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have Mr. Watiimr and hi* fine musician* pretest • program etch ■ pear is oar county will judicata that our people believe that music is important. ' Just as ear world is fall of music for people who love to hear it. so dor we need to have music many times. What a strange place. this world would he without music! How often do we use-it to enliven our activities, and to add beauty or gayety or solemnity to certain occasions? There is another reason why we need music. In ways past knowing, it enriches our minds and hearts. It gives us understanding and peace. What greater offering today?'
CONTRIBUTED
Letter Yo Editor
Letter from "Tired Taxpayer*’ In last week’s issue read, re-read, and read again. Still trying: to figure just exactly what he wants or expects from a reunion with" Culpeper. Economy seems to be his motive butto this reader it appears that T. T. failed to offer any specific or guaranteed savings. T. T. speaks of one Sheriff, one Commissioner of Revenue, one Treasurer, One County Clerk, one Demonstration Agent, one County Nurse, ol« Director of Welfare, etc. etc.
Did T. T. stop to question o? to learn whether Culpeper already has, in addition to the officers mentioned and all the others, one or more Deputies in each office; and that the addition of Rappahannock county with its 6,000 people will, most certainly, result in the employment of at least as many more deputies as the fulltime and full-title people now employed? And djrs he believe for one moment that these deputies, if the move takes place, will be employed for one cent less per year than they now receive? In regard to the school situation, Tired Taxpayer rightly doubts that either Front Royal or Culpeper is in any position to take our high school'pupils. Most certainly, if the time and occasion arrive when they do, Rappahan- - nook county taxpayers will be called on to pay the bills for the education of Rappahannock citizens. Is it not time for us to stop looking for other people to carry our burdens?
However, there is a solution: use the money from the Battle Fund (Rappahannock’s share is approximately $100,000) and borrow the rest from the Literary Fund to" build an adequate high school. Most of the other counties have done or are planning to do this, including the county of Greene, which is at least as poor as -Rappahannock. ;i'r _In conclusion, let me give this. information to all tired taxpayers: Tax j-ate for^ , ^ Culpeper_,*« $2.15 per $100
and of this for Culpeper Schools-1.80 Tax rate for Rappahannock_$2.00 per $100
and of this for Rappahannock Schools.. 1.75
Still Breathing Taxpayer. ,
To The Editor
To the Taxpayeis of Rappahannock County:
After listening to a lot of people talk I understand that the question is coming up to bond the county to build more school buildings. Naturally the school people - are going to ask for a loan from the Literary Fund. The people who handle the school business have gotten a law through in the state of Virginia that authorizes the supervisors to borrow money from the Literary Fund, thus making a mortgage on your property without saying a word to you about it. I do not believe that it was ever intended to give the supervisor* the authority to put a first mortgage on your property without asking you anything about doing it.
Naturally you are goiifg to hear some of the so-called top notchers argue that the main difference between the Literary Fund loan and a Bond Issue is the interest rate.
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