••• 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