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More Spent Locally
For Services
Some idea of the amount of noney being spent In lappahannock County for sssential services comes from Igures recently released by the (ovemment, covering 23 local wtablishments. They show that the outlays in his direction have zoomed ipward since 1963. The cost of virtually every kind of lervice-from haircuts to auto ’epairs and from laundry bills to loctors fees-has increased tremendously since then and is itill on the rise. Not that the local increases are sut of line with those in other parts of the country. Some examples of the changes that have taken place in a period of four /ears in the United States are given by the Department of Labor. It reports that parking fees have gone up 18 percent, transportation costs, 26 percent, house painting, 40 percent, furnace repair, 35 percent, and physicians fees, 30 percent. Just how much Rappahannock County’s service businesses have grown, in terms of gross receipts, is revealed in the latest survey of these industries, made by the Department of Commerce. It is the first such study in four years.
Locally, the amount spent for the group of services covered in the survey reached a total of $310,000, as against a total in 1963 of $265,000.
This was some 17 percent more than was spent in the local area when the earlier survey was made.
The outlay for such services was equivalent to $221 per household, well above the amount spent previously.
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