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of the Decatur Fir
Dep.
Out In Van Buren County
This column is not going to
ccept any criticism of the
Decatur Fire Dept. - ure e
kno that there has been
pate of vile statement and
cruel invendoe about tho fine
young men but we don't plan
to dwell on things of that
nature.
Yes, e kno that me
people think that a betrayal
of tru t involved, some
think that me of them stood
to m e some mon t ry gains
and some ere even cruel
enough to ccu them of being
bunch of pyromaniacs - only
, on kind hearted soul id,
"maybe the devil made them
doiL"
e will dmit that Decatur
i prob bly the only town of
its size in the country that has
h d enough fire to go around
many time that the firemen
don't even have to argue bout
ho i going to drive the truck.
od
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Consumer} es.
. poor voting record on
egislation affecting the Minor­
ity."
'''This p y, letter
nt to Rep. Siljander, . gned
by 70 concerned community
leaden, from 16 different cities
in his con ituency, with regard
to his Central American policy
outlined in a form-letter
from hi office.
Yes e . will admit that some
of the fires did em to be of a
uspicious nature, but then, even
if one of the' boys" had been
en running from a blazing
building with a can of gasoline
and a book of matches in hi
hand that ould not prove
that he had done anything
wrong.
aybe his friend down the
road had run out of gasoline
and he w being a good samari­
tan by bringing him a can full,
he just needed the matche
that he could e how to get
thru that empty building or
m ybe going thru that empty
building wa the short cut from
where he h d been to here he
w s going. There could be a
lot of good reasons, the main
thing . , we just don't think
that it should be talked about
and e hope that you agree.
Ho ever, if e did think
that it should be talked about
a one
After a four- ee ait, we
received our Congressman's re­
ply. It w a copy of the identi­
cal form-letter with which we
originally took issue," Golze
said.
Charle Rodebaugh will be
the speaker on: Wednesday,
September 26th, at 7 p.m. at
the aude Pre on Palen e
emorial library, 500 Market
St., t Lake Blvd., St. Joseph.
e would think that it should
be in a more objective manner.
like, the citizens of the com­
munity should be most apprecia­
tive that they have uch a
dedicated group in the fire
department.
While in the urrounding
towns the firemen are sitting
around the firehouse looking at
TV or polishing their boot,
the Decatur men are constantly
orking to upgr de their skills.
They are so de perate to learn
all there is to know that they
want to spend every hour of
the day practicing. They know
that reading books about fire
fighting is nice but actually
fighting fire every day makes
one much more proficient.
They did what they did 0
that they would be better
prepared to protect you.
When a truly big fire comes
to this area they will probably
be the only ones who will know
that to do for their towns
people. We know that a big
fire is coming because a few
years ago "God gave oah the
rainbo sign. He said, no mo
water, its fire next time."
LEST WE FORGET: Sharp­
ville - that Sharpsville that was
mentioned as one of the towns
where two Blac ere killed
by South African police last
week is the same place where 69
unarmed Black men, women and
children were shot down in cold
blood by South African police
doing the Sharpsville ere
in arch 1960 ...
rs. CASSANDRA EVER­
ETH of South Haven ha been
hired as Office Manager and
WILLARD TURNER of Covert
hired Food Coordinator of
Van Cap.
QUEST} AIRE
Do 'you think that Van Buren
County need it own S.W .A.T.
team?
Did you re about the big
marijuana bust?
Did you think the part about
the Booby traps was cute?
Do you think that Van Buren
is a center of criminal activity?
Don't you think tho
S. .A.T. team are sharp in th ir
combat boots, helicopters, short­
ware radios and things?
Would you mind paying a
little mpre taxes
we can
the elderly and medical care
for the sick t ey ere both
conspicous by their silence. A
part of the "credit" for this
could be due to tho news
reporters who refused to as
them any question that
couldn't be answered by waving
the fl g but more likely they
just don't believe that there
i any rel tionship bet een
religion and Christian principles
or maybe they accept the f ct
that nobody in Am rica believes
that either one of them is going
to let religion stand in the way
of him doing whatever he
wants to do 0 ce he gets to be
president.
o as to, 'Is God a Repub­
lican?' e really don't know
(this column doe not ask any­
body about their party ffilia­
tions). We do know that e
didn't see anything about Demo­
crats or Republican in that
part of the Bible that we read.
e are going to read a few
more page next wee ,if e e
anything we will let you kno .
Don't forget the VanBuren
UNlfED CIVIC 0 GANIZA­
TIO Banquet, October 6th.
They need you and you need
them!
Remember, you have until
Oct. 9th to Register.
Quote: No matter how long
the journey, it !tiJl starts with
one $Iep: the rust. one.
-Anon
have one?
Did you believe the part
about the log up in the tree to
fall on the policeman's head?
hat about the Tooth Fairy?
'It seem that our pre 'dent­
ial candidates spend an awful
lot of time talking about re­
ligion - whose got the mo ,
hich one's is better, whose
halo shines the brightest and
a lot of other thing that have
nothing whatsoever to do with
Christian principles.
When Rev. J e Jackson
kept talking bout a leader's
responsibility in areas like feed­
ing the hungry, winter fuel for
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