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The critically ill. . .isolated rural families without fuel or food, or needing medicine . . .shivering motorists marooned in heavy, wind-whipped snow drifts. . .five college students on their way to a fancy dress ball. . . They were among the hundreds of Virginians aided in an extra way during the past week by the State’s roadclearing forces. Nobody really kept count, because the job of getting the roads open was itself so great. And as the hours and days passed, the dramatic became the commonplace -- from the Eastern Shore to the rugged Southwest, from the North Carolina border to Virginia's hard-hit northern counties. Even yet, there is no complete total of the number of stranded motorists rescued, or of the isolated families to whom emergency aidwasprovided. There probably never will be. But late in the week, with most highways open and many of them with bare pavements, the stories of mercy missions began coming in. Highway Department crews, and contractors’employes assisting them, dug out more than 935 vehicles, many of them with small children
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