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According to a nationwide study of income and its distribution, Rappahannock County has more of its families in the middle and upper brackets and fewer in the lower brackets than ever before.
Locally, there has been a progressive shift upward, with families advancing from one income level to the next higher one.
Many of those who were in the $8,000 to $10,000 group a year or two ago are now to be found in the $10,000-and-over spot. Their former positions, in turn, have been taken over by families who had been in the $5,000 to $8,000 category.
The facts and figures are revealed in a copyrighted report prepared by Sales Management, the marketing publication.
The purpose was to obtain a better financial picture of localities across the country than could be gained solely from the usual “average income” figures.
Does that average income apply to a large portion of the population or does it represent a small proportion of high-income families counterbalancing a larger proportion with small earnings?
In Rappahannock County, the report shows, 40.0 percent of the household had $5,000 or more in disposable cash remaining from their incomes after paying their personal taxes.
By way of comparison, the proportion three years ago, when a similar study was made, was only 31.6 percent.
The gain, 8.4 percent, topped the United States rise of 6.1 percent and that in the South Atlantic States, 6.7 percent.
Because the survey takes into account only cash income, it does not do full justice to farm communities, where
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