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Chester Gap Supper
A Ham and Turkey Supper will
served at the Chester Gap Fire
dal) Saturday, May 17 starting at; 3 p.m. DST. Benefit of the Fire! Company.
55 Benefits Here
Total $57,000 Mo.
A record S57.000 in monthly social security benefits was being paid to residents of Rappahannock County at the end of December 1968, an increase of three percent above the amount payable at the end of February 1968, according to Mrs. Hazel F. Crumpton, district manager for social security.
“Throughout the country, monthly benefits payable at the end of 1968 amounted to nearly S2.1 billion, some S350 million higher than at the end of 1967," Mrs. Crumpton continued. “Approximately three-quarters of the increased monthly amount resulted from higher benefit rates authorized by the 1967
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