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Mrs. J. L. Walter and Mrs. Julia Curtis were guests from Sunday until Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. Will Stevenson in Marshall.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Latham were in Blacksburg Sunday to accompany their son Cliff who entered V.P.I. He had previously attended Shenandoah College, Winchester. Enroute home they visited Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Johnston and daughter Connie at Huddleston.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ellis of Springfield were guests for the weekend of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Jolliffe. Their guests Sunday afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Utz of Catalpa.
Mrs. Ethel Cooksey was a dinner guest Sunday of the Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Walker and family in Culpeper and accompanied them to Bridgewater in the afternoon to take their son Philip who is a junior at Bridgewater College.
Dinner guests Monday night of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Compton were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Willoughby of Unionville.
Miss Jean Hume of Orlean was a weekend guest of Miss Betsy Williams at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Williams.
Guests for dinner Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie J. Hitt were Mr. and Mrs. Neil Weibel and children of Manassas Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sutphin of Culpeper were visitors Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Priest. In the evening the Priests and their children Robert and Lisa were callers of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Green in Warrenton. Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Priest were in Winchester where she had medical attention for her broken leg.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Settle and children attended the Ford family reunion held Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Yancey Ford in Madison.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Settle spent Sunday in Cumberland, Md. where they visited her father, who returned here with them.
Highway Dept.
Holds Open House
Local citizens can get a firsthand, inside look at Virginia’s Highway Department operations when the Culpeper district holds open house from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Monday, September 22.
The district engineer, D. B. Hope, announced plans today for the event, to which school pupils and the general public are invited.
“Virginia is engaged in the largest road-building program in its history, and we believe that this is an appropriate time to give citizens an opportunity which many of them have not had before to visit a highway office complex,” he said.
The district engineer noted that the open house will be held in connection with the ninth observance of National Highway Week.
Visitors at the district office will tour the facilities, seeing such major operations as drafting rooms where detailed plans are prepared, shops where highway signs are made, and the laboratories where soils and materials used in construction and maintenance work are tested.
In addition, the visitors will get an early preview of the district’s fleet of snow removal equipment, including huge plows, “drift busters” and snow blowers. I'he equipment is being readied for the coming winter.
Other highway equipment will also be on display.
In addition, maps and photographs will be shown outlining local projects being undertaken and planned as part of Virginia’s nine-year highway improvement program, for which the 1966 General Assembly provided additional revenue.
Construction now under way in the district totals $86,277,683.17 in contract value.
Visitors at the district headquarters, located in Culpeper on Orange Road (Route 15 South), will have an opportunity to meet personally the district’s officials, and will be given a State highway map and informational pamphlets on the construction program
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