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$768 per capita at tnat time. By the beginning of this year they had reached $1,143 per capita. It was an increase of 48.9 percent. The comparable increase, ,in the United States, was 19.9 percent and, in the State of iVirginia; 25.7 percent.
| The figures, as given, xlo not take into account the rise in the cost of living. According to government estimates, only about a third of the gain was real..
it was sufficient, however, to fuel and maintain the boom ■for five full years. * Residents of Rappahannock iCounty, armed with this addiTheir
outlays in local retail stores reached $533 per capita by the end of 1965.
The surge in business produced more jobs for more people. In the State of Virginia, the number of men and women employed in non-farm establishments climbed from 1,018,000 to 1,209,000 in the period.
87.5%