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The commentary on NBC Channel 4 Tuesday evening by William (Bill) Monroe was about the Town of Washington, Va. Mr. Monroe is a Rappahannock landowner and subscriber of the Rappahannock News.
THIS is Bill Monroe on the NBC Radio Network with comment on the news.
The federal Government, facing a 70-billion-dollar deficit, and New York City, on the edge of bankruptcy, could both learn a thing or two from a place called Little Washington. Officially it’s the Town of Washington in the Virginia countryside about 60 miles west of the nation’s capital, a hamlet of 190 souls in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
According to the latest edition of the weekly Rappahannock News, the Town of Washington is highly solvent. The town council has set a tentative budget for next year of nine thousand, 157 dollars —about the same as last year. The spending items range from a high of 13-hundred and fifty dollars for trash and street cleaning to a low of 25 dollars for phone calls on official business.
Salaries, as in New York, take a big whack out of the budget: 11-hundred dollars altogether. Mayor Peter Kramer, a cabinet maker by trade, gets paid 10 dollars a month, and members of the town council get five dollars. But they have to reckon with a Catch 22 that often saves the
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