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partment of Commerce. The report forms answer only a minimum of basic inquiries. ,» ^
Approximately three million i business firms throughout the ! United States will .receive 'the 11954 census forms. Information collected in the census is confiden; tial and will be used by the Bureau of the Census in compiling new statistics on business activities for the Nation, States and smaller areas for the first .time since the results of the 1948 Census _ of Business were published.
Selected figures for Virginia from the 1948 Census of Business follow:
Retail Trade, 1948 No., of stores --$ 32,124 Sales for the yf. _* 2,227,-407,000 Payroll for yr.- 214,095,000
Wholesale Trade, 1948 No. of establishments
3 000 Sales for yr. .—_ 2,033,470,000 Payroll for yr.- . 99,126,000
Washington News Notes
Magruda Keyser and Harry Lee Smith, students at V.P.I., spent the weekend with their families, Mr. Smith at Spring House Farm and Mr. Keyser with his grandmother and uncle, Mrs. Will Keyser and Joe Dejirnett Keyser oi Pleasant View. • /
Mrs. D. D. Miller acc6mpanied Mrs. John Pearman to Warrenton on Thursday where they attended the District Executive meeting of the Home Demonstrftion Clubs.
Mrs. George H. Davis, Jr., and in fant daughter, Drucilla Graves, arrived home Sunday from Fau•quffr County Hospital.
B. R. Cox arrived Friday evening to spend the week end with his
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