Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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For mean, how do we know Superior is maintaining the same position up here "Of course," he said, grinning at his stupidity. "And I guess we're not The town of Superior, Ohio, certainly was living up to its name! In what Radio messages stated simply that Superior had seceded from Earth. But Don Cort, stranded on that rising town, was beginning to suspect that nothing was simple about Superior except its citizens. Calmly they "Well," Don said as they turned to go back to Cavalier, "now we know that they know. Maybe we'll begin to get some answers. Or, if not answers, then transportation." to Cort: either find a way to anchor Superior, or spend the rest of his The town of Superior, Ohio, disappeared on the night of October 31. she said, "before you deteriorate." Superior had been. The state police converged on the former site of Superior from several stop at Superior at 11:58. That seemed to fix the time of the had been over the state. Washington said no. The Pentagon and the Atomic Nor had there been any defense plants in Superior that might have blown A United Airlines pilot found Superior early on the morning of November course to avoid it. He noted with only minimum satisfaction that his A few minutes later he had relayed a message from Superior, formerly of It said that Superior had seceded from Earth. One other radio message came from Superior, now airborne, on that first " stop at Superior on this run." that it was more than adequate. "Will we be here long?" Don asked the conductor. He didn't want to miss and even Don saw two men who must have been the engineer and the fireman talking to an old bearded gentleman wearing a civil defense helmet, a topcoat and riding boots. "You'd go over the edge, I tell you," the old gentleman was saying. "Look for yourself," the old man in the white helmet said. "Go ahead. the old man. Then let's go." "Well, let's hurry up. We haven't got all night." True, everything seemed to stop, and they could see stars shining low on the horizon where stars could not properly be expected to be seen. Don Cort and the fireman walked cautiously toward the edge while the professor ambled ahead with the familiarity of one who had been there before. But there was a wind and they did not venture too close. Standing on tiptoe and repressing a touch of giddiness, Don looked over on the edge of his seat during the exciting part of a movie, but the Don looked at the fireman, who had an unbelieving expression on his face, then at the bearded old man, who was smiling and nodding. "Of course you could have stayed aboard the train," the man driving the old Pontiac said, "but I really think you'll be more comfortable at Cavalier." Don Cort, sitting in the back seat of the car with the redhead from the say your name was, miss?" "Jen Jervis," she said. "Geneva Jervis, formally." "Miss Jervis. I'm Civek. You know Mr. Cort, I suppose." The girl smiled sideways. "We have a nodding acquaintance." Don nodded and grinned. "Me? No. I'm the mayor of Superior. The old town's really come up in the world, hasn't it?" "Overnight," Geneva Jervis said. "If what Mr. Cort and the fireman say is true. I haven't seen the edge myself." "You'll have a better chance to look at it in the morning," the mayor Civek—'everything's up in the air.' He was having his little joke, of course. I said, 'What?' and then he told me." "Told you what?" Jen Jervis asked. "I mean, does he have any theory about it?" the mayor wouldn't look foolish the next morning, not knowing his town had flown the coop." "What's the population of Superior?" "Does Superior have an airport?" Don asked. "I've got to get back to—to "No helicopters here, either." "Maybe not. But I'll bet they're swarming all over you by morning." "Hm," said Hector Civek. Don couldn't quite catch his expression in the rearview mirror. "I suppose they could, at that. Well, here's Cavalier. Garet. I've got to see him—excuse me." The mayor was off across the campus. Don looked at Geneva Jervis, who was frowning. "Are you thinking," he asked, "that Mayor Civek was perhaps just a little less than completely honest with us?" "I'm thinking," she said, "that I should have stayed with Aunt Hattie "I'm with Senator Bobby Thebold, S.O.B." Don laughed again. "He sure is." " " "Of course," Don said, puzzled by her emphasis. "Come on. Where they put you, you'll probably be surrounded by co-eds, even if I could get out of this cuff." He took her bag in his free hand and they were met by a gray-haired beside himself. We haven't had so much excitement since the around a corner, gesticulating wildly to someone wearing a white laboratory smock. II Don Cort had slept, but not well. He had tried to fold the brief case to Superior were up in the air. "The same," she said. "Also the only. A pity, because if there'd been I'm duty-bound to represent the second generation at the nut factory." down from ducks. How do you plan to get down from Superior?" "Scarcely , Mr. Cort. As for it being deliberate, that seems to be "Actually there's only one, the Superior Sentry , a weekly. This is an extra. Ed Clark must have been up all night getting it out." She opened Don blinked at the headline: Town Gets High "Ed Clark's something of an eccentric, like everybody else in Superior," Alis said. Don read the story, which seemed to him a capricious treatment of an advised not to. It's a long way down. Where Superior was surrounded by Ohio, as usual, today Superior ends literally at the town line. Don skimmed the rest. "I don't see anything about it being deliberate." Alis had been creaming and sugaring Don's coffee. She pushed it across to him and said, "It's not on page one. Ed Clark and Mayor Civek don't get along, so you'll find the mayor's statement in a box on page three, bottom." Don creased the paper the other way, took a sip of coffee, nodded his thanks, and read: Mayor Claims Secession From Earth Mayor Hector Civek, in a proclamation issued locally by hand and dropped to the rest of the world in a plastic shatter-proof bottle, said today that Superior has seceded from Earth. His reasons were as vague as The "reasons" include these: (1) Superior has been discriminated against (2) Cavalier Institute has been Professor Osbert Garet of Cavalier which the editor (a) does not (b) lacks space to publish and which (it being atrociously handwritten) he (c) has not the temerity to ask his linotype operator to set. Don said, "I'm beginning to like this Ed Clark." "He's a doll," Alis said. "He's about the only one in town who stands up to Father." levitated Superior off the face of the "Three months past. How old are , Mr. Cort?" now—was that we can stroll out to where Superior used to be attached to On to the brink!" "Not that I know of," Don said. He introduced him to Alis Garet. "What are you going to do?" "What Superior's water supply?" topographer's map, far below. Don took another wary step, then sat down. going off the "It isn't? Then where is it going?" It was signed: Vincent Grande, Chief of Police, Hector Civek, Mayor . "What's the other source, besides the faucet in your bathroom?" Don

<question>:
Who will likely be in charge of all future decisions for Superior?

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A Alis Garet and Don Cort
B Vincent Grande and Don Cort
C Professor Garet and Mayor Civek
D Mayor Civek and Ed Clark

<answer>:

C