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Rapp-Chats
By W. H. Lyne
Area Fruit School: All set - you bet. Believe that’s the way the Panther Cheerleaders put it and trust they don’t, mind our borrowing their phrase. Will be at the Court House in Washington n e x t-Wednesday, January 31st starts promptly at 10:00 a.m. Snow will be gone by then so get that feeding done early and be on tirrte. Okay? Okay?
*** Just in case your Rappahannock Angus breeders happen to be' .slower than I in getting the sad news. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Mullinix were killed when their car was struck by a train while they were enroute from their home to their daughter’s for Christmas (1967) dinner. Mr. Mullinix had beenaconsistant buyer, or bidder, at our Feeder Calf Sale for a number of years and was well known by a number of Rappahannock Angus breeders.
*** Allen Stokes, Maurice O’Bannon, Earl Kilby, Ray Cannon and Lee Payne were among Rappahannock farmers known to have attended Electro - Ag ‘68 at the Richmond Arena last week.
Va. Capitol Report
Virginia voters will havethe las; word on proposed changes tffthe State Constitution, under provisions of legislation just passed by the General Assembly, now meeting at the State Capitol. The first major updating of the Virginia Constitution in more than four decades will get under way soon as Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr. names an 11-member commission to suggest revisions. Set up in accordance With the Governor’s request, the constitution study commission will make its recommendations by January 1, 1969, in order that a special session of the Assembly next year might act on the suggested revisions. Following approval by a second session of the Assembly, the regular session in 1970, the changes would be voted upon by the people of Virginia in the November 'genefal' election of that 'year before going Mnto effect.
Hard on the heels of the presentation of the Governor’s budget recommendations for the 1968-70biennium came bills in both the House of Delegates and the Senate calling for voter approval in Novemfc^. of the state’s borrowing a total of $70,000,000 for capital outlay projects at the State’s college and mental hospitals.
The Governor asked for the legislation in his opening address to the General Assembly, in which he stressed the necessity for Virginia’s exercising the Constitutionally pro vided for borrowing authority in order to meet pressing needs in education and mental health.
In presenting his budget to the joint House and Senateap
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