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Mr. and Mrs. Lee L. Thorpe of Newsoms, Virginia announce the engagement of their daughter, Lynda Lee Thorpe, to Mr. Glenn Hartwell UpdikQ son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Updike of Washington, Virginia.

Miss Thorpe is a graduate of Mary Washington College where she was a member of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. She is presently teaching Home Economics at Franklin High School, Franklin, Virginia. Mr. Updike, a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute is employed with the V.P.I. Cooperative Extension Service in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

An April wedding is planned.

in progress, and with mixed benefits from a protracted series of trade negotiations, we are being subjected to a drain of our resources of a magnitude which has not been described to the people,” Marsh said. “We cannot absorb deficits of the present order indefinitely,” he emphasized, "nor can we absorb international trade situations in which we lose ground on a progressive basis, despite negotiations we thought would benefit us.” Marsh said he, “noted with regret the strong support, among some economists, for removing the gold backing of the dollar." “Although we have not been on the gold standard for many years, substantial gold backing of our currency has been retained as a fact of our fiscal policy,” Marsh said, “and, while many economists dis

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