Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.

Page 12 · column 1 of 4 · from the scan, no model involved

The clipping this text was read from
The clipping this text was read from

From Page 1 and you can’t buy your beef and apples as cheap as you used to because you can’t get them locally, he said.

Rappahannock County must spend $1.35 per pupil per day, according to the state formula, Masterson said. If the state had used the $60 million figure for “true market value” instead of $90 million, that $1.35 figure would decrease to $1.05.

But that’s still more than other rural counties of comparable size are paying, George Davis pointed out. He read from a list compiled by the State Board of Education. Nelson County, which is also a small, rural mountain county, spends $.77 per pupil per day, nearly half of what Rappahannock pays. But Nelson County has twice Rappahannock’s school age population, total population, personal income and retail sales.

RAPPAHANNOCK has 1,163 students in school, a population of 5,200, personal income of $10,294,020, retail sales of $2,823,849 and “true market value” of $90,443,000. Nelson County

95.8%