they discussed the i e
they d· greed nd a fa a the husband
dug the moat around one 0 de of the
hou the wife was filling it in on the
other . de. The d ugh er wa upporting
the father while the twins ere upstairs
fighting in the nur ry ..
I have been going into that town
for years, well kno n by everybody
over there but la t Thursday when I
came out of' 0 dy Richard' Rusty
diator Repair Rebuilders (we also
replace and refurbi raggedy radio)"
and started ero the street to "Burly
Ben' - Baked Beans, B own Bread and
Braised Beef Bri et Boutique", they
arted throwing rocks at me. I ondered
why, I started asking why, but no
body would even talk to me. It seems
that the people who hang out in those
two business establishments had taken
.different ide in th gre t con trover ity
and neither one peaking to anybody
who spoke to the other . de. Finally I
bribed a little boy by offering him a
bite of my noodl sandwich. He told
m th t at a political rally the week be
fore one of the candidates h d every
body going his way until one of the local
citizens h ppened to e one of the
campaign worker making the peanut
butter and jelly sand ich , put the
jelly on the bread fir. aturally he
complained, he said th t the peanut
butter should go on first. Hi friend
cro the table heard it and id 0,
the wor er was right,"
o you kno ho it i at political
rally, most people are on edge, in an
agitated tate of mind nd thinking
that they kno more than anybody
else about anything. So one thing led to
another and another an another, for
everybody who beleived that the jelly
should go first there s another who
believed just strongly that the pea
nut bu ter should go fir t.
Before long they were fighting in the
street, throwing roc , foul language
and ripe garbage on their opponents,
neighbors and ex friends. I could tell
you about how they had to call in the
State Police and the . ational Guard
before order w finally restored, but
orin that part of the county they
suppre this kind of information. The
local people don't tell u about their
problems, the sherrif's deputi are never
going to tell us ho "they" act over there
and there is no radio tation over there to
report the new - even if I told you what
happen you prob bly ould believe
what � they" y r ther than what I say
I'm going to le ve it alone. But like
I id I thin th t I kno now wby
the good Lord left here and went me
where e to live,
THE COVERT SCHOOL dministrat
ion i to b congratulated for bringin
Col. Charle Bolden the a tronaut to
ddre th High School Honors Banqu t
last ee. When you remember that
there are only four of them (81 c
astronaut) in the whol orld you kno
that it mu have taken a lot of "pull"
to get him out to V n Buren County.
Hi presence and the list of his accom
plishment had to be inspiring to all
who heard him. 0 •• Th t Variety Sho
put on b The Performing Art Clinic
of Cov last Friday nite gave som
much needed exposure to som of the
talented young people in our midst.
Let's all support them in their future
endeavors.
VBUCO m
ting dat
COY rt youth win
tal nt award
Recently held Talent Show ponsored
by the Van Buren United Civic Organiza
tion at Covert Public School presented
awards to the following winners:
Vocal Solo: Fir t prize of 25 to Kim
Johnson; cond prize of SI5 to Shelley
Tober' Vocal Group: First prize of
S25 to ichelle Edward and John
Toliver; econd prize of S15 to Kim
Glover and John Toliver; Dance Group:
First prize of S25 to Willie Toliver,
Hollis Berry, Phillip anley and Dushon
Rodgers; cond prize of 15 to Vernon
Doubley, Edward Fo er � Craig
Van Buren United Civic Organization
meeting day has been changed for th
summer months, ccording to Fried
Brown, pre ident.
The regular Execu ive Board meeting
will be onday May 21, 1984 at 7:00
p.m. and th regular membership meeting
wiD be onday, May 21, 1984 at 8:00
p.m. at the Civic Center, East 34th ve
nue, Covert.
Vot
tra ·0
Continued from p 2 .
The Michigan campaign office has
been open since October. To <fate it has
registered 4,000 voter - 2,200 in De
troit. Jone id the numbers would be
higher were it not for the barriers. He
pointed out that deputy registrars were
placed out of commission from Dec. I
Feb. 1 and arch 12-AprilI6. They will
be shut down again July 9-Au� 7, a tar
get period for the group, which is mount
ing a Freedom Summer '84 campaign in
Commemoration of the 20th anniver ary
of the i i ippi Summer Program.
That program, organized by the Student
onviolent Coordinating Committee in
1964, succeeded in registering thousand
of Black voters. Human SERVE plans
to utilize 5,000 student volunteer
around the country during a ten-wee
period to register voter in the' i i . p
pi of '84."
Jone said the include California,
which ha six million unregistered voters:
Jones.
, any thank to the community
and merchants for upporting the first
talent contest," aid r. William Farley,
ays and ean Chairman for V n
Buren United Civic Organization.
Tile LJttle Store tritlt t1t Big Stor In ide
1527 T ROMf. B on H.-bor
cmd MC Coa· Is.
Fa.t
Friendl,
Sel'YJce
ew York, with 5.5 million; Texa , four
million; Ohio, 1.5 million; Pennsylvania,
2.8 million, Florida, two million, and
Michigan, one million.
Jones disclosed that the group 0
considering filing la uits in ten-If
state around the country in an effort to
eliminate voter registration barriers,
"Our po ition is that th government
ought to be playing an affirmative ction
role,' he explained. "It ought to go an
extra step and not ju t ai for people to
come in. In a country that believes in
democracy, clearly your democracy .
questionable when you have a large
number of peopl unregistered."
The group's stance 0 supported by
many political notables who attended
a Harvard-ABC ews symposium on the
I ck of voter participation la t year.
The group r commended that Con
gres consider enacting legislation to
allow for election-day regi tration
ByF
Venus
Beau ty Sa Ion
454 Pipestone
To our Patron's & Friends
Due to fire we were closed the
We are, month of March
open with EC LS for you .
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