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—by Ed
If you have detected a smug, self-satisfied expression on the faces of the 'courthouse girls,* there is a reason. One day when the Brinks truck was making a delivery to Rappahannock National Bank across the street Sue and Phyllis left their offices in the courthouse enroute to the postoffice. The Brinks driver inquired as to the name of the girls’ school they attended in the big brick building.
Word gets around—via the Rappahannock News. Monday Ruth Keyser received a letter from her sister Seigridwhols in Tampa, Florida. In the let' ter she said, while setting in a restaurant there last week she overheard two ladles dls cussing a recipe which they had read in Rappahannock News. Seigrid introduced herself and told them her sister was on the paper staff, but 2 she failed to tell us which Of our good Florida subscribers the lady was.
A Charleston, S. C.subscrlb ! er, Mr8. R. A. Palmer, recent ly renewed her paper and in a note to us said, *1 would like ; to see more reports on weather conditions at home, and also more reporting by 1 the people to their correspondents, as the same people seem to make the news every 5 week, otherwise the "News* is most enjoyable. There has been little to report weatherwise, except it’s been hot and dry most of the aumer, but we did have a million dollar rain Monday. -You could almost see things 4 growing . As for the news, we want and appreciate nil of it. There are |i correspondents 'in each com* munlty who gather news fdr | the paper. It is impossible | to contact everyone each week but anytime you have any news contact the news agent in your area or call the office at Wash Jington, 675-3349, Please.
A crash occurring at 64 is twice as likely to kill as one occurring at 5o. For each onemile increase between 55 and 65, death chances increase 10 percent. A 68-year-old Alexandria man arrested for a traffic violation was found to have been driving for 42 years wit* • out a license. ) The average person blinks his 25 times a minute at one fifth of a second per blink. Thus he will drive 33 miles with his eyes shut on a 10hour trip *1 *0 mph.
The wife of a TV announcer v put her small son to bed and said, *Now Johnny, say your prayers.* *Oh, Lord,* mumbled the youngster, "please bless Mama and Papa, and give us title day our slow-baked,oven fresh vitamin-enriched bread.
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