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widowed pdople are not Included. *y .Throughout- the United States as a whole, 25.1 percent of the male population oyer 14 is listed as single arid 19.1 percent of the female. The normal number of unmarried people in the local area and in other communities is being swelled now because the huge crop of postwar babies is reaching marriageable age. As pointed out by two officials of the census Bureau, Paul C. Click and Robert Parke, Jr., this situation is creating a problem far wouldbe brides. Because so many are reaching marriageable age at this time, there are not enough men available in the group twoyears older than themselves— the ones they normally marry-- to go around. The figures show that, in Rappahannock County, no less than 291 girls will be In the 17 to 21 age group next year. Many local boys, also, will be reaching that age bracket, 299 of them. But they will not be ready for marriage next year, for the most part, and when they are, two years
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