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Thursday, March 31,1983/The Battalion/Page 3B Have your own ‘farmette’ while holding job in town United Press International IWEDESBORO, N.J. — :orge Tiliakos believes a whole ol folks these days are so tired the urban rat race that they’d e nothing better than to settle wn on the farm and maybe se enough food to live on. To pay for that privilege, iwever, they’ll need to keep ise high-salaried city jobs, d Tiliakos, the president of New Jersey land division of IS. Home Corp., thinks he’s [metip with a way for them to both. The company is building a ,-unit experimental housing velopment in Gloucester unty, down the New Jersey rnpikefrom Philadelphia. In i, development, country- rved city dwellers can buy a lest two-story home and ough land to grow a little corn cl maybe raise a chicken or two r $70,000 and up. Not enough to make money, mind you, but probably enough to feed the family. Despite a nationwide trend towara small houses on small plots of land, U.S. Home, one of the country’s largest single family home builders, is con vinced the “Five Acres and Inde pendence” development is an idea whose time has come. “The nation’s rural areas have continued to experience a dra matic increase in population, as many Americans discard urban lifestyles and seek a simpler life in more rural areas,” the com pany said in its 1981 annual re port. If the project, which is be lieved to be the first of its kind in the nation, is successful, U.S. Homes wants to build a similar development north of Houston, and is looking for other suitable land in the Northeast. “We think there is a large market out there. There’s a mig ration to more rural areas,” Tiliakos explained. “The de mographics show it. That’s where growth’s been. Let’s face it — urban pressures are pretty tough today. There’s going to be a bunch of folks out there who want to take it a little easier. “What we’re trying to show is a return to a rural kind of setting and almost self-sufficiency for a family. But some people may not even farm. Maybe they just want the rural setting.” So-called “farmettes” sprang immediately to mind when U.S. Homes, a Houston-based firm, E urchased about 1,300 acres of md in Woolwich and Logan Townships in 1981, but the nationwide housing recession kept the concept on the drawing boards until early last year. Guy Odom, U.S. Home’s chairman and chief executive officer, based the idea on a best selling book, called “Five Acres and Independence,” written in 1935 by Maurice Kains, a horti culture professor at Pennsylva nia State University. Kains, one of the fathers of the Victory Garden program during World War II, con tended that a family could raise enough food for itself on a very small amount of land and even have enough left over to sell. Working with agricultural ex perts, U.S. Home has deter mined that a properly managed 18,000-square-foot tract of land could yield $12,000 worth of produce every year. The development’s model farm, scheduled to open to the public in late May, will feature 24 different crops, apple, peach and cherry trees, a grape arbor, a greenhouse, root cellar, bee hives, 50 chickens and a cow, calf and horse. c \>ss of ’se T-Shirts Now Available In MSC Wednesday, March 30 — Friday, April 1 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Psychic tunes in on vibes United Press International NASHVILLE, Tenn. — ivid Guardino says he makes earns of wealth and happiness me true as the “Psychic to the ars." “I couldn’t make Nancy agan divorce her husband id marry you,” he says. “But if u and your girlfriend had a [f, I could be 90 percent sure of tting you back together. “I don’t bother much with idingsand predictions. I spe- ilize in making things ppen.” He claims he has helped stars id true love, get big movie photo by Cur 1 < lrts ’ make millions. He says he ' j en has helped politicians get ! eir bills passed. But Guardino says he can’t do of bicvclt ese things for himself, .awyers don’t defend them- Ives in court. Brain surgeons m’t operate on their brains,” :says. Guardino, 40, spends half his ein Las Vegas and the other ill in Lenoir City, Tenn., ere his wife, Dedra, 19, was ised. may itssan >e duct •ss Internationjjj - If potentiall tentoaTexal ime on theta] “We met over the telephone,” explained his wife. “After about 30 or 40 seconds, he said, ‘Will you marry me.’” She flew to Las Vegas for a look-see. Eleven days after that they were married. “It has worked out very good,” she said. Guardino, a one-time social worker, says he gets his clients what they want through tele kinesis — by influencing peo ple’s thoughts. More simply, he puts “whammies” on people. “If a politician wants a bill pas sed, I’ll put a whammy on his opponents. If a star wants a choice film role, I just zero in on the producer and that’s that.” The scientific name he uses for his specialty is psychokinetic energy. He says biochemical reactions create unique electro magnetic fields around every human being. “Psychics call those fields vib rations,” he says. “I have the gift of being able to tune into those and read them. “Let’s say you and your wife got along famously the first year you were married and then things went sour. Now she’s going out with someone else. I put a whammy on him, put a whammy on her, break them up and make her come back to you. I psychically regress her to feel about you the way she felt dur ing the honeymoon. “I claim 90 percent success. 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