The Nation - News from Nov. 17, 1985

A farmer in Cochran, Ga., who threatened to fight rather than lose the land his family has owned since the Civil War has received hundreds of letters containing small donations to help pay a debt estimated at $112,000. Oscar Lorick, 66, who has received 459 letters from across the United States and Canada, said he did not know how much money he received. A local bank late last week agreed to delay Lorick’s eviction, ending a daylong standoff between a sheriff and armed activists who vowed to defend Lorick’s 80-acre farm.