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i\ei earnings in nappanannocx County were high during the year, it shows. After allowances for personal taxes, local residents had a net spendable income of $7,110,000, compared with their 1966 total of $6,956,000.
Just how much this amounted to, in terms of the individual family, was determined by dividing the overall income by the number of local households. The average was $5,079, a gain over the prior year’s $4,969 per household.
How did local residents use their bigger incomes? They spent more for clothing, food and other soft goods. They were more liberal, also, in their expenditures for personal care, services and > entertainment. There was more j -estraint, on the other hand, with ; respect to purchases of hard ' goods.
However, retail merchants as a whole ended the year on a high | note. They chalked up a sales 1 volume of more than $2,224,000. r The survey gives each community a performance rating based upon the amount of retail business done in its area as compared with its estimated full capacity. . This is done through a “buying power index,’’ a weighted figure involving income, population and sales. ! Rappahannock County’s index > rating is .0015, which means that ■ it is believed capable of producing 1 that percentage of the nation’s retail business.
Since less than that was accounted for last year, .0007 • percent, it is concluded that a ' sizeable amount of the local 1 potential has not yet been '.reached, concluded that a sizeable 1 amount of the local potential has 1 not yet been reached. i Virginia Warden* Among Top in Nation
With an average of 68 arrests per man, Virginia’s Game I Wardens were among the top ■ three in the nation in efficiency, according to a survey just , completed by the Wildlife Management Institute, reports Law Enforcement Chief John McLaughlin. Oregon with 99 arrests per man and North Carolina with 69 arrests per officer topped Virginia’s record. Virginia’s 116 man warden force was below the average number for southeastern states where officers per state varied from 43 to 314. Hie 352 square mile averaged patrol area of Virginia wardens was a little below average for southeastern states where officers territories varied from 202 to 839 square miles. Virginia’s record of 10.5 persons arrested per thousand licenses was a little above the average for the Southeast and much above the national average.
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