Rappahannock News, March 20, 1980

bicuMD 19., va. 23#!1<j W PAID CIRCULATION * NOW 2,568 RAPPAHANNOCK HOUSEHOLDS 2,101 8A1PUB 31st YEAR, No. 12 The County Family Newspaper Founded 1877 % USPS 45558C 12 Page* THURSDAY, MARCH 20,1980 Washington, Virginia Phone 675-3349 2/>* SRA Scores Continue Upward Climb in 79-80 4th, 11th Improvement Greatest By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rappahannock New* Staff Writer According to results from the 1979-80 Science Research Associates (SRA) Achievement Tests and the Short Test of Educational Ability, both administered nationwide, Rappahannock students continue to show improvement in academic ability and performance. Reflecting statewide trends, the most significant improvement comes at the fourth grade level. County eighth graders also show higher scores in reading as have eighth graders throughout the state but this class has not paralleled the similar improvement in mathematics demonstrated by other Virginia eighth graders over the past five years. Statewide, 11th grade scores on achievement tests have remained relatively stable over the past few years. In Rappahannock however, this year’s 11th grade class scored significantly higher than did its counterpart four years ago. The SRA tests administered here last fall relate the performance of Rappahannock students with fourth, eighth and eleventh graders in school divisions throughout the state as well as with the national norm. The 50th percentile, or national norm, is the point above which half the students in the national sample scored and below which half the same group scored. Statewide, Virginia’s fourth graders scored well above the national average in all areas—reading, language arts, math, social studies and . science. Virginia’s eighth and eleventh graders ranked slightly below national norms. Ability Vs. Achievement As they have in the past four years, Rappahannock students have achieved beyond their ability level as measured by the SRA and STEA tests. Rappahannock’s fourth graders ranked at the 49th percentile level this year, based on the ability test, yet scored higher in achievement tests: 57th percentile in reading, 56th in language arts, 52nd in math concepts, 49th in math computations, 51st in math totals, 53rd in social studies and 51st in science. On the STEA tests for 1975-76, fourth graders here scored just five points lower on ability level, ranking in Board Considers In-School Suspension By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rappahannock New* Staff Writer For , years, the Rappahannock school board has railed against mandates handed down from Richmond for' expensive special education programs that must be funded primarily with local money. At last Tuesday’s meeting, the school board learned of federal dollars available for an in-school suspension program that will meet state guidelines for alternative education, one of the newer requirements set by the General Assembly. Dave Moore, county representative on the Rappahannock-Rapidan Criminal Justice Advisory Business For Fire Assoc. An important meeting of the Rappahannock County Fire and Rescue Association will be held Friday evening, March 21 at Sperryville fire hall. This is an extremely important meeting at which matters of vital concern to all departments will be discussed. Representatives of each company are urged to attend and participate. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. Council, reported that the council wanted to apply for grant money to begin an inschool supsension program in Rappahannock. He explained that the school board must sanction the project before It can be submitted for funding. Approximately $1 million will be available statewide from the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration funneled through the Division of Juvenile Crime Prevention in Richmond, depending on the federal budget. In-school suspension is considered to be an effective deterant to juvenile crime in that such programs keep youngsters in class and off the streets, Moore explained. Orange County has in-school suspension, also funded by a grant from DJCP and, has been the case in other areas with similar programs, school drop-out rate has significantly decreased, he said. Moore questioned the logic of punishing disruptive student behavior by suspending youngsters from school, describing suspension as a “reward” that is often sought by students. "If a kid skips school, how do you punish him? Do you suspend him and allow him to skip school for two weeks?” Moore asked. With an in-school suspension program, students are kept in an isolated setting, away from their fellow classmates, They are. under constant supervision of a special instructor who overseees their work on assignments provided by the regular class room teacher Moore explained. Students being punished with inschool suspension may also receive counseling aimed at solving discipline problems, Moore added. Noting that state aid to education is partially determined by average daily attendance figures, Moore said an in-school suspension program could provide side benefits by raising the amount on money Rappahannock receives. He told the board that a decision on applying for a grant must be made within the month in order for the project to be considered for funding in time to begin in the 1980-81 school year. The grant application can include rental costs of a modular unit to house the program. If a federally funded inschool suspension program is set up, chairman Beverly .Massie asked, will there be any leeway in using the teacher? For instance, said Mrs. Massie, at the beginning of the term when there (Continued on Page 12) —B ipf»h«nnnrt Wm PkWDiphu Hmthm TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH will soon echo with beautiful music from the new Scarborough organ that was delivered last Wednesday by the Gordon Keller Music Company of Alexandria. The organ was purchased with memorial funds after the church’s old Hammond developed electrical problems. A special recital k planned as soon as Trinity’s organist has had time to become familiar with the new instrument. i the 44th percentile, the same slot they occupied last year. Their scores on reading and math achievement tests, however, have improved by a much wider margin than scores on ability tests. In 1975-76, fourth graders ranked in the 46th percentile on reading, 52nd in language, 46th in math concepts, 43rd in math computation 38th in math totals, 49th in social studies and 51st in science. The gap in ability versus achievement shows up also in some sections of the eleventh grade scores. Rappahannock’s 1979-80 juniors ranked in the 39th percentile nationwide on ability tests, three points behind the state average of 42. On achievement tests, the same eleventh graders scored in the 47th percentile in reading* 38th in language, 35th in math totals, 45th in social studies and 33rd in science. While scores for eleventh graders statewide have remained relatively unchanged in the past four years, significant progress has been made by Rappahannock students. In 1975-76, eleventh graders here ranked in the 29th percentile based on ability, 26th percentile in reading achievement, 25th in language, 23vd, in math t^tal*. 34th in social sttidies and 26th in science. Eighth graders statewide have shown a slight improvement in mathematics and language during the past five years, going from the 41st percentile in 1974-75 to 49th percentile in math and the 45th percentile in language in 1979-80. The (Continued on Page 12) —Rippahnwoefc Nrwi Phow/Paphnt Huriim FLORENCE WILLIAMSON put her legendary green thumb to work, adding several shovels of dirt at the tree planting ceremony held in Monday morning’s Arbor Day drizzle at Trinity Episcopal Church in Washington. The tree, a dogwood, was planted by the Rappahannock Garden Club in memory of Mrs. E. N. Montague. $9000 Trans fer Approved School Funds Authority Is Returned To Superintendent By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rappakaiuork Nmi Suff Writer Earlier this year, the school board revoked superintendent William Bloomer's^ authority to transfer funds between line items and categories within the school budget. Last Tuesday, after over an hour of wrestling with deficits in funds for attorney’s fees, teacher conferences, maintenance, text books and gasoline, the board voted unanimously to let the superintendent resume transfering money within a specific category without prior approval. During the budget update, Bloomer reported that 4fuboard had overspent contracted services and expenses in the administrative category by S314, a line item budget at $3,000 for 1979-80. This line covers costs of the school board’s attorney and is budgeted at $6,000 in the recommended 1980-81 budget. With the exception of payments related to the School Trustee Electoral R CHS Track Turned Over To School Henry Hudson, in* vestigator of the Panther Athletic League’s fund drive to build a high school track, formally turned over the finished product to the school board at the March 11 meeting. Money raising efforts, sparked . by Hudson of Washington and C. E. Johnson, Jr. of Sperryville, began three years ago. Over 140 people have since donated to the cause, some anonymously. C. W. Fannon, Jr., of Castleton, sponsored a benefit polo match that Talent Show Sat., March 22 Area young people are invited to participate in the annual talent show sponsored by Amissville Ruritan Club and scheduled for this Saturday, March 22. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. at Rappahnnock County High School. Students of Rappahannock and surrounding counties are urged to enter the show and compete for the cash prizes offered. Following the talent show the Bridgewater College Stage Band will entertain for about an hour presenting pop tunes and big band music. The band consists of 35 pieces plus a vocalist. This college band performed here last year and was enthusiastically accepted by the audience which described it as fantastic, wonderful and outstanding, plus many othert plaudits. Popular demand brings the musicians back for a return engagement. An admission to cover expenses will be charged. netted approximately Sl.UUU. Students, as well as adult volunteers, gave their services, selling PAL stickers and tickets to the polo game. Youngsters also helped in benefit jog-a-thons, ball games and by selling food and drink at the annual 4th of July celebration in Washington. According to PAL, the fund drive has been a county project with everybody pitching in. The Farm Bureau, Rappahannock Lions Club, Macedonia Baptjst Church and Promised Land Baptist a|i made contributions. .Donations, including interest, tbfsjcd' $10,080. Funds have been spent primarily for bulldozing, grading and surfacing, leaving a Daiance ot »o //, according to Hudson. PAL’s track committee gave special recognition to C.N. Aldrich of Rock Mills who spent days and weeks with his tractor clearing the forest from the proposed track site. He then served as advisor on grading and drainage. In recognition of his volunteer assistance, PAL proposed the track be named Aldrich Field. “If he hadn’t worked on it, it wouldn't be there at all,” Henry Hudson told the school board members. PAL’s track committee also expressed hope that the - tnfield of the track will be used for soccer, a relatively inexpensive sport for small schools to participate in and (Continued on Page 2) Fabulous Fashion Show Sunday Fabulous fashions will be shown at the annual fashion show sponsored by the Rappahannock Woman’s Club and scheduled for Sunday, March 23 at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of Rappahannock Elementary School. To be seen on the runway will be models Lee Baines, Justin Ferrence, Joanna McDaniel and Katherine Krebser in the small fry department; young people include Eric Bear, Sharon Settle and Tony Davis while adults are Jane Batchelder, Dawn Fisher, Ti Hoare, Jane Krebser, Dot Mank, Linda McDaniel, Sarah Roach, Marsha Thompson, Toni Updike, Peter Luke, Guy Foster, Jr., William Moffett III, Edward Sharp, Bradford Fisher and Roger Torneden. Phil Irwin of Flint Hill will emcee the show, assisted by the club president, Lynne Baines. The show theme ' is Paris in Springtime and Nancy Reeve and Mary Schumaker are co-chairmen for the performance. Tea will be served under the direction of Joyce Andrews and Margaret Baumgardner. The decorations committee is Sharon Ferrence and Nancy Ryan while Delores Dalton and Julie Konick were in charge of models. Pat Giles and Louise Ellis handled the programs and publicity was in the hands of Linda McDaniel, Barbara O’Byrne and Betty Settle. Door prizes will be given and fashions are from Peebles Department Store in V'vrenton. Board and cost of membership in state and national school board associations, the duly funds- expended from Ibis category hi the current year have been for legal fees, according to Bloomer. “We can pull 5480” from the line item for payment to school board members, Bloomer said. "Next month. we’ll have to pull it from somewhere else,” he said, indicating that further legal bills are expected from the school board’s sttonsey during the current budgrt ye"- \ \ No CoafereaoM Bloomer reported that the (Continued on Page 3) MMM A. D. GOODSON Rev. Goodson Heads Religious Event The Rev. Mr. Anderson D. Goodson will be visiting the Rappahannock Charge of the United Methodist Church on March 23*27 where he will be the speaker for services in the PROCLAIM THE WORD event. Mr. Goodson is presently serving as pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Hampton. Having graduated in the public schools of West Virginia, he attended West Virginia Institute of Technology, earning a B.S. Degree in Industrial Arts. He then completed two years of graduate degree requirements in the field of religion from the University of Virginia and four summer school sessions in Supply Pastors’ School at Duke University. Mr. Goodson taught for five years before entering the ministry. His ministerial service includes being chaplain at the Miller School in Albermarle and associate pastor at First United Methodist Church in Charlottesville. He is a former pastor of the Rappahannock Charge, the Nelson Circuit, and churches in Clarksville. Lawrenceville and Front Royal as well .as serving on district and conference boards. Mr. Goodson is married to the former Betty Lee Fisher and they have one daughter who is now married and one grandchild. The PROCLAIM THE WORD, five day schedule is as follows: Sunday, March 23Worship services at 10:00 a.m. Willis Chapel and 11:15 a.m. Flint Hill. Sermon: “How’s It Going” covered dish reception at 6:30 p.m. at the Flint Hill fire hall. Monday, March 24Worship service 7:30 p.m. at Sperryville. Sermon-“The Second Touch”. Tuesday, March 25Covered dish supper 6:30 p.m. at Willis Chapel with a worship service to follow. Sermon: “The Parable of the Three Prodigals”. Wednesday, March 26Worship service 7:30 p.m. at Flint Hill. Sermon-“The Man Who Went Away”. Thursday, March 27Covered dish supper 6:30 p.m. at Sperryville with worship service to follow. Sermon-“Prediction-Bad Weather”.

R CHS Fields Biggest Track Team Ever By JOE McCULLOCGH RappahuiMck Nfw* Sport* Writer Boys track is just over the hill and coach * Michael Kimble and his squad are prepared for the season to begin. Coach Kimble looks upon this year as one of rebuilding. He feels, however, that chances are good for his boys to place high in Skyline District if the team develops a good attitude. “We have the ability to win most of the events but we also need to focus on placing second and third along with first,” he said. The varsity squad is young and lacks depth, but, even though the roster could use a few more names, this year’s team is the largest ever put together for boys track at RCHS. The Panthers’ biggest weakness is inexperience. Kimble has only five competitors returning from last year and he’s had to pull up all freshmen and sophomore boys to varsity, leaving the JV with all Beasties. The Panthers’ strong events are the high jump and the 440 in which RCHS will be represented by Chris Foster, who is expected to have a chance at winning the district championship in both events. Robert Pendleton and talented first year runner Ray "Flash” Prudhum will compete in the long jump and the 100, 200 and 800 meter relays. Don Dourghty and Ronnie Jenkins will add strength in the distance events and Paul Keithley should provide the winning margin in the hurdles. Last year, an unfortunate spill cost Keithley what looked like a sure win in the district meet. Freshman Downing McCoy shows great promise in the pole vault, an event in which RCHS has not usually done well. For the JV team, Craig Kenyon and Scott Keithley are expected to do well in distance races as are Eugene Grigsby and Harrison Hughes in the high jump and Kevin Harrison in the 440 and mile relay. ++++ All of us when well give good advice to the sick. —Terence fiappaljannock £fetoa Rappahannock & Adjoining Counties per year $6 00 Elsewhere in the U S. per year $7.50 Outside the U S per year $6.00 plus postage SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL ALL PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ( )New ( (Renewal ( (Check Enclosed NAME _ ADDRESS_:_ CITY __ STATE _ ZIP Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Warrenton. Va. The Rappahannock News is published every Thursday at 39 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, Va.. by The Warrenton Printing and Publishing Co . P O. Box 631, Warrenton. Va. 22106 NOTICE Th* Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County has received and forwarded to the Planning Commission an application for establishment of an Agricultural and Forestal District in the Piedmont Magisterial District of Rappahannock County, Virginia. The application is made pursuant to Charter 26, Section 15.1-1509 of the Coda of Virginia, 1950, as amended. Pursuant to Section 15.1-1511 of the Coda of Virginia, notice is hereby given of the following: (I) The aforesaid proposal is on Hie and open to the public inspection in the office of the Clark of the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors. (ii) Any municipality whose territory ancompasses or is part of the proposed district may propose a modification in any form deemed appropriate by such municipality. (Hi) Any such modification must be filed with the local planning commission within thirty (30) days of the filing of the original proposal. (hr) (a) The proposed district includes an lands intended to be included in the district and no further proposals by the owners desiring such dtetrict wttl be considered at the time of such application. (b) Any owner included in the proposal may withdraw his land, in whole or in part, at any time until the local governing body makes a final decision as to the constitution of the district. (c) Additional, qualifying lands may be added to this district after its creation upon separate application pursuant to Chapter 36 of the code at any time following such creation. (v) At the termination of a 30-day period from the data of the filing of said application, the proposal and proposed modifications will be submitted to the Board of Supervisors and the advisory committee. Thereafter a public hearing will be held on the proposal and wty proposed modifications. H. S. 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Proceeds will be used for school and community activities. Fatal Intersection Gets More Attention Confronted by the supervisors on the continuing danger of the intersection of Rts. 17 and 28 at Bealeton, the local representative of the state Department of Highways and Transportation said March 13 that new safety steps will be taken there. Don Askew, resident engineer with the highway department, told the supervisors that new blinking lights will be placed on caution and stop signs on Rt 28. He said cutting grooves in the Rt. 28 pavement was also authorized but would not be done immediately. Two weeks ago a car and tractor trailer collided, resulting in the latest of a series of fatal accidents at the intersection. Supervisor Samuel Butler of Lee District asked Askew if a stoplight might be appropriate. “1 hate to keep bringing it up...but something has to be done.” Askew noted that Rt. 28 already has reduced-speedahead signs, stop-ahead signs, flashing lights, caution signs painted on the roadway and stop signs. Oatlands Opens For Season The 12th annual Loudoun County Day March 30 will open the 1980 visitor season at Oatlands, near Leesburg. Oatlands, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is an 1805 Greek Revival mansion with extensive formal gardens, built on 261 acres by George Carter. This year’s opening celebration has a varied program designed to appeal to a wide variety of interests. Bluemont Morris will present traditional English Morris dancing, with accompanying music. Equestrian activities will include Grand Prix dressage demonstrations, a mounted drill team performance, carriage driving, and renowned Clydesdales drawing a Civil War era wagon. The Washington Blue Rifles and the Ninth Virginia Cavalry, units of the NorthSouth Skirmish Association, will stage a shooting competition using authentic Civil War muskets. The winning team will shoot against Loudoun County’s crack police marksmen. There will be a display of farm animals and a greased pig contest. Oatlands House and Gardens, Mountain Gap School and Oatlands Historic District will also be open for tours. Food will be provided by local service organizations. The gates will open at 12:45 p.m.. with events and tours scheduled between 1 and 5 p.m. Admission is free for Loudoun County residents. For non-residents, admission is $2 for adults. SI.25 for senior adults and students, free for children under six. There is a separate fee of 50 cents for the gardens. Oatlands is located six miles north of Gilbert’s Comer from Rt. 50 on Rt. 15. For more information, contact Nicole Sours at Oatlands, Route 2, Box 352, Leesburg, Virginia 22075, (703) 777-3174, or the Loudoun Museum, 16 West Loudoun Street, Leesburg, Virginia 22075, (703) 7777427. ++H—F Greater London’s parks consist of some 40,000 acres of green still preserved within the modem metropolis. Out dally outlook is often a result of what we look out upon. Plant a flower garden and start your day with a smile. The anticipation alone will put a spring tot your step. Now is the time for pruning grapes and roses for a high quality yield. C. Norton Horticulturist LftndKaptng And Yard Maintenance 636*9668 after dark ^_>JX. PUBLIC HEARING In accordance with Section 33.1-70-01 of the Code of Virginia, the Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County will hold a public hearing to consider the Secondary Improvement Program for FY 1980-1981 to be held at the regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors on April 3, 1980, at 10:00 A.M. at the Rappahannock County Courthouse, Washington, Virginia. Citizens of Rappahannock County sue invited to be present to make their comments for FY 1980-81. Teste: Diane Bruce, Clerk Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors Track Ready For Runners (Continued from Page 1) one which is rapidly gaining popularity in the county. On behalf of the school board, chairman Beverly Massie accepted the track with gratitude, complimenting the efforts of everyone involved in the fund drive. Costs Of Counseling At Tuesday’s meeting, it was brought to the attention of the school board that parents of students suspended under the new drug and alcohol policy are required to pay for counseling mandated by the board. In each recent discipline case, students have been required to attend drug or alcohol counseling at the county Mental Health Clinic with one parent as a condition for re-instatement in school. Payment for the counseling sessions is determined by a sliding scale, based on the individual's ability to pay. This can result in one parent being charged S30 an hour for counseling while another pays S10 an hour or nothing, even though the children of both have been suspended for the same offense. The board members were asked if they considered this fair and equal treatment. ‘‘There’s nothing to prohibit the board from requiring counseling,’’ superintendent William Bloomer responded, adding that he’d checked with school board attorney Phillip Stone of Harrisonburg. Payment for counseling is left up to the Mental Health Clinic, he continued. He noted that it’s the clinic’s policy to set charges based on the client’s ability to pay. The board agreed to ask clinic director James McGarvey for an explanation of the counseling fees. In addition, board member Charles Eldred proposed that the board investigate paying a flat fee or no fee at all for counseling referrals from the schools. The board also unanimously approved a project proposed by the RCHS science classes to refurbish the school’s front yard, recently damaged by vandals driving cars back and forth across the grass. Mrs. Massie volunteered the school board to pay for the necessary grass seed and commended the students for their interest. 2 Hr. Executive Session At 10 p.m., the board Trail Users Set Meetings There’s an excitement in the very word “trail” that conjures up both romantic and adventurous visions, whether it be a trail through the Chilkoot Pass, littered with the broken dreams of men who challenged the North and failed, or a quiet trail through a favorite wood lot where the gentle earth softens footsteps grown used to the city’s concrete pathways. No matter what the vision, a trail does offer an opportunity for a bit of exercise, a breath of fresh air and a restful escape from the constant grind of everyday living, say the members of the Virginia Trails Association who are holding a series of information meetings throughout the state this year. They plan to promote the use of trails; to make people aware of the trails that are available where you can bike, canoe, ride or A ftAdc Serwo» d Thi» Mwwwper MR t The Adverting Counbi S3 Bill Cosby says: “When you learn CPR, you’re ready to savelives-, anywhere!’ American RedCroe® Complete > One-Step BUILDINGJ SUPPLY g • Paint ^ • Lumber • Millwork • Hardware Warrenton Building Matarial Co., Inc. on tha By-Pass Warranted 347-1400 walk; and to develop new trails where the opportunity exists. Two of the meetings are scheduled for 7:30 p.m, March 25 at the Loudoun campus of Northern Virginia Community College and 7:45 p.m. April 10 in the Baptist Church at West and Scanlon streets, Culpeper. John Miller of Warrenton is in charge of the Culpeper meeting. A veteran hiker and backpacker, John and his wife Gail and all of the members of his family have spent many days hiking the Appalachian Trail, the Len H. Ocksen trails at Goshen and the rugged high country trails at the Philmont Scout Ranch: They have also used their summer vacations in working to improve parts of the Appalachian trail in southern Pennsylvania. The Virginia Trails Association is becoming a statewide organization with local meetings organized in the state’s Planning Districts. Currently, 17 local informational groups have been organized with only eight more left to go. President of the non-profit organization is Jeanette Fitzwilliams of Alexandria. Its purpose is threefold: to provide information about trails, to give trail users an opportunity to express opinions about trails and to provide a means of continuing communication between trail users and organizers. The officers hope that everyone directly or indirectly connected with trails and trail use will attend one of the sessions. — Loyal McMillin. retired to a two hour and 15 minute executive session. Returning to open meeting after midnight, Mrs. Massie announced that the board had: —discussed school property but had taken no action; —approved homebound instruction for an unnamed student to begin as soon as a qualified instructor is found. Instruction is not to exceed 10 hours per week at the cost of S5 per hour and must terminate by June 6; —agreed “to stand by a previous decision” in regard to a request for reinstatement in school of an unnamed student. Following discussion of several informational items, the board recessed until after the special session for public response to the proposed 1980-81 school budget set for March 18. Mrs. Massie said the board will then take up “personnel and other matters not covered tonight.” Free Recital Outstanding students from the Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music in Winchester will present a free recital at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 23, in the school’s Armstrong Auditorium. The program for the Spring Honors Recital will include voice, piano, trumpet, violin, clarinet duo and flute quartet. The public is invited to attend. H & It BLOCK WaskJagtM, Va. 675-3236 I IH.IM 2-6 Fittay 2-6 F&M Merger Approved F & M National Corporation of Winchester received notice today that the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has approved their application to acquire Massanutten Bank and Trust of Harrisonburg. Shareholders of Massanutten vote March 19th "on the merger. The affiliation calls for an exchange of 2Vj shares of F & M common stock for each share of Massanutten. Year-end deposits of Massanutten were S10.8 million and F & M deposits exceeded SI66 million. F & M operates a branch bank in Flint Hill. EGG— an egg is a thing of beauty if its a Ukranian Easter Egg. This ancient craft will be demonstrated all day Saturday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. on March 22nd and 29th. Drive out (Route 66-211 West! with the whole family and learn to make these extraordinary eggs. 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Comm. Concert Membership Open rhe membership campaign for the Community Concert Association begins today, Thursday, and continues through April 24. Heading the campaign in Rappahannock is Mrs. Paul Frantz, assisted by Mrs. George Muth and Mrs. Maurice Herndon. Previous members have been notified by letter of the campaign and anyone interested is invited to join the association as new members. Admittance to the three concerts each season is by membership only; no tickets are sold for individual performances. Members attending the concerts last season expressed delight at the series presented so far and expect equally interesting performances in the coming one. The tentative schedule this season is a fully staged and costumed production of “Naughty • Marietta” in November; Harvey Pittel on the saxophone in March 1981 and Keith and Rusty Neil who play a wide variety of instruments and feature a wide variety of songs ranging from folk to modern day music. All presentations take place in Culpeper County High School. Vehicle Runs Into River A single vehicle wreck occurred in Sperryville .Saturday, March 15 on Route 211 just west of Route 671 about 7:30 a.m. Shelby Atkins of Sperryville in a 1978 Chevrolet pickup ran off the left of the highway as he traveled west, struck a utility pole and went into the river, according to Trooper C. A. Moore. Atkins sustained a nose injury, said Moore, who added that charges are pending. Damage to the truck was estimated at $5000. r SPERRYVILLE BARBER SHOP L Located on Rt. 211 west Flint Hill Barber Shop Located in Fire Hall Now has two professionals to serve you. Ladies and mens blow ry, precision cut and style dry. Call for an appointment (styling °ny 987-8146 Flint Hill—Monday only 1-8 p.m. Sparryvilla—Tuasday & Thursdays 8:45-7 p.m. Friday 8:45-8 p.m. Saturday 8:00-5 p.m. Closed Wednesday John R. Eubank, Jr. Proprietor Annual Fashion Sho PARIS IN SPRINGTIME Sunday, March 23 at 2 p.m. Rappahannock County Elementary School sponsored by Rappahannock Woman’s Club Adults $2.50 Students $ 1.25 ^Proceeds will go to Rappanannoc* | High School and Rappahannoc(r£iistoricaPSociety REALTY WORLD- ^ Jf REALTOR mm THE “DREAM HOUSE” SYNDROME 1 here are two species ot househunter-the prag* matist and the idealist. Beware of going to extremes at either end of the financial spectrum. You can be too practical. For instance, assuming that a home in need of repair can be fixed at an overall price savings and find out that the final cost greatly exceeds the estimate...Buying a home in a neighborhood whose value is going downhill because ‘‘it’s a bargain.’’...Buying a home with fewer rooms than you really need. You may end with an unsuitable, uncomfortable home with a lower resale potential. Un the other hand, the idealist should beware of the all-too-frequent “dream house” syndrome. Sure, it's tempting to set out in quest of the absolutely perfect home, but it’s better to balance your dreams with your pocketbook. Even if you can define the perfect home (which is doubtful), you probably couldn’t afford it. Be prepared to compromise. If there is anything we can do to help you in the field of real estate, please phone or drop in at EILEEN M. DAY, REALTOR, Middle Street, Washington. Phone: 675-3400. We're here to help. THE COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION S 1980*81 membership drive will begin on March 20. Rappahannock County board members, Mrs. Paul M. Frantz, Mrs. Maurice G. Herndon and Mrs. George E. Muth, were among those attending a recent meeting at the home of Mrs. Philip S. Cox in Culpeper to help with assembling material for the workers’ kits. Manslaughter Charge Nets 6 Month Sentence James Russell Riley of Amissville was sentenced to six months in jail, fined a thousand dollars and costs of $568.20 were levied in Rappahannock County Circuit March 10 on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. The charge stemmed from the death of Roger W. Breeden, also of Amissville, who was the fatal victim of a single vehicle crash in which Riley was the operator of the vehicle. The crash occurred April 19, 1979 on Route 211 west of Amissville, and was investigated by Trooper C. A. Moore. Riley was found guilty by a jury in the court on Janury 7 of this year and Judge R. V. Snead requested a presentence report. After the report was given, the sentence was handed down when the court convened March 10. Other action in the March term of the court included the revocation of the driver’s license of Charles Mahoney of Front Royal who was cited for reckless driving and failure to stop for a police officer. Mahoney was fined S100 and assessed costs of $104.40. His operator’s ■ ; ’°””W • »•» amelomm. Sets Meeting The Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries will meet Friday, April 25, in Richmond to act on game season and bag limit proposals. The meeting will convene at 10 a.m. at the Executive Motor Hotel at 5215 West Broad Street. Flea Market Benefits Scouts The 10th Annual Flea Market sponsored by Boy Scout Troop No. 1 of Winchester, Virginia will be held from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, at the Winchester National Guard Armory. A vast assortment of “exotic antiques, memorabilia, relics, primatives, books, and plain old junk” will be offered for sale in more than 40 booths; a food concession is included. The small admission fee will be for the benefit of the troop’s High Adventure trips. Further information may be obtained from Fleamaster, James F. Swartz, 341 Shenandoah Avenue, Winchester, Virginia, Phone (703) 662-6191. TIME CLOCKS CALCULATORS Electric I Manual TYPEWRITERS FILE CABINETS $262.00 rsl^' SERVICES We SELL-RENT-OR MAKE COPIES ON BOTH COPYING MACHINES AND STENCIL DUPLICATORS W« RENT or SELL Adding Machines. TypawrHsrs ■ Desks • Chairs . Tima Clocks - Staple Guns. W<5ifQr.ry ® w!?e var'«ty of items - Art Supplies - Bibles -Social and Commercial Stationery - Pen and Pencil Sets - Desk Accessories - Greeting Cards Special Occasions - STSiSS, IS? O' Aoooom Books • FiKng SopoRi ?he™l's Suoo““ ' "*s'*00 many Culpeper Book Store 210NMAINSTCulpeper, Ve. license was suspended for 90 days. Mahoney was involved with Front Royal town police in a high speed chase from Warren County into Rappahannock, through the town of Washington on April 23, 1979 which ended on Fodderstack Road with police firing shots at Mahoney as he fled the scene on foot. Girl Scout Birthday In celebration of the birthday of Girl Scouting, Junior Troop 547 in Rappahannock joined other troops March 15 in Orange for a show and display of spinning and weaving. Troop 547 has been working on the Weaving and Basketry badge under the direction of Mrs. Elizabeth Scherschel and Miss Peg McDonnell both of Flint Hill, who have taught the girls to spin wool. Evangelistic Services The Rev. Lawson Byrd will conduct the services at Amissville United Methodist next week in conjunction with the Proclaim The Word evangelical movement in the southeast. The services will be held from Sunday, March 23 through 26th, with prayer meeting at 6:45 and evening worship at 7:30. Bible study will be conducted at 10 a.m. on the 24th and 26th. During this evangelical movement, the Rev. Ray Crockett, pastor at Amissville, will be serving at Hampton. Volunteers Sought For Study The University of Arkansas is recruiting volunteers who have had only one heart attack in the past five years to participate in a national cholesterol study. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute study is being conducted at three medical centers, including the University, to determine whether lowering blood cholesterol levels will help prevent heart attacks. A University physician explained that the study needs one thousand men and women as participants. Volunteers should have had only one heart attack during the past five years and be 25 through 64 years of age. For further information, persons may call the University of Arkansas Hyperlipidemia Study collect at (501) 661-5291. #9,000 Transferred In Budget (Continued from Page 1), line item for traveling expenses for instructional personnel was “already in the red.” Earlier in the meeting, seventh grade science teacher Lynne Baines had asked the board to transfer adrfitinnol funds to this category. She noted that teachers have missed informative conferences that could provide long range benefits to the educational program here because money was not available to pay registration fees, travel and lodging. All the money in the conference category has been spent, she said, but without having more teachers attend more conferences. “Instead, fewer have gone.” She said that in the past, the superintendent has transferred funds from other line items when the conference money ran out. Baines added that the superintendent no longer has this authority without prior school board approval. Last year’s budget allotted S800 for conferences while $1,800 was actually spent, according to Bloomer. Extra funds were transferred from the line item covering teacher salaries. (Each year, the budget is based on all current teachers returning and moving up a step on the salary scale in the new term. In fact, however, experienced teachers have left the Rappahannock school system each year to be traditionally replaced with first year teachers at the bottom of the salary scale. This swap of experience for lower salaries has resulted in a built-in budget cushion which, considering the teacher turn-over rate which last year was almost 50 per cent, can amount to thousands of dollars.) Mott Meet SOQ In defending his $1,000 transfer last year to teacher conferences, Bloomer maintained that the most appropriate place to spend money saved in teachers’ salaries is in other instructional categories in the budget. Without spending all the money budgeted in categories that fall under operation costs, Rappahannock could not meet minimum standards on per pupil expenditure set by the state in the Standards of Quality, according to the superintendent. (Under operations, the school budget is divided into categories of administration, instruction regular day school, other instructional costs, attendance and health services, transportation services, school food services, operation of school plants, maintenance of school and adult education. Nonoperational categories in which expenditures are not counted toward per pupil costs are capital outlay and debt service.) Moving on through the budget review, the board authorized transfer of $1,092 from teacher salaries to text books, $4,208 from teacher salaries to compensation of the school psychologist and Annual Dinner Hopewell Baptist Church Cemetery Association is having its annual dinner Sunday, March 23 immediately following the morning worship service, according to Ray Jackson, president. At 3 o’clock there will be a musical program. +++•+Every day about 5,000 Americans turn 65. CPAi ■VSTTlt)N0-r04UU I Inflation Buster - Blockbuster Buys • SUPER SAVINGS* Cash Discounts to Everyone r Window & Door Units 15% Glamour Tops 26% Vinyl Floor Coverings 10% Kitchen Cabinets 15% Paints, custom mixed 10% Awnings, canvas 6 Aluminum < • owners measurements Prefinished Moldings 10% Ceramic Tile 10% Carpet 10% Z Brick 10% Storm Windows & Doors 10% • owr . measurements 302 S. East St, Culpeper 825-17S5 $25 from sewage disposal to contracted maintenance services. Bloomer reported that $1,000 wasx required to cover deficits in operation of service vehicles, the line item under transportation that pays for the unleaded gas in school cars, including behicles assigned to the administration. In the - current budget, $500 was allocated for this line item. “This fuel thing is going to be a problem with the budget throughout the year,” interjed board member Charles Eldred. “Where are we going to pick up $1,000 from?” asked Robert Eastham. “To be perfectly honest, I’m, not sure,” Bloomer replied. Ballet Exercise Transfering money back and forth within the budget “is going to become an exercise in ballet before the year’s out,” Eastham responded. In the past, said Bloomer, the administration has transferred funds when needed throughout the year, moving money between categories as adjustments were within the operational portion of the budget and didn’t exceed the total allocated for operations by the board of supervisors. Without his retaining authority to re-allocate funds as necessary within the operational budget. Bloomer predicted that the board will have to spend befween $70,000 and $90,000 at its year-end “pay-out” meeting in order to meet per pupil expenditures set by the state. Board chairman Beverly Massie agreed that the superintendent should have authority to transfer funds between line items in a category but not BETWEEN categories without prior approval from the board. In the event of transfers within a category, the board should be informed of the action as its next meeting, Mrs. Massie added. Transfers from one category to another should continue to require prior board authorization, she said. . * “When this budget was put to bed, it wasn’t put to bed properly,” Eastham said. He described a budget as “a control mechanism for expenditures” and maintained that allocations for line items must be accurate, must meet realistic needs. Eastham emphasized that he wasn’t arguing with the amount of money set aside for specific line items, that he just wanted allocations to be accurate. Transferring of funds back and forth shouldn’t happen, he said. In preparing future budgets, he maintained, the school board should base allocations on realistic needs and then should hold the administration to the amount budgetd for line items. By developing a realistic budget, Mrs. Massie said, the school board can avoid having to pay out large sums of money at its final meeting of the fiscal year. The only money that will have to be spent at the pay-out meeting, she said, should be extra sales tax revenue and reimbursement from the state that the board hadn’t expected to receive. These funds could continue to be used, as they have in past years, for maintenance projects, Mrs. Massie added. Eldred disagreed with the school board’s past policy toward maintenance projects. “Maintenance is so basic, it should be a top priority and not funded with left-over money, if there is any, at the end of the year,” he maintained. $9,300 From Salaries The board approved two additional transfers of funds from one category to another—$1,000 for unleaded gas for services vehicles and $2,000 for school maintenance, both to be taken from teachers salaries. The amount approved for transfer from teachers’ salaries at the March 11 meeting totaled approximately $9,300. After voting to approve the transfer, the board unanimously returned the superintendent’s authority to move funds from line item to line item within a category. In the future, payrolls and warrants approved each month by the board will give the line item and category that the budget expenditure is charged to and will show all inter-category transfers. Transfers from category to category in the budget will continue to require prior school board approval. PUBLIC NOTICE RED OAK MOUNTAIN Rappahannock County Meadow around fire tower is permanently dosed to vehides because of damage to turf. Red Oak Orchard apple and peach, sales open as usual during summer* autumn fruit season. lady'* Carpet Sales & Service —Two Locations— Route 211, Amissville. Va. Phone 937-5111 502 N. Main Street Culoeoer. Va. Phone 825-8232 1U-, ROUTE-211—AMISSVILLE *l,i > ->( i" ‘ " •* Keep furnishings in good-condition -el-home Soiled parchment .shades are easily cleaned with a wallpaper cleaner. Grease spots come off of wallpaper with a paste made of com starch and water. Let the paste remain on the spot until it is dry, then brush it off. If this does not work, try the same method with a paste of fuller's earth and carbon tetrachloride. Iron cotton and linen drapes on the right side with a hot iron. Press rayon on the wrong side with a warm iron. Rehang non-iron fabrics when they are still slightly damp so they can be shaped into place by hand. The best thing to keep at hand to keep your home decor up to par is EARLY'S CARPETS, Route 211, Amissville, 937S111, and 502 N. Main St., Culpeper, 825-8232. For the decorating ideas, products and advise that will keep your decor in style, your enjoyment and pleasure aroused and your budget in tact, come in to EARLY’S CARPETS today. We are your one-stop decorating center with all installation work done by our trained people. Open both stores 9-6 Mon.-Fri., 9-5 Sat BankAmericard accepted. HANDY HINT: Remove chewing gum from fabric by scraping it off after it has been chilled with a piece of ice. HttAMSaftfll 502 N. MAIN ST.-CULPEPER GARDEN SHOP | Located in Ye Ole General Store '* Route 211 - Amissville NOW OPEN 9 to 5 Daily Complete Line Of Lawn and Garden Supplies Loom and Packaged Wetsel's Seeds - Fertilisers Lawn Mowers - Wheel Barrows - Garden Took - Seeders and Spreaders - Grass Seed - Peat Moes * Pine Bark Hanging Baskets • Plants in Season -OPENING SPECIALS — Agrico Fertilizer 40 lb. bag Only $3.19 5-10-5 For Garden or Lawn Round Point or Square SHOVELS Special at $5.95 Seed Potatoes 50 lb. $5.80 Also Onion Sets I YE OLE GENERAL STORE Amissville Phone 937-4655

A ftamtafaamuicfe Neujh An tadspendtnt Natnoaoer EstatftshM 1077 PubfcS**CI Ev»ry Thur*»*y ARTHUR W ARUNDEL Publisher SARAH C LATHAM. Executive Editor DAPHNE I HUTCHINSON. News Editor JOHN T TOLER. General Manager CATHERINE C DYSON. Design Editor To Subacribo Writ* or Phono Washington, Va. 675-3349 BY MAIL: $6A0 • year in Rappahannock and adjoining countioa: S7.50a yoar olsawhore in tha Unit ad Statas BACK COPIES: One month to 3 years, 75 cents each, over 3 years. $3 each OFFICE: Rappahannock News Bldg . Washington. Va 22747 HOURS: 8 30 a m to 5 30 p m . Mon -Fn Published by Warrenton Pnnting & Publishrng Company. Inc Member. Audit Bureau of Circulation THURSDAY, MARCH 20.1080 Combine Jobs In the interests of efficiency and cost, the board of supervisors should consider combining the positions of building inspector and zoning administrator into a single job. As h stands now, we have a zoning administrator who works one day a week. A primary portion of his responsibilities is the issuance of building permit, an average of three a week. Once the county hires the building inspector mandated by the Virginia Code, that individual is charged with issuance of building permits, according to state law. There goes a major part of the zoning administrator’s duties. Hie administrator is also responsible for seeing that land is used in accordance with zoning ordinances. Generally, the administrator goes out to check new construction for compliance with regulations only if there’s a request or complaint from an adjoining property owner. For this reason, violation of county ordinances-as in the cases of set-back distance from the highway on Levi Atkins’ house and distance from the side property line on P. E. Steve DeMent’s Sperryville antique addition-aren’t discovered until structure are already built. Then the county is in the untenable position erf having to tell a property owner to tear down his or her house and rebuild it in a spot, say 15 feet away, in order to conform a local regulations. What judge is going to uphold an order like that? But then, on the other hand, why have the laws if they’re not enforced? In addition to outright violation of county ordinances, structures are being built that do not comply with data on building permits. For instance a permit is issued for an addition to an existing shed with estimated construction costs of $1800. Then a tremendous building goes up with a roof alone that would cost almost that much. The zoning administrator can be ordered to check all new construction and additions but this will entail duplication of effort, once the building official is on the job. The building inspector will be required to make four inspections of new construction. The first, at the foundation stage when footings are poured, is early enough to catch any violations, such as failure to abide by setback regulations. When construction is still in the ditch digging stage, h doesn’t work a significant hardship on the property owner to revise building plans so that they conform with county codes. Or the land owner can request a variance from the board of toning appeals without presenting them with a fait acompli—foundation dug, walls up and roof on. Then the board can evaluate the merits of the variance request without the undue pressure of knowing that a house must be torn down and rebuilt if the county’s ordinances are to be enforced. Considering efficiency, it makes sense to have the building inspector check for compliance with the zoning ordinance regulations when he or she first visits a new construction site. After all, it’s the building inspector who must ensure that zoning ordinance requirements are met when a permit is issued. The inspector must either check for himself or take the zoning administrator’s word for it. Combining the two jobs into one will mean having one office, one telephone, one secretary. In effect, it will put a combination zoning administrator building inspector in on the job three days a week instead of giving county residents a one-day-a-week administrator and a two-day-a-week inspector. Finally combining the jobs will mean combining salaries. At current pay levels, this would give the building official/zoning administrator a salary of approximately $10,000. Offering that kind of money for a three or possible even four-day-a-week position, the county may attract a highly qualified applicant. Common sense tells us it’s the right direction in which to move. We hope the supervisors will give consideration to combining the two positions between now and July when the inspector begins work. This was The News... in Bygone Rappahannock Times. 30 YEARS AGO Sheriff James LUlard was investigating the theft of meat from the meathouse of Mrs. James Cropp in Amissville. Five hams and two shoulders were missing. Mrs. George H. Davis entertained the Canasta Chib at her home in Washington March 11 and Mrs. J. W. Price entertained with bridge and canasta March 8. Fire warden Raymond Johnson presented a film for the high school boys who belong to the Forest Fire Fighters organization. 15YEARSAGO Flint H31 Ladies Auxiliary entertained the firemen and guests at the annnal banquet. H. S. Barksdale was emcee and entertainment was provided by the Barracudas, a local musical group composed of Wayne Sutphin, Patrick Foster, Jody Sutphin, John Moore and Cecil Pullen. Tom Frost of Warren ton was seeking his eighth term in the Virginia General Assembly, representing Rappahannock, Fauquier and Warren counties. Butch Browning, son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Browning of Flint H31, was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study. He was ooe of the ten students at the University of Virginia who were selected. 10 YEARS AGO v William H. Durden of Sperryville received a bronze star medal with V device for heroism in Vietnam. He was with the 25th Infantry Division of the U. S. Army. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Edwards at Castleton was completely destroyed by fire and the family of five had only the clothes which they wore. Top selling bulls in the Dublin »nH Culpeper Performance Test Sales were owned by C. E. Johnson, Jr. and Ray T. Cannon. Beverly and Judy Atkins and Kenny Gochenour were participants in a high school talent show with a 1920’s act. Also in the show, taking home the blue ribbon, were Bradford Beebe, Michael Parker, Kinsey Wharton and Janies Swain with their instrumental renditions. 5 YEARS AGO Mrs. Dora May Worley, 38, died at her home near Sperryville when she was electrocuted while helping her husband erect a TV antenna. The metal antenna pole came in contact with a high tension wire. Heavy rainfall closed schools early as every river and stream became torrential and overflowed their banks. . Rappahannock supervisors were involved at the March meeting with animal claims, sheep and chickens. Morton Bacon of the state taxation department, with a reassessment board composed of Mrs. Helen Kilby, Charlie Compton, Walter Masterson, H. S. Barksdale and Robert Anderson, completed the reassessment. Mrs. Gordon Lindenblad and children of Chesterfield, Mo., arrived to spend some time with the W. A. Millers at Mt. Prospect. iQM Our Rappahannock Heritage Letters To The Editor Cease Fights To the editor: In your editorial of March 13th you continue vour "fight” for gun control laws, after they have been twice voted down, and jump on Mr. Atkins, Mr. Welch, and me by name. I urge you to cease your “fights” which only set neighbor against neighbor in this County. Espouse full and responsible public debate on issues of general interest - YES. Set neighbors to "fighting” each other - NO. I know that the proposed ordinances and their proposed implementation would have violated our Constitutional guarantees in Amendments II and IV of the National Constitution’s Bill of Rights. It is not necessary to split hairs over fine points of law with anyone to conclude this. Any interested citizen of this County can re-read these two crystal-clear Amendments of the supreme law of the land and arrive at his own cob- ' elusion. „ ' .. No, I do NOT think that laws which prohibit the carrying of concealed weapons violate the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms. Whether kept and borne in your coat pocket or in an open holster or gun rack, they are still kept and borne. And they may be kept and borne, whether loaded or unloaded. For my part, I’d even go along with an ordinance requiring a splotch of red fiouiescent paint on the stock or grip should you be interested in adding that ordinance to your shopping list. The guns will still be kept and borne - whether loaded or unloaded. Your attempt to compare searches and seizures under the proposed ordinances with drug searches and seizures under School Board policy is precisely the type of false analogy against which the writer cautioned you and other gun control advocates at the Court House hearing on March 5th. And it is a very ripe red herring, besides. No Member of the School Board not any employee of the Board is a law enforcement officer. In fact, the 'new drug policy specifically prohibits Principals from attempting in any manner to interfere with, or to influence, the performance of his duties by a law enforcement officer. The Board is not empowered to apply statutory criminal sanctions for drug offenses nor does its policy jurisdiction extend beyond school property, school buses, and schoolsponsored events. For example, the Principal may not cany out a search and seizure in a vehicle parked across from the schools on Route 211. (If anyone parks there a vehicle from which he attempts to peddle drugs to our school children, you may be sure, however, that the law enforcement officers who DO have jurisdiction will learn of it in a hurry.) There is a general, movement afoot in Virginia now to prohibit parking of student automobiles at school as an energy conservation measure. If that goes through, your question becomes moot, anyhow. To sum up, the IVth Amendment’s safeguards do not run to searches and seizures by owners or administrators of newspaper offices, tennis dubs, homes, school districts, or farms for which those legally responsible have the legal right to set the internal rules. The IVth Amendment sets specific limitations on searches and seizures by law enforcement officers of the state by the police, sheriffs, and gamewardens. If the Sheriff gets a call from a Principal that the latter is holding a student caught with drugs on him, I assume that “probable cause” has been established. Beyond that I do not presume to advise the Sheriff' on search and seizure requirements. The new Commonwealth’s Attorney will do> that. ROBERT W. EASTHAM Flint Hill Disappointed To the editor: Although I was not at the public hearing regarding illegal road hunting, I was sorry to hear of two things: 1) The non-passage of the ordinances and 2) The unwarranted and totally untrue criticism of Jim Bankston, our Game Warden. It would be a great loss to Rappahannock citizens (hunters and non-hunters alike) if we were ever to lose this very fair-minded person. Hopefully, he should understand that only a very small number of persons are criticizing (on what basis. Lord only knows) him. I know a lot of people who don’t want this road hunting going on . . . many who have not appeared at hearings, etc. In talking around, I am sure the majority of Rappahannock citizens fed this way. Since there seems to be a stalemate with the supervisors, is there not some way we can get this on the ballot by petition or referendum? I’m sure it would pass handily. DAVID MARSHALL ♦ Help keep Red Cross readp Why The Ruckus? To the editor: As a new resident of Rappahannock I am most surprised at the emotional ruckus raised over the simple proposal to prohibit carrying loaded firearms on the highway. Most states plus hundreds and hundreds of counties throughout the United States have such laws, and their residents think no more about them than they do about prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons on their persons. As I understand the proposal, it has nothing to do with restricting the transportation of shotguns or rifles either in or out of a car. If it did I’d seriously question its wisdom. To repeat, as has been done a jillion times, one can carry his gun in his car or pickup wherever and whenver he wants; it’s just that we - me included - should leave them unloaded on the highway. What’s so terrible about that? If hunters and would-be hunters in the many hundreds of counties around the country can be comfortable with such a sane, simple law, why do we in Rappahannock think we should be considered superior? I’m afraid some of us are being rather childish, as though our macho image will be tarnished if we don’t carry shells in our guns! One other word: Why any hunter who has nothing to be ashamed of should be critical of a sincere, hard-working public servant such as Game Warden Bankston for sup porting a proposal that will enable him to serve us better is beyond me. ■ We all complain about clockwatching civil servants who are interested in their jobs only for the money they can get from them, but here we have a man who is interested in doing the very best job possible, in a most unrewarding position. After all, he’s working long and hard for us, and we should give him our thanks instead of our complaints about his attitude. Come on, now, everybody: Let’s permit ourselves to be brought into the twentieth century! And please - let’s not get so EMOTIONAL about it the next time the proposal comes up before the Board of Supervisors !! GIVON PARSONS Robinson Aide Jim Hobgood, aide to Congressman J. Kenneth Robinson, will be in the county and available to talk with constituents from 10 a.in. to noon on Wednesday, March 19, at the court house in Washington. Transfer Vote If You Move All Virgirtians who move their place of residence before the May 6, 1980, elections for city and town councils are urged to transfer their voting registration to the election district of their new residence. The last day to do this is Saturday, April 5. 1980. If a voter fails to advise the registrar of his change of residence from one place to another, and the move occurred prior to the November 6, 1979, general election, such voter may not be permitted to vote. Virginia law requires that a person, to be entitled to vote, must be a citizen of the United States, 18 years of age, a resident of the Commonwealth and of the precinct in which he offers to vote and must be duly registered and otherwise qualified under the Constitution. Express Mail Available Express Mail Service to Washington, D. C., Baltimore and Richmond is now available from Amissville, Postmaster Jacquelynn Estes announced today. This premium postal service guarantees that mailable items received in Amissville by 5 p.m. will be available for customer pickup at the destination by 10 a.m. or delivered by 3 p.m. of the next business day. Available in many cities since 1977, Express Mail’s success rate of 98.4 percent and money-back guarantee have proven popular with the public. The expansion of the surface Express Mail system to Amissville and other area offices will give local postal customers a convenient and reliable connection to these three major cities. Guaranteed overnight delivery will be available from Amissville to many more cities in mid-summer 1980 when the Expanded Express Mail system is completed. Correction In last week’s edition of the Rappahannock News, it was reported that the new building inspector will be paid $9 per hour. The building official will actually receive S8 per hour. The position is budgeted at S9 per hour to cover employer costs, including contribution for social security. ++++ How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The great part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum. —Joubert Planning Resumes According to superin-'^j tendent Robert R. Jacobsen, work has begun again on the general management plan for Shenandoah National Park after an unscheduled delay of several months. Current efforts are directed toward completion of an environmental assessment on alternatives for protection, public use, development and operation of the park. “This task will be accomplished at a reduced level because of limitations in funds and staffing, and using data and public comments that have been gathered during this past year and a half,” Jacobsen reported. The new schedule calls for the environmental assessment to be completed and printed by January, 1961, with time set aside thereafter for public review and comment. Between now and the end of the year, Jacobsen said he will meet with any interested individuals and representatives of agencies and organizations in his office to discuss matters related to the park planning process, environmental assessment or the present and future management of Shenandoah National Park. Those interested should contact the superintendent at the Shenandoah National Park office in Luray for an appointment. Spring Arrives March 20 When the sun moves directly above the Earth’s equator at 6:10 a.m. on Marqh 20, spring begins. This moment, referred to as the vernal equinox (from the Latin words “vernal” meaning spring, and “equinox,” equal night), marks, the arrival of the spring season in the Northern Hemisphere. “From March 20 until the beginning of summer on June 21,” Dr. Paul H. Knappenberger, Jr., Director of the Science Museum of Virginia, explained, “the sun will move higher in our (northern), hemisphere bringing more heat, and with it the seasonal changes.” The first day of spring and the first day of autumn are the only times when the length of day and night are equal. It is on these two days, also, that the sun will rise due east and set due west. For the next six months, the sun will rise northeast and set northwest giving longer hours of daylight than darkness. Since this was a leap year, spring occurs earlier in the calendar, but will arrive progressively later for the next three years. Highway Hearings Set The Highway Department’s annual secondary road hearing for Rappahannock County will be held at the April 3 supervisor’s meeting, beginning at 10 a.m. The hearing is designed for the supervisors and Highway Department resident engineer to receive comments and requests from county residents for improvement and maintenance projects on secondary roads. Remarks from this meeting will determine, in part, how the county spends its share of the state’s secondary road budget in the 1980-81 fiscal year. A second public hearing on highways will be held at 9 a.m. on Monday, April 15, at the department’s district office in Culpeper. This hearing is scheduled to obtain suggestions on setting priorities for improvements on interstate, arterial, primary and urban road systems. Similar hearings are being held in each of the state's eight highway districts and in Northern Virginia. 1 he Little Fox

News From Around Sperryville By MRS. B. M. VARNER Rappahannock Newi Correspondent Miss Denise Jenkins of Reva was a weekend guest of her mother, Mrs. Marilyn Johnson and John R. Eubank. They were Sunday evening visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lee in Washington and Raymond Sutphin in Flint Hill. Dinner guests Sunday of Mrs. Ethel Tyner and Miss Nellie Atkins were Mrs. Lucille Gray, Mrs. Leslie Frazier, Frances Leake and Patty Atkins all of Warrenton. Monday guests were Mr. and Mrs. David Tyner of Palmyra. The Rev. David Moore of Washington was a caller Friday of Mrs. Anna Fincham and Mrs. Marjorie Ruskin. Sunday they visited Mr. and Mrs. Sam Snead and family. Mrs. Ruby Dwyer and Sammy were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gagner in Springfield. Friday overnight guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wayland were Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wayland, Bo and Matthew of Reading, Pa. Elder and Mrs. Elmer Skeen of Palmyra were Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Lester Yates, Janet and Lois Yates. Mrs. Joe Murphy, Mike and Mark returned Friday to their home in WinstonSalem, N. C. after visiting Mrs. Brown Miller. Jimmy Swindler and some classmates from the General District Court Cases Whitelar S. Wood, Jr., Charlottesville, no SCC authority, $50 fine $18 costs. John E. Lee, Jr., Madison, no insurance, $150 fine; same, improper equipment, $25 fine $18 costs. David R. Long, Luray, reckless driving, accident, amended to improper driving, $25 fine $18 costs. William V. Baldwin, Castleton, no county sticker, $15 fine $18 costs. James C. Snowdy, Amissville, drive while suspended, 10 days in jail, suspended; $300 fine, suspended $18 costs. Thomas P. Wehrer, Calif., driving while intoxicated, $180 fine $20 costs. Joseph A. Clatterbuck, Sperryville, non-payment fine, costs, 30 days in jail. Richard L. Runyon, Front Royal, littering, $50 fine $13 costs. Hasan H. Abedelwahab, Arlington, fail to tag deer, $100 fine $13 costs. Ronald S. Adler, Reston, reckless driving, accident, dismissed. James J. Baker, Annandale, Woodville By JUNE CLARK Rappahannock News Correspondent Woodville Baptist Church will have its quarterly birthday dinner Sunday, March •23 at 7:30 p.m. Make plans to attend and bring a covered dish. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Conners along with Mrs. Lena Cline of Culpeper were Sunday dinner guests of Maj. and Mrs. Charles Grizzle in Fredericksburg. Mrs. Maybelle Keys of Slate Mills was a Wednesday visitor of Mrs. Merle Daczewitz. Mrs. John Henry Woodward, Tabby, John, Jr. and Jeffery and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Grigsby, all of Castleton were Saturday and Sunday callers of Mr. and Mrs. Brew Burke. Mrs. Lottie Thornhill of Boston visited Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Vallie Butler spent last week with her sister, Mrs. George C. Hawkins and they visited Mr. Hawkins daily, who is a patient in Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wood and Henry B. were Saturday dinner guests of Mrs. Wood’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Blanton in Amelia. Sunday afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Johnson, Rick and Kristie were Mr. and Mrs. Donald Highlander and Mrs. Jessie Dailey, all of Culpeper. Clifton Clark accompanied by Edward Corker of Beaverdam spent the weekend at South Hill and were bench show judges for the Mecklenburg County field trial held at Boydton. They were Saturday guests of A. A. LeGran<J in Boydton. +++4Scientists now know that microscopic forms of life swarm in the sunless depths of the ocean. speeding 67/55, $24 fine $18 costs. Ardoth M. Bendlage, Boston, reckless driving, accident, amended to improper driving, $25 fine $18 costs. Janice K. Bursey, Front Royal, reckless driving, accident, amended to improper driving, $25 fine $18 costs. Mickie L. Councill, Springfield, speeding 68/55, $26 fine $18 costs. Bobby Fincham, Gordonsville, improper registration, dismissed. Howard K. Haun, Rixeyville, speeding 67/45, $24 fine $18 costs. Thomas B. Heatwole, Newport News, expired inspection, $10 fine $18 costs. James Robert Jackson, Woodville, driving white intoxicated, sent to ASAP; same, improper turning, continued indefinitely. Donald G. Jenkins, Washington, reckless driving, speeding 75/55, $50 fine, suspended, operator’s license suspended 2 days. Joe L. Lewis, Flint Hill, driving while intoxicated, sent to ASAP; same, speeding 66/55, $22 fine $18 eosts. ' Tony L. Sampson, Shenandoah, speeding 70/55, $30 fine $18 costs. Travis B. Stewart, Jeffersonton, speeding 72/55, $34 fine $18. costs. Lois «A> *■» >Thomas, Sperryville, fail to drive to right, accident, amended to improper driving, $25 fine $18 costs. Charles E. Wilson, West Va., speeding 68/55, $26 fine $18 costs. Daniel S. Wright, Culpeper, expired inspection, $10 fine $18 costs. Donnie S. Jenkins, Woodville, reckless driving, $50 fine. Same, no insurance, $150 fine $18 costs. Thomas A. Glasker, Washington drunk in public, $10 fine $13 costs. James O. Jenkins, four charges of bad check, nolle prosequi. Kent R. Jenkins, Sperryville, drunk in public, $10 fine $15 costs. Claude E. Whited, Culpeper, assault on Oscar Robert Lemen, $100 fine, suspended, $25 costs. Donald R. Beahm, Washington, reckless driving, accident, nolle prosequi. Katherine J. Hall, Falls Church, speeding 69/55, $28 fine $18 costs. Robbie F. Clanagan, Washington, defective equipment, dismissed; same, no insurance, $150 fine, $18 costs. Floyd E. Good, Luray, defective equipment, $15 fine $18 costs. Marion S. Hardy, Castleton, defective equipment, dismissed. Ralph T. Lamb, Wolftown, defective equipment, $15 fine $18 costs. Lewis M. Williams, Manassas, reckless driving, accident, $50 fine $18 costs. Donald G. Jenkins, Washington, speeding 68/55, $26 fine $18 costs. Rex E. Tinkham, Falls Church, defective equipment, $15 fine $18 costs. Carl E. Frye, Sperryville, two charges of bad checks, dismissed. Charles Stringfellow, Washington, bad check, dismissed. Restitution made. University of Virginia spent last week in Key West, Fla. He and his sister, Natalie, resumed classes at the University Monday. Mr. and Mrs. David Sisk with Mrs. Geraldine Shifflett of Falls Church were Sunday guests of Mrs. A. W. Sisk and Bill Sisk. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Peyton, Jr., Missy and Brian of Falls Church were Saturday guests of Mrs. Lester Dodson. Mrs. Mary Quaintance, Mrs. Carroll Quaintance, Mrs. T. M. Johnston and Mrs. Brown Miller were visitors Sunday afternoon of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sanford in Orange. Mrs. Judy Harrison, Kevin and Karen were weekend guests of Mrs. Harrison’s parents Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Roberson in Newport News. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Williams of Front Royal were Saturday evening callers of Mrs. Nina B. Brown. Mrs. Delia Leake, joined by Mrs. Betty Foster of Slate Mills, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Jenkins and Cynthia and Mrs. Vennie Dodson in Manassas. Dinner guests over the weekend of Mrs. Mary Quaintance were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wayland, Mr. and Mrs. Carson Johnson, Mrs. Brown Miller, Mrs. Carroll Quaintance and Mrs. T. M. Johnston. Mrs. Robert Nethers of Flint Hill was a weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Coffey, Jr. Frances Pullen with Ray Coffey of Culpeper were Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. Wharton in Falls Church. Sunday guests of the Pullens were Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Brown and Alan of Keswick and Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Keyser, Don and Chris of Slate Mills. Mrs. Brown Miller and Mrs. B. M. Varner were luncheon guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Carson Johnson. Viewtown Castleton . Mrs. Raymond Hitt and family were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sutphin in Culpeper. Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dodson were Mrs. Carson Edwards and Teresa, Mrs. Carolyn Dodson and Mrs. Sandra Woodward, all of Catlett. Robert Jacobs is a patient in Arlington Hospital. Heavy-duty gas-powered string trimmer Come in and see The Green Machin^weed 'and grass trimmers. Built for tough home trimming and edging. Now available with T FC"*Tap-For-Cord automatic line feed. Quick change blade accessories also make The Green Machine a great brush.cutter and tree pruner. The Green Machine Service • V. W. Vehicle Specialist Center • Repairs on Most Foreign ana American Cars at 30 Ashby St, Warrantor Va. 347-3785 V Time's afwasting Wake Up to (Values HOME JL APPLIANCES Whirlpool* Limited Edition, large capacity washer and matching dryer 4 PUSHBUTTON r WASH/RINSE TEMP SELEC-' TIONS FOR GOOD WASHING RESULTS AND TO HELP YOU, SAVE ENERGY DOUBLE-DUTY SUPER SURGILATOR* AGITATOR [MAKES WATER “WORK HARD" TO GET CLOTHES CLEAN r Washer Model LHA 6900 NOW AT VALUE TIME PRICES AND CHECK THESE ADDITIONAL VALUES r r Model SHU5000 WHIRLPOOL UNDERCOUNTER • CYCLE/OPTION DISHWASHER ftovldes 4 automatic cydae. NORMAL HEAVY lor heavily soiled dishes. NORMAL LIGHT for average soiled dishes. RINSE-HOLD for items you want to rinse now and wash later, and POTS A PANS for greasy utenato that reaty need scouring • 4-color panelpack to match color to your other appliances. Whirlpool Model EET172PK WHIRLPOOL 17.2 cu.lt No-Frost Rsfrtgsrstor-frsszsr Additional deluxe features Include Iarge4.75 cult freezer compart„ ment, adjustable meat pan. removable egg container and durable porcelain-enameled steel interior WHIRLPOOL MICROWAVE OVEN Model RHM7700 • Touch control cooking • MEAL SENSOR* temperature probe • Cook temperature selection • COOK POWER level selection • Digital MEALTIMER* clock • Two cooking cycles • Black-glass, see-through door • Large, 1.14 cu. It. oven capacity • Sealed-in glass shell • Oven light • End-ol-cooking signal • Micro Menus* cookbook Tmk. VALUE TIME TIME TO BUY- OFFER ENDS MAR. 29,1980 Rappahannock Farmers' Co-operative Sperryville, Va. 987-8555

—Rappahannock Non photo/S. Latham HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT SUPERVISOR Douglas Bywaters of Flint Hill in a state vehicle was clobbered on snow-slick roads last Thursday by an Alexandria motorist, and was hospitalized with broken ribs. The 1978 Dodge truck was struck by a 1979 Ford operated by Monroe Edward Hill who sustained multiple lacerations in the collision. His wife, Thelma S. Hill, also sustained lacerations, according to Trooper Carroll Miller, who added the Hill vehicle struck a ridge of slushy snow, lost control of his car and struck Bywaters. News From The Washington Area Sunday callers of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Keyser at The Oaks were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Richardson of Springfield and Mrs. Lucille Price. Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Weakley spent from Friday until Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dwyer in Woodbridge. Mrs. Alice R. Wood returned home Thursday after spending two weeks visiting Ms. Frances Conover Flint Hill Area News Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clatterbuck were Saturday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rodgers in Purcellville. Sunday visitors of the Clatterbucks were Mr. and Mrs. John Morris and son of Charlestown, W. Va. Sunday afternoon callers of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Welch and family were Mrs. Debbie Wimraer and Mrs. Linda Corder and family, all of Front Royal. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lillard spent from Friday until Sunday with their sonin-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ned Pierpoint and family in Alexandria. Mrs. Robert Nethers was a weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Coffey in Spereyville. ..^. Weekend, guests .of Ml., and Mrs. Elmer Atkins were Michael Tharpe of Front Royal and Amy Noakes. Visiting Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Hillard Tharpe, Mrs. E. M. Beverage and Tammy and Lisa Lorhorn, all of Front Royal. Saturday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Smoot and family were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Smoot, Dasha and Scott of Front Royal. Weekend houseguests of Mrs. Paul Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Miller, Jr. were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Howell and family of Madison Heights. Dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. T. Granville Eastham and Tom were Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Sinnott and Erika and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F, Harty, all of Fairfax. Mrs. Guy Foster, Sr. returned home Saturday after being a patient in Warren Memorial Hospital, Front Royal. Mrs. Annie O'Bannon of Warrenton spent several days last week with her sister, Mrs. Will Putnam. Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Robinson and family spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Dora Robinson in Warrenton. Weekend houseguests of Mrs. Christine Vest were Mr. and Mrs. Michael Vest, Curtis and Leigh of Virginia Beach. Mrs. Mary Blaisdell was a Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pearson in Front Royal. Bike~A-*Thon' 1 Scheduled A Bike-A-Thon to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital is being planned for Sunday, May 4 in Washington, Va. Co-organizers of this event are Ellen Manson of Washington and Georgia Wallsworth of the Sperryville area. Children and adults of all ages are invited to participate by acquiring a sponsor to give a donation for each mile traveled by bike. A rain date of May 18 has been set. For more information contact Ellen Manson at 6753372 or Georgia Wallsworth at 987-8941. ++++ Scientists estimate that 99 per cent of all the fresh water on the surface of the earth is in solid form, as snow or ice. and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith and their families in Albany, Ga. and Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Hall and family in Camilla, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dean of Danville were luncheon guests Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Buntin. Mrs. Lynne Baines accompanied by Miss Barbara O’Bryne of Speiryville were in West Virginia Saturday and Sunday attending a conference. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Manson and Amelia were recent weekend guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Manson in Perry, W. Va. Sunday afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Burke and family were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kendle of Rochelle. Houseguests of Mrs. W. M. Fletcher from Tuesday until Friday last week were Mrs. Harold Faulkner of Bridge Party Mrs. Hugh Chrisman was hostess to the Sperryville Bridge Club at her home Friday %v£ning. * 1 *s 1 * Prize winners were Mrs. Frances Tabler, Mrs. Roy L. Reeve, Mrs. I. R. Kilby and Mrs. T. J. Pillar. Others playing were Mrs. R. E. Thornpsen, Mrs. W. H. Cordle, Mrs. Brown Miller, Mrs. Mary Quaintance, Mrs. Dale Metzinger, Mrs. Field Benton and Mrs. Carroll Quaintance. r LAST NIGHT 7:30 “1941” (pg) MAPI'* 10*100110* f Fri. & Sat. 7:15 & 9:00 SatJSun. Mat. 2:00 Sun.-Thurs. 7:30 ‘Heartwarming morci wrr ■URNS CAftNKY GOING IN STYLE Ll*0 Orange and Mrs. Conoly Bedell and Virginia of Fort Smith, Ark. Mrs. Janet Collins of New York is spending this week with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Andrews. Lois Yates of Newport News was a Saturday visitor of Mr. and Mrs. John Norman and Leslie. Michael Bosma of Culpeper was a Sunday caller. Mrs. Tom Lee returned home Saturday aftering being a patient in Warren Memorial Hospital, Front Royal. Weekend guests of Stant Weaver were Patty Penaranda of Fairfax, John Weaver of Washington, D. C. and Mike Hicks of Culpeper. General and Mrs. Charles Booth of Washington, D.C. and Spain were Saturday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Miller. Monday visitors were Col. and Mrs. James S. Willis and Jimmy of West Point, N.Y. Dance Classes Added At Sursum Corda Sursum Corda School in Washington, has added a new dimension to its AfterSchool programs. Dance for young children, both boys and girls, is offered on Thursday and Friday afternoons from 3:30 until 5:00. The Thursday class is geared to children ages six and up, while the Friday classes are open to children ages four and five. School director Camille Harris is pleased to begin the new classes as an answer to repeated requests from area parents desiring dance instruction for children. A typical class format involves stretching exercises, barre work (including the five classical ballet positions) and moving across the floor utilizing ballet and modern dance steps. During the last fifteen minutes of class, the children improvise their own dances to classical or Park Tourism Picks Up The National Park service is seeking records which show land that became Shenandoah National Park before it was taken over for public use. Marne Warren, consultant to the National Park Service is searching for early art, photographs and movies illustrating the region which became the park. Items of particular interest include drawings and paintings showing rural life in the Sheanandoah Valley between 1700 and 1850, photographs of reconstruction after the Civil War, railroads, logging, resorts and recreation between 1850 and 1930, still and moving pictures depicting the early days of the park, construction of the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Anyone with photographs or information on where such photographs can be found is asked to contact Ms. Warren at Route 1, Box 118, Rockbridge Baths, Virginia, 24473 or by calling (703) 348-5391. OFFICIAL VOTING INFORMATION The Constitution of Virginia requires that you bo registered in the precinct In which you live in ordor to bo qualified to vote. If you are currently living in Town of Washington, Va. and you have moved your place of residence, either within the county or from another Virginia city or county, you must contact the General Registrar at the address shown below on Thursdays between the hours of 8:30 to 4:30 on or before April S, 1980, to change your voting registration to your current place of residence or you may not be qualified to vote in the May 6, 1980 Council manic Elections. Only those persons who moved their residence between November 6,1979, and May 6,1980, may be permitted to return to their former precinct to vote. Ruth B. Kilby, General Registrar Rappahannock County Courthouse Washington, Va. 22747 675-3739 Morton Spring Special "Get Acquainted Days"- March 25-29 Up to 20% Savings on all Buildings ^rfTTrv^ ~ MACHINE sheds 4 _ - 'Let our buUmg experience improve your buwrwu' • Shops • Warehouses • Offices • Retail Outlets iiSUe •HORSE BARNS 'RIDING ARENAS If a major investment is worth an hour of your time and you're considering building, you owe it to yourself attend the Morton Building's Special “Get Acquainted Days" in Culpeper. gable COME MEET OUR PERSONNEL! Morton building! /tvail m > 1703/825-3633 W mf 133 West Davis St. P.O. Box 529 Culpeper. Va. 22701 “classical rock” music that is “nice to move to,” according to instructor Donalea Monteleone. Ms. Monteleone's main objective is to give the children exercises which will build their muscles, enabling them to be well-rounded dancers. She also uses some modern dance techniques to loosen tight places in the child’s body. "Everyone thinks kids are in shape,” Ms. Monteleone says, "but they aren’t. 1 want to limber up their muscles. A good dancer must develop his or her muscles at an early age.” Sursum Corda is well into its first 6-week dance series. If everything goes as planned, the series will continue through the summer, and the students will perform in their first dance recital in the fall. By RAP OWINGS VPI F.«trnsion A|ml Agriculture Alcohol Production For Use In Gasohol-Seminar, Monday March 31 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 :00 p.m. at Graves Mountain Lodge, Syria. Topics will include: Alcohol for fuel use. How is is it made? Types of alcohol production-small, medium, large. How to obtain permits? What are the regulations? What are costs of production? Raw materials that can be used for alcohol production. All interested persons must pre-register by calling the Extension Office at 675-3619 by March 27. Spring feeder calf and yearling sale sign up time. If you plan on selling feeder cattle in the April series of state graded sales at Culpeper, Front Royal, Marshall or Winchester. This is a reminder that consignments for most of these sales are due in by March 25. Junior BCIA bull sale Friday, March 28, 1980, 12 noon Culpeper Agriculture Enterprises. Selling 55 Angus, 2 Brangus, 20 polled Hereford, 6 Charolais and 5 Simmentals. Rappahannock Angus breeders, Ray Cannon, C. E. Johnson, Jr. and Newbill Miller have some excellent performance tested bulls consigned to this sale. ++++ Fools admire but men of sense approve. —Alexander Pope ALL PRICES IN THIS AD CASH AND CARRY. PRICES EFFECTIVE THRU MONDAY MARCH 31, 1980 3 Gallon GAS CANS Reg. «7» SALE *6 7* 90-lb. Asphalt ROLL ROOFING SMOKE DETECTOR 9-Volt Battery / Powered r K-U79R \ Reg. *177* SALE *157S Reg. $14.95 Green, White or Black 100 sq. ft. $1295 GYPSUM WALL BOARD <4'x8’-3/8” Reg. *4™ SALE *340 4’x8’-1/2” Reg. *430 SALE *355 y PLYWOOD MSHEATHING i 4’x8’ 3/8” CD Plywood.*649.. 1/2” CD Plywood - Agency Grade $749 •«. CORRUGATED 4” PLASTIC DRAINAGE PIPE Perl, and Solid — 10-ft. lengths Pert, and Solid — 180-ft. coils w \* Flexible for all types of drainage. Lin. Ft. Energy'Saving Insulation < - -- 7 4' x 8’ — 1/2" ADVANTAGES: • Labor Saving a Full Insulation Value a Dimensional Stability a Sag Resistant REG. $8.95 SALE $699 Sheet GARDEN TIMBERS 3”x 5”- 8’ f 1450 Salt Treated Yellow Pine Prevents Rot and Decay SALE $395 ) BALSAM FIR I P.A.D. rw-r (92 5/8”) R*g. $1.65 $139 •ach \ ALUMINUM STEP LADDERS h SALE «-tt SPARTAN S27.50 *22” 5- ft. SPARTAN ‘30*5 *25,s 6- M. SPARTAN ... *35** *29” 8’ and 10' also in stock. ALUMINUM ] EXTENSION LADDERS (HouMhotd) SALE 16-ft. *•**51.95 M325 20-ft. R«fl. *66.50 *5 5 50 . 24-11. *•9*82.50 <695° * 28-H. *•9- *105.25 *88 25 32' and 36' IN STOCK Also 20', 24' and 26' Commercial ladders in stocK. KRAFT ROLLS FIBERGLASS INSULATION _ 3 1 2 «15" 8812 *q ft. Reg. *13»0 13c« ” *ll«s Roll GILLIAM LUMBER CO. 515 Commerce Ave. Front Royal

ALL PRICES EFFECTIVE THRU MONDAY MARCH 31, 1980 All Prices Cash and Carry SALT-TREATED S4S YELLOW PINE LUMBER I Ideal for Patios and Decks 2”*4" - 8’.$1.99 2”x4” - 10’.$2.49 2”x4” - 12’.$3.30 2’’x4” • 14’.$3.85 2”x4". 16’.$4.60 2”x6” - 8’. $3.25 2”x6” - 10’.$4.10 2"x6” - 12'.$5.25 2’’xlO’’ - 12’.$9.25 2’ xlO" - 16’.$12.20 - DAYTON STAINLESS STEEL % SINKS DOUBLE BOWL Regular $38.95 33"x22” SALE PRICE $3495 Rapl«c«» th« old tlnfc. Conatructed o« atalnl— at—C TOILET SEATS by M-100 Molded Wood Composition Magnolia Enamel Finish - ^_jehite, green, blue, gold, M-110 • MoktecfWood Compoeitior natural, pink, cardinal, gold. Reg. $11.25 vMarbeiiied'SolltfWAft' blue, black, avocado Reg. $14.69 M-3000 - Puffy Soft Seat - white only ■ Reg. $17.39 »• SALE >875 “■ a *«i . n / SUE *11** SALE *13** Two-Door a/16” Temp0100 1 Clear Glass Openings)*6 60” x 57 Doa $57.50 \ *49»5 iLC 5 BATHROOM VANITY SPECIAL / 1 Acrylic Fiberglass Top-Gold Onl 24 ' PampUco Marsh Vanity • Brown No. 9620 Two-Handls Lavatory Faucot X i>^»899S KITCHEN CABINETS By Marsh 1 BSB 30 2 1590 5' Counter Topping 2 PB 15 1 V4S 1 End Cap Kit Stainteaa Stool Single BowlNo. 9210 Two-Handlo Poorton Faucot Rag. $329JO SALE *270 DECORATIVE VINYL SHUTTERS • AM distinction to any homo • Foot and oasy to install a No painting, no maintenance a Long Lasting, weather-resistant a Stahl-resistant, Impact-resistant Colors: WHITE and BLACK Reg. SALE 15” x 39” . $1475 $1230 15” x 47” . $16.50 $14.00 15” x 55” . $18.50 $15.75 15” x 80” .$25.00 $2130 WOOD WINDOW UNIT 4 Horizontal Litas 4 5/8” Jamb 2’-0"x3,2” C^^QQ Rag. $37.99 *00” 2’-4”x3’-2” (Mage Rag. $39.95 TRIPLE TRACK ALUMINUM STORM WINDOWS Standard Sin* in Stock: 24" i 39" 24" i 47" 24" i 55" 21" i 39" 29" i 47" 29" i 55" 32" i 39" 32" i 47" 32" * 55" 39" *39" 39" *47" 39" * 55" Non standard tizao up to and abow 100 united Inchaa can bn ordorad upon rnquant in both inM and arttta Mali at an additional COOL Reg. $22.95 $1895 WOOD SCREEN DOORS 2’-8’’x6,-6” -1 1/8” R«g. $28.95 SALE 3’-0”x6’-8" -1 1/8” R*g. $29.95 SALE $23« $2549 • Scrubbabi* Finish • Flra-rasistant • Sound resistant • 4 ftx* lt«5/16 DrywaN Pansling s Easy to InataN a No Paparing or Painting mass a Put it up right ovar bars studs, otd papar, acarrad walla, brick, stona or old panaiing) wiOCR COvOT*• nMnl IlflWly IIUIII slfIpv) whaat Hnan, whaat stripa. GOLDBOSP cpECOffiJVR irnss lt» fin MmK drywall f»net>ng Reg. $8.49 SALE $749 PANELING SPECIAL .fi 4’ x 8’ — 5/32” BUNGALOW HAYSTACK HICKORY REG. $4.60 A li\ U Bungalow Spring Oak* Summer Oak... Mktwasl Medium Birch. Sutquahana Whitewater. Ocaanmiat. SandwtWte, Aquagwn. Blue Has* SAKBETE CONCRETE MIX Lasting Projects Begin With a Quality Product The one mix tor nearly ever concrete need SAKRFT Concrete Mix ta-o to use economical too. lust add wate lor strong beautiful rone ret projects. 80-lb. SAKRETE CONCRETE MIX *310b.s READYTO-USE MIXES SAND MIX Easy-to-use SAKRETE Sand Mil lata you make parmanant. economical cone rata repairs. For secure patching and smooth resurfacing, depend on SAKRETE. 80-lb. SAKRETE SAND MIX $340 MORTAR MIX Give your home the added beauty of brick, stone and block ' creations. Use SAKRETE Mortar Mix. r Depend on SAKRETE for moneysaving home improvements. 80-lb. 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©bttuarica Robinson Deward Aubrey Robinson of Sumerduck died Saturday, March 15, 1960, at his home after a long illness. Funeral services were conducted Monday at the Sumerduck Baptist Church. He was anative of Fauquier County and was employed by the Virginia Wire and Fabric Company in Warrenton. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary Louise Lambrose Robinson, a daughter Cynthia Luane Robinson; a son, Ronald Lee Robinson; parents, George H. and Lillian Jacobs Robinson, all of Sumerduck; three sisters, Mrs. Louise Ludwick of Sperryville, Mrs. Jean Rae Olinger of Remington, and Mrs. Bernadine Blackmar of New York; a brother, Hayward H. Robinson of Mechanicsville, and one grandchild. Nichols Willie Steve Nichols of Boston died Wednesday, March 12, 1980, at Culpeper Memorial Hospital. Mr. Nichols, 59, was a native of Winchester, the son of the late Robert L. and Maude Jenkins Nichols. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Catherine Pearl Nichols; three daughters, Mrs. Rebecca Ryder and Mrs. Betty Ann Taylor, both of Culpeper, and Mrs. Gladys Mae Nichols of Boston; two sons, James Oakley Jenkins and Willie Steve Nichols, Jr., both of Boston; and five grandchildren. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Dodson of Madison and Miss Margaret Nichols of Baltimore, Md. Thompson William Ira Thompson, 84, of Culpeper, died Tuesday, March 11, 1980, at Culpeper Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at Geest Funeral Home Chapel, Culpeper, by the Rev. J. S. Colvin and the Rev. Gene Hagenberger. Burial was in the White House Brethren Church Cemetery at Stuart's Draft. A native of Nelson County, he was the son of the late William Henry Thompson and the late Sarah Jane Bartley Thompson. He was a member of the Arlington Church of the Brethren and was a former county employee in Arlington. He is survived by two brothers, Mangus L. Thompson of Viewtown and Harry B. Thompson of Fairfax, and a sister, Mrs. Madge V. German of Arlington. His wife was the late Hattie Riff Thompson. fiutaf firibu/f CLORE FUNERAL HOME _ . The^Horoe of Thoughtful Service" *' PHONE 825-2361 CULPEPER CEMETERY MEMORIALS THE WINNERS IN WAKEFIELD SCHOOL’S annual model Parthenon contest are, left to right, Allen Grimm, 3rd place; William Lynn, Wakefield’s Headmaster and Ancient History teacher; Jeffrey Reid, 1st place; Mark Foerstemann, 5th place; Keri Ford, 4th place; and Charles Huber, 2nd place. Not pictured is Mikki Sheele, who tied for 2nd place. In April, Wakefield’s 5th grade Ancient History class will visit the replica of the Parthenon in Nashville. Tenn. By MRS. MARIE ATKINS Rappahannock Vw» Correspondent Mrs. Ruth Beddingfield and Mrs. Cecil Lewis of Alexandria were Saturday guests of the Rev. W. B. Dennis. Visiting Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Warren Dennis and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pugh and Mary Hellon, all of Amissville. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Thornhill entertained for Sunday luncheon having as guests, Mrs. Ben Giles of Lexington, Ky., Miss Cindy Kopjanski of Roanoke, D. G. Thornhill of Richmond, Miss Melanie Thornhill of University of Virginia, Roger Chapman of Culpeper, Mr. Anderson’s Have A Son Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Anderson of Myrtle Beach, S.C. announce the birth of a son, Kirk Robert, born March 18, 1980 at Grand Strand General Hospital, Myrtle Beach. Grandparents of the infant are Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Anderson of Woodville and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Hess of Maryland. For all your printing needs... No matter what your printing requirements, rely on us for expert assistance. We can assist you in ordering: Letterheads Envelopes Business Forms Stationery Labels Programs Brochures Booklets Tabloids Bills Invoices Ledaers Announcements Fast and efficient service for all your printing needs. Photocopying service also available. . For mo to Information, contact^appalmnnrickKmia Washington, Va. 675-3349 A dhrlaion of Warranter Printing and Publishing Co., Warrenton, Va. Printing dona at tha plant In Warren ton, Va. For your SSgyRJBLf1 caM Alan Poa. Production Manogar. at 347-4466. The News From Boston and Mrs. David Thornhill of Woodville and Mrs. Cary Thornhill. Afternoon callers were Mrs. Jesse Hawkins, Mrs. George Butler and Mrs. Frank Duncan. Mr. and Mrs. Everette Hoffman and Wayne of Culpeper were Monday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jenkins. Mrs. Emerson Bennett of Alexandria was here Saturday to visit her mother, Mrs. Edmund Burke and accompanied her to Charlottesville to visit Mr. Burke, a surgical patient in Martha Jefferson Hospital. John Barfield, who is on Spring break from VPI and visiting his parents in Culpeper, also visited his grandmother, Mrs. Hazel Barfield here. Mrs. Dick Jenkins and Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Jenkins and Randy were Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jenkins and family in Bentonville. Mr. and Mrs. Carter White visited James Nicholson and Collis Dodson in Warren Memorial Hospital and Mrs. Lucy Richards in Lynn Care Center in Front Royal Monday. Mrs. Gid Jenkins is recuperating at home following a week’s stay in Culpeper Memorial Hospital as a result of a broken hip. Visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Billy Fincham, Carol and Donna Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Billy Meredith of Reva. The Rev. and Mrs. Charlie Woods. Heather and Bethany of Culpeper were Sunday luncheon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Jenkins and Randy. Paul Butler is improving at home following surgery in Fauquier Hospital, Warrenton. Bill Duncan of Purcellville Pros Determine SS Disability Many people have the mistaken idea that employees in the social security office decide whether an applicant for disability benefits is able to work or not, Bruce A. Hundley, social security manager in Culpeper said recently. This just is not so, Hundley said. People at the social security office do decide if a person meets non-medical requirements, such as whether having worked long enough and recently enough under social security to be eligible for checks. But the information an applicant provides about his or her medical condition, including names of doctors or hospitals who did examinations or provided treatment, and his or her work experience is sent to the disability determination unit in the Virginia Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. There, a team of professionals including a doctor, reviews the claim. This team decides if the applicant is disabled within the meaning of the law and whether the person’s condition prevents him or her from working for a year or more. The team obtains medical reports from doctors and other sources of treatment or examination. If more information is needed, they may refer the applicant to a physician, clinic, or some other facility for another examination or test. In addition to deciding if the applicant is disabled, the State agency considers whether or not vocational rehabilitation services could help the person return to work. More information about disability benefits, as well as other social security programs, can be obtained at the Culpeper social security office, located at 522 Culpeper Shopping Center. The telephone number is 825-3500. Mears Elected To Angus Asso. John H. Mears III of Amissville has been elected to membership in the American Angus Association. Mears raises Angus cattle on his Weathersfield Farm on Route 211. He joins some 38,000 active life and junior members in the AAA, largest beef cattle registry association in the world. AMATEUR TALENT NIGHT\_ 4th Annual Amissville Ruritan Show featuring: Bridgewater College Stage Band Along With Local Talent Rappahannock High School Sat. March 22 7:30 P.M. CASH PRIZES 1st, 2nd* 3rd Tickets: $2.00 Students $1.50 Advance tickets on sale at discount was a Sunday caller of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Duncan. Sunday evening guests o1 Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Leake were Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kiblinger and Mike ol Stanley. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie A, Wood were Sunday guests o1 their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Filyo in Wheaton, Md. Sunday luncheon guests ol Mr. and Mrs. Ashbj Thornhill, Mary and Linda were Mr. and Mrs. Pete Boyd of Madison, Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Carpenter, Holly and Ashby of Brightwoexl and Mr. and Mrs. George Johnston. Mrs. Marie 1 Marsden has returned to her home in Fairfax after several days visit with her mother, Mrs. Calvin McCloud. Wakefield Students Win Oratorical Contest Wakefield Country Day School students were first, second, and third place winners in the boy’s division of the Optimist International Oratorical Contest held for area students Saturday in Front Royal. The first place gold medal prize was won by 8th grader James Dawson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Dawson of Huntly. The second place silver medal went to 10th grader Christopher White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tucker White of Winchester. The third place bronze medal was awarded Billy Germelman, son of Judge and Mrs. I William Germelman of i Moore Named Demo. Head David Modre of Washington was elected chairman of the Rappahannock County Democratic Party at a meeting held Friday, March 14. He replaces Aubrey Keyser who resignetLiaschairman but will stay on as co-chairman. Also on Friday, Dorothy Davis was elected as deputy chairman, Ed Bailey as treasurer and Mary Edna Schaefer, secretary. County Democrats will hold their mass meeting to select convention delegates on Saturday, March 22, at noon in the court house in Washington. Berryville, a 7th grader. The boys were coached by Wakefield’s Dramatics teacher, Mrs. Pamela^Lynn. Limited to youth under 16, the Optimist International Oratorical Contest has sought, since its inception in 1928, to honor and encourage the best young speakers and to offer training and experience to young citizens. In recognition of its value to students, the National Association of Secondary School Principals has placed the contest on its advisory list of national contests and activities. The official subject of this year’s contest was, “Our Challenge in the ”80’s’’. Contestants had to prepare their own speeches which were judged in respect to organization of material, delivery, presentation, and overall effective! ss. The final stage of the contest will take place at the district level in June, in which first place winners will receive $500 scholarships. DAVID L. 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—Rappahannock Newt Photo/Daphne Hutchinson WAS THE COMING DOWN WORTH the going up? Youngsters took a last fling at sledding in this season’s on-again, off-again winter after last week’s snow dusting and ice storm. Winter’s final blow(?) closed schools on Thursday and Friday and caused breakage in power lines, leaving many of Rappahannock Electrical Co-op’s County customers without power. * s y ,**i' -.r+sr'Xf .f ' , ,- * v " ? ,%, T-t" ."■/ FLYING AIRBORN over a jump made the trudge up the slope worthwhile. Jon McCullough, Bob Baines and Joe McCullough (front, center and real zipped right along, hitting eye-popping sledding speeds, on the icey snow after they traded in the old fashioned flexible flyers for a tobaggon. Va. Seeks $1.6 Million For Hunter Education The Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries has applied for federal approval of a 1.6 million dollar expanded hunter education program over the next five years. The funding would come from Pittman-Robertson Funds already allocated to the state for wildlife restoration and hunter education. Since 1961 the Virginia Game Commission has funded its hunter education program entirely with state funds. PittmanRobertson monies come from an 11 per cent tax on guns, ammunition and archery r equipment and may be used to fund up to 75 per cent of the cost of approved projects. - The expanded federal aid project would consist of three phases. The basic six-hour hunter education course would continue, consisting of instruction on safety, hunting traditions, hunting techniques and sportsmanship. A new one-hour course for pre-teens would cover habitat and ecology, management of renewable wildlife resources, and traditions of sportsmanship and would be available to those classroom teachers Who requested it. 1 POSITION VACANCY COUNTY BUILDING OFFICIAL The Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County has created a county department of building inspection and the position of executive official in charge, who shall be known as the building official. The building official shall be responsible for inspection and enforcement of the BOACA Building Code for -all - -applicable - -construction- -inRappahannock County. The Board is now considering applicants for this position. To be eligible for appointment the BOACA Basic Building Code states that the building official shall have at least five (5) years building experience as a licensed professional engineer or architect, building inspector, contractor or superintendent of building construction, for three (3) years of which experience he shall have been in responsible charge of work, and he shall be generally informed on good engineering practice in respect to the design and construction of buildings, the basic principles of fire prevention, the accepted requirements for means of egress and the installation of elevators and other service equipment necessary for the health, safety and general welfare of the occupants. The Board may waive one or more of these requirements where it is determined that the applicant has related experience or aptitude. This will be a part-time position for two (2) days (16 hours) per week with an hourly wage of $8.00 per hour, mileage compensation and compensation for attendance at approved training seminars. The position will become effective July 1, 1980. Application in writing, stating qnalif ications, should be submitted to the Chairman, Board off Supervisors of Rappahannock County, Washington, Virginia on or before May 15,1980. An advanced sportsmen education program would include courses in subjects like archery, muzzleloading, woodsmanship or rifle, pistol and shotgun safety and proficiency. Included in the plans is a greater emphasis on volunteer instructors. The Commission plans to fill this need by working through Operation Respect, a state alliance of major sportsmen's organizations dedicated to promoting better ethical conduct. Sportsmen education is one of their primary goals and they have pledged their suppost in supplying volunteers to assist with the program. During the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1980 the Commission plans to bring the basic course to at least 30.000 high school students in all parts of Virginia. The lower level program is designed to reach 100,000 pre-teens with an ecologymanagement message. Advanced programs for teenagers and adults are aimed at reaching about 10.000 per year. It will .require_recruiting and training some 700 instructors immediately to supplement the efforts of the State Game Warden force, all of whom are qualified instructors. Operation Respect is in the process of selecting County Coordinators who will assist with the recruitment of the volunteer instructors. RLEP Meeting Do methane gas and ethanol production have a /future in Rappahannock County? Research Biologist Lou Borghi will explain the various processes, and put them into perspective at the quarterly RLEP meeting at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 4, at the county courthouse in Washington. “The technologies have been around for a long time,” says Borghi, “and they are ideally suited for community or cooperative applications”. They are not yet ready for individual home use, he adds. Borghi has long been interested in biomass resources. He holds a BA degree in Biology from LaSalle College in Philadelphia and an MS degree in plant ecology from Penn State University. P ^new &togj* Effective April 1,1980 The Mail Subscription Rates of The Rappahannock News Will Be INCREASED Choose the Offer That Saves However, You Can Still Subscribe or add a year to your Present Subscription Regardless When It Expires—If You Place Your Subscription Before April 1 After April 1 Now SAVE Rappahannock ana I Surrounding^ 'Counties Elsewhere in USA $6.00 $7.50 $7.00 $8.50 $1.00 $1.00 i,*-' mail four aubacription orttr ^ aodeboc . < „ Rappahannock Nawa • i‘l R*O*Box38,-v;v*.<*»••'o ’ Washington, Va. 22747 WIC Offers Babies A Better Start Virginia’s infant mortality rate ranks eighth in the nation - IS out of every 1,000 babies born in the Commonwealth each year die before their first birthday. The WIC Program, the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children, is trying to insure more babies a better start in life. WIC provides nutritious foods, including milk, cheese, eggs, cereal and fruit juice to pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women, and children up to age five. Infants receive fruit juice too, plus iron-fortified cereal and formula. WIC also provides nutrition education to teach participants economical shopping tips and how to plan, prepare and maintain a well-balanced diet. Virginia’s WIC Program is administered by the State Health Department through the 139 local health departments. Present funding for Fiscal Year 1980 will allow the state a caseload of 46,000 participants. To qualify for WIC, applicants must be at nutritional risk * and tnust be income eligible.: A competent professional, such as a doctor, nutritionist or nurse, at the local health department determines whether the physical and mental health of applicants are at risk because of inadequate nutrition or health care, or both. Medical conditions that indicate a person is at risk include nutritional anemia, slow growth and development, teenage pregnancy, obesity, Referendum Voted Down The national beef referendum held recently was soundly defeated by the farmers in the states by a 65 per cent vote. There were 231,032 ballots cast and of the total 151,119 were against the program, or 65 per cent. In favor of the program were 79,913 or 35 per cent. The Beef Research and Information Act was passed in May 1976 and amended in August of 1978. It could not become effective, however, until three items had been accomplished: eligible beef producers had to register to vote; at least 50 per cent of those registered had to vote; a majority of those voting had to be in favor of and cast affirmative votes. State by state results of the referendum may be seen at the Rappahannock ASCS Office said the manager, Tom G. Taylor. Soccer Camp Opens In July Linton Kail Soccer Camp, the only resident soccer camp in the Piedmont area, will begin both resident and day camp sessions for boys and girls, ages 6 through 16, in July. Linton Hall is located in Prince William County near Nokesville. For further information, write Linton Hall Soccer Camp, 9535 Linton Hall Road, Bristow, Va. 22013 or can 368-3157 or 347-1928. basketball camp for boys and girls in the same age bracket with sessions beginning in June. Information on the basketball camp cao bt obtained by writing or calling the same address and numbers. inadequate diet and excessive smoking. Virginians are income eligible for WIC if they are eligible for health care either free or at a reduced cost at their local health department. Once certified for the program, participants are assigned a food package based on their nutritional conditions. Each participant receives WIC checks monthly from the local health department and redeems them for the assigned foods at participating grocery stores or pharmacies. WIC Program food cannot be counted as income and will not affect a family’s qualifications for food stamps, school food programs or public assistance. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is available to eligible persons regardless of race, color, religion or national origin. For further information, contact the Rappahannock Health Department, 6753516. Amissville Area News Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Pullen visited them recently and had a woodcutting party which gave the Pullen’s plenty of wood to more than finish out the cold weather and a start on next year’s supply. Mr. Pullen has had a long illness. Those helping included Mae Pullen and Russell Pullen of New Baltimore, John Dove of Manassas, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon O’Meara of Falls Church, Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Pullen and Danny of Goldvein, Howard Pullen of Fairfax and Mr. and Mrs. Randy Smith. Mrs. Pullen prepared and served them a sumptuous dinner. Virgil Corbin of Manassas visited his mother, Mrs. Nelson Corbin, last Wednesday. Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Bowey were Mr. and Mrs. Robert LaPlanche of Baltimore, Md. Other recent visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ankers of Vienna, Calude Carter of Culpeper and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Priest. Sunday afternoon callers of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Compton were Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Kines of Warrenton. C. M. Green, a student at the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, spent a recent weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Green. C. M. was recovering from a broken arm. x Dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Bradley were Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Bradley, Timmy and Robbie of Falls Church. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Doub and Landy have spent two weeks with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Friend and children in Berkley, Calif, and toured the Monterey Peninsula. Mr. Doub returned home Monday and Mrs. Doub and Landy will return later this 'week. Mrs. Sarah Latham, Mrs. Elizabeth Streagle and Shannon, accompanied by Mrs. Eddie Huff of Manassas, attended the wedding Saturday evening of Miss Virginia Rae Cockerill to Jeffrey Hughes which took place in Floris, and the reception at Sterling Community Center. Sarah Kearns Hoadley of Falls Church was a recent Saturday over night visitor of her grandmother, Mrs. Latham. Shannon Streagle was a Saturday over night guest of Jennifer Kephart at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kephart at Sterling Park. Mrs. Bertha Newcombe has returned to home in Richmond after spending some time with Mrs. Julia Poe. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Burner have found their dog, Pat, who had been missing from home for more than two years. The dog was discovered in the Flint Hill area. Mrs. W. W. Riley and Mrs. Charlie Priest spent Tuesday in Richmond visiting the Valentine Museum. Recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Priest were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jordan of Richmond. Roy Carter is out and about after undergoing eye surgery several weeks ago at Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville. Mrs. Ralph Rowzie has returned to her home after spending some time in Richmond with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hummell. Wednesday Mrs. Rowzie visited the Rev. and Mrs. John H. Willis III and son Mark in Orange and joined the celebration of Mark’s tenth birthday. Mrs. T. W. Latham has returned to her home after two weeks in Colchester, Conn, spent with her daughter Mrs. Milton Miller. Mrs. Latham, who is 92, went and returned by plane alone. She was met at National Airport by Mr. and Mrs. James Smith of Chevy Chase, Md. Mrs. Smith spent last week with her mother, Mrs. Latham. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dunphy Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Harrer, Sonny and Janelle of Manassas. ++-T+ Quail sleep at night in a closely arranged ring, with heads pointed out so they can leave in a hurry if danger approaches. OFFICIAL VOTING INFORMATION The Constitution of Virginia requires that you be registered in the precinct in which you live in order to be qualified to vote. In order to be eligible to vote in the Councilmanic "Election to be held on Tuesday, May 6, 1960, you must register no later than 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 5,1960. You are hereby notified that the Registration Office of Rappahannock County located at the address shown below will be open for registration on Saturday, April 5,1980, from 9:00 a.m. to 5.-00 p.m. for the purpose of registering qualified persons. You are further notified that I shall sit on Saturday, April 26,1980, and Saturday, May 3,1980, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the address shown below mainly for the purpose of accepting applications for absentee ballots. May 3, 1980, is the last day on which such applications for absentee ballots may be made in person by qualified applicants for this General Election Rath B. KRbf, Gtaaral Rflttrar Rappahannock Caantf Coarthoaso Washington, Va. 22747 875-3731 PRO CIA! It may be the dawning which will reshape your life forever. Coming is an event to release a spiritual feeling and ignite a commitment which can brighten your life with promise. THE 3RD United Methodists-the people of a warm heartare beginning 4 special years of love and concern this Sunday Receive the bright hope God wants to give you through these United Methodist Churches AMISSVILLE Sunday 11 a.m. Sunday-Wednesday 7:30 p.m. * flint hill Sunday 6:30 p.m. (Fire Dept.) 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Farming Saluted l nts year, toe tint day ot spring will be significant to U.S. and Virginia farmers for a reason other than the obvious end of cold weather and the opportunity to begin spring planting. March 20 will be celebrated nationally as Agriculture Day to salute agri-business and help educate the American consumer about the contributions, concerns and challenges of American agriculture. *'Ag Day’s purpose is to make the 96 per cent of the American population that doesn’t farm aware of the challenges facing agriculture and it’s impact on all of our lives,” said James I. Scott, national chairman and vice president of the Agriculture Day Foundation. Although only 4 per cent of the American population actually farms, four of 10 working Americans are involved in food and fiber production or the distribution chain. American agriculture is the nation’s leading industry, with assets nearly equal to the total assets of all stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange ($790 billion). Agri-business is also the nation’s leading employer with over IS million people involved. Culpeper Art Co. 204 N. Main St Culpeper, Va. Quaity Antiques Custom Franny Agriculture serves as Virginia’s number one industry and plays a crucial role in the state’s economy and our very lives. America’s agriculture is her '‘biggest stick.” No other country has an agricultural capacity to match American soil, climate, and advanced technology—in fact, one American farmer alone produces enough food to feed 56 others. Park Tourism Improves The travel slump that has plagued Shenandoah National Park since gas prices started on their upward climb appears to be easing. Compared to February, 1979, visits last month to the park were down but by a much smaller margin, only 8.8 per cent. Visits in January, 1980, showed a decline of almost 20 per cent over the previous year. In February, 1980, 26,000 visitors toured the park compared to 28,500 in February, 1979. Overnight stays this February amounted to 1,197 contrasted to 2,294 in the same month of 1979. Weather statistics released by park superintendent Robert Jacobsen show the maximum temperature at Big Meadows in February was 56 degrees while the minimum was minus two degrees. Snowfall measured 21 inches and precipitation totaled 1.51 inches. W' -'I*. JOBS » n MENT THE CULPEPER PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION recommends to area employers and job seekers the services of the Virginia Employment Commission. •Job Referral & Placement, . v J •Pre-employment Testing8r Screening* ** •Local, Regional, State & National Recruiting Sources •Labor Market Information •Wage & Salary Information NOW WHA T CAN WE DO FOR YOU? VIRGINIA EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION) 110 W. Cimeron Street, Culpeper, VA.,22701 PUBLIC AUCTION SHERIFFS SALE SATURDAY MARCH 29,1980 11 a.m. in front of the Courthouse at Washington, Va. 1974 ONE TON TRUCK Serial Number F37YET62264 —Rappahannock New* Photo/Daphne Hutchinson GARY LEAKE, Rappahannock’s Skyline District all-star basketball player, shared his skills with sixth and seventh grade all-stars during a practice session on Tuesday afternoon. Rhonda Brown, stand-out member of the RCHS girl’s squad, also volunteered her talents in helping the youngsters. Leake Named To All District By joe McCullough Rappahannock New* Spbrts Writer Rappahannock’s outstanding basketball player Gary Leake will graduate this year and go on to tougher competition at the college level. Coach Jim Logan respects Leake and describes him as the perfect team player. “He is not the most talented player on the team but he’s the hardest working person I’ve ever coached,” Logan said. If the players on this year’s squad had been taller and more experienced, Leake would have played forward Menu RCHS & RCES March 24-28 Monday Fish ‘n’ batter, baked \ potato, mixed greens, cornbread, milk. Tuesday Toasted cheese sandwich, potato rounds, Inna^beaps, raisins, milk. Wednesday Meat loaf, hot roll, mashed j potatoes, green beans, milk. Thursday Hot dog on bun, baked beans, applesauce, chocolate tart, milk. Friday Chili with crackers, cole slaw, peaches, yellow cake, milk. Menu Sursum Corda March 24-28 Monday Bean sloppy joes on toast, buttered peas, applesauce, milk. Tuesday Creamed chicken on noodles, sweet potatoes with apples and honey, whole wheat crackers, bananas, milk. Wednesday Peanut butter and jam sandwich, cheesy spinach casserole, peaches, milk. Thursday Bean bamboozle on rice, tossed salad, homemade spoon bread, apple slices, milk. Friday Vegetable barley soup, egg salad sandwich, homemade fhiit cocktail, milk. rather than center, according to the coach. Logan said that Gary will probably be switched to the position of small forward or guard in college. Gary began to blossom as a sophomore. During his three years as a varsity player, he left his mark on the RCHS record books: Most points in a game, 34; most points in a season, 441; most assists in a game, 6; most rebounds in a game, 17; most blocked shots in a game, 6; average number of rebounds per game, 11.4; total rebounds in a season, 227; total rebounds in a career, 448. This year, Gary was named to the all-star first team in the Skyline District. He ended the season ranked third in scoring in the district. He was also the spark that sent the Rappahannock Panthers to their best finish in years, all the way to the semi-final round t ' - • * '■*» *••• -- ■ •••'. . j ■ xmrja, (I FireRescue The Sperryville Rescue Squad transported Jennifer Martin from her home in Sperryville March 17 to Culpeper Memorial Hospital. The Flint Hill Rescue Squad transported George Borden of Vienna from Rt 729 to Fauquier Hospital and then to Fairfax Hospital on March 16. On March 7, 10 and 11 the Flint Hill Volunteer Fire Dept, responded to a chimney fire at the home of Raymond Mahoney in Huntly, and March 15 answered a call at the residence of Mrs. Pat Saltonstall. Washington Rescue Squad took Leonard Tumblin from; his home on Route 729 to Culpeper Memorial Hospital on the same day. Team Registers Registration for the Amissville Youth Baseball League is scheduled for 9-11 a.m. Saturday at the Earl y Bird Field, Amissville. In case of rain, the registration will be held at the Methodist Church. AUCTION Thursday Night—March 27 Jenkins Auction House Washington, Va. Time: 7:30 p.m. Load of new fabrics, Lot of glassware and Some furniture DOOR PRIZE tT-vV ^ RKk _ A ftvv/ XI AUCTION Thursday Night—March 20 Jenkins Auction House Washington, Va. Time 7:30 p.m. Furniture, Glassware -“ Many useable Items DOOR PRIZE PUBLIC k AUCTION ^ Saturday, April 12 Beginning 10 a.m. Personal property from the estate of the late E. M. Jones, Washington, Va. Watch for complete listing in later issue of this paper. ' john Walker jenkins ^ AUCTIONEERING SERVICE - Washington, Va. 22747 of the district tournament. Gary shares the credit for his success with his coach and fellow players. “The team is an organized component of strong defense and offense. We could never have done it without the vital coaching of Jim Logan,” Gary said. Leake’s goal is to play college basketball for James Madison University. He has achieved many goals during his athletic career and has won recognition for his many talents on the court. But we think there’s one area where he hasn’t won the awards and praise he deserves. Gary’s a great athlete but he’s also a great sport. He doesn’t throw tantrums on the court when he’s called for a foul. He has a positive attitude even when his team is trailing. Even when antagonized, he’s kept control. In one of the final games of the season against Strasburg, a player on the opposing team ended upon the floor after a battle with Leake for a key rebound. “Next time, it’s going to be you,” he warned Leake, adding a shove and a few obscenities. Gary just smiled and walked away. People say "its’s not whether you win or lose. It’s how you play the game.” Only a few athletes act like they believe this motto. Gary Leake is one of those few. He will be missed at RCHS and we wish him luck in the future. Fodderstack 10 KM Classic Set Saturday, April 19 at 10:00 A.M. will mark the second running of the 6.2 mile :F,odde*^a<;k-J between flint Mill aftd: Washington. This year’s race is being sponsored by Nature’s Food of Washington for the benefit of the Rappahannock Recreation Association. The race will be held rain or shine. Trophies are being made again this year by local potter, Jeanne Drevas. There are 14 age categories and an open class, in addition to a special category this year—the Eva L. Smith Memorial—for the first who finish the course. Information can be obtained by calling Diane Bruce, 675-3621 (daytime) or Mary Schumaker, 675-3417 (evenings). Entry forms can be obtained at the Sperryville, Washington and Hint Hill postoffices and at Bradford’s Store in Flint Hill. Census Takers Needed Here Census workers are needed in Rappahannock, Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Orange and Warren counties to visit households which have not returned the census questionnaire by mail. Applicants must take a written test and attend a twoday training session before beginning work. Employees will be paid on a piece rate basis designed to yield $4 per hour for the average worker. Employees will also be paid for time spent in training. To apply, contact the 1980 Film Showing A film entitled “Out There” will be shown at the Amissville Baptist Church, Sunday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Final Stocking The Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries has announced the final schedule for pre-season trout stocking. Area streams scheduled to be stocked include Piney Branch in Rappahannock County and Lynch River in Greene on April 4, and Mill Creek and Big Stoney Creek in Shenandoah on April 1. Sportsmen are reminded that trout season has been closed since February 15 and will re-open at noon on Saturday, April 5. Census District Office at 92y Caroline Street ii& The 1980 census, the country’s 20th ten-year census, will be a "countQuestionnaires will arrive by mail on March 28. Residents__ are asked to complete the questionnaire and return it in a postage-free envelope on April 1. Census information is kept confidential by law. Fredericksburg, 22 telephone 703-373-8411. yourself” census. FAUQUIER UVESTOCK EXCHANGE INCORPORATED REGULAR SALES Every Tues. HORSE SALE 2nd Sat., 1 p.m., Every Month STATE GRADE FAT CATTLE 1st & 3rd Tues. 1 p.m. Every Month 1 Mile East of Marshall Rt. 55 PHONE 364-4861 S-P-R-I-N-G FEEDER CATTLE SALES ■AMSOII LIVESTOCK MARKET, IRC. Madison Milb, Va. THURSDAY ■ ARCH 27th APRIL 10th 7:00 p.m. %; i ; ' 4 HEIFERS and STEERS ‘,K''(Sotrte Cows and Calve*) * — •(battle Will Be Weighed the Day of Sale 7:00 un. to 5:00 pjn. For Fieth* information Contact: MADISON LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC MADISON HALLS, VA. D.W. Tucker Orange, Va. Dial 672-1119 or 672-2811 TEL. 472-2811 A. C Hoffman Wolftown, Va. Dial 948-4010 OPEN THE DOOR TO LIFE m mm i ENROLL YOUR FAMILY IN BIBLE STUDY, march 23rd There is no greater gift you can give your family, or yourself, than the peace and joy that comes from regular, systematic study of God's Word. And, there is no better place for group Bible study than in a church, where you will feel a warm and wonderful sense of belonging. \ Sunday afternoon, some caring, sharing Christian friends from a Southern Baptist Church will be knocking at your door to offer you an opportunity to enroll your whole family in Bible Study. Of course, they will be properly identified and will only take a few minutes of your time. Won't you open your door and your hearts to them, and enroll your family in Bible Study RIGHT THEN AND THERE! OPEN THE DOOR TO LIFE... v I have come that they might have life and that they might • have it more abundantly. John 10:10 Action} Sponsored by the Southern Baptist Churches Shiloh Association i ti *

EappaJjarmnck Heuib Classified Ads Reach nearly everyone in Rappahannock County with your Classified Ad. Just call or stop by our office before Noon on Tuesday. RATES: $2.40 for the first 20 words, 10 cents for each additional word. Box number, $1.00 additional. Place your ad for as little as $6.60 Horse & Tack Traders’Corner i HORSES FOR SALE ATTRACTIVE. 16 H.. Seal brown TB mare with papers, 9 years old, good broodmare prospect, sound, good mover, easy to handle, no vices. I have had this horse since she was 3. She has been primarily a pleasure horse. Has had some light showing and has been started hunting. I am going into the service and must sell. No agents, Best offer. 364-2S57. 3/20/80 16.3 hand, bay TB Gelding, 5 years old. Call for details, 3477249. 3/20 & 27 GRAY MARE - 10 years, 15’ 2". good jumper, (1,000. Leave message at 703-667-4233 days. 703-662-2441 nights, 703-9551730, weekends. (17) REGISTERED AMERICAN, saddle bred out of Bourbon King, 3 years old, gentle, gelding, chestnut, 15.1 hands. $1500 firm. 754-8844. 17m20 16.2 HAND. CHESTNUT GELDING for sale. Good jumper, has hunted, good home a must. $1000. Call 3477565. 3/13 & 30 FOR SALE - Two arabian horses. Mare 12 years old. Colt 10 months old. 804-645-9287. _ (3-20-3M7) evergreen Arabians PUREBREDS FOR SALE 703 - 327 - 4437 Route One Box 314 Leesburg, Virginia 220 c mm VANS & TRAILERS TRAILER & VAN REPAIR •WELDING •BODYWORK •MATS! •HITCHES •WIRING • BRAKES FLOORS FmI-RmsomM* _ rn pick up In Warrant) Doug Hayes (703)937-4402 »»ee—eeeeeeeeeeeee— HORSE TRAILERS New and used bumper and gooseneck at wholesale prices. New 6 horse 6-H 16x6 foot stock with tack compartment. Fully lined. (1975. New 4 horse 16' xj 5' with tack compartment, (1750. New pipe gooseneck for horses or! cattle, (2495. New drcless 2 horse Thoroughbred models with ramp, oak floors, full escape door, heavy floor mats, sliding windows and brakes, (1795. Used King 2 horse. (875. Used Merhow 2 horse. (1000. Used Stidham 2 horse, (1150. "SpedaT 1976 Gore 4 horse Deluxe with dressing room, (4900. Equipment trailers, new 16 foot - 3 axle bumper flat bed with ramp, (1395. New 16 foot 2 axle bumper flatbed with ramp, (995. New 20' x 8’ gooseneck flatbed with dovetail and ramp. 16 inch rubber. (3195. New 28’x8' gooseneck flatbed with 3 axles, dovetail and ramp, (4500. Trade In accepted. Financing available. Open 9:00-6:00, 7 days a week. Lux Stables. Lanham, Maryland. 301-390-9897. eaaaewwr************* MISC. NOW ON SALE First EdMea Virginia Hunt Country Map Includes the 11 Hunt Boundaries which are verified by the Masters i of Foxhounds Association of J America. Printed on Ivory color paper in 3 colors, measuring 18" { x 22 ViPhone and maH order accepted. $3.95 per copy (plain | paper); $6.50 per copy (laminated! paper). Va. residents indude 4%! sales tax and 75 cents lor postage] and handling. tee dees Times IHrrer I P.0. Bee 389 Leesburg, Va. $2978 793-777-1111 J *. . ' HORSES FOR SALE THOROUGHBRED GELDING registered, excellent hunter and jumper. Must sell. Best otter. 703777-6669. (3-6-2t-17) TB BROODMARE, open, 15 years, has large sound foals which have had success in show ring, gentle, foals easily, wonderful 4-H project for the responsible child with adequate facilities, $300. 9374675 (no dealers.) 3/20/80 Complete line of Horseshoes and farrier tools. Wholesale prices to farriers. Lucky D. Saddlery, Rt. 211, Amissville. HORSESHOEING and hoof trimming. Recently settled into Warrenton area. 25 years experience. Call evenings or early morning. John Stafford, (703) 3473284. ti HORSESHOEING BILL DAVIS James F. King 44 FARRIER ,>a$W-5622 NORSE SHOEING ZIBA R. BEARDEN 754-4753 ( WMmm ] * TRAINING J BOARD - large stalls, good pasture, trails, very reasonable. 703-777-6285. (3-13-2t-17) BOARDING - Small private farm, full care $85; near Lovettsville. 703-822-5824)/202-697-1991. (3-13-2t-17) HORSE BOARDING - on Historic estate five minutes from Mlddleburg. Full care, beautiful facility; scenic cross country riding or ride in our stone walled arena. 703-687-5768. (17) BELVOIR TRAINING CENTER. The Plains, 5 stall block available, April 1st, evenings 253-5192. 3/20/80 KRTEMUU. FJUMS Proudly off*re Boarding ■ Training ■ CHntc*. Instruction In Oroaaag* a Combinad Training. (Your hors* or our'*) 10 MHa* from Warranton 937-4920 Top class boarding.in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mts. Horses bought, sold, and schooled. Ryan’s Stable The Plains, VA 347-3127 BOARDING Pasture - Summer; Hay - Winter. Stalls, shelter. On Historic Landmark 700-acre Estate near Middleburg. $40 per month. Year round. Also, grain feeding. 703-687-6035 or 687-3201 *ON*ESFORSALE 3 13.2 MED. PINTO PONY Pony clubbed up to D level, shown & trail ridden locally. No vices, very gentle, sadly out grown. $550. 788-9041 altar 4 p.a. BARN ■ ilSill CONSTRUCTION ^ 'MMUilliams Cov Inc. specializing in the construction of Complete Custom Horse Facilities BARNS - STABLES - INDOOR ARENAS Remodeling - Custom Homes We Service our Product I P.O. Box 130. Warrenton, Va. 703-347-3173 1 Morton buildings - Nations Largest farm builder HORSE BARNS*RIDINQ ARENAS FARM BLDG. . Box 2004,133 W. Davis Strsat Culpapar, Virginia 0„|c, (703)825-3633, 11/29-TF twjuxhor wmk. I, Quality Buildings By Umbaugh Pole Building Co. Complete Horse Facilities • Barns • Arenas • Stnblss • Buildings For All Uses P.O.Box 218 Fredericksburg, Va. 22401 Call Collect (703) 371-0227 •COMPLETE HORSE FACILITIES •POLE BARNS ^MACHINERY SHEDS ALLTYPES OFFARM BUILDINGS Round Hill. Va. ( MISC. WANTED 'mm ] RETIRED OR AGEING HORSE for ageing pleasure rider. Also, medium to large pony for beginner. Private home. Long on love, short on utsh. 703-327-4476 or 703-327-4485. (3-13-2t-17) WANTED TO BUY Riding horses and ponies for childrens summer camp. Also, saddles, etc. 703554-8255. (tf) WANTED TO BUY - Horses^and ponies, all sizes and types. Broken or unbroken. Vienna. Va. 703-938-2538. (17) FOR TACK ROOM OR OFFICE, used file cabinets, $75. GE refrigerators, $50. Excellent condition. Call 9375341. ■ m20 *Hn| In Vow Idwon. SHARPENED i Better Than New HORSE COUNTRY SADDLERY •y Pm. Warrantee (703) 347-3141 nur 'Vr FARM GATES Mode to Order, Any Siae Oik Lumber - H.G. ROSE Drlaplane. V». 364-1574 EQUINE JUMPS. i SIGNS PAINTED VINCENT WILLIAMS OCkAPkAMft.VA. 3M-IMI Addition* StaMoo • Jump* • Repair* *PUANI» DUNNU 364 1420 Call After 6 P.M. STUD SERVICES SKEETER’S HANK Registered chestnut quarterhorse, now standing at EH Quarterhorse Farm, Gainesville, Virginia. 1978 Virginia 3-year old champion. Fee: $350. Mare care. EH Quarterhorse Farm Gainesville 347-9620 via, 3Q0 I NfflSC. J L "BC 1 [ GEORGE WHITE SUPPLY, INC. f Specializing in Complete t Line of Fencing Repairs or New Installation WIRE - BOARD • RAIL Complete Farm Renovation “L*f us msk9 your tarn a show place.” Box 262, MMdbburg, Virginia 22117 703-687-6371 R. M. Davis Construction Corp. •Costaa Balit Homs •Horse Boros •EqolpMRt Sheds •Board Pesetas, etc. 703-S25-8558 Rt. 1, Bex 23 BapMM.Va.2n33 TRI COUNTY EQUIBED Andmon Amiim. Manta* V*. 22115 “A Better Feed at a Better Cut” MtettTtMM-IMI m Pay ue a vtstt Monday through Friday 7 am. to 5 p.m. Saturday 7 am. to 2 p.m. WANTED, very responsible working student who loves animals to work in show horse barn, call 687-6624. 3120100 BARN HELP - to dean three stall bam and other miscellaneous bam duties. 7 days per week. Oattands area. Call 703-777-7604, am. and after 6:00 p.m. (3-20-2M7) RIDING LESSONS Maintrae Indoor Lighted Ring Private and Group Beginners to Advanced Child or Adult TRAIL RIDES 703-777-3012 703-777-3270 c TACK A EQUIPMENT 1 HAY FOR SALS J GOOD HAY FOR SALE, $1.00 per bale. Call after 6 p.m., 937-5572. 3/13-3/28 HAY FOR SALE Wheathersfield Farm has top quality hay & straw for sale from Virginia & Pennsylvania. We have a year-round supply of the highest quality nay at very reasonable & competitive prices. All types of hay available such as Timothy, Alfalfa, Clover and Mixes. Hay may be picked up in the bam or delivered by the ton in any amount. Hay is guaranteed to be top quality. CaQ John Mean at (703) 937-5454 TF c TACK * EQUIPMENT J STOREWIDE SALE ! MARCH 22 through MARCH SWi 10 -w 50*V (fiU. UK <** 1M CMMt) ©je Saddler? in^rtatAUfi.itd. Fonitrly Shooter's Saddlery, EH Custom Leather & Repair Shop is NOW OPEN • Repair Saddles (English & Western), • horse blankets, all types of • leather goods. Rt. 29-211, New Baltimore *■«« mmmt of GalamiU*. 5 aUe aorth off Warrmloa, roar of Maybach's Grocory Storo. 347-0488 Colvin Run 8 Walker Roads 2 day service on most items 3/13,3/20 Anti-Sweat Sheets Fly Scrims Point-to-Point Supplies Riding Jackets We’re Stocked for Spring HOUSE uOXSL* fmf COUNTRY ivisA JCXsaDDUERY 703-347-3141 Warrenton, 254 Lee Highway HORSEFARM REALTY MIDDLEBURG INVESTMENT PROPERTY IRACE HORSES BROODMARES Private thoroughbred breeding end training farm In a prime location adjacent to the Mlddleburg Training Track and Horae Swimming Center. Thla property offers great potential tor prof/table bualneaa vent urea Involving breeding, raising, training and boarding thoroughbred horses. •RRy-thrae Acres <1 roRog lead with aapte frontage on Inn Crook •Boteoat Bara (it largo stals) with hhortor saad track •Broodmare Bare vHth covered aWa •Cottage •Tack haaaa •Paddocks ait Ruhh Shod $390,000 MIDDLEBURG, VIRGINIA (One hour from Washington, D.C.) One half hour from Dulles International Airport) Contact Ownar WILLIAM R. FARLEY Route 1, Box 1B3 MMdtetoure, Virginia 22117 Telephone (703) 860-1830 La Onion sets, seed potatoes, vegetable seeds, lawn and grass seeds now In stock. Southern States, 21 Manassas St. Front Royal. 13m20 1976 MOPED, good condition, $400. Call 987-8335 after 5. 13tf 1969 CHEVROLET pickup truck, with camper shell, 4 new retreads, very good condition. *1,000. 703-937-5448 after 7 p.m. !2± FOR SALE: 2 very good tires for Chevette, mounted on wheels, $40. 1 new VW wheel, $15. 703 937-5448 after 7 p.m. 13+ Peter Rabbit stopped by the COUNTRY STORE and left lots of his brothers, sisters and neighbors along with Easter baskets for your children. Soft, cuddly bunny only $2.80. Open Wednesday, Saturday and Sundays. 675-3788. 13+ CULPEPER JUNIOR BCIA BULL SALE, Friday, March 28, 1980, 12 noon, Culpeper Agric. Enterprises, Culpeper, Va. Selling 60 junior bulls: Angus, Brangus, Polled Hereford, Simmental, Charolais. For further information, contact Sale Manager: Vernon Kindig, Va. Angus Assoc., 909 Landonia Circle, Charlottesville, Va. 22901. Telephone 804-293-3044. 13m27 HOME SEWING—choose the pattern and material you like. Professional results and experience will save you money. Call 635-7248. 13m27 FORD 600 TRACTOR, gas, 3point hitch and mower, suitable for small farming jobs, bushhogging and mowing, $2500.—Ford Industrie! engine mounted in old sprayer, you remove, $400.-30,000 BTU air conditioner $250.-6000 BTU air conditioner, $100.—Old. doors with original hardware $10 each. Contact Sam Snead, Snead Orchards, Washington, 987-8709. _ 13+ 1954 GMC, 6 cylinder, 228 cubic inch engine, completely rebuilt, just like new, needs carburetor, manifold. $300. Call 987-8043. 13+pd 1966 CHEVROLET pickup, $500. Good condition. 825-0472. 13m27 A PHOTOGRAPHIC INVENTORY of your antiques, fine arts, jewelry, and silver is invaluable in the event of fire, ■ theft-/ of vandalism. Check, with your insurance agent, and then tali Sean Kilpatrick: office 987-8289; darkroom 8256093. 13+ COTNER 2-HORSE TRAILER, double escape doors, used 8 times, A-l shape, $2300. 987-8237. 13+ For Sale: Ford 600 tractor, gas, 3-point hitch and mpwer, suitable for small farming jobs, bushhogging and mowing, $2500.—Ford industrial engine mounted in old sprayer, remove, $400.-30,000 BTU air conditioner $250.-6000 BTU air conditioner, $100. Contact Sam Snead, Snead Orchards, Washington, 987-8709. ■13m20 FREE: 4 crystals from factory with purchase of Bearcat III L-H scanner. Scanner with 8 crystals $121.95 total cost. Receive 2 free crystals with purchase of Bearcat 8-track scanner. Scanner with 4 crystals $79.95 total cost, makes any 8-track a scanner. Offer expires March 31. We stock crystals for Culpeper and Rappahannock counties and surrounding areas. Radio Shack Dealer, Daniel Home Center, 806 N. Main St., Culpeper, Va. 825 5608. 13m27 Come by for your FREE copy of Better Nutrition magazine. NATURE'S FOODS in Washington, Va. is open 7 days a week. Mon.-Fri. 10-5; Saturday 11-5; Sunday 12-5. 13tf SIMMENTAL BULLS, Two % yearling polled bulls, (1 black), one 7-8 4 year bull. Trio Farms, Luray, 743-6304 after 6 p.m. 13m27pd New ECHO Chain Saws Model 750. Discount price $365. Call 937 4655. 13m27 1978 4x4 CHEVROLET SCOTSDALE 10, half ton pickup, A-C, PB, PS, AM-FM, console, bucket seats, dual exhaust. $6175. Call 937 5510. 13ro20 1978 4x4 Chevrolet Scotsdale 10, half-ton pickup, a-c, PB, PS, AM-FM, console, bucket seats, dual exhaust. $6875. Call 937-5510. 13m20 COMMERCIAL CATTLEMEN—Good Charolais bulls in your herd will increase your profits by in- - creasing weaning weights of your calves. Excellent ones will be in the BCIA Performance Tested Bull Sale, Mar. 28, at Culpeper. They have gained 3.62 to 4.02 lbs. per day. All are polled. We also have good 2 yr. old tested Charolais bulls for sale at our farm. Prices reasonable. Manwaring Cattle Company, 703 987 8892 or 703 987 8433. iim27 JOHN H. MOORE, Carpets, 1 Church St., Front Royal. 6358883. Inflation fighting prices with top quality installation. I3ai7 'USED FURNITURE, appliances, glassware, etc., at Dodson's Trading post, located on 29 business, 2 miles N. of Culpeper. Open daily 106, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 12-5. Phone 825-1380, Auctions every Fri. night at 7:30 p.m. consignments accepted. We buy and sell. 125tfn

Mt$C. FOR SALE OAK farm gates complete with hinges, ready to hang, standard sizes or made to order. Foxhall Farm, Flint Hill, 635-4213 or 675-3537. _ 13m20 GIANT OUTDOOR FLEA MARKET To open March 30th. Large spaces available for tables, vans or whatever you have, 3 Minutes from Winchester City Limits. Best Frederick County location. Heart of traffic, spaces cheap, open through November. For further information, call 703-8692901. ( BUSINESS •MMMtMMMNMMi HEAVY DUTY bushhogging with industrial equipment. Call 825-0473. _ 5 ft PINEY RIVER CARPENTRY, INC., new construction, restoration, plumbing, back hoe-rental, drain fields. Troy or Wayne Jenkins, 987-8938 or 675-3709. 5a3 CABINETS, fine handmade quality or commercially made, featuring Rich-Maid, Meriilat and IXL. Butcher block counter tops. Custom “ millwork services available. COUNTRY CUPBOARDS Washington, Va. 675-3294. _ 5tf AL'S PLUMBING 81 HEATING, quality workmanship, 1 year warranty on new installation. Custom, Remodeling, Repair. Call 9878780. 5tf WILLIAM E. SISK: Electrical Contractor. New homes, additions, wiring of all kinds, no job too small. Call 987-8772. Sperryville, Va. _ 5tf ROOFING—Gutters and down spoutings. Tinning and roofing of all kinds; Aluminum gutter and downspout. Roof repair. Call Bill Starks, 675-3630, Washington, Va. _5tf REMODELING, restorations, all phases of carpentry. Call F. W. Hutchinson, 937-5579. 5tfpd STEVE RIGHTER, Journeyman Carpenter. Experienced in all aspects of building. Licensed. Local references. After 6 p.m. call 675-3538. _ 5tf WELDING, your place or mine, free estimates. Call 6753456 after 5 p.m. _5m27 RAPPAHANNOCK REFINISHERS. Repair and refinishing of fine furniture. Pick-up and delivery. 987-8134. __ 5al7 Let us lundlo your AUCTION SALE Complete services for ESTATES, FARM SALES, etc. Call Fred Reger 703-368-5798 after 3 p.m ERWIN LESH ELECTRICAL WORK RESTORATIONS A SPECIALTY (703) 675*3879 WASHINGTON, VA. 22747 We Can Supply All Your* BUILDING NEEDS Culpeper Building & Supply Corp. Phone 825-8383 Culpeper MILLS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Builders, new homes and remodeling. All work guaranteed. Charlie Mills 987-8037 FARM AND 1 HOKSE SERVICES I Weathersfield Farm has top horse and cattle hay from Virginia and Pennsylvania at reasonable prices. Call John Mears. 937-5454. _8tf LOST: Labrador Retriever, 1 year old, yellow female, wearing blue collar and tag. Tattoo inside right rear leg. Children's pet. REWARD. Last seen March 7, Slate Mills area. 987 8271. 17+ QH-TB, 8 year old mare. Will jump. 703-854-5649. 17m20 mm ViiuiiiuiiiiMniiiiiiiiiriiiiliiiiiiii FARM HAND, available immediately, hard working, sober, over 35, reliable man. Full time position. 2-bedroom bouse available plus salary. Must be able to run farm equipment, make hay and experience in working with cattle. Send resume and references to Route 2, Box 41F, The Plains. Va. 22171. _IStfnpd WOMAN wanted to do light housework in Sperryville area. Hourly rates. Contact 675-3613. 20+ LEGAL SECRETARY: send resume, typed if possible to P.O. Box 38-A, Washington, va. 22747. 20+ HELP WANTED: Growing Home Center and Building Materials Business in the Shenandoah Valley has an opening in sales and purchasing. Must want to work. Experience helpful but not necessary. Good fringe benefits. Send complete resume to Rappahannock News, Box 38F, Washington, Virginia 22747. . 20m20 T-- * h . ' .ill Hii.I.I MEN: A JACOBY TRANSFER is no use on the Metro; a WEAK JUMP OVERCALL isn't a basketball - play; BLACKWOOD isn't a wood stove; and GERBER is more than baby food. But if you would like to play with them once a month, call Sean: 9878252. 21m27 In loving memory of my mother, Maude Dodson, who departed this life, March 21, 1979. She was so weak and tired and worn out with pain. She could not realize what her loved ones was saying because she was waiting for the call from above. She lived a long life and as days rolled into years, she knew many sorrows and tears, I am sure when she opened her eyes in that beautiful city, she could see her blessed Jesus on high. We gave our mother into the arms of the one who cares, we miss her but we must not grieve because we know God loves her more. As we travel down this life we know that some day we will meet Mother again, but until then Jesus will give us the strength we need to bear this sorrow. Her daughter. May Anna Atkins 21 + od GOSPEL SINGING: The Rev. Edward Jenkins and the Blue Grass Gospel Boys will be at Jenkins Auction House, Washington, March 22 at 7:30 p m. Everyone welcome. _ 21 + pd PLEASE ATTEND the Rappahannock Democratic mass meeting to be held Saturday, March 22, at 12 noon at the Court House, Washington. Doors close at 21+pd APARTMENT in Washington, carpet in living room and bedroom. No children, no pets, security deposit required. Call 675-3456 after 5 p.m. 22m27 OFFICE FOR RENT in Washington, Va. Two large, bright rooms, with access to storage and bath. Utilities furnished, including heat and air conditioning. In town. $150 per month. Contact Mrs. Latham, 675-3349, or Mr. Toler, 347-4222. 24 tf New, contemporary 2 bedroom house on secluded farm. Solar heated. All appliances, view, complete privacy. References required, available April 15. $350 per month. Reply to: Box 38-D, Washington, Va. 22747. _ 24m27 BEAUTIFUL five bedroom house conveniently situated in Flint Hill. References required. $475 per month. Telephone for complete details. 675-3809. _ 24m27 “Joe Williams General Contractor Chester Gap, Va. New Homes, Old Home Restoration Additions, Rec. Rooms, Remodeling, Custom Cabinets, Etc. “Quality” Second To None |v«. auit Reg. Contractor No. 17877 703-635-5903 GOOD PASTURE for rent. 25 acres, water, pen, loading ramp at Scrabble. 9*7-8811. __24a IN THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF WASHINGTON, VIRGINIA IN RE: NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR CONSIDERATION OF AMENDMENT TO ZONING OR DlNANCE OF THE TOWN OF WASHINGTON, VIRGINIA Pursuant to Article 8 of the Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Washington, Virginia and Section 15.1-431 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, notice is hereby given that the Town Council of Washington, Virginia will consider an amendment to the zoning ordinance of the Town of Washington, Virginia on Tuesday, April 8, I960 at 7.30 P.M. at the Rappahannock County Courthouse. Said amendment provides that the Planning Commission of the County of Rappahannock shall be designated as the Planning Commission of the Town of Washington pursuant to Virginia Code Section 15.1-443. Said amendment further provides that all references to the Planning Commission of the Town of Washington contained in the zoning ordinance of said town shall be deleted from said ordinance. All citizens of the Town of Washington interested in these amendments are encouraged to be present at the Rappahannock County Courthouse, Washington, Virginia, for the aforesaid public hearing, after which public hearing the Town Council will vote on said amendment. Copies of this proposed amendment may be examined in the offices of Douglas K. Baumgardner, Attorney for the Town of Washington, Virginia, between the hours of B:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday. J. Newbill Miller, Mayor Town of Washington NOTICE Anyone interested in professional ladies’ and men’s tailoring, dress making, alterations from formal to sport wear. 20 years experience Call 9878333 or 987-8146. AUCTIONS FARM EQUIPMENT TRUCKS ANTIQUES Sat., March 29 10 a.m. Rain or Shine Farm Equipment, etc. HALLINGDALE FARM Rt. 15, Haymarket, Va. Watch for complete /'"''listing ‘ March 27 Sat., April 19 10 a.m. Rain or Shine Farm Equipment Lots of Antiques EDWARD STEPHEN’S FARM Rt. 610, Elk Run, Va. Watch for complete listing April 17 We Have Lots of Antique and Furniture Auctions Coming Up... COL. TOM W. REESE AUC'ION COWAN* MMtt—roN. viaomtA u tm PHONf 439 354a Scores Continue Climb (Continued from Page 1) statewide eighth grade ability ranking of 41st percentile in 1974- 75 is the same in 19798°. Two Improved Since *75 In Rappahannock, eighth graders ranked in the 32nd percentile nationwide, based on their ability test scores in 1975- 76. On achievement tests that same year, they ranked in the 26th percentile in reading, 34th in language, 37th in math concepts, 35th in math computations, 33rd in math totals, 27th in social studies and 31st in science. Comparing 1975-76 to the current year, achievement rankings have improved in, only two areas, reiuling and language. Eighth graders tested this past fall scored in the 32nd percentile on reading, 33rd on language, 37th on math concepts, 32nd in math computations and math total, 29th in social studies and 31st in science. For the most part, Rappahannock students come off DMV Offers Newcomers Guide Newcomers’ questions about motoring in Virginia are now answered in an easyto-read brochure developed by the Virginia Department of Transportation Safety and the Division of Motor Vehicles. Entitled, "New to Virginia? A Newcomer’s Guide to Motoring in Virginia,” the brochure includes information about driver licensing, vehicle registration, insurance requirements, taxes, safety inspections and rules of the road that newcomers may not be familiar with. New residents, military personnel, students, temporary residents and other interested individuals may request copies of the guide from DMV branch offices in Culpeper, Warrenton or Front Royal. CELEBRATE EASTER Rim Poortvttct. woddttnwiwd illustrator of "Gnomes'*. Km created an extraordinary celebration of the life of Christ “This is the most beautiful book about Jesus I have ever held in my hands A truly inspired work”—Matjooe Holmes. Looking at this simple, direct, moving book, you know who Jesus « Share this experience when you send or give “H. W« On. of Us”. Royal Oak Bookshop 207 S. Royal Ave Front Royal 635-7070 USED FARM EQUIPMENT New Holland Forage Harvester White 17 ft. Disc Oliver S-row air planter Ford pull-type field cultivator Ford 3-point Mower New Holland trailer mower New Holland Balers S-p-e-c-i-a-l Repossessed White 4-row air planter with sod fertilizer and herbicide attachment. ^Spe^^Ue^ SPERRYVILLE EMPORIUM Sperryville, Virginia 22740 (703) 987-8088 - Office 25.1 ACRES - This one has it all, variety of open and wood land, spring, streams and breath taking views. Comfortable 2-story brick home has 3 bedrooms, 2 Vi baths, dining room, den, living room with fireplace and full basement. $136,000. For as little as $2900 down and $136.40 monthly you can own this 30 x 60 cinderblock building on approximately one acre fronting state road near Flint Hill. m I^OEAlTOH Jamas W. Leaks, Realtor 987 8236 John Eubank, Jr. 987-8146 J. Maurice O'Bannon 987-8713 Eddie Wayiend 187-8153 Bud Corder I 635-5891 Ji well in comparisons with similar school divisions in the area. Fourth graders in Rappahannock schools ranked at the same ability level as fourth graders in Madison but Rappahannock students scored higher on five achievement tests (reading, language, math total, social studies and science) and even on the remaining two. Eleventh graders in Rappahannock scored higher in ability and achievement than juniors in Madison. Eighth graders, however scored higher in ability but lower in all areas of mathematics. Rappahannock’s fourth graders scored from six to 17 percentage points higher in all areas than did fourth graders in Page County and eleventh graders here ranked from even to 11 points higher than Page juniors. Again, eighth graders did not do as well comparatively, ranking even in ability with Page eighth graders but even or below on achievement tests. 8th Below Culpeper Rappahannock fourth graders scored four points below Culpeper students on ability but even in achievement tests on reading, language and math totals. Eighth graders here ranked even with Culpeper eighth graders on ability but below in achievement in every area except reading. Eleventh graders ranked even with Culpeper in ability, higher on achievement in fading and social studies, even in language and science and slightly below in math total. Fauquier students scored consistently above Rappahannock in ability and achievement at the eighth and fourth grade levels. Among eleventh graders In-School Suspension (Continued from Page 1) usually aren’t any discipline cases,, can the in-school suspension instructor substitute for a regular classroom teacher? Moore guessed that there would be no restrictions preventing the in-school suspension instructor from being used elsewhere if there were no students under suspension. He suggested that the school board, in considering the program proposal, also think about hiring a person with training as a counselor. Then the classroom teacher would also have the option of sending a disruptive youngster to inschool suspension for an hour or two at a time during with the student could obtain counseling. Mrs. Massie asked if there are specific requirements on the type of teacher that could be hired for an in-school suspension program. Moore replied that the details are completely up to Rappahannock to decide. The school board will determine the type of inschool suspension system it wants to implement and then ipply to DJCP for the money :o fund the program. “We ire writing the program and then hoping it gets approved,” he explained. “We write the details.” Wendy Brown from Rapp ah an nock-Rapid an Planning District staff volunteered assistance in filling out forms for the grant application. She noted that she could gather most of the information needed on the applications from Moore and school administrators. The program proposal will be for a three-year period, she noted, and the application will have to be renewed each year. “It sounds like a very interesting possibility,” said board member Charles Eldred. "We definitely do have some problems in this area.” In-school suspension, said superintendent William Bloomer, “almost fits hand in glove with the state mandate, part of the Standards of Quality, for alternative education. “I see some great possibilities,” he added. Mrs. Massie told Moore that the school board needed time to investigate the benefits of in-school suspension and indicated a decision will be made on applying for the DJCP grant at the April meeting. REAL ESTATE RAPPAHANNOCK. CO. period log house on 25 acres, spring, view, state road frontage. Circa 1750, completely and tastefully restored, 2 bedrooms, 1 Vi baths; this house has the classical lines of an early log house, truly outstanding. $110,000 financing. CULPEPER LINE Rappahannock Co. 11 acres, long hard surfaced road frontage, moderate to steep terrain, an energy efficient location, ie/plenty of wood and protected exposure, S15,000 owner financing. FLINT HILL, 19.66 acres, view, hard surfaced road frontage, large stream, good location, excellent buy on todays market. $29,500 financing. NEWBILL MILLER Realtor 703/675-3691 RAY T. CANNON CO. REAL ESTATE since mi CASTLETON-—5 acres mostly wooded, with small stream, 2 bedroom ranch house, 4 years old, with aluminum siding, brick fireplace, half basement, modern conveniences including central air. Located on paved road, mail and school bus route, good view. $65,000. CASTLETON - 30 acres, 5 room log frame dwelling with bath; 70 V? ft. by 12 ft. barn j with horse stalls and hayloft, 12 ft. by 10 ft. storage building, stream, spring fed pond; located on state road, school bus and mail route. $75,000 with owner financing. HAMISSVIM-E 037-4111 Ray T. Cannon 937-4900 James M. Cannon 937-4700 Paul Nichols 675-3500 tested, however, Rappahannock students scored even in reading, language arts and social studies despite ranking three points behind in ability. Rappahannock fourth graders scored from four to 11 percentile points above Warren County students in categories of ability and achievement. The eighth grade reversed the results, scoring from six to 19 points below Warren students with the widest margin coming in mathematics. Eleventh graders reduced the difference, scoring from six points below to even with Warren County juniors. All Tested Here In presenting the SRA and STEA results to the school board at last week’s meeting, assistant superintendent Rob McDaniel noted that all eighth graders were tested here, with the scores from mentally retarded youngsters included in the totals. He estimated that this may have caused a drop of approximately three percentage points in ability level anfl achievement. * “Each division has the option of testing or not testing special education students,” McDaniel said. “Most school divisions will exclude them in order to bring the results up...The only students excluded here were those not in attendance on the day the test was given,” he said. Legally, said McDaniel, a division can elect to exclude students in educable and trainable mentally retarded classes (EMR and TMR). Students classified as learning disabled (LD) can be given more time to finish portions of the standardized tests or can take parts of the test orally, he said. McDaniel noted that EMR and TMR students in Rappahannock schools have not been given either the ability or achievement tests in past years. “This year, they were and in spite of that, our test scores are up,” concluded board member Charles Eldred. hi—)» 'in.. SPACIOUS ELEGANCE Custom built Colonial with circular drive on one acre knoll minutes South of Warrenton on State Route 685. Beautiful view of mountains' and deer trail from the portico of this five bedroom, 3 Vi bath residence. Other amenities include custom milled cherry dining room floor, mansion trim, colonial six-panel solid wood doors, slate foyer, his/her dressing areas off Master suite, Walkout bay window in breakfast nook/kitchen combination, family room two and one-half (2Vi) car garage and a nineteen hundred eighty-five (1985) Square foot walkout basement. All for $110,000.00 with assumable I financing. Shown by appointment. Principals only. Call 439-8898. $rnpertg Stating OWNER FINANCING Jonathan Run meanders the long border of these 35 acres of woodland with stream, pondsite, and privacy. $1550 per acre with Negotiable Terms. 161 gently rolling fertile acres for cattle or horse operation. Pleasant views, streams, fencing, some wooded area. $1400 per acre with financing. EILEEN M. DAY, REALTOR CLOPTON HOUSE WASHINGTON, VIRGINIA 22747 675-3400 Candy Coombs realty world Associate Broker 675-3485 Beverlv Atkl Kerry Smithgall Beverly Atkins Associate Broker is 937-5573 Realtor Associate ho Din u. Day Realtor Associate 675-3857 675-3883 Miizie roung ■ Realtor Associate I 937-5196 I SCENIC RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY WASHINGTON: HISTORIC large home on lot surveyed by G. Washington and C. Manson. 5-6 bedrms, 3!/2 baths, 2 kitchens, fireplace, includes craft/food shop. Mt. Views and village conveniences. Walk to The Bank and The Inn. Exc. rental potential as apartments and office/store. $83,500. NEW CONTEMPORARY on 1 V« acres with stream on Rt. 645 near Rappahannock River. Balconies in the trees, cathedral ceiling, woodstove and hearth. Many custom features. $59,000. HILLTOP near Massies Corner. Panoramic VIEWS to west and east. Woods and rolling meadow, 25 acres, $53,000. OLD LOG CABIN carefully restored, 2 acres, $41,500 with possible owner financing at 10%. FIREWOOD FUTURES, 50 acres with stream near Scrabble - only $750 per acre! Owner financing at 10%. FARMS: 100 to 200 Acres, good terms - Good for cattle, horses, or asses. MT. LAND. Wooded with spectacular VIEWS of Blue Ridge 36 acres - $36,000 terms, 15 acres - $25,000. SHEN. NAT. PARK and Jordan River border this 42 acre wilderness at end of hollow. Decrepit house,' pond, $68,000 terms. RIVERFRONT TRACTS - 2 acres and up. THANKS for thinking sprink! Now try for lower interest rates.. Call EARTHMAN II9374388. RAPPALACHIAN HOMES Gay St., Washington, Va. Talemoblle: 347-1920/825-1847

CULPEPER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 20th Anniversary Report P.O. Box 592 Culpeper, Va. 22701

Hospital staff CULPEPER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Active Allen, Benjamin Franklin, M.D. Beargie. Richard John, M.D. Berberian, George M., M.D. Post, Michael A., M.D. Brornan. George F . Jr., M.D. Brown. Toby L., M.D. Burke, P. Declan, M.D. Chiles, Morton P., in, M.D. Cook, James Bryon, M.D. Couk, David E., M.D. Cramer, Alfred B., m, M.D. Crowder, Patricia E., M.D. Datta, Nimai C., M.D. Davies, Linda H., M.D. Dauber, Henry M., M.D. Feldman, Daniel M., M.D. Flaherty, Thomas, F., M.D. Hellems, H. Keith, Jr., M.D. Hellinger, Karl H. R., M.D. Henson, Grahame F., M.D. Jones, J. Bernard, M.D. Kilby, Walter B., M.D. Kim, Jung Ja , M.D. Markham, Harold W., M.D. Modaber, Parviz, M.D. Payette, John J., Jr., M.D. Silvester, Michael J., M.D. Snyder, David M., M.D. Turner, L. John, M.D. Wagner, Archibald C., MB. Wallace, M. Brevard, m, M.D. Weaver, Ddmar F., M.D. Worchel, Barry J., M.D. Young, William H., Jr., M.D. Zazzaro, Patrick R., M.D. Courtesy Askey, Fletcher C., M.D. Athari, Freydoon, M.D. Borchardt, Charles R., D.D.S. Cave, William B., M.D. Chefetz, Richard A., M.D. Cook, C. Barrie, M.D. Dellinger, James L., M.D. Eastham, R. Jackson, m, M.D. Godwin, Ira D., M.D. Huang, Amy, M.D. King, Peter, M.D. Kramer, Barbara, M.D. Iineberger, Adrian S., Jr., M.D. Martin, Jerry W., M.D. Masloff, James I., M.D. McLean, W. Copley, M.D. Oldmixon, Williard J., M.D. Orr, William A., M.D. Pietsch, Richard L., M.D. Powell, Alfred E., M.D. Richardson, Donald R., M.D. Silbersiepe, Heinz O., M.D. Skovronsky, Jeffery, J., M.D. Sydnor, T. Austin, Jr., M.D. Vassallo, Michael, M.D. Wallenbom, White McK., M.D. Williams, liiomas E., D.M.D. Orthopedics Gen. & Vas. Surgery Emergency Medicine Family Practice General Surgery Radiology OB-Gynecology Family Practice Internal Medicine Orthopedics Internal Medicine Family Practice Urology Radiology Pathology Pediatrics OB-Gynecology Radiology Pathology General Surgery Family Practice Pediatrics Anesthesiology Family Practice OB-Gynecology OB-Gynecology Family Practice Orthopedics Radiology Radiology Family Practice Otolaryngology Psychiatry Psychiatry Radiology Dermatology Pathology Oral & Maxillofacial Family Practice Family Practice Pathology Family Practice Otolaryngology Pathology Pathology Anesthesiology Pathology Family Practice Urology Otolaryngology Pathology Urology Ophthalmology Family Practice Pediatrics Dermatology Anesthesiology Pathology Otolaryngology Pathology Otolaryngology Oral & Maxillofacial Consultant k Honorary Consultant Staff Jones, Herbert C., M.D. LeGarde, Rector S., M.D. Quaintance, Rupert W., Jr., M.D. Strider, David V., M.D. Honorary Staff Cate, L. Huntley, M.D. Diasio, Clara F., M.D. Diasio, Joseph S., M.D. Stringfellow, James L., M.D. Dental Consultant Breeden, Alvin W.f D.D.S. OB-Gyn ecology Preventive Med. Family Practice Orthopedics Family Practice Pediatrics Family Practice Family Practice Dentistry 1980 Board of Trustees The 1979-80 officers of the Culpeper Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees are from left, L.A. Rhoades, treasurer; Giles H. Miller Jr., chairman; George E. Moth, vice chairman; and Alfred B. Cramer m, M.D., Secretary. People are hospital's strength “The large number of individuals who have given their services over the years, as trustees, pink ladies and in other capacities, indicates a strong belief and interest in the hospital,” says Giles H. Miller Jr., president of the Board of Trustees of Culpeper Memorial Hospital. Tm on the board because I feel the hospital is so important to the area,” according to Miller. “It has meant so much, and saved so many lives.” Miller particular credits the Culpeper Jayceettes with the effort which led to the founding of the hospital, and Mrs. Betty Adair, who was Jayceette president at the time. Others whose commitment went deep included T.I. Martin, John Rogers, who was the first president, J. Carlton Clore, Karl Hellinger, Mrs Maxwell Willis, Jack Eggbom and many others. A good many people have served on the 20-member Board of Trustees since then, people representing a cross-section of the area. There have been housewives and professional people, and there are currently members from Rappahannock, Madison and Orange counties, and from Lake of the Woods. Trustees serve as volunteers, without compensation, bn a board which is the mechanism that ensures that the nonprofit community hospital meets the needs of the people it serves. The board is committed to continuing to provide good service at a reasonable cost, Miller says, and works both with the public for input and with the staff and administration. Members also learn as they go; Miller, who has been on the board before, has been impressed since his return with the growing capabilities of the hospital and its doctors. CULPEPER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1979-1960 Giles H. Miller, Jr., Chairman George E. Muth, Vice-Chairman Alfred B. Cramer, m, M.D., Secretary Lee A. Rhoades, Treasurer Mrs. Betty C. Adair William M. Alphin George P. Beard, Jr. James N. Cortada John A. Eckel Mrs. Mary C. Fray W. A. Gravely, Jr. Mrs. Rachel N. Graves Grahame F. Henson, M.D. Dr. William L. Bowse, ITT Mrs. Doris K. Ireland Earl Johnston William B. Toliver J. Robert Yeaman, ttt Earn R. Yeargin HONRARY MEMBER Mrs. Lewis L. Strauss CULPEPER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC. CULPEPER, VIRGINIA Accredited by: The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals Licensed by: Hie Virginia Department of Health Member of: The American Hospital Association The Virginia Hospital Association Hie Bine Ridge Hospital Council The Bine Cross-Blue Shield of Virginia

T * / DR. 6RAHAME HENSON Dr. Henson long a mainstay Twenty years ago, “I was spread rather thinly” as a doctor who joined the medical staff at Culpeper Memorial Hospital soon after it opened, recalls Grahame F. Henson, M.D. surgeon and a mainstay of the hospital. Dr. Henson, who came to the United States from England and to Culpeper from Charlottesville’s University of Virginia Hospital, found CMH “cosy and homey” and feels that it has retained much of that quality even with the growing sophistication it shares with medicine in general. When he first joined the staff, on July 4, 1960, “the hospital had been opened by community support and was run by a group of dedicated general practitioners and I was encouraged by physicians of the caliber of Drs. Burnett and Finney”, he said. There was another surgeon, a radiologist shared'with Warrenton and a pathology service, and “that was about it.” Dr. Henson, who is a fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons, and who did a residency in surgery at St. Mary’s Hospital in London and a research fellowship Peter Bent Bringham Hospital in Boston, found that “my personal role was more diversified” than it is now. He did surgery, but he also did some ear, nose and throat work, some urology, orthopedics and even a little gynecology. Since then, the hospital- has added people until “we now really have all the major specialties.” An example of the growth of technology and training at the hospital is the new respiratory therapy department. Henson wryly recalls a time when respiratory therapy was limited— “we'd just say breathe deeply and cough.” Now, there are complex machinery and trained technicians to find out a variety of things which need a variety of treatments. The technical advances have been of inestimable value in “marginal patients,” whose general state of health requires particular exactness, the doctor says. There was, at first, no intensive care unit. “It’s quite frightening what we didn’t have,” he muses; “but I think we did well Future health care will need attention If the past 20 years have brought a lot of changes to Culpeper’s community hospital, Culpepei Memorial Administrator Bill Gravely sees as many, or perhaps more, in the next 20. And he thinks the need for citizen involvement is as great now as it was before 1960. Two decades of physical growth and burgeoning of numbers of staff have seen added a 24-hour emergency room, a pediatrics unit, the new coronary - intensive care unit, and a major addition and renovation. The Board of Trustees has provided for still more physical expansion by planning the addition so that floors can be added, as well as another wing. “The future will mean the expansion of the hospital in beds and services,” according to Gravely, but it will also mean changes in the technology and organization of health care, which the hospital will have to prepare to meet. Health care is becoming more varied and complex. , Gravely expects the development of health maintenance organization, with “all services under one umbrella,” to make them more available to the public. The umbrella will mean physical concentration as well; already on the hospital “campus” Many specialties are represented “This is a hospital where the medical staff is composed primarily ol specialists,” says Dr. David E. Couk, president of the medical staff of Culpeper Memorial Hospital. “It’s unlike any hospital of its size that I have seen anywhere.” He added that CMH is reflective of what has happened generally in medicine dependence on “very capable” general practitioners. There are about six dozen physicians on the medical staff, part active and part courtesy, consultant or honorary. Dr. Couk points out that the addition of new doctors is still going on, with a number added very recently, including Drs. Michael A. Boat and Michael J. Silvester, family practitioners whose offices are in Orange and who use CMH. Added in Madison has been another family practitioner, Dr. Richard A. Chefetz. Culpeper Memorial in the past year has also added a second psychiatrist, Dr. Jason Worchel; Dr. Benjamin Allen, like Dr. Couk an orthopedic surgeon; Dr. Bryon Cook, who specializes in internal medicine; Dr. Henry M. Dauber, a pathologist; and - Drs. Toby Brown and Pat Zazzaro, radiologists. has been located a mental health clinic, and a new public health building being planned by the county will almost certainly be there as well. Another future development will probably be the establishment of hospital-based home health services, to care for patients who do not need to be admitted, but do require home care from nurses, aides and other professionals. There will generally be more need for outpatient services at the hospital, to complement the work of physicians in the community Gravely predicts that Culpeper’s success in attracting quality doctors will continue. The community has “so mud) to offer” for physicians who would rather forego the urban bustle, he says. CMH is fortunate to have “quality people,” not only its doctors but the “frontline” nurses and others who keep the facility running, the administrator says. Public involvement is needed to make sure the nation doesn't end up with a plan it canot live with, he adds. “There is a danger that a health care system will evolve that the public wont want,” he says. It is up to people to learn about their hospitals, and “decide what they want and what they are willing to pay for,” or bureaucrats will do it for them, according to Gravely. But the complexity, the technology, the mere sise of the health care picture comes with assorted problems. Gravely is already dealing with many of them, the overregulation, the red tape, a threatened nurse shortage. The “strangulation effect” of regulation has been estimated to add as much as 25 percent to the hospital bill, he says, as guidelines come for everything from fire exits to the type of toilet seat required. There is going to be more and more concern over cost, and the administrator is sure “there is going to be a national health care plan of some sort.” Office™ of the medical staff ef Chlpeper Memorial Hospital are, from left, stands*. Dr. George Bromaa, past president; Dr. Ntmai Datta, secretary; Dr. Thomas Flaherty, at-large member sf the executive committee; aad Dr. David Cork, presides!. Seated are Dr. Dryer Geek, chairman el the Department of Medicine, and Dr. Linda H. Davies, chairman el the emergency room committee. with what we did have.” Dr. Henson can also recall when the emergency room was just that — one small room, generally staffed by a floor nurse. Doctors covered the ER with an on-call system, in rotation, and the nurse’s first reaction to an emergency was to search for the doctor whose turn it was. , Now, emergency medicine is a specialty and a difficult one at that, the surgeon notes. Another area where there has been specialization is in social services. It was an added duty of the physician to work with patients making the transition from hospital to home, and now there is nelp available. Laboratory capability has also grown tremendously. Lab studies are taken for granted now which only a short time ago “weren’t being done.” Dr. Henson stresses that Culpeper Memorial is “not just a glorified nursing home, it’s a well-staffed hospital,” adding “I am amazed at the numbers and caliber of physicians we have here, relative to the size of the community — it is quite extraordinary.” He pauses, and with the direct charm which has made him the highlight of a lot of Culpeper’s amateur theatricals over the years, lightens the strong declaration with a smile. “I’m not just saying that.” Theatre has been a strong interest of his, and the doctor born in Wales even wrote Culpeper’s Bicentennial pageant. He says he always wanted to practice in a rural area, and his affection for the community is obvious. ne aoes see some problems ahead for community health care. “Life has become more pressurized,” as medicine has, and he would like to see CMH retain the good things about a small hospital as it inevitably grows. A hospital has to decide “how far to go to give excellent care, but also where to stop,” Dr. Henson says. “It’s silly to double up medicine,” with two neighboring hospitals adding to their costs by each maintaining equipment they could share. “We like people to stay here; we like to take care of people here," he declares, but as transport also become more efficient and costs go up people making the decisions have to keep regionalism in mind.

ICU use Cost control effort is hospital-wide snows rise Since the spacious new coronary - intensive care unit at Culpeper Memorial Hospital opened in 1979, there has been a dramatic increase in the admissions of patients needing such care. People needing lower levels of care have also benefited, in better use of other space in the hospital as a result of the project, underwritten entirely by the Rochester Corporation. The hospital has had an intensive care unit since 1969, first providing the service when only 17 percent of all hospitals in Virginia had ICU's. Culpeper Memorial was one of the first hospitals of its size to have such a unit It then was at only 40 beds. The unit was provided as a memorial to Dr. Cedi G. Finney, who practiced medicine in Culpeper for 2b years. He died in 1968, and it was a desire to honor him which led to the new service. Basically, two semiprivate rooms were concerted into a four-bed facility, run by especiallytrained nurses for both heart patients and postsurgical cases. The Rochester Corporation made a contribution in 1975 which helped the hospital upgrade its ICU equipment, which becomes antiquated very rapidly. bui mere was sun a problem with lack of patient privacy and storage space. Through the largest single contribution ever made to the hospital, Rochester provided for the expanded ICU, with a “wall-smashing” ceremoney on Sept. 15, 1978. The new unit, put in where the old business office and administrator’s offices were located, is light, roomy and cheerful. There are separate cubicles where patients can rest undisturbed, constantly monitored at the nurses station at the front of the room. Currently, six people at a time can be monitored, but there is a capacity for eight. The new unit provides two-way vision, plenty of storage space, modern equipment and two observation beds — safe spots for limited time observation, as in the case of patients recovering from anesthesia. Monitoring capability is also greater. Shorter stays for patients, a voluntary effort program, and incentives for employee cost-cutting suggestions are all part of Culpeper Memorial Hospital’s attempt to keep down the cost of being hospitalized. The hospital has experienced some very real success in its cost-control vigilance. For the third straight fiscal year, CMH has more than met national goals in restraining the growth rate of expenses. The American Hospital Association, through its voluntary effort program, has set goals for hospitals to attempt to reach in fighting inflation in health care. Historically, according to Culpeper Memorial Assistant Administrator Jim Musgrave, hospital costs have exceeded the Consumer Price Index, simply because inflation tends to hit particularly hard in hospitalization. Health care is strongly tied to the labor market because so many workers are needed; and hospitals use an abundance of all the commodities which go upfood, petroleum-based plastic containers, fuel to produce heat and hot water. Government regulations also tend to send hospital costs up as they change and tighten. In the past, when in* flation has run about nine percent, hospital costs have gone up 16 percent. The American Hospital Association several years back set as its goal the reduction of the rate of increase by two percent a year. In the first fiscal year, 1976-77, the 16 percent was to come down to 14 percent. Culpeper Memorial hit 13.3 that year. In 1977-78, the goal was 12 ^percent, and Virginia hospitals beat that by holding their average rate of cost increase to 10.5 percent. At CMH, the rate was 8.6 percent. The last fiscal pear, 1978-79, had a goal of ■ only 10 percent, with the Culpeper facility keeping the hike at 8.9 percent. Cost-control consciousness has been everywhere, as the hospital turned to out-patient surgery in the emergency room where admittance was not necessary and the patient could be sent home Administration and department heads at Culpeper Memorial Hospital pose for a group portrait In front from left we Robert F. Hale, R.Ph., pharmacist; Mrs. Loretta J. Faith, R.N., nursing supervisor; James E. Harris, C.R.T.T., chief respiratory therapist; and Mrs. Edna H. Farry, R.P.T., physical therapist In the center, from left are Mrs. Marie G. Moran, RJi., nursing supervisor; Mrs. Jean C. Conner, administrative assistant; James R. Musgrave, assistant administrator for fiscal affairs; W.A. Gravely, administrator; Mrs. Barbara J. Eggborn, R.N., assistant* administrator for nursing services; Mrs. Florence W. Ford, ILN., Infection control coordinator and nursing supervisor; and Miss Rosehna Herring, food service manager. In the back row. are Mrs. Sue G. Vaught director of employee and community relations; Mrs. Nancy R. Broman, R.N., director of Inservice; Mrs. Helen T. Holman, executive housekeeper; Mrs. Nancy Greene, purchasing agent; Miss Ruth M. Hought, data processing manager; Mrs. Patricia L. Crigler, MT-ASCP; and Ms. Linda Bailey, director of social services and patient representative. Not pictured are William T. Kern, R.T., chief radiologic technologist; Mrs. Barbora-Sue O’Toole, R.N., nursing supervisor; Jack E. Griffin, director of building and grounds; Robert S. Somerville Jr., chief maintenance engineer; Mrs, Jane Weatherman, A.R.T., director of medical records; and T. Wayne Weaver, R.N., within hours instead of a day or two-M medication dispensing was changed so that patients paid for only what they used; several years ago the hospital found it could save money by putting in its own laundry in a spare corner. In addition, the hospital here was rated third lowest among the Blue Cross of Virginia hospitals for patients’ length of stay. In Culpeper, people are staying fewer days, and with a day in a hospital bed costing up around $200, the savings are considerable. Blue Cross of Virginia hospitals are surveyed, and each stay is rated by category of illness or condition. The overall average length of stay at CMH for 1979 was 4.38 days, with the state average at 6.21 days. According to the hospital, shortening the time a patient spends there is not just an arbitrary decision. Careful evaluation of each case, and efficiency on the part of everyone involved, are required. The efforts of many people, coordinated from the physician and nurses in charge, to the dietitian, physical therapist, X-ray technician, laboratory worker, and medical records and billing employees are needed. Dr. Brevard Wallace has advanced another reason for the success of shorter stays locally. “Family involvement is so much better here than in other areas. The patients can go home earlier and get family care. The physicians try to work with the families, and the families are cooperating.” Dr. Wallace is chairman of the CMH Medical Records and Utilization Review Committee, a kind of quality control.- The committee asks the questions about whether an admission was really necessary, and whether the length of stay was appropriate. Rates per day at Culpeper Memorial are comparable to or lower than others in the same general area. Yet another cost-control effort has been a little more fun. It has involved mysterious red footprints, coffee mugs noting that they are the property of a “BAD guy,” and money which does what money really needs to do — it stretches. All this is part of a . -..See COST, Page 5

' £*. Fiber optics reduce the need for surgery CUL.t'Et'EK — It’s called optical fiber endoscopy. What it means is this: your doctor can literally “see” inside your body due to advancements in the field of fiber optics. An optical fiber endoscope is a medical probe which consists of a flexible tube filled with bundles of hair-thin, ultra-pure glass fibers. Depending on the type of endoscope, it can pass through the mouth, nose, rectum, urinary tract, or even through a small incision at the navel. When hooked up to a cold light source, the fibers relay light to the end of the probe, illuminating an area for examination. By means of eyepiece a physician can look through the probe, enabling him to see inside his patient. Developed by doctors and optical engineers in the 1950’s, optical fiber endoscopes have been widely used over the past several Used to examine the large • tntestlBe, the colonscope is operated by Dr. George Dromon. Dr. Nimal Datta demonstrates the fiber optics cystoteope. years by local doctors at Culpeper Memorial Hospital, v “It’s superior to X-ray examination” said Dr. Alfred Cramer III, an internal medicine specialist. “I can see the entire esophagus, the stomach, and, depending on the length of the patient, about 15 to 20 centimeters of the small intestine.” Cramer described the $6,000 pan-endoscope 9s being versatile. The tube (about the width of one’s little finger, and a meter long) is swallowed by the slightly sedated patient. The tip of the probe can be turned in various directions, giving Cramer a full view, as well as a clear picture. He is able to spot conditions which may not yet be detected by X-rays. Dr. Delmar Weaver, ear, nose and throat specialist, uses a bronchoscope, an adaptation of the same principle, for examining the trachea and lungs. Dr. Benjamin Allen, orthopedic surgeon, uses an arthroscope for examining joints. “I use it for a tremendous amount of diagnostic work,” said local gynecologist, Dr. John Payette. He uses the laparascope, a rigid fiber optic probe which, inserted into a small incision at the navel, gives an 180 degree view of the pelvic region. “It can save some patients from undergoing exploratory surgery,” he said. Not only do endoscopes enable physicians to make visual internal examinations, the probes can be used to perform certain operations. Miniature instruments can be slid within the probe to take, for example, a biopsy, or to remove or cauterize a growth. This can eliminate exploratory surgery in some cases, or allow patients to avoid a lengthy hospital stay “The shining hour of this job,” said Dr. George Broman Jr., in speaking of the colonoscope (used in the large intestine), “is in the removal of certain polyps. It loops, snares, and cauterizes. The patient through the eyepiece of the pan-endoscope, Dr. Alfred Cramer can operate miniature medical instruments with his right hand. COST (Continued from Page 4 ) program aimed at seeking practical suggestions from the people most likely to have them, the employees wh9 see the hospital up closest. For a good BAD (Bu<%-A-Day) idea, the worker receives a coffee mug. For a second one, he or she gets a rubbery buck to exchange for coffee to put in the mug. The program, transferred from an incentive plan applied in industry, included big footprints put down around the hospital as a “teaser” before an explanation was made. Hie prints asked if people could fill the shoes of a bad guy. goes home the next day...no incision, no anesthesia.” Broman noted the benefits of comfort, safety, and financial saving in this type of operation. Dr. Nimai Datta, urologist, can also perform certain operations via fiber optics. With the cystoscope Datta can take a biopsy, remove or bum a tumor, or crush bladder stones. Medical applications from the field of fiber optics have had * a significant impact on this community and given local physicians added versatility. Clear visual exams can follow-up and complement radiology, and may spot suspicious conditions earlier. Taking biopsies through the probe can reduce the number of occasions for exploratory surgery. As well, removing or cauterizing certain conditions can eliminate surgery for some patients. Dr. John Payette demoactrhteslhe bn of the laparaacepe. Dr. Detanar Wearer displays the br—choscspe, used for probing the trachea aad hugs.

Pink Ladies started early Mrs. F. Wister Weaver, who is now in her third term as president of the Auxiliary to Culpeper Memorial Hospital, began her hospital-related volunteer work even before there was a hospital in Culpeper. She was a member of the Jayceettes here, and that organization was deeply involved in getting the facility underway. Edyth Weaver says efforts began with “nothing concrete that the hospital would even be built,” and that certainly those forerunners of the Pink Ladies did not foresee that CMH would grow as it has. But they have obvioely worked toward a clear visidn. Since the hospital opened in 1960, the Auxiliary has turned over about $257,500 to the hospital from their various fund-raising activities, most notable the semi-annual “Pink Ladies Follies.” Total hours given comes close to 300,000, with a savings of between $600,000 and $700,000 in labor costs, based on minimum wages. Auxiliary members have done everything from distributing reading materials to patients to covering the emergency room. They operate the switchboard and the gift shop, as well as the Coffee ShoD. Current officers, besides Mrs. Weaver, are Mrs. Richard Yowell, first vice* president; Mrs. William Blankenbaker, second vice-president; Mrs. T.I. Martin Jr., recording secretary; Mrs. C.A. Rogers, corresponding secretary; and Mrs. William F. Cook, treasurer. In her annual report for 1960, Mrs. Weaver called the past year one of “ex Horse show for hospital LOCUST DALE — A horse show will be held Sunday, May 11, at Meander Farm near Locust Dale to benefit Culpeper Memorial Hospital. Billed aa the “first annual” benefit horse show, it is being put on by employees and friends of the hospital who are interested in horses and in making some money for Culpeper Memorial. ceptional results.” The hospital has been the recipient of $29,643.81 through volunteer efforts, she said, and although a healthy total of $11,243.81 came from the Follies this “did nothing to deter our money-making services from doing an outstanding job in coming forth with their usual monetary contributions.” From March 1 to Dec. 31, 1979, according to the report, about 12,500 hours were given by 164 Auxilians and 17 Junior Auxilians (JAX). Total membership numbers 430, 181 active members, 232^ontributing members and 17 life members. JAX are an integral part, and fill positions everywhere except the emergency room service. Members are everywhere. Thirty-three of them work the reception desk in the main lobby, keeping » the schedule covered, even on weekends, when volunteers are always at a premium and are needed now. Auxilians provide aid to patients in private, semiprivate and nursing care facilities. They escort new patients to their rooms, as the most recentlv-added of their responsibilities, and they cover the emergency room in four-hour shifts. The switchboard is operated from 4 to 8 p.m. by eight volunteers, and the gift shop has 16 volunteers. Both the latter services could use some more people, Mrs. Weaver reports. Auxilians also operate the Thrift Shop on East Davis Street, which had a profitable year. Besides the Follies, the year’s income~~came as an Auxiliary contribution, $3,900; Coffee Shop, $7,000; gift shop, $1,500; and Thrift Shop, $6,000. An extra contribution during the past year was the purchase of corked bulletin boards for all patient rooms, installed for the Auxiliary by the Culpeper Jaycees. Another extra, according to the President’s Report, was sharing in “the comfort and care of others.” To help continue this service Mrs. Weaver says she encourages any interested person in the community to participate, applications are available from any auxiliary member or from the hospital. The officer* for ISM of Culpeper Memorial Hospital's Auxiliary are, from left, seated, Mrs. Oliver Durant n, board member; Mrs. T J. Martin Jr., recording secretary; Mrs. C.A. Rogers, corresponding secretary; and standing, John W. YoweD, board member; Mrs^W.G. Shaffer, board member; Mrs. WJL Blaakenbaker, second vice president; Mrs. R.K. YoweD, first vice president; and Mis. F. Wister Weaver, president Not shown are Mrs. William Cook, treasarer; and Mrs. Joel Shankle, Mrs. CJ. Ireland and Mrs. Gunther Mecklinger, board members. 106,000 square feet of extremes Culpeper Memorial Hospital is 106,000 square feet of extremes. On a recent day, people on its two floors ranged from a newborn'baby boy cuddled in a square of blue flannelette to a 97-year-old nursing home resident. In a downstairs coma- people were engaged in the routine cataloguing of supplies and the sorting of laundry into machines; upstairs, others were engaged in the exacting, sometimes dramatic work of monitoring an Intensive Care Unit. Closed doors kept the operating rooms, least routine of all, offlimits. A tour from one end of Culpeper’s hospital to the other covers a lot of ground and even more activities. The main lobby, into which a visitor enters, is a preview of the whole facility. It is large, to allow for future growth of the hospital, and deceptively quiet. A member of the hospital Auxiliary generally sits at the information desk, and doors open off into an employee and community relations office, a snack shop, a glassed-in gift shop, and a classroom and conference room. The lobby, included in the new section of the hospital completed in 1975, was constructed to take care of the needs of the facility as it grows. Currehily 106 beds, CMH can have two stories added to the existing building and another wing set off to die north side. The lobby will handle the increased use if the projections, up to more than 300 beds, are realized. Another door opening off the quiet lobby goes into a huge main service corridor, the inner workings of the hospital, restricted for most people to viewing on television medical shows. Here is the backup for the patient care going on overhead. There is a dietary department, which has produced uncounted meals, for people On various restrictive diets, and with standards of cleanliness to make the average housewife quail. Tough standards also make themselves felt in other ways in the service areas, with fire doors on all sides, a sprinkler system and the frequent appearance of maps showing the way out in an emergency. ' Also located in the depths of the hospital is the maintenance department, with six full-time positions for people to keep the facility’s array of equipment, some of it highly sophisticated, running. Simply calibrating the monitoringtype devices is timeconsuming. Housekeeping, dedicated, to elaborating cleaning procedures to reduce the possibility of hospital infections is a near neighbor. Data processing, a fairly new addition, takes care of the payroll as well as keeping the general ledger accounts. Next to it is the red, white and blue pharmacy, a spacious room also planned for the See TOUR, Page 7 Pharmacist Robert F. Hale makes ase of the “unit dose” system.

TOUR ' (Continued from rage o; future. It features a “unit dose system” with rows of tiny* drawers to hold each patient’s medication for the day; this system gives assurance that the resident of each room gets what the doctor ordered, but that he or she never gets it twice. There’s also a pneumatic tube system for speeding of needed items where they are wanted. A laundry, instituted two or three years ago at considerable savings to the hospital, has stainless steel machines and apparently endless stream of things to put in them. The storeroom, with shelves bearing everything from bandaids to intravenous solutions, is huge, again with the future in mind. It demonstrates just how far CMH has come, from the 50-foot trailer which held its supplies only about ten years ago. Working off the service corridor are many of the hospital’s 270 employees, people hospital administrator Bill Gravely' calls “the unsung heroes,” those not seen by patients or visitors and felt most clearly when something goes wrong. As long as they are working well, what they do is taken for granted. More familiar to most people, whether it is seen from a patient’s viewpoint or merely from that of the friend or relative bearing flowers and maybe a magazine, is the second floor. The elevator discharges people across from the admitting office, where those to be admitted can hand over insurance information and be assigned a room. Adjoining admissions is the business office, tied to data processing below, the cashier and the switchboard. The office of the patient representative and social services director is in this area, handy to those who have problems or complaints or just the need to talk to someone. Down the hall is the main section of the 1975 addition — a 28-bed private unit, and the 32-bed nursing home. ut particular value m expanding the hospital’s capabilities among these added patient rooms are one set up for isolation, which even has a separate air-handling system, and two “quiet rooms” for safe handling of psychiatric admissions. The nursing home makes available for its residents all the facilities of the hospital, the weekly attention of a regular physician, and the on-call services of a doctor all the time. It offers the therapy of activity geared for the elderly, and the philosophy of an interest in living. In the older part of the hospital are located small offices and working areas in which a lot of complicated things are done by specialists. In respiratory therapy, people use machines to monitor respiration, blood gas, and heartbeat. Respiratory therapy is the newest medical specialty, and requires a great deal of technical knowledge. Physical therapy uses less apparatus but also does some pretty dramatic things. People who have had strokes, or who have been restricted by a cast for some time, come to therapy to learn to control muscles properly again, with the help of a therapist. CMH has a laboratory which can handle 80 to 85 percent of all the procedures it needs done. Other materials are sent twice a day to a reference lab, and the results of tests are teletyped back. me emergency room, just across the hall, has seen steady growth from 45.000 annual visits ten years ago to more than 12.000 yearly now. It has 24hour physician coverage, and the hospital administration has been working with the Emergency Medical Services Council to improve the care it can offer. This year, the MidDay Lions gave a needed boost to emergency services by donating an ambulance to take patients with, for example, severe head injuries or bums, to other facilities such as the University of Virginia Hospital. Some out-patient surgery is also done here, for relatively minor problems when admission would be far more costly and is not really necessary. In radiology, the vital diagnosis work of X-raying is carried out. CMH also has xero radiography capability, in which a (positive print rather than the usual X-ray print is made with a minimum of radiation involved. The ambulance Junior Barber ghowt off the Culpeper Memorial Hospital ambulance, donated daring the past yew by Ike Colpeper MidDay lions Clnb. positive print allows much slighter lesions to show up, and the technique has proven a particular boon in breast cancer diagnosis. Medical records keeps track of everything that goes at the hospital by way of treatment, and and In the laboratory, Pat Crigler rant tests. The lab at the hospital can take care of the large majority of procedures stores miormauon ror later retrieval for a different physician or a different hospital. Drug allergies, numbers of X-rays, all this back to 20 years ago, as well as other patient information, is all recorded. Records can also be audited, minus personal information, for medical studies. In line with that, and the fact that doctors are perhaps the group with the most need to continue learning, there is a small medical library in the offices. Between medical records and administration is a chapel, or family room, for people who feel a need for quiet or meditation. At the other side of the old lobby, where the business office and administrator were once located, is the new intensive care - coronary care unit. It is sunny, cheerful and open, but with cubicles for patients who need isolation. Now, nurses at the ICU station can monitor six people at a time; two more can be added with some additional equipment. Intensive care use has increased considerably since the addition of the new unit, underwritten by The Rochester Corporation. ui uic urn |mu t ui uic hospital, the original, 30bed section, are the semiprivate rooms, maternity ward and nursery. The birth rate at CMH has remained fairly steady at 300-325 babies a year, in- . defiance of national trends. Fetal monitoring equipment and other newborn care available now read) an impressive level, backed up by a neo-natal mobile unit which operates from the University of Virginia Hospital, and can transport a baby with very unusual needs very quickly. At the end of this corridor is the pediatrics unit, a Jayceette project. It has four rooms, three with two beds each for small patients and one playroom, and features bright curtains and a nursing station of its own. It also has a “people washer,” with a unique chair which can roll from a bedside right to the washing room, and then be lowered into its tub for a special lanolin solution bath. The nursing home was the first place to have a people washer of its own at CMH; concern for better patient care is the common tie in the faces of the hospital.

20-year vets like it at CMH wnen i ve Deen on a couple of days, I really look forward to going back to work, that’s how much I enjoy it,” says Mrs. Fannie B. Brown, who has been an employee of Culpeper Memorial Hospital for all of its 20 years. Mrs. Brown is one of a half-dozen 20year people at the hospital, and her “enjoyed every minute” attitude is generally echoed by the others. The other five are Lillie R. Cottoms, Frances Marie Deal, Lillian J. Lewis, Rebecca Utz and L. Darlene Wines. “I like working for the hospital and I’ve stayed because I wanted to stay, not because I had to,” says Mrs. Wines, who lives with her husband Joseph at Unionville. Mrs. Brown is a nursing assistant in the Intensive Care Unit, work she has done for the past six years. She also works sometimes on the semi-private floor. Ho* work includes connecting heart monitors, taking blood pressures and temperatures, giving baths and doing general patient care. She was on the payroll before the hospital officially opened, getting things ready for patients. She recalls that she had never nursed anywhere else, except for family, but her children were getting old enough and she thought she would like to try the job. A native of Rappahannock County, Mrs. Brown is married to Millard T. Brown, and the couple has two sms and five grandchildren. Lillie Cottoms, a licensed food service supervisor with the American Dietitians Association, has been in the dietary department for the entire 20 years. A Culpeper native, she says she has enjoyed working there, from starting off as a “tray girl” up to assistant to the dietitian and supervisor. Now, she is working in salads and desserts. She and, her husband, Robert Lee Cottoms, live at Lignum. They have three grown sons and two *« grandsons. Operating technician Frances Marie Deal has been working in the O.R. for almost 18 years, and says she “really likes the work” despite the occasional odd hours. “I had worked in nursing homes,” she says, “but always wanted to work in a hospital,” and when Culpeper Memorial opened she was right there. A Culpeper native, she is married to Otis Deal, a town employee who has logged some years of his own. They have two grown sons and four grandchildren. Lillian J. Lewis is another operating room technician. In her post, she, like Mrs. Deal, assists the surgeon who is working, setting up sterile conditions and handing over whatever is needed. She also was with CMH before it opened, and likes her job a lot. Ms. Lewis has two grown children. Darlene Wines, a nursing assistant in the emergency room, spent 14 years in the newborn nursery before starting work in emergency. As an assistant, she does “everything except medication, IV’s (intravenous solutions), and blood transfusions.” She takes blood pressures and temperatures, and sets up steril trays. It’s hard work, but good work, says the West Virginia native. The sixth 20-year veteran, Rebecca Utz, is ward secretary on semiprivate. She has mounds of paperwork, because she takes care of records on her floor and relays messages between doctors, nurses, dietitians and others. She also orders all the supplies for her floor, and makes copies of charts for the physicians. She keeps track of changes in diets and delivers the medications that come through the pneumatic tube system. “I like people and the girls I work with,” she says. “We worked awfully hard to start the hospital, and really pulled together to have a good hospital — I don’t think we’ve done a bad job.” She worked for Culpeper Memorial before it was a job, and remembers cleaning cabinets and the like in preparation for opening day. She began work in the nursery and went to central supply, and has also worked in the operating room and the laboratory. A native of Madison County, she is married to Willie N. Utz, also from Madison, a retired heavy equipment operator. They have one son, an international attorney. One of--the fondest memories she has of the hospital is her training, done with “one of the nicest nurses” and best teachers, Mrs. Louise R. O’Bannon, who later took her teaching skills to Piedmont Technical Education Center. u -ft* 4 FANNIE B. BROWN LILLIE R. COTTOMS FRANCES MARIE DEAL ItetJU* IK is®*,.. SflMI btdMMHHH LILLIAN J. LEWIS mmL o »# k ■ mnn DARLENE WINES - With Dr. JERRY MARTIN REBECCA UTZ