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Letter
Below is a letter received from a former resident of the County, who dipped the pledge card from the Rappahannock News and sent her pledge to the Industry Committee.
Mrs. Virginia Miller Washington, Va. Dear Mrs. Miller,
1 wrote to Mr. Barksdale a few weeks ago about my interest in in-' dustry in Rappahannock County. I no longer live there but still own property there. We can t afford to miss this opportunity.
Enclosed is my pledge. If this isn’t enough, let me know and I will do better.
Mrs. Alemeda (Hudson)
Armcntrout
YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
Reports
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Washington, 1.lis t i onic brains . those intricately-complex machines which have been put to work on many complicat’d statistical and other mathematical problems in defense planning and in industry. soon will be enlisted in the effort to find a fair method of apporfionitrg highway-users taxes.
In other words, electronic computers will be fed data which, it is hoped, will produce a reasonable answer to the question of which users should pay how much toward the heavy increasing cost of building adequate highways.
This is revealed in a rather dry report, worded largely in the language of research statisticians, submitted recently to the Committee an Ways and Means of the House of Representatives. It is entitled, “Fourth Progress Report of the Highway Cost Allocation Study”, and it was prepared under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce.
For nearly four years, now, at the request of the Congress, the Commerce Department and other agencies have been gathering data
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