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.
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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.
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“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.
Actually it’s higher.”
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