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professional appraiser, including the board representative from the district that the appraiser is working in.)
“If we have / an equalization board, they should be people who know a little something about what’s going on,’* Gilkey added.
Only Big Landowner*
Since the county’s reassessment in 1950, Rappahannock has never had a house and lot owner as a member of its local board of assessors, Jack Miller told the supervisors. “They’re always big landowners,’’ Miller maintained, noting that the majority of Rappahannock’ tax dollars come from levies on houses and lots. After the lasl^nreassessment, Miller saioj he questioned the local boayd on the differences in -appraised value for similar properties. “I was told they assessed some at two-thirds and some at three-fourths,” he said, maintaining that appraisals should have been set at an equal percentage of fair market value for all property owners.
Gilkey agreed that the local board of appraisers shouldn’t include members who will value property based on who the owner of the land is.
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