Rappahannock News, December 18, 1980

31st YEAR, No. 48 USPS45558C 10 Pages THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18,1980 Washington, Virginia Phone 675-3349 20' Cafeteria Staff Wins Apology Cafeteria workers were out in force at the school Rappahannock school board’s December 9 meeting to demand a public apology from board members Robert Eastham and Nelson Lane for remarks they made at last month’s session regarding food ‘‘walking away" from the school lunch rooms. Led by Pat lenkins and Susie Coffey, the cafeteria employees objected to the implication that they were “all thieves". They criticized the two school board members for not specifying exactly who they thought was taking the food and maintained that Eastham and Lane should have investigated before publicly attacking cafeteria employees. In a prepared statement, the staff said they hoped the remarks were “not an example of the way school business is conducted—by hearsay and snap decision” and requested a public apology. "I’ll be the first to make it.’’ Nelson Lane replied, adding that he wouldn't reveal the names of the five “good citizens” who allegedly reported cafeteria problems to him. "I certainly didn't intend to smear you. I should have investigated first. Maybe I should have reserved my remarks for executive session. I certainly didn’t intend for them to make the press.” he said. According to Lane, the reports to him concerned only the high school. Mary Botts Quaintance, former principal, of the. elementary school, vouched for the cafeteria personnel who worked with her for over .ten years. “1 never had the slightest reason to doubt their honesty and integrity." “I don’t think you can find any more reliable, honest or hard working women,” added Sandra Brow'd, former cafeteria coordinator. (Continued on Page 2) THE EXACT DATE OF THIS PICTURE was not known, but it was obviously taken many, many years ago. Blue Ridge Avenue in Washington was picturesque with the mountains for a backdrop. The picture was contributed by W.F. Moffett, Jr. of Washington. Influenza Outbreak Shuts County Schools By DAPHNK HUTCHINSON Kn|i|>ahann<M-k Staff V ritrr An influenza epidemic hit Rappahannock this week, sending absenteeism soaring at the county's public schools and forcing cancellations of classes until January 5. Superintendent William Bloomer announced on Tuesday, December 16, that schools would close fhat afternoon and remain closed until the regularly scheduled end of Christmas hotidays on January S. ^ The high school choral, concert on December 18 and the elmentary school spaghetti dinner and musical program on December 22 will be rescheduled, according to Dr. Bloomer. All other school activities and programs with the exception of the holiday basketball tournament at Page County High School on January 2 and 3 have been “Panic Switch” Transfer Okayed At Monday’s special meeting, the Rappahannock supervisors gave the school board authority to transfer funds within its budget to pay for the unexpected expense of installing a safety override switch for electrical equipment at the RCHS shop but stopped short of appropriating extra funds for the project. Supervisor chairman E. P. Luke noted that the vocational advisory committee had written the board, requesting supplemental funds for the panic switch, estimated to cost $6,000. He said that the supervisors could supply the additional money but suggested the school board first look for funds in its own budget. Board chairman Beverly Massie reported that the initial decision was to include the project in the 1981-82 budget. At the request of the . vocational commiittee and the industrial arts teachers, the board agreed at its December 9 session to ask the supervisors for a supplemental appropriation so the safety measure could be installed this year. She . reminded the supervisors that the school board turned unused funds back to the county last June and had agreed to likewise return any unspent money for gasoline from the current budget. Luke replied that the school board’s current 198081 budget includes $7,000 for the services of an outside consultant to evaluage RCHS space needs as well as a gasoline appropriation based on fuel costs of $1.75 per gallon. Gas costs are now at $1.03, he added. “Maybe there’s some additional money there...I'm not arguing about the amount—just what pot we take it from." “We could shuffle with our accounts with the understanding that we may be short of the installation cost." board member Newbill Miller replied. “If you don't like what I’m saying, you’d better speak up," the chairman told the (Continued on Page 2) cancelled or postponed, the superintendent said. He attributed his decision to close a week early to education and health problems cause by high absenteeism from the flu. By Monday afternoon, 308 children—46 per cent— of the elmentary school's enrollment of 667 were out, the overwhelming majority with the flu. Included on the absentee list were 11 teachers and aides. According to assistant principal Maggie Piper, reading and math labs had to be closed because instructors were needed in regular classrooms and approved substitutes were all down with the bug. Sick kids coughed and sneezed their way into the office all day. Piper said. At one point, 12 youngsters were lined up to use the phone, waiting to call Mom to come pick them up. By Tuesday morning, the absentee rate at the elementary school climbed to 48 percent with 320 children out. according to Piper. 42 Percent Out At RCHS At the high school, 195 students out of an enrollment of 456 were missing from class on Monday, an absentee rate of 42.7 per cent. According to assistant principal John Toth, RCHS’s normal rate is around seven per cent absent. In addition, he reported that 25 per cent of the school’s personnel were also home sick. By noon on Tuesday, the absentee rate had dropped slightly to 38.4 per cent with 175 students missing, Toth reported. ‘‘We’ve got one waiting in the office right now.” he said, adding that youngsters taken ill Tuesday appeared to be much sicker than those who came down with the flu the previous day. Wakefield Country Day School in Huntly reported 65 absent Tuesday from a student enrollment of 320. Currently, the private school has no plans to close before the scheduled holiday dismissal on Friday. December 19. Judging by school absentees,, the virus cuttbig* across Rappahannock hasn’t yet reached other counties in full force. According to Toth, absentee rates in neighboring high schools on Monday were much lower than RCHS’s 42 per cent. Culpeper County High School reported 24 per cent. Culpeper Junior High 23 pre cent. Warren County High School 6.6 per cent, Madison 10 per cent and Fauquier 17 percent. In addition to decimating the school population, the influenza epidemic has taken its toll among workers at county and state offices and in local businesses. Of 42 cases treated at the Rappahannock Medical Ginic on Monday, Dr. Jerry Martin reported that 32 appeared to be the result of a flu virus. "Every year, we always have some flu." Martin said, adding that he suspects the county is right in the middle of an epidemic of an A type influenza virus, probably an Asian strain. Individuals who've recently had flu shots are generally protected against infection, Martin said. Others aren’t so lucky. Symptoms include a high (Continued on Page 7) If Legal, Merchants Tax To Be Deleted Taxes Dropped On Livestock, Machinery, Household Goods By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rappaliann<><-k Suff * rilrr Hammering out a compromise at Monday’s special meeting, the Rappahannock supervisors voted unanimously to drop household goods, livestock and farm machinery from the county’s personal property tax rolls. Lost revenue will be made up with higher levies on licensed vehicles and land, with the increase on vehicles to be no more than 30 per cent of the total generated by this year’s automotive license tax. In addition, the supervisors requested commonwealth’s attorney Douglas Baumgardner to check whether or not merchants' capital tax may also be eliminated, indicating their intention to do so if state law allows. Last month, the board advertised for public hearing a proposal to drop personal property taxes on household goods, farm machinery and livestock. intending to replace lost revenues with money generated by taxing motor vehicles at 100 per cent of finance value. The idea for the changes originated from contmissioner of revenue Merle Scoggin who presented the supervisors with alternatives she felt would make personal property taxes more equitable and easier to administer fairly. Arguments made on Monday against the shift repeated points raised during the first half of the public hearing two weeks ago. “You’re asking too much to take all the personal property tax off household goods and put it on cars.” maintained Jack Miller. Gas prices are steadily increasing, he said, and without public transportation, commuters must use cars to drive to jobs. “If they can’t drive to work, they’ll have to go on relief. They can’t get work here,” Miller maintained. He insisted that the county’s current tax system even with its inequities is still the fairest method of raising revenue. “Is any property assessed equally in Rappahannock County? Any house? Any farm?” Miller asked, reporting that in the county’s ongoing reassessment, the Ordmans’ property near Hint Hill has been appraised at $1,600 while land with good timber just across the road is valued at $800 an acre. K. P. Grigsby added his agreement with Miller’s remarks. William Foster said that equipment of electricians and plumbers is classified as personal property and used for the same purpose that the farmer uses livestock and farm Davis Proposed For BZA Vacancy Hampton District supervisor Clarence Baldwin has nominated George Davis, Rappahannock's former commonwealth’s attorney, to replace Kermit Weakley who has . resigned from the county's Board of Zoning Appeals. In a letter to Circuit Court Judge Shore Robertson. Baldwin noted that he was withdrawing his earlier recommendation of John Burke at Burke’s request. Addressing Davis' qualifications. Baldwin wrote that he was attorney for the county when Rappahannock's zoning laws were drafted and “is more than qualified" to hold the BZA seat, adding that he would submit further background material on Davis at Robertson’s request. Currently, the BZA has three vacancies. Robertson, who makes appointments to the quasi-judicial body, has asked the supervisors from the districts where the openings occur for nominations. In addition to Baldwin's support for Davis, two other supervisors have proposed the reappointment of current members from their districts. E. P. Luke from Piedmont District has nominated Charles “Pete” Estes and H. B. Wood from StonewallHawthome has nominated George Muth. Judge Robertson will be at the court house in Washington on Wednesday. December 24, beginning at 1:30 p.m. to meet with any interested citizens for public comment on the nominations. Those unable to visit the court house on the day before Christmas may respond in writing to Circuit Court Judge Shore Robertson. P. O. Box 116, Washington. Va. 22747. machinery—to make a living. He questioned how the supervisors could in fairness remove the tax off tools for one trade and not for others. Grossly Unfair Steve Bullock described the personal property tax on household goods as “grossly unfair and inequitable.” He maintained that this particular tax “creates an atmosphere of deceit,” teaching individuals that it's best to lie and beat the government by failing to declare the true value of household goods. Elimination of the tax on farm machinery is the hot topic, he said, with everyone “concerned that the fanner will get off scot free.” Bullock suggested treating machinery as farm production capital and taxing it with merchants' capital at a lower rate. In light of the opposition to shifting the entire personal property tax burden to licensed vehicles. Newbill Miller propsed that revenue demands be shared by automobiles AND real estate. He further suggested elimination of the tax on merchants' capital as well as on livestock, farm machinery and household goods and (Continued on Page 9) Board Approves Mills Rezoning Rejecting a request for delay until the county’s zoning ordinance is updated, the Rappahannock supervisors on Monday unanimously approved James Mills’ request to rezone one acre at Estes from agricultural to commercial for the operation of a garage and inspection station. Jerry Mills, the owner’s son. has been running a garage at the site for about 2‘/i years and an insoection station for two months. Neither use is allowed in an agricultural zone, either by right or with a special permit. This violation, of the county's zoning regulations was not mentioned by the supervisors in their consideration of Mills’ rezoning application. At Monday's continued public hearing William Carrigan, owner of "a very nice residential area" of 30 acres across the street from the garage, repeated his suggestion for a 25 foot wide planting of pines or other evergreens with a temporary eight foot board fence to screen the commercial lot. He acknowledged that the county’s zoning ordinance doesn’t stipulate screening of "unsightly development” but maintained that .Rappahannock's regulations need to be updated to include the requirement. He proposed that Mills’ application be postponed until the ordinance is reviewed. With the addition of a screening requirement. Carrigan said. “Mills will be able to have his zoning and other landowners ivill be protected.” Adjoining landowner Steve ' Apartment Permit Turned Down By BZA i By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Ra|>|Mihann<H'k Staff Irilrr Despite questions over jurisdiction. the Rappahannock Board of Zoning Appeals voted unanimously at its special reconvened meeting last Thursday to deny Steven Parlagreco’s request to convert a farm building into seven apartment units. Parlagreco sought a special use permit to allow remodeling of a large chicken shed on a 19-acre parcel at Castleton Farms into multifamily dwelling units, allowed by permit in an agricultural zone. The BZA’s original November 13 public hearing was recessed until last Thursday’s session, giving time for the members to make an on-site inspection and for the applicant to submit the required development plan. Representing Parlagreco, Flint Hill attorney Maurice Biddle reported that the number of apartments had been reduced from eight to seven, allowing larger, 1,020square-foot units. He said the 2.000-square-foot drainfield approved by the health department for sewage disposal would be located 200 feet from the buildings “and well away from any well on the property.” Biddle noted that the chicken shed proposed for apartment conversion sits 70 feet from the road. A second structure only 30 feet from the road will be used for offices and storage, according to the attorney. In addition, he said. 20 parking spaces will be provided. Biddle described the project as “quality rather than low-cost housing,” adding that Parlagreco will use two of the units for his own family when they visit from Italy. Of the remaining five, he said, four will be housing for farm labor to be hired in Parlagreco’s planned vineyard operation and one will be a rental unit. Biddle informed the BZA that Parlagreco has contracted with Community Trash Service to install and maintain a trash container for apartment use so that solid waste from the proposed project won’t overload the county’s dumpster at Castleton. According to the attorney, the apartment vicinity will be landscaped with trees, shrubs and lawns. A small recreation area with picnic tables and barbecue pit is planned for the rear of the building. As to outside structural changes in the old chicken shed, Biddle said only that the roof would have to be raised on one side. He noted that the health department has checked water supply “and considers it adequate for what is proposed.” If more water is needed, he said, Parlagreco is prepared to sink a second well. Objection To Esthetics Biddle acknowledged that the area surrounding the proposed apartment project is rural and agricultural. "But that 19 acres is not farmed now and hasn’t been for several years,” he said, maintaining that Parlagreco’s proposal will not change the character of the community. “This is not a subdivision,” he emphasized, adding that the property was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Homer Henry as a separate tract. According to the attorney, most of the objections to the apartments voiced at the earlier meeting were based on esthetic grounds—a “there goes the neighborhood” type of reaction. In conclusion, he claimed that none of the objectors lives closer than two miles to the site. Responding to chairman Josef Gardiner’s questions on laundry facilities, Parlagreco answered that his original plan to have a laundry room with automatic washers in the first office building had been dropped. Gardiner noted that the health department’s septic field approval doesn’t permit washing machines or garbage disposals in the apartment units. After ascertaining that the primary purpose of the renovation project is to provide housing for vineyard workers. Henry Ozarko. representing the Vinifera Wine Growers Association, reported that large commercial vineyard operations near Barboursville and south of Culpeper both relied on local labor. Except for construction of a farm manager's house, neither encroached on agricultural land with residential development, according to Ozarko. Five Acre Lot Denied Helen Fridenstine said a friend who wanted to buy five acres from her and her husband to build a home had been “turned down categorically.” She asked how a proposal to put nine dwelling units on 19 acres could reach the board of zoning appeals when a request to build one house on five acres in the same area never received the same consideration. Asked who denied her friend’s request, Mrs. Fridenstine replied that it had been turned down 4Vi years ago by Fanning Baumgardner, then assistant zoning administrator. W. A. Williams, the individual who wanted to buy the Fridenstines’ five acres, said he'd been told by Baumgardner that he “wasn’t on the right road” for five acre zoning. “He told me that in that area. 1 had to have 25 acres to build. He showed me in writing,” said Williams, adding that he’d presumed that was how things were done in the county. “Now 1 presume that’s not the case," Williams concluded. Gardiner explained that the BZA hears only cases which have been appealed or cases in which the zoning (Continued on Page 10) Bullock said his primary concern was for the precedent created for further development in the area through the spot commercial zoning. He siad he was opposed to approval of the rezoning on principle but also wanted to see Mills achieve his final goal of legal approval for the garage operation. “Were you there when Mr. Mills built his garage? What did you say then?'* asked r> supervisor chairman E. P. Luke. Bullock replied that, at first, he didn’t know the purpose of the building but later discussed the issue (Continued on Page 7) Choral Concert Sunday Night The Rappahannock Choral Society will present its annual Christmas concert at the Washington Baptist Church on Sunday. December 21. at 8 p.m. Selections will include “Christmas Cantata”, by Phillip Friedrich Buchner; a group of Renaissance carols; 20th century seasonal anthems and an arrangement of carols by Robert Shaw called "The Many Moods of Christmas”. Gloria Harris will direct the chorus and Beverly Clark of Front Royal will accompany. Jo Nutter will direct a guest group called The Front Royal Madrigal Singers. The public is invited to attend the concert which is free of charge. Free Movie Is Lions’ Gift The Rappahannock Lions Club will play Santa Claus over the holidays with the showing of a free movie at the Mountain Magic Cinema in Washington. The Lions are sponsoring two free matinees of the Walt Disney classic “Mary Poppins” at 2 p.m. on Sunday, December 28, and Monday, December 29. All Rappahannock youngsters of school age are invited to attend. There will be no charge for adults accompanied by e a child.

Mahlbacker Joins Rappahannock Realty Bob Mahlbacher Realtor Peggy E. Gark, G.R.I., owner of Rappahannock Realty in Flint Hill, announces that Realtor Robert “Bob” Mahlbacher, G.R.I.. has joined the firm as an associate broker. "Bob's experience in residential, land and commercial real estate and background as a real estate sales manager, instructor and principal broker of his own firm will be a definite asset to the company.*' said Mrs. Clark. He has owned a home near Amissville since 1977 and until recently was affiliated with a real estate firm in Vienna. Mahlbacher is a 1974 graduate of the Realtor’s Institute, which is administered by the Virginia Association of Realtors in conjunction with the University of Virginia, and earned a real estate diploma from the Fairfax County Adult Distributive Education Service. in addition to marketing real estate, he will be conducting classes in practical real estate for Rappahannock Realty’s new agents. He served in the U. S. Marine Corps and then retired in 1971 from the Central Intelligence Agency. After 15 years of overseas assignments, he. like many others, decided that Rappahannock County is the ideal place to settle down, become actively involved in community affairs and conduct his business. Fire-Rescue Holiday Party All firemen and rescue squad personnel and their families and guests are invited to the covered dish dinner and party on Saturday. December 20. at 7 p.m. at the Flint Hill fire hall. The event is sponsored by the Rappahannock County Fire and Rescue Association. * fiappattannock $fanB Rappahannock & Adjoining Counties per year $7.00 Elsewhere in the U. S. per year $8.50 Outside the U. S. per year $7.00 plus postage SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL ALL PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ( )New ( Renewal ( JCheck Enclosed NAME ___ADDRESS_ CITY _ STATE __ ZIP Entered as second class mart at the Post Office in Warrentcrv Va »Ihe Rappahownpck News is published awry 9 4 Tht£sday at 39CUIpeper Street. Warrenfon. Va.. by The ' Warrentorr^nrifing ari<j PubTtshing”Ca, P0T3ox 63T. Warrenton, Va 22186. Restaurant Sparryvilla, Va. Holiday Schedule Closed December 24th and 25th Closed Dec. 31 and January 1 Regular Schedule Wed., Thurs., & Sun. 11:30-7:30 Friday and Saturday 11:30-8 p.m. CLOSED MONDAY AND TUESDAY 'vrv’v HAPPY HOLIDAYS — Rappahannnrfc Nnw Phnln/S. Latham DECORATED EGGS for the Christmas tree are made by Judy Atkins of Sperryville who has trimmed the family tree with eggs and candles. The egg art is delicate work and takes time and patience, but the results are amazing. Apology (Continued from Page 1) “I’m not apologizing... I regret the paper chose to print that,” said Robert East ham. He maintained that neither he nor Lane accused anyone of converting public property to private use but had made their remarks only to buttress their support of a complete audit for the cafeteria and activity funds. “I have heard it not once but many times, not just about the cafeteria but about other areas.” he stated. Eastham added, however, that if he is ever given specific information on any school employee converting public money or property to personal use, he will report, not to the school board, but to the commonwealth’s attorney and grand jury. He maintained it's the school board's duty ”to carefully care for, manage and control the property of this school division.” Over the past three years, Eastham said, the auditor has stated that school records are not adequate to determine if all receipts are recorded because controls are concentrated in one person. But if school employees aren’t trusted," they wouldn't be kept on, he added. “We’re not in the business of tempting anyone employed by this board to be weak at a weak moment ... We’re attempting to lock the vault door,” Eastham continued. He described the cafeteria workers as "honorable, honest citizens'’ and said he didn't intend to accuse anyone NOW serving the school board of dishonesty. According to Eastham, the board wants the controls a complete audit provides primarily for the protection of school employees. “If I have offended, I do apologize. My intention was pure. It was my duty and I stick by it.” he concluded. “What I heard was not against this year's cafeteria staff," Lane added. He agreed with Eastham that he’d used the case to support good accounting practices, “not for the sake of honesty but for budgeting.” ++++ When minutes count and dollars . don't. Expert emergency medical care when and where it is needed! Support your rescue squad with a tax-deductible gift. IpA Good Selection ' Of Christmas Gifts 1 & Wrappings Desk Accessories - Pen & Pencil Sets Stationery - Wicker Assessories Typewriters - Calculators Cards for Christmas and All Occasions gG/ff Wrapping, Cards and Ribbon ^ Calendars and Appointment Books i Fufniture, Files, Accessories F 3upplies and Office Supplies Culpeper Book Store § 210 N. Mob St. THE DECORATED EGG TREE (i Panic Switch” (Continued from Page 1) rest of his board, meeting agreement from the other supervisors for seeking funds first in the school board budget. "As a matter of principle. 1 think it's bad for us to keep coming back to the supervisors every month, showing our fiscal irresponsibility.'’ Miller said. He agreed, however, to try to find funds in the school budget provided the supervisors understood the school board may not be able to scrounge up the full amount. “If you all don’t get as much money back from the gas accounts, you understand where it’s going,” Mrs. Massie added. In response, the supervisors voted unanimous approval for authority to transfer funds within categories of the school budget for the specific purpose of paying for installation of the panic button. Temporary Administrator Luke reported that zoning administrator Evan McNear will be out of the county for several months. “We'll need an acting zoning administrator.” he said, adding that Washington attorney Sharon Genebach Luke had served in this position several times in the past. He noted that her appointment presents no conflict of interest. (The attorney is the daughter-in-law of the supervisor chairman.) The board voted unanimous approval for her temporary appointment as acting zoning administrator. “Have you heard any more about the building inspector?" asked supervisor Hubert Gilkey. (State law requires counties to provide a building inspector to enforce provisions of the Virginia’s uniform building code. In addition. Rappahannock's zoning laws require a building inspector to fulfill certain responsibilities. To date, however, the county has declined to fund the position although the office of building inspector was established by ordinance last March.) Luke replied he was meeting with an applicant he described as “the best man we can find" for the job later that afternoon. In other action, the board reappointed Newbill Miller as the planning commission representative from Hampton District and Jennings Hobson to the RappahannockRapidan Community Services Board. + + + + Children from ihe ages of six months to six years outgrow their shoes on an average of once every 56 days. .. - 1 1 ..lal CUT YOUR OWN CHRISTMAS TREE at HAWTHORN FARM in Beautiful Rappahannock County *2°° per foot Friday, Saturday and Sunday 9-5, Dec. 12-14 and Dec. 19-21. Other times by appointment call (703) 987-8252. Directions: Take Rt. 211 to Sperryville. Then South on 522 for 1 mile. Turn right on Rt. 231. Go 5 miles and follow signs to trees. Christmas Programs Methodist Activities 1116 United Methodists of the Rappahannock Charge (Sperryville, Willis Chapel and the Flint Hill United Methodist Churches) will present a living nativity again this year on December 20 from 7-9:30 p.m. in the shed at the George Davis property on Rt. 211 east of Washington. A Christmas play will be presented at Flint Hill Methodist on December 21 at 11 a.m. and a program will be held at Willis Chapel United Methodist Church. Huntly, at 7 p.m. December 21. A candlelight communion service will be held at the Sperryville Church at 8 p.m. Wednesday, December 24. Everyone is welcome to attend. Chester Gap Baptist Sunday. December 21, the church's adult choir will present a living nativity with the Christmas story in narration. The public is invited. Washington Baptist Washington Baptist Church will present the Christmas musical “Stranger in the Straw” at the 11 a.m. worship service on Sunday, December 21. The performance will be followed by a covered dish luncheon. All are welcome to attend. Trinity Episcopal Schedule On Sunday, December 21, there will be a service of lessons and carols at 11 a.m. with a presentation by the Sunday School and followed by a Christmas party in the parish hall. Wednesday, December 24. there will be the annual 11 p.m. special Christmas Eve communion service and Thursday, December 25. at 10 a.m. there will be a simple communion service. The community is warmly invited to share in these festivities with the members of the Trinity church family. Christmus Caroling Friday. Dec. 19, at 7 p.m. the Rappahannock Players will present “The Christmas Story” at the town hall. Following the presentation, the Players will carol jn, the streets of Washington and return to the courthouse to light the community tree. Afterwards, there will be an open house at the town hall with refreshments. All are invited. Ainissville United Methodist Church A musical program. “The Sacrifice Lamb”, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. December 21 at the Amissville United Methodist Church. This will be followed by a candlelight service and the arrival of Santa Gaus. Refreshments will be served. Reynolds Memorial A film, “A Visitor For Christmas”, will be shown at Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church in Sperryville on Saturday, December 20, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Following will be Christmas hymn singing, a tree and gifts. Christinas Kve at 7 o'clock a candlelight service will be held. The public is invited to both programs. Thornton's Gap The Sunday School Department of Thornton’s Gap Regular Baptist Church, Sperryville, will present their Christmas program Sunday, December 21, at 7 p.m. The public is cordially invited to attend. Macedonia Baptist The Macedonia Baptist Church, Flint Hill, will present a Christmas program on Sunday, December 21 at 2 p.m. The Rev. James A. Price is pastor and the public is invited. A missville Baptist Amissville Baptist Church will also have its Christmas program on Sunday, December 21 at 7:30 p.m. Forest Grove Baptist Forest Grove Baptist Church will hold a candlelight Christmas service on Sunday morning. December 21 at 11 a.m. First Baptist Church The Christmas program for the First Baptist Church Sunday School in Washington will be held Sunday afternoon December 21 at the church at 3 p.m. The public is invited. Sursum Cordu The children at Sursum Corda School and Day Care Center will present their annual Christmas program on Thursday. December 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the school. They will entertain with songs, poems, readings and stories. A visit from Mr. Gaus is expected following the program. Parents and friends are cordially invited to attend. '"Refreshments will be served. Gid'Brown Church .. A Christmas play entitled, “The Shining Star,” will be presented at the Gid Brown Bible Church, Washington, Sunday, December 21 at 7 p.m. Judy Burke is director. 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Beef Price Slumps Fortold By Indicators By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rappahannock New. Staff Writer For more than half a century, America’s cattle herds have peaked in numbers in 10-year cycles, allowing supply to outdistance demand and dropping the bottom out of the beef market. At VPI’s annual beef cattle management school held last Wednesday at Graves Mountain Lodge in Syria, marketing specialist K. C. Williams explained how farmers can learn to read warning signs of an impending price crisis in time to institute growth controls. Williams operated a livestock farm in Rappahannock following his graduation from VPI and served as extension agent in Halifax and Pittsylvania counties before concentrating on the marketing aspect of beef management. Selected Virginia Cattleman of the Year, he has also received the Virginia 4-H All-Star Alumni Key Award and the National County Agents Distinguished Service Award. “I got my PhD in marketing back in Rappahannock County from Tommie Eastham,” Williams jokingly added after his introduction on Wednesday. According to the specialist, cattle numbers reached their peak in the U.S. in 1925, 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965 and 1975. “It’s a little eerie,” he acknowledged. Further, Williams reported that dairy stock equaled beef stock in numbers in the 1950s but now beef cattle make up 8U percent of the country’s cow population. “Are we going to peak out again in 1985 and have another price crash?” Williams asked. “What are the warning signals?” Five Danger Signs He pointed to five statistics that sound the alarm for an impending decline in the beef market and predicted that another plunge will hit the industry in 1985 if farmers don’t cooperate in controlling herd growth. According to Williams, first warnings are (1) an annual growth rate of more than two per cent in cattle crop and (2) an annual increase in total cow numbers of more than two per cent. Feedlot Numbers Up As of October, the total number of cattle in feedlots is up slightly over the previous year and will increase even Merry Christmas To Rappahannock County Children | The Rappahannock Lions Club i is sponsoring FREE MOVIES for you on s Sunday and Monday afternoons, December 28 I 29 at Mountain Magic Cinema in Washington, Va. at 2 p.m. and on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. Admission is FREE to all Rappahannock children NEW YEAR’S EVE GALA DINNER ^renvo0 Choice of Appetizer — ♦ — Shrimp Portofino Stuffed Breast of Veal Beef Wellington Virginia Roasted Quail — ♦ — Choice of Deserts Reservations 347-1200 farther, judging from a drop in the number of heifers going through the lots, Williams said. Feeder call numbers are also up slightly over a year ago, he said, with a higher percentage of the total in calves rather than year-old stock. The marketing specialist noted that cattle crop growth climbed as high as six and seven per cent a year from 1970 to 1975 when beef prices declined sharply. “Those are early signs,” Williams emphasized. “When yearly cattle slaughter is less than 35 per cent of the cattle on hand January 1 and when the annual slaughter is less than 85 per cent of the previous year’s calf crop, you’re going to be in trouble pretty quick,” he warned. “As salughter percentages drop, we’re getting closer to a real price crisis,” Williams said, noting that 1980’s slaughter dipped to 83 per cent of 1979’s calf crop. “They’re the best indicators we have for when we should look out for price disaster,” he said of slaughter figures and per:entages. The final warning light is a ratio that exceeds 25 cows to 100 people. “If it gets higher than that, we’ve got too many cows,” he said. According to the marketing specialist, the ratio now stands at 21.5 cows per 100 people, balancing the drop in slaughter percentages and indicating that farmers have some time before beef prices decline. "In 1981, I look for a good year, better than 1980,” predicted Williams, looking into his statistical “crystal ball.” “1982 will also be a good year. ’83 is getting a little far out and in 1984, we’re going to start getting into trouble.” Overall economic conditions may make the farmer's position a little more precarious, according to Williams. “With the impact of inflation on production costs, it doesn’t take much of a price drop to hurt the beef cattle industry," he noted. One of the bright spots for the beef business” is the decline in hogs coming to market, Williams continued, a decrease that averaged around 10 per cent for the first three quarters of 1980. Again looking into the beef cattle future, Williams predicted that “most likely prices” for the first three quarters in 1981 on 900-1,100 pound choice steers will be 71 cents per pound (Jan.-Mar.), 75 cents per pound (Apr.June), and 74 cents per pound (July-Sept.) According to Williams, "optimistic” prices for the same three quarters will be 74 cents, 78 cents and 77 cents per pound. For feeder steers in the 600-700 pound range, the market specialist set “most likely” prices for the first three quarters of 1981 as 75 cents, 85 cents and 85 cents and “optimistic” prices for the same period at 80 cents, 90 cents and 90 cents per pound. For 400-500 pound steers, he predicted “most likely” prices of 80 cents, 95 cents and 92 cents per pound for the three quarters of the year. Although his predictions call for cattle prices to be on the upswing for at least the next two years, Williams emphasized repeatedly the necessity for farmers to watch his indicators for signs of a price drop. “We might be able to avoid one if enough producers slow down a little,” he concluded. Living Nativity Real people and live animals will create a living nativity at the George Davis barn on Route 211 east of Washington this year on Saturday, December 20, from 7 until 9:30 p.m. The scene is presented annually by the United Methodist Churches of Rappahannock, including Flint Hill, Willis Chapel at Huntly and Sperryville. Ample parking will be available for those wishing to walk up the pathway bordered by luminiari. This impressive display of Christ’s birth can also be viewed from the road without leaving your car. Menu Sursum Corda Dec. 22-26 Monday: Chicken noodle soup, cheese sandwiches with lettuce, brussel sprouts with butter, pear halves, milk. Tuesday: Roast turkey, bread stuffing with gravy, green beans with butter, cranberry sauce, gingerbread brownie, milk. Wednesday and Thursday: Closed for holidays. Friday: Cheese and potato casserole, kale with butter, spoon bread with butter, peaches, milk. WAKEFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL S soccer team completed the season undefeated with seven straight wins, no ties, no losses. Goalies Chris Reed and Geoff Clouser are at left and right, respectively. Peter Quinn is the team coach. Dinner Postponed The spaghetti dinner planned for next week at the elementary school has been [ postponed due to the flu ^ epidemic. A new date, Saturday, January 10, has been set for ' the dinner. This will be 1 followed by a student-faculty volleyball game. Mark this date on your calendar. All proceeds go toward the Williamsburg trip for the seventh grade classes. Foreign & American Car Repairs r Specializing in German & Japanese Made Cars JACK’S Service Center 30 Ashby Street _Warrenton 347-3785 See You There ^JuLxoL Saving and Jloan czdfiiociation *3*0 MUVkMMCK -or r»OMT KOVAL Money Market Certificates FertbtParMIraaBoc. II thra Bn. 14, ItM *15.673% siejeo ■ This-a Federal account an annual altacliva yield However it is subject to change at renewal refutations prohibit the compounding of merest during the term of the ANNUAL "ATE MINIMUM TERM ANNUAL YIELD** 12.00% S5oo 12.03% jntwt Rdf Sublet to ChHQ> at Maturity * A 3U»lantial Interest Penalty is Required tor Early Withdrawal before maturity •‘Etteettse Anneal Yield Whan Left Te Cempaund. “See First Federal First' i toil tori tom Frwt tori. Unto fit* (7H) NMItt ■y M: P.t.BaiMM firaat layal, la. 22IM Places In Contest*Walter Scott Reid III, a Wakefield sophomore, won the second place award in the oratorical contest sponsored by the American Legion for area youths. The contest, held Saturday, Dec. 12, at the Warren County High School, required students to deliver an 8-11 minute speech on some aspect of the U.S. Constitution. Later the contestants had to speak extemporaneously for five minutes on a subject drawn from a hat concerning the Constitution. The winner of the contest was Warren County High School senior Wayne Williams. Have Son Mr. and Mrs. John D. Borgens of Ben Venue are the parents of a son, John Cletus. bom December 13, 1980 at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton. Grandparents of the infant are Mr. and Mrs. William Printz of AmissviHe and Mr. and Mrs. John Borgens of Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Printz of AmissviHe are the great -grandparents. Dean’s List Roger L. Smoot of Washington was recently named to the fall quarter dean’s list at - Radford University. Smoot, a junior sociology major, is the son of Louise Adkins of Washington. A grade point average of at least 3.4 must be obtained before being named to the dean’s list. For all your Christmas gifts. We have sleds and snow coasters and tools for the handyman in your life. 401 Eaat Main Front Royal State Land Use Meeting A Counties, Cities and Towns Subcommittee studyingland use matters will hold a public hearing in Manassas on Friday, December 19, at 2:00 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, 9250 Lee Avenue. Persons wishing to testify before the Subcommittee should contact C. M. Conner. Jr., Division of Legislative Services, P. O. Box 3-AG. Richmond, Virginia 23208; Telephone (804) 786-3591. NOTICE Rappahannock National Bank At Washington, Va. will close at 12 noon on Wednesday, December 24, Friday, December 26 and Wednesday, December 31 ww^W/// realty world GHeal Estate &/—n dl. Qm RCAilO* *4 FHA IS NOT THE LENDER Counter to what you might think, the Federal Housing Administration does not actually lend you any money on the FHA mortgage loan. It only insures the loan, and only if it conforms to certain government rules and regulations. So, you don’t start with FHA. You start with the private lending institution form which you want to borrow money. You tell them how much you need, and show them the contract for the home you want to buy. providing you have already signed it. They will arrange to inspect the property and have it appraised by FHA. Usually, the interest rate on FHA loans is a little lower than conventional loans, and the down payment required is traditionally low. Another advantage is that the term of the loan can be stretched up to 30 to 35 years. Because of these lower rate equivalents over conventional loans, the lender will normally charge an extra service charge called “points” (paid by the seller) to make the loan more competitive. 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. t% 5-pC. Bedroom w Suit*—Bookcase bed, triple [v dresser with landscape mirror, large chest and pair of lamps. L Reg. $399.95. Sal* $349.88. ^ Room Suite. Sofa and chair with f high wing back, foam cushions i' and gold tweed upholstery. Reg. . $599.95. Now $499.88. ft 3 pc. Early American Living p Room Suite. Sofa, chair and loveseat with herculon plaid and wood trim. Reg. $649.95. Now $599.88. v Sofabed opens to sleep two. V Storage space in base. $99.88. Dry sink cabinet with stereo jk enclosed. Walnut finish. AM/FM & radio, four speed automatic jy record changer and 8 track tape F player. $549.95. 14 pc. Living Room Ensemble, Sofabed. chair, three tables, two ^ lamps, two pillows and three v trays. Choice of color $279.88. 12 pc. Living Room Suite. V Sofabed and chair Green Herculon plaid. Special $149.88. 5 pc. Bedroom Suite. Pine finish spindle bed, double dresser with 1 mirror, chest and pair of lamps. * Was $599 95. Now $549.88. & Metal Wardrobe. 24" double 5 door $38.88 ea. l Metal WardroSe. 30" double r door, two shelves and locks. $79.88 ea. Metal Wardrobe. 36" double F door, two shelves and locks. $88.88 ea. ^ Metal Wardrobe. 42" double door, two shelves and locks. $99.88ea. ^Wood Wardrobe 36" double ^door, fruitwood finish. $199.95. Base Cabinet 24" double door, ^ formica top. $49.88. ^ China Cabinet. 30" with sliding ^ glass door. $79.95. 38” x 60” Table, leaf and 6 chairs. Two-tone formica top. , Was $199.95. Now $149.88. u-z-boy BEGUN* BOGKEB Vinyl upholstery choice of color Reg. $279.95 NOW $229.88 u. v; CHILDREN’S VINYL PLATFORM ROCKERS assorted colors $34.05 aa. BEAN BAG CHAIRS assorted colors /'Only $10 Reg. $24.95 .88 ea. v£ Maple Finish Kneehole Desk with formica top $139.95. 2 Pc. Living Room Suite, vinyl, sofabed and chair. $299.95. Bunk Beds, maple finish, complete with bedding, guard rail and ladder. Reg $349 95. NOW $299.88. 5 Pc. Chrome and Glass Dinette Set. Round glass top table and four chairs upholstered in velvet. Reg. $399 95 NOW $319.88. Early American Wing Sleeper with Herculon plaid upholstery. Reg $499.95 Now $419.88. Queen Size Sleeper with queen size mattress: Arm covers included $499.95. HASSOCKS Assorted sizes and colors $9.95 ea. to $29.95 ea NIGHT STANDS assorted finishes, sizes and styles $34.99 to $199.95 OPEN: Thurs., Fri., Mon. and Tues. 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Christmas Eve 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Early American Reclining Chair with Herculon tweed upholstery. Was $249 95. Now $199.88. La-Z-Boy Reclina-Chair. Vinyl upholstery. Choice of color $279.95. Reclining Chair with Herculon plaid upholstery. Was $169.95 Now $144.88. Catnapper Reclining Chair with vibrator and heating pad. Extra large chair. Rich vinyl. Choice of color $249.95. Catnapper Rocker-Recliner. Upholstered in velvet. Choice of color. Was $259.95, Now Only $239.88. 7 pc. Dinette Set. Table with leaf and 6 chairs. Reg. $249.95. Now $219.88. Hoover Upright Vacuum. Complete with hose and set of cleaning tools. Reg. $139.95, Now $109.88. Hoover Portable Vacuum with attachments. Self contained in suitcase type case. $99.95. Hoover Portable Vacuum withi automatic cord reel. $119.95. Hoover Upright Quick Broom. Reg. $49.95, Only $39.88. Hoover Canister Vacuum with Powermatic power nozzle. Reg. $189.95. Now $159.88. Reclining Chair with pine wood trim. Nylon tweed' fabric. Reg $299.95, Now $269.88. Platform Rockers with combination of fabric and vinyl. 'Choice of color. Reg. $74.95. Now $84.88 ea. \ Swivel Rockers. Choice of tweed or floral pattern. Reg. $169.95 ea Now $139.88. Swivel Rockers with high back, nylon fabric, tee cushions and ' box pleated skirt. Assorted colors. Reg. $199.95. Now $189.88. Boston Rockers. Assorted ; finishes and designs. $69.95 to'? $99.50. Shop Wisely - Shop Wet mWhere good Furniture is Never Expensive!" MARTIN ~ N 25 E . E. Davis St., leper one 825-1885 s

——Happalfannock NcuiaAnlndgwnawiN—.spapt Est»«*sr»d 1877 PubkshMEv*ry Thursday ARTHURW ARUNDEL Publisher SARAH C LATHAM, Executive Editor JOHN T TOLER. General Manager DAPHNE I HUTCHINSON, News Editor To Subscribe Write or Phone Washington, Va. 675-3349 BY MAIL: *7.00 a year In Rappahannock and adjoining counties: $8.50 a year elsewhere In the United Statee BACK COPIES: One month to Skyears, 75 cents each; over 3 years, S3 each. OFFICE: Rappahannock News Bldg , Washington, Va. 22747 HOURS: 8:30 a.rh. to 5:30 pm. Mon.-Fri Published by Warrenton Printing & Publishing Company, Inc. Member, Audit Bureau of Circulation V nUJRSDAY, DECEMBER 18,1980 Long Delayed Sermon By EDITH A.M. POND Rappahannock %cw» Special I filer On December 7, 1941. Reverend Raymond Charles Hohenstein, wounded during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was carried, bleeding, off the USS California before conducting Sunday services. The next day, a friend of his, finding his cabin still above water, was able to rescue his Bible and the papers he had been working on when the attack took place, including the sermon he had planned. On December 7. 1980. 2028 Sundays later, at the National Convention of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association in Orlando. Florida, Reverend Hohenstein delivered that sermon. His congregation were men and women who, having been on active service with American military forces on the island of Oahu or within the three-mile limit between the hours of 7:55 and 9:45 on the morning of December 7, 1941, and received honorable discharges, gathered with their spouses, their children, their guests, and their fellow survivors at the Sheraton Twin Towers Hotel in Orlando to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the attack. There was a Catholic Mass in the Osceola Room, celebrated by our Catholic chaplain. Fr. Marcus Valenta. and the Protestant service was in the Lake Room, where 1 know there was at least one man who had been on the California during the attack and preparing to attend the services when he saw the wounded preacher being taken off the ship. It was a sermon of advice intended for 18-year old sailors away from home for the first time in their lives. For them, in 1941, the launching of a battleship like the California was the occasion of blinding flashbulbs, coverage by newsreel photographers, coverage by such picture magazines as LIFE and LOOK and layouts in the Sunday supplements of national newspapers. In 1980, many PHSA conventioneers arrived a few days before the official beginning of the convention to watch the launch of Cape Canaveral of Intelsat V on an Atlas-Centaur vehicle. I remember 1941, when ‘‘Mairzy Doats" made more sense to me than an "Intelsat Five on an Atlas-Centaur Vehicle” would have. The launch was scheduled for the evening of December 4, but five busloads of us left the hotel before noon for what was advertised as the 60-minute drive to the Cape, to allow time for lunch and sightseeing. Fortunately, it also allowed time for the bus to get lost, which it did—several times. By the time we reached the Carousel Restaurant in the Visitors Center of what is called officially Kennedy Space Center NASA, we were famished. To our own pleased surprise, however, we were not bored. Florida, to any visitor, must appear flat as a pancake; to eyes accustomed to Rappahannock County’s constantly rising and descending horizons, its monotomy seems almost pathological. Nevertheless, it is a mistake to look away from the windows: in the ditches that line central Florida roads, there are alligators, much less diverted by the sight of us than we were by the sight of them; snowy egrets and blue herons lend a more delicate touch of enchantment to the landscape. And there are the armadillos, bless them. Whoever expected armadillos to be charming? Having joined us shortly before we entered the gates of the space center, she was most knowledgeably, humorously, and interestingly explaining to us what we were seeing and were about to see. She was helping us deal matter-of-factly with ideas that we had once read about only in science fiction, and she was pretty besides, but time and again she was upstaged by the armadillos. 1 one of which looked to me very much as if he (she?) wanted in an armadilly kind of way. to race the bus—or chase h—to the Carousel. Not everybody knows that the Capt is a wildlife refuge, but the wildlife knows it; is fruitful, muhiplies. and has fun. The Carousel system allowed our five busloads to satisfy our hunger within an amazingly short time, after which we dispersed among the various exhibits and shops that fill the Center. During the hours before the scheduled launch, h got a lot colder than most of us had expected or dressed for. and besides, our feet hurt. When, at about 7 o’clock, the launch was cancelled, the feelings of us all were well expressed by our Pennsylvania State Chairman. “Well...,” he said, “It wasn't a total loss—thanks to the armadillos.” The bus driver got lost again, but only once this time, on the way back to the hotel. Maybe it was our singing. Friday, December 5, turned out to be old home week for us Virginians. Survivors poured through our room like soup through a sieve, leaving behind our National Historian, who lived for years in sight of Old Rag, five past and present state chairmen, several chapter presidents, and any number of members who have become our good friends since the first Virginia meeting in 1963. when there were exactly three members in the Old Dominion, and 19 known "eligibles" in Virginia and the District of Columbia. Twenty-two guests, all told, and all who were not members eventually joined the Association. One of the original three has died, and a new member lives in 1iis house. The new man did not know when he bought it that it had been buih by a fellow survivor. Saturday. December 6. was devoted to business meetings and election of officers, from which, as a non-member. 1 was of course, barred. By and large, the good guys won the elections. My husband was re-elected treasurer with little serious opposition, and my greeting to him was the same as it has been for six years now. “Congratulations—I think." Sunday, December 7. started off as that day always does for the survivors. Before church, before breakfast even, there was a flag raising ceremony and a memorial service for those who had not survived the attack. We always remember to honor our dead while we celebrate with the living. Most of the afternoon was spent preparing for the dinner that is the high point of PHSA 'onventions. This year there was a departure, a cocktail party before dinner to honor the association’s officers, outgoing and newly elected, and to introduce to them some of the guests invited by the host chapter. Among these was a young astronaut (male), whose after-dinner speech was intended to (and did) explain to us how Intelsat V, a privately financed commercial enterprise. would help promote the official purpose of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, which is to “Keep America Alert.” Another was a young astronaut candidate (female), a civilian engineer involved in supplies and bio-medics, a bright, articulate young lady and good-looking besides. The survivors seemed to cluster around her in much greater numbers than around our evening's speaker. In some ways, they had changed a lot in 39 years. And in other ways, not at all. Special Patrols Assist Motorists The Safety-Service Patrol of the Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation will travel some 260 miles of the state’s interstate system during peak periods of the Christmas and New Year’s weekends to assist motorists whose vehicles become disabled. During the Christmas period, the speciallyequipped pickup trucks will operate from 4 p.m. to midnight on Wednesday (December 24), and from 8 a.m. to midnight Sunday (December 28). On the New Year's weekend, the trucks will operate from 4 p.m. to midnight Wednesday (December 31) and from 8 a.m. to midnight Sunday (January 4), according to C.O. Leigh, the department’s maintenance engineer. The trucks will carry signs designating their function and will be equipped with safety flares and flags, traffic cones, fire extinguishers, water, and other emergency supplies. Two-way radios will provide contact through base stations with police, rescue squads, and other emergency services. Roads to be covered include Interstate 95 between Northern Virginia and Prince George County, Interstate 64 between Richmond and Norfolk, Interstate 66 between Interstate 495 and Gainesville, and Interstate 81 between Dixie Caverns and US 220 near Cloverdale. In addition to the special holiday coverage, the department's daily patrol of 1-495 and a segment of the Shirley Highway (1-395) in Northern Virginia will remain in operation on a 24hour basis. Department officials urged motorists to ensure that their motor vehicles are in good operating condition before starting out on long trips. They also suggested that motorists have their vehicles equipped with snow tires or carry chains if planning to visit in areas where snow storms are a possibility. Veteran’s Agent’s Schedule Veteran’s Claims Agent Edwin L. Pomeroy says he will not make his regular visit to Rappahannock County on the first Friday in January. Instead, since this is a scheduled holiday, he will be in the Rappahannock Clerk’s office on the third Friday, January 16. If any Rappahannock County client wishes to see him, they may contact the Front Royal office which is open Monday-Friday from 8:30 to 5 p.m. However, the Front Royal office will be closed December 24, 25 and 26 for the Christmas holidays. ++++ Try to win, and still more to deserve, the confidence of those with whom you are brought in contact. - —John Lubbock i —R«|>t>ahaannrk Nnm PhnWS. Laduai Our Rappahannock Heritage Miller Seeks GOP Nomination, Davis Makes Democratic Bid Two of Virginia’s political heavyweights stepped into the ring this week by announcing their candidacies for one of the state’s top titles—the lieutenant governor’s post. Sen. Nathan H. Miller, a lawyer and staunch supporter of Gov. John Dalton, is seeking the Republican nomination, a bid that could result in a race against Portsmouth ex-mayor Richard J. Davis, former chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Miller and Davis announced Monday morning in Richmond their hopes of getting the nominations of Local Poet To Read Works In Washington Local poet Carla Eugster of Woodville will give a reading of selections from her published and unpublished works 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the Magic Mountain Theatre on Gay Street in Washington. Widely published in journals, she is the author of two poetry chapbooks and a forthcoming novel, “Somebody’s Brother”, based upon her experiences as a labor union organizer. She is included in “The Poet Upstairs,” an anthology of poets who reside in or near the greater Washington area. She also directed her own three-act poetic drama at the Goucher College Institute of Contemporary Arts. Early next year, Mrs. Eugster will participate in the Poets-in-the-Schools of Richmond, a program partially financed by the National Endowment for the Arts to help schools all over the country bring students into direct contact with practicing artists. Before specializing in poetry. Mrs. Eugster was an educator in diverse settings, teaching literacy classes to the economically disadvantaged in Appalachia, organizing in union halls in the states and England, serving as an educational consultant to government agencies. She founded and directed Nethers Community School in Rappahannock County, which for seven years served as an alternative Sum CARLA EUGSTER merhillian approach to learning. She currently administers the Nethers Farm Retreat for poets and chamber music musicians, milks goats, gardens organically and raises worms commercially. “I hope,” said Mrs. Eugsters. “that many people who have never thought of going to a poetry reading will come to mine. You don’t have to be a poet or be knowledgeable about poetry to enjoy a reading.” The program will include music played by Paul Rippey, a cartoonist and former staff member of Nethers School. After the reading there will be a discussion over wine and cheese. Admission is S3.50 per person. their respective parties. A native of Harrisonburg. Miller. 37, received his law degree in 1969 from the T. C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bridgewater College. In 1971 he was elected to the House of Delegates, representing the 16th Legislative District. He was re-elected in 1973. During his two terms in the House. Miller served on the committees of Education. Agriculture. Militia and Police, and Privileges and Elections. In 1975 he was elected to the 26th Senatorial District seat and in 1979 won a second term in the Senate. He now serves on the committees of Commerce and Labor, Transportation and Local Governments. In 1978 he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for US Senate. He has campaigned actively for Dalton, US Rep. J. Kenneth ' Robinson of Winchester, former President Richard M. Nixon in 1972 and US Sen. John Warner of Atoka. Miller is a member of the law firm Litten, Sipe and Miller and has financial interests in a family manufacturing company, a real estate and construction company and a Maryland radio station. Davis served as Portsmouth’s mayor from July 1974 until July 1980 when he decided against seeking reelection. He was elected chairman of the state's Democratic party in 1979 and 1980, also serving this year as co-chairman of the Carter-Mondale Reelection Committee in Virginia. Davis, 59, is a 1938 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, a 1942 graduate of the College of William and Mary and a 1948 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School. Letters To The Editor Help Needed To the editor: There are three families in the community with a genuine need that the FISH organization is trying to provide (FISH is the Green acronym for the Christian movement). To protect their anonymity we are not stating the problem publicly. Call 675-3523 and we will give you the particulars. We need financial assistance. We who are living so comfortably cannot ignore the deserving needy. “As you do it to one of the least of these, my brethren, you do it to Me”. FISH ORGANIZATION Rappahannock Chapter A Gift To the editor: Two young men of this county, both residents of Hint Hill, have recently given Rappahannock County a gift which should not go unnoticed. Both these men hold full time jobs, yet for the past three and a half months, from September 2 through December 11, every Tuesday and Thursday nights between 1900 and 2200 hours, they volunteered of their spare time to teach an Emergency Medical Technician Course at Flint Hill Fire Station. Now, this is no simple matter, for to teach well, they had to be prepared well professionally. They had to coordinate guest speakers’ schedules, they had to pick up and return various training aids, films, projectors and other equipment; they had to establish a working relationship and liason with hospitals in Front Royal, Culpeper and Warrenton, to insure inservice training; and they had to do a variety of other odd and sundry things to insure success of their Conservation Nominees Nominations are being accepted for the seventh national “Conservation Teacher-of-the-Year” awards program according to Raymond R. Kite, Chairman of the Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District. The competition is open to all full-time teachers working at the kindergarten through high school level who have developed an outstanding program of environmental education. The National Conservation Teacher of the Year will receive $1000 in cash and an expense paid trip to Phoenix. Arizona for the 1982 annual convention of the National Association of Conservation Districts. The national second place winner receives a $500 cash award and the first place regional winner will be given $200. Co-sponsored by NACD and the Allis Chalmers Corporation, the purpose of the awards program is to encourage the development of creative learning experiences in conservation for young people. “Any teacher in a public or private school in our conservation district who puts emphasis on environmental conservation as a regular part of the instructional program is eligible for nomination.” said Chairman Kite. Interested teachers can obtain additional information and nomination forms from the Culpeper District office at 604 South Main Street in Culpeper. The awards program also includes equivalent prizes for the conservation district judged nationally to have provided the most effective stimulus and help for conservation education programs within the District. program and to meet Virginia State requirements. The gift, the results of their effort, sixteen newly qualified, trained, and Virginia State Certified Emergency Medical Technicians in Rappahannock County, most of whom will serve with Flint Hill, Sperryville, or Amissville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squads (along with one who will also serve with the Warrenton Rescue Squad). Individuals trained to respond to medical emergencies, to provide initial care, to alleviate suffering at the scene of accidental injury or sudden illness, trained by these two men to keep you alive and stabilized during transport to the nearest appropriate medical facility.. These two young men of whom I speak, and who I think deserve the appreciation and praise of all the citizens of this county are Kenneth R. Pullen, Box 28, Flint Hill and Frank E. Huff, Box 134, Flint Hill. Two great guys to whom a simple "Thank you” seems too little. LARRY G. GENEBACH Amissville Kilby Applauded To the editor, Rappahannock . County should be very proud of Tim Kilby. I have through the years worked with the endowment in the photography program. The competition is extremely tough. Tbis is one of the most difficult grants in the art field to achieve. There are nationally known photographers competing as well as young photographers such as Tim. Congratulations! This is quite an accomplishment. MARY A. SCHUMAKER Flint Hill Chadwell Is Co-Ed Reporter Doralee Chadwell, 17, of Huntly, has been named COED Correspondent for the 1980-81 school year, according to an announcement by Kathy Gogick, editor of CO-ED Magazine. CO-ED, published nationally by Scholastic Magazines, Inc., for home economics students, contains features on personal development, careers and consumer awareness as well as the latest trends in fashion, food, beauty, and home furnishings. Miss Chadwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Chadwell, a senior at Rappahannock County High School was appointed correspondent by Mrs. Betty Wood, home economics teacher. Selected for the qualities ot leadership and enthusiasm for home economics. Miss Chadwell will serve as junior adviser to CO-ED editors and will keep the editors informed of activities at her school. 1 he Little Fox

, Blues Singer John Jackson: “Got No Complaints99 In 1930, a small boy sat on a hillside in the F.T. Valley, learning the blues from his convict friend after the chain gang put down Dicks and shovels for the evening. A half century later, those same blues opened doors to the White House for John Jackson. ihe county’s most famous musical son, Jackson is a featured performer today at major blues and folk festivals across the U.S. and around the world. His style is traditional, the real, authentic, old time sounds born two hundred years ago from the sorrows of slavery. Muddy Waters left the country and took his^music to the city’s smoky cfubs where it picked up electricity and sophistication. Other bluesmen drifted to St. Louis and New Orelans where their down and out stories metamorphasized into jazz. John Jackson kept his roots in the country, preserving the rural heritage of the blues for another generation. He was born in Rappahannock in 1924, one of 14 children in a family ^here mother, father, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins played guitars, fiddles, banjos, harmonicas— anything that would create music. “My father used to make penny whistles for us. He’d cut a piece from a sapling, heat fence wire in the stove ’til it was red hot and then poke it through and cut finger holes.” The little penny whistles may have lacked true pitch and tuning but they worked well enough for the Jackson kids to tootle songs, magic that John is at a loss to explain. Chain Gang Blues As musically oriented as the Jackson family was, a stranger started John on the road to the blues. “A convict who used to tote water from our spring got me interested. I must have been around four or five ’cause he was working on the first black-topped road in the county down through the F.T. Valley and they finished in 1932—before that, all the roads around here were just dirt. When I’d see Hap coming, I used to take my father’s gujtar and meet him at the spring. We’d sii down and he’d play a while.” The county was thirsting in the grip of a severe drought and the Jacksons had one of the few water sources still flowing. People came for miles, on horseback, in wagons, on foot, to fill their buckets and jugs. , Hap regularly drew water for the road gang. “When I first saw him, he had a chain I on his leg. Then after about six months, they took the chain off and made him a trusty. We’d come from the poor town field about six and sit up on the hill to watch for Hap. He’d go home with us and have supper. He didn’t have to be back in’til 9. About six months later they set him free.” After his release, Hap stayed with the Jacksons for a while, strumming and singing the songs that left such an impact on his young listener. John remembers only one—Midnight Blues, a good-love-gone-bad story with repetitive verses and chord patterns that fit right in with the classical definition of country blues. One day the convict up and left. “We followed him to the nearest town of Sperryville and watched him catch the mail truck. We never saw him again.’’ Jackson doesn’t know what happened to his old teacher or even remember his last name. “We only knew him as Hap. He was the happiest man you ever saw in your life—always laughing, whistling and singing,’’ Jackson recalled, smiling at the memory. Roots In Country And Blues Hap was just the first influence on John’s style. Next came a host from the musical archives: Blind Blake, Bessie Smith, Lemon Jefferson*, Furry Lewis —black blues singers recorded in the 1930s on race labels. But Jackson is unusual in that he listened to more than just black blues. Ticking off the names of greats and near greats who had an impact on his style. John digs deep into the roots of country music to put Jimmy Rodgers and the Carter family high on his list. In an unbroken musical circle, Rodgers and the Carters hark back to the blues for inspiration: as a railroad engineer, Rodgers traveled the country to see many of the original black singers and A. P. Carter picked up much of his material and style from a black blues singer out of Virginia. Blake, Jefferson, Smith, Rodgers, the Carters—they all came to the Jackson home and stayed* captured on circles of wax. “Two furniture dealers with a horse and wagon all loaded up drove into the yard one day. My father ran them off but when he went back to the fields, they came back around and they had this old wind-up victrola going. “God Almighty, where’d you get that music box from?’ my 1 4 T.R. BALDWIN STATE FUR BUYER Top market prices paid for all kinds of furs and hides. We’re the Biggest Fur Buyers East of the Blue Ridge We sell Hats and Trapping Supplies Sperryville, Va. 987-8240 M M -WESTSIDEGROCERY Rt. 522—Sperryville Pike—Culpeper — __Phone 825-8095 Open Christmas Day— Country Hams s1.791b. Groceries Oysters (PleaseOrder in Advance) •• gal. *25.99 Side Meat & Fresh Meat T-Bone & Porterhouse Steak. *3.39 lb. Sirloin Steak*.••••••••••.•••*2.89 lb. Chuck Steak. »*1.39 lb. Ground Beef»,»***.••••••••••••*1.69 lb. Call Jimmy Abed Open 7 Days A Week—6 A.M. to 10 P.M. mother asked them,” Jackson recalled, chuckling. She bought the record player while John’s father was still safely out of the t to play. “The maflm&n heard it and he wouldn’t leave me alone ’til I went to the Amoco gas station up the road to teach him how to play it like ZUriPKflT mr SB. numbers on stage. After he’d finished his mini-set, a fellow in the audience jumped up and announced that he wanted to make a record of around the world, complete world.” The group played before VIP listeners in San Francisco, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma, Sri “PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GOOD to me. I got no complaints.” — Kappahannork Nn»« hmlo/dharlf* Thumpkin* house and when the furniture dealers returned every six weeks or so to collect their installment, the kids picked out records, spending 10 cents . 15 cent on recordings by the giants of the blues—people tied to the earth, whether black or white. Jackson refined his style listening over and over again to their hard luck, down-and-out songs. “Rappahannock County was just full bf good guitar players, fiddle players, narmonicas back in those days,” John recalled. In addition to local musicians, other bluesmen from the big cities of Fredericksburg and Richmond stopped often at the Jackson home on their way down country. “They used to come to see my mother and father. I remember seeing them and hearing them but I never knew who they really were ‘til my mother told me a few years before she died.” In his teens and early 20s, John was proficient enough to join his family and friends. "We played for parties and dances all over the place and every which way around,” he laughed. “There was a lot of music here in those times.” But music wasn’t enough to keep him in the county. At 24, John joined the outmigration from Rappahannock, moving to Fairfax and a job as chauffeur-caretaker on the fringes of the sprawling metropolitan area of D. C. He left hi$ music behind in the mountains, abandoning his guitar for almost two decades. “I quit playing in ’46," Jackson stated without elaboration. When his employer’s estate was sold, Jackson became a gravedigger, a trade he still follows, and moved to his current home at Fairfax Station. Walk Right In “It’s funny how I started | again. The kids were out in the yard playing ball. They’d gotten tired of it and kept | after me to play a song so they could dance.” They wanted to hear the popular 1964 remake of an old, traditional number, “Walk right in, sit right down, Baby, let your mind roll on.” After more wheedling and pleading, Jackson recalled, he agreed BEST WISHES FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON Faitk Mountain Herbs & Antiques j We will be open every day until 1 Christmas, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. lii j Come visit us . in Sperryville I (opposite the post office) i i . J Closed December 25 to January 6 OVER 100 CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS FOR UNDER $10, plus UNUSUAL Stocking Stuffers. At I did.” While John was giving impromptu lessons in thd back of the station, a customer drove in for gas. “He heard us and came running in and asked me if I could play anything else. I said ‘Nothin’ much.’ But I did Candy Man, one of Mississippi John Hurt’s. He asked me how 1 learned it and I told him off the original 78 record. He wanted to know what else I played and 1 said ‘Nothin’ much.’ ’’ But he rattlfed off a string of. blues titles he'd learned from those old discs his family bought from the furniture wagon 30 years' before. His discoverer invited Jackson home so he could tape the Rappahannock bluesman. “I said I’d go and when I didn’t show up the next night, he was sitting on my porch when 1 came home,” John recalled. The stranger invited Jackson into town to meet the gentlemen who wrote Candy Man. “I said I’d been listening to that record for 25 years and that he must be pushing up tulips by now. ‘No, he ain’t,’ he said. ‘You just be ready and I’ll take you into D.C. to hear him,’ he told me...And when Mississippi John Hurt sang Candy Man, 1 knew it was him," Jackson smiled. His new friend arranged for John to play a couple of Jackson. "It came out in '65 and I’ve been traveling ever since." His discoverer at the gas station was Chuck Purdue, professor at the University of Virginia, historian and music enthusiast who later moved to Rappahannock County. Worldwide Fame Since that night when he heard Mississippi John Hurt, Jackson has recorded four albums and played at concerts around the world. He's been over and back across the Atlantic four times and performed at the White House last Labor Day for President Jimmy Carter. “That’s not the first time I’ve been to the White House lawn for parties. I was there during Mr. Nixon's administration," Jackson noted. A month ago, he returned from an around-the-world tour sponsored by the government. "A lady called and asked if I was interested. I said if there was any frog hide in it. I’d be very interested," John joked, rubbing imaginary bills between his thumb and forefinger. The frog hide was sufficient so Jackson left San Francisco with bluegrass stars Ricky Scaggs and Josh White, the Downhome Folks and a French-singing Cajun band from Louisiana to take southern music on “tour Lanka, Pakistan, Cairo—17 foreign counties in all. "I don’t even know the names of all the places where we were,’’ Jackson said of the two month goodwill tour. Audiences were enthusiastic. A stack of photographs show Jackson and the rest of the troupe playing to packed houses of smiling faces and clapping hands. Other shots capture Jackson meeting a real life Oriental princess, watching an elderly musician play an ancient Eastern guitar thousands of years old and admiring foreign crafts and art forms. “1 >vas the only blaclj person on the tour. They treated me like some kind of king,” Jackson said, adding that his audiences, for the most part, had never heard blues before. No Place Like Home But even with royal attention amidst the jeweled mausoleums and temples of the East, Jackson was glad to arrive home. “There’s no country like the United States. Other places, no matter how much money you have, you can’t get the comforts we have here at home.” He came back to enough requests to fill his engagement calendar for months. Jackson currently has offers for three European bookings, one in Switzerland and two in West Germany. “I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to take them. A lady called just last night from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I expect I’ll do that one.” As of last month, however, Jackson had agreed only to perform at Madison College in February—the rest are still waiting for his answer. On top of the booking requests, John came back to his job as gravedigger. Even with his phenomenal musical success, he works every day he’s back, digging graves for several funeral homes in that area as he’s done more than 25 years. “I couldn’t just do nothing but play music—1 love my work,” he explained. For him, music doesn’t offer solitary pleasure. "I never play for my own enjoyment any more—just when I go out or people come in," he said. But people come in often, drawn by the graciousness and friendship that John extends to visitors. Spur of the moment concerts with Jackson in the rocking chair, his son opposite him on a stool and a friend on the couch are commonplace. It isn’t necessary to carry along an instrument—there are guitars enough for everyone at the Jackson home. 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News From Around Sperryville H\ MRS. B. M. \ \R\KR K«|)|t«hanniH-k I Mrs. George Bain of Washington and Mrs. Mary Quaintance attended a Girl Scout meeting Friday in Charlottesville. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Butler and Susan of Annandale were Sunday guests of Mrs. Robert W. Brown. Mrs. Frances Thornton and other members of the family were guests at a pre* Christmas dinner at the home of Capt. and Mrs. Paul Thompson in Fork Union in honor of Mrs. Francis Churchill Jones of Richmond. Mrs. Carroll Quaintance and Mrs. Mary Quaintance were guests for dinner Saturday evening in 'Charlottesville with Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sanford of Orange. Mrs. Quaintance and Teresa McLawhorn were Saturday overtiight guests of Mrs. Mary Quaintance. Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Schaefer. Fred C. Schaefer _ and Mrs. B. M. Varner were dinner guests Saturday evening of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Palmer and sons in Warrentoti. Mrs. Lucille Payne of Madison was a Sunday guest of the Schaefers. Mrs. Frank Edmond. Mrs. C. E. Burke and Mrs. Paul Jones of Front Royal were callers last Tuesday of their sister. Mrs. George W. Hawkins. Mrs. D. V. Chapman Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Chapman Jr., of Richmond visited friends here last Saturday. Mrs. Carroll Quaintance entertained at bridge Saturday night when guests included Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Keyser, Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Reeve. Mrs. Brown Miller. Mrs. R. E. Thompsen. Mrs. Mary Quaintance and Mrs. Lucille Price. Mrs. Ruth Perkins is a patient in Culpeper Memorial Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Carson , romsettias— For Christinas r wiNatnral Wreaths Pine Roping Holly ^3tovjzx ffiaA&st » 203 SOUTH ROYAL AVENUE 636-1155 Foot Facts by Dr. Bruce Vogel Podiatrist Foot specialist DON’T ABUSE YOUR FEET Many people perform a type of "home surgery” on themselves for corns, callouses, or ingrown nails. They may feel that-they won't1 hurt themselves as much, bt that medical costs today are too high. There $ greatdanger . in this, especially if a person has' poor circulation or diabetes. Even triming the nails can be dangerous if one is not real careful, especially the diabetic Remember a person often can not diagnose their illnesses or the adequacy of their circulation, two factors which are very important to healing. Therefore, one may find himself at the doctor with a more serious problem later on Also a person cannot repair an ingrown nail or other problem as adequately as a physician can, nor can he use sterile instruments (alcohol and home disinfectants do not kill all forms of bacteria) Lastly, some of these problems have a more permanant solution A public service with the aim of promoting a better foot health environment from the office of Dr. B. Vogel, 85 Garret St., 347-9393. Johnson and C. B. entertained the Brown family at a pre-Christmas dinner Sunday. Mrs. W. H. Lyne spent last week with her sister, Mrs. C. R. Powell, in Kilmarnock. Sunday guests of Mrs. Ethel Tyner and Miss Nellie Atkins were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hicks of Ruby. Their Monday callers were Elder and Mrs. Holly Redman of Hopewell. News From Boston By MRS. MARIE ATKINS KapiMhaMnurti t .m i, ,|mh»,W'«i Recent visitors of Mrs. Ruth Lillard were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Petty of Front Royal. Mrs. George Butler. Mrs. Jesse Hawkins and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Duncan visited their brother J. Stant Weaver in Washington Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Atkins of Sperryville were Tuesday supper guests of F. R. Frazier Sr., and Harold. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jenkins have been visiting their daughter. Mrs. Littleton Fincham in Culpeper, who has just returned from a stay in Culpeper Memorial Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hawkins were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ashby Wayland in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Frazier. Michele and Michael were Friday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Meade in Culpeper. John Barfield arrived Wednesday from VPI&SU to spend the holidays with his parents and grandmother. Mrs. Hazel Barfield. Gordon Thornhill spent the weekend in Phoenix. Ariz. Sunday luncheon guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Butler Sr., were the Rev. and Mrs. William Lancaster and family and Capt. Howard Holschuh of Castleton. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thornhill and family of Vienna were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cary 'titornhill. '’Mrs. Lucy Thornhill Ts visiting her son and daughter-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thornhill and family in Culpeper this week. Fellowship Supper A covered dish fellowship supper will be served at the Rock Villa Mission in Sperryville on Sunday, December 21. beginning at 6:30 p.m. Miss Anne Dwyer, a missionary to Yemen, will give a slide presentation at 7:30 and the public is invited. NOTICE Due to a recent theft and also the fact that my property has been damaged and abused, I have to cancel all hunting and fishing permits on any property I own in Rappahannock County. There is positively no entry on any road or lane or field allowed. I' I hereby ask the appropriate authorities to assist me and enforce the law. This is very much to my regret and hopefully my property will be returned and the damage fixed, and then new permits will be issued. Chester W. Fannon, Jr. News From The Washington Area Sunday luncheon guests of the Rev. and Mrs. Jennings Hobson 111 and Jennings IV were Mr. and Mrs. John Robert Humphrey of Front Royal. Miss C. N. Doran of Kansas City. Mo., will arrive Thursday to spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Rayner Snead. Mr. and Mrs. Page Moffett and Billy of Leesburg were Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Moffett Jr. Jerry Burke of Manassas was a Saturday visitor of his grandmother, Mrs. Gabe Burke. Mrs. Gordon Hilldrup and Jimmy of Spotsylvania were Wednesday callers of Mrs. A. M. Vemer and Mrs. Mary Updike. Sunday evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Lindstrom were Mr. and Mrs. William Campbell of Luray. Mr. and Mrs. Field Woodville Area News By JUNKCLARK K«|»f»aluiMIM*rV Ns*** < MMMlettfl Miss Bonnie Brown of Silver Spring. Md.. was a Monday guest of her mother. Mrs. Chloe Brown. In the afternoon they visited Mrs. Bobby Brown and infant daughter in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Weakley of Washington and their houseguest Mrs. Carlton Dulaney of Luray were Wednesday evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Daczewhz. Gregg. Philip and Derek. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Jenkins and family of Frederick. Md., were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Buster Hitt. Frankie and Winfrey and Mrs. Virginia Jenkins. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Burgess of Richmond are visiting Raymond Johnson for several days. Mrs. Edna Woodward. Tabby Sue. John and Jeffery of Castleton were Monday evening visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Brew Burke. John Hennage and Glen Branick of Montross were Sunday callers of Mr. and M'rs. Clifton Clark and Misty Hitt. ... Mrs. Paul Grigsby is a patient in Warren Memorial Hospital. Front Royal. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Dwyer entertained Saturday in honor of their son Johnnie on his sixth birthday. Guests were his sister. Tracy. Patrick and Brian Buchanan. Renee' Ellis. Aney Massie and Mrs. Jean Buchanan. Beekeepers Elect Lyt Wood and Raymond Johnson of Rappahannock have been elected vicepresident and treasurer of the Northern Piedmont Beekeepers Association at the organization's annual Christmas dinner held recently. Directors for the association include John Schultz of Washington. John Amberson. outgoing president, is county advisor from Rappahannock and Wood is committee chairman from the county. Amberson was presented a silver platter in appreciation for his outstanding leadership as president and three years as secretary since the association was organized in August. 1976. Anyone interested in beekeeping may contact a county officer for further information on the Northern Piedmont Beekeepers Association. Benton and Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Estes, all of Sperryville. Mrs. Alice Wood attended a birthday party for Lynn Bailey Saturday at the home of Ms. Mary Bailey. Mrs. Lucille Blosser of New Market was a Saturday visitor of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Payne. Calling on Mrs. W. M. Fletcher Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Faulkner of Orange. Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Burke joined by Mr. and Mrs. Jennings Burke and daughters of Alexandria were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ashton Burke of Warrenton at the Steer House in Culpeper. Mrs. Carol Miller was a Saturday guest of Miss Annie Miller Almond and Mrs. Mary G. Edmonds of Huntly visited her Sunday. Mrs. Paul Miller of Flint Hill called on Mrs. Bertie Lib Moffett Thursday. Visiting Mrs. Moffett Sunday were Mrs. Henry L. Miller of Luray. Mrs. H. M. Keyser and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Massie and Tom Jr. Mrs. G. R. Butler and Fred of Boston were visitors Thursday of Stant Weaver. John Weaver of Washington. D. C.. spent Saturday with his father. Mrs. Leonard Campbell is a patient in Prince William Hospital. Manassas. Mrs. Carlton Dulaney of Luray was a houseguest of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Weakley from Wednesday until Friday last week. Birthday Celebrated Johnny Grigsby and Donny Settle celebrated their 10th birthdays at a joint party last Wednesday held at the Battle Mountain Hunt Club near Castleton. Hostesses for the celebration were the mothers of the two boys. Mrs. Barbara Settle and Mrs. Alice Grigsby. Guests were Mrs. Hilda Eckhardt. Mrs. Joan Reid. Sherry and Joey, Mrs. Shirley Dodson. Glenn and James. Mrs. Myrtle Smith. Heather and Harlon Coffey. Mike and Paul Grigsby. Mike Cook. Mrs. Shirley Settle and Tanya, Michelle Settle. Mrs. Laura Ann Jenkins and Junior, Mathew Settle, Elvis Foster. Mrs. Nancy Helms and Shannon. Wade. Andrew and Wanda Compton. Kevin Jolliffe. Acrey and Gladys Dodson. John and Jackie Settle. Flint Hill Area News Mrs. Ethel Pullen was a Saturday overnight guest of Mrs. Thelma Jeffries in Front Royal. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Welch. Ryan and Courtney of Richmond were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Welch and Dale. Mrs. Walter E. Krause and Kim of Front Royal and Mrs. Mary Blaisdell attended the annual Coca-Cola Bottling Company Christmas party in Warrenton. Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Nethers of Stephens City and Mrs. Bob Lewis of Huntly Were visitors Sunday afternoon of Mrs. Robert Nethers. ^ \ Spalding Jr., of Aiken. S. C.. spent Wednesday and Thursday with Mrs. Frank Spalding. Mrs, Doug By waters returned home Thursday after being a patient in Winchester Memorial Hospital. ^Mrs. Jim Bolton of Warrenton spent the weekend with her mother. Mrs. M. H. Brady. They were joined Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. Mike Crane and Mrs. Ernest Crane of Lanham. Md.. and Sunday guests were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brady. Jason and Molly Marie of Oakton. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hamilton of High Point. N. C.. arrived Sunday to spend several days with the latter's mother. Mrs. Brady. Mrs. Joan Patton. Mindy. The Wakefield Country Day Preparatory School hefd its first dance of the year, a Christmas Ball, December 12. Students, guests and many former students danced to the music of the “SHY” from Front Royal with beverages provided courtesy of Pepsi Cola of Warrenton. Plans for the future include a St. Patrick’s Day Fiesta and a Junior-Senior Prom. NAACP Meeting The regular meeting of the Rappahannock NAACP will be held Friday evening. December 19. at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church dining hall. All members are urged to attend. Mr. and Wakefield Holds Dance BIDS EMERGENCY ELECTRICAL CONTROLS FOR RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SHOP y Interested contractors may secure specifications from: *, William J. Bloomer, Superintendent Rappahannock County Public Schools P.O.Box3232 , Sperryville, Virginia 2f?4Q Phone:703-987-8773 Bids must be submitted by noon, December 30,1980. The Rappahannock County School Board reserves the right to reject aiiy and all bids. ' Joy and Helen of Stephens City were Saturday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lillard. The Lillards were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Clud in Fredericksburg Sunday. Saturday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Smoot. Gary and Bobby were Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Smoot Jr.. Scott and Dasha of Front Royal. Mrs. Irving Corbin and Mr. and Mrs. Darryl Corbin, all of Hartwood, were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Foster. Miss Sallie Lillard entertained with a preChristmas party at her home fl Saturday evening. Guests were Mrs. Geneva Cubbage. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Cubbage and Frankie Cubbage. all of Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Ledford. Mrs. Estelle Leake and Julia Ann and Note King, all of Luray. Eliza Huffman of ' Bentonvillc. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Weaver. Mrs. Mary Lillard and Douglas and i Connie Huff, all of Front Royal. Rose Smith of W'arrenton and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Foster and Carol. Smoot Ends Training Private Gregory A. Smoot, son of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Smoot of. Washington, recently completed One Station Unit Training (OSUT) at the U.S.. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. OSUT is a 12-week period which combines basic combat training and advanced individual training^ The training included weapons qualifications, squad tactics, patrolling, landmine warfare, field 'communications and combat operations. This qualifies Smoot as a lightweapons infantryman and as an indirect fire crewman. Mountain Magic Cinema Cay St. Washington, Va. 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Other Wakefield prize winners were Skip Giles, Jeff SchlegaL. Cleo von Ludwig, Chris Farrell, Jennifer Moreman, Tara Welty, Richard Campbell. April Richey, and Jennifer Gagnon. Be an Angel Give Flowers for Christmas. What a wonderful way to make merry. With fresh flowers. Send a holiday arrangement. Or a fresh, green plant. We can deliver anywhere in this area and almost anywhere in the world through 16,000 affiliated Teleflorists. So come by. And pick out some special flowers. It’s a sure way to make someone’s holiday heavenly. Fussell Florist . Second Street /atthe By-Pass '.=■ ■■ v front Boyal, VS. ^ m 63ST-3893 o Tyefloia Flowers Do It. NOTICE, TO THE PUBLIC IN THE MATTER OF DETERMINATION OF RATES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PURCHASE AND SALE OF ELECTRICITY BETWEEN POTOMAC EDISON COMPANY AND QUALIFYING COGENERATORS AND SMALL POWER PRODUCERS Notice is hereby given that the Virginia State Corporation Commission has established Case No. PUE800114 and scheduled a public hearing on January 28, 1981, at 10:00 a.m. in the Industrial Commission’s 3rd Floor Courtroom, Jefferson Building (formerly Blanton Biiilding), Bank and Governor Streets, Richmond, Virginia, for the purpose of determining the rates, charges and conditions for the sale and purchase of electric energy between Potomac Edison Company (“Potomac Edison” or “Company”) and cogeneration and small power production facilities which obtain qualifying status under Section 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 197B(PURPA). Pursuant to Section 210 of PURPA and the corresponding Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulations, each electric utility is required to sell electric energy to qualifying facilities at reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates, and to purchase available electric energy from qualifying facilities at a rate reflecting the cost that the electric utility can avoid as a result of obtaining energy from a qualifying facility (“avoided cost”). In accordance with Section 210, Potomac Edison has filed with the Commission projections of its “avoided costs” and its construction schedules for review and use by the Commission in setting appropriate rates for the purchase and sale of electric energy between Potomac Edison and qualifying facilities. In addition, Potomac Edison has been ordered by the Commission to file on or before January 7, 1981, proposed rate schedules for the purchase and sale of electricity between Potomac Edison and qualifying facilities; together with testimony in support of its position. Copies of this data may be reviewed in the Commission’s ■ Document Control Center, Floor Bl, Jefferson Building (comer of Bank and Governor Streets), Richmond, Virginia, and at any Potomac Edison office where customer bills may be paid.' On or before January 23, 1981, all persons who expect to submit evidence at the public hearing as a party .protestant, and to cross-examine Potomac Edison’s witnesses, must file a Protest in conformity with the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, simultaneously serving a copy upon Potomac Edison; notice of protest is waived for this proceeding. Service upon Company shall be made on Philip J. Bray, Esquire, Downsville Pike,.Hagerstown, Maryland 21740. . ; • • v . ^ ‘ ^ t,. v . . * On or before January 23, 1981, all protestants shall file an original and ten' copies of the prepared testimony and exhibits of all their respective witnesses who are expected to appear at the hearing, and shall serve a copy thereof upon Company. g , . ■ i V * ••• if <• ' ' ' ■ -y .• ... 4 V j Any interested person (public Witness) who desires to make a statement at the hearing in his or her own behalf, either for or against Potomac Edison's proposed rate schedules and supporting data, need only appear in the Commission's Courtroom at 9:45 a.m. January 28,1981, and complete an appearance form which will be provided by the Bailiff. All such persons will be heard as expeditiously as possible, beginning at 10:00 a.m., on that date. < „/ «.: ,v•. . . i. .•:'.v'_ *; •• -, v--* All written communications to the Commission pertaining to this proceeding shall he addressed to the Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond. Virginia 23216. AH written communications to Potomac Edison should he addressed to Pliilip J. Bray, Esquire, Downsville Pike, Hagerstown, Maryland ijinn A- t-.\ •- ■ f.i'i .■ -\S >■' Potomac Edlsoa . .., ■ a j Part 6f the Allegheny Power Svstem

John Jackson (Continued from Page 5) On a visit a few weeks ago, John strummed and plucked » finger-snapping, toetapping, ragtime number with his youngest boy. “I play anything but rock ’n’ roll, soul and disco,” he emphasized. He doesn’t use a pick, just fingers with calluses that have grown rock hard from years of contact with metal strings. Occasionally, he’ll pick up an old knife hilt to use in slide guitar. Singing of John Henry and his hammer, the strings under the knife hilt echo the legendary hero’s driving steel as the bluesman’s thumping hand pounds out the rhythm of the trains. Jackson shook his head over the knife hilt a substitute in recent years for his old bottleneck-. According to Jackson, he had the perfect slide with the neck of a lemon extract bottle bought years and years ago ii Rappahannock from th< traveling Watkins man. Bui the magic bottleneck was losl and Jackson said he’s never been able to find another like it. Before putting up theii instruments, John and hi: son played "Don’t Let Youi Deal Go Down,” an old turn from the mountains 01 Tennessee that Jacksor learned as a boy from hi« father. He’s taught his boj the same way he learned, preserving the musical heritage of the country blues for the next generation down the line. For someone who sings the blues, John Jackson is a happy man. He’s known sorrow and family tragedy in the deaths of two sons but his smile and good humor belie the sadness of the songs. "People have been good to me everywhere,” he said. “I’ve got no complaints.” Children Visit Glassblower Preschoolers at Sursum Corda School visited the glassblowing studio of Eric I(.varnes in Gid Brown Hollow last Wednesday. Mr. Kvames, who taught in a nursery school himself at one time, captured the attention and imaginations of his young audience with his glassblowing demonstration. The children watched as red hot blobs of molten glass were magically transformed into vases and paperweights before their eyes. Kvarnes dramatically ended his presentation by whirling around the studio on his unicycle - something akin t< the proverbial bull in a chins shop - to the delight of al who were present. Sursum Corda is hoping tc visit Kvames’ studio again it the spring so that mors children will have a chance tc see him in action. Goat Club 4-H Goat Club - Mrs. Joyce Adams is trying to start a goat club in the county. The first meeting will be in January. If ypu are interested, please call Joyce at 675-3725 or Birgitt Thornhill at 675-3619. SfaJfifoaf firibufji CLORE FUNERAL HOME The Home of Thoughtful Service " PH0NE 825-2361 CULPEPER CEMETERY MEMORIALS • 3 level water-saving loadsize selector • AgitatOr-mounted fabric softener dispenser • Bleach dispenser • Automatic cool-down for Permt Press fabrics • Super SURGILATOR* agitator • 4 cycles: NORMAL, KNIT, PERMT. PRESS and GENTLE • Porcelain-enameled top and lid • Bac-Pak Laundry Information Center • 2 wash and 2 spin speeds • Energy-saving water temp selector with 4 wash/ rinse combinations • MAGIC CLEAN’ lint filter* , 'J v Model LFCI790 Features Special cool- , down care tor Permt. Press and Knit fabrics e 3 drying temperature selections • TUMBLE PRESS* Control • Estralarge lint screen e Large S 9cu .lt drying drum e Push-to-start button . e Automatic door shut- jW oll e Bec-PaK Laundry Informabon Center, , J ■£ V£i Rappahannock Farmer’s Co-op Sperryville, Va. 987-8555 Curtis Harold Marshall Curtis of Leesburg died December 11, 1980, of an apparent heart • attack. He was 63, a native of Rappahannock County. He was born in Amissville, the son of Mrs. Julia Walter Curtis, who survives him, and the late Walter James Curtis. He was a retired employee of Capitol Transit Company in Washington, D. C., and had resided in Rockville until 1969 when he moved to Loudoun County. His wife, Doris D. Curtis died in 1972. Mr. Curtis enlisted in the U, S. Army during World War II and served in the Philippines, then later in the occupation of Japan. In addition to his mother, he is survived by a son, James Michael Curtis of Rockville; a daughter, Karen C. Norris of Pittsburgh, Pa.; a brother, Walter (Jack) Curtis of Flint ' Hill, and four grandchildren. 1 A funeral service with full ' military honors was held Monday at the Culpeper 1 National Cemetery. The Rev. Peter Weems conducted the last rites. Black Agnes May BIac]c, a longtime resident of Sperryville, died Wednesday, December 10, 1980 in Glen Bumie, Md. She was 67, the daughter of the late William J. May and Sally Russell May of North Carolina. Survivors include her husband, G. M. Black of Glen Bumie; five daughters, Mrs. Betty Sisk of Glen Burnie, with whom she was living; Mrs. Peggy Dodson of Pasadena, Md., Mrs. Barbara Bunting of Danville, Mrs. Fay Hodges of Richmond and Mrs. Judy Armentrout of Woodville; a son, Mark Black of Pasadena, Md.; 13 grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Ila Sandy of Lenoir, N. C. A funeral service was held Friday from the Singleton Funeral ^ Home Chape) with burial in,the Glen Haven Memorial l*aifls, . t* ...» Hitt Archie Lee Hitt, 69, of Rixeyville, died Thursday, December 11, in Culpeper Memorial Hospital. He was retired from the Culpeper Planing Mill, and was a member of Forest Grove Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Ada Compton Hitt; a son. Junior Lee Hitt of Hanover, Pa.; a step-daughter, Mrs. Aldean Compton Hitt of Rixeyville; two step-sons, William L. Compton, Rixeyville, and Elzie R. Compton, Culpeper, and two grandchildren. Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Alpha Mae Sutphin of Culpeper, and a brother, Roy H. Hitt of Rixeyville. A funeral service was conducted Sunday at the Gore Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. James W. Crane. Interment was at Forest Grove Cemetery at Viewtown. Coates - Funeral services for Ray Thomas Coates of Haywood were conducted Wednesday at the Gore Funeral Home Chapel in Culpeper by the Rev. Harold Eaton. Burial was in the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery in Haywood. Mr. Coates, 74, died Sunday, December 14, 1980, at his residence. He was a retired carpenter and was a native of Madison County. He was the son of the late William Edward and Audrey Blankenbaker Coates. Mr. Coates is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruby Newman Coates of Haywood; five sisters, Mrs. Verna Tanner, and Mrs. Fannie Carpenter, both of Haywood, Mrs. Mildred Mathews of Orange, Mrs. Virginia Curtis of Culpeper and Mrs. Frances Thornhill of Boston; 11 brothers, W. E. Coates Jr. and Paul Coates, both of Etlan, C. E. Coates, John Coates, Robert Coates, Charlie Coates, ’ Delmar Coates, Joe Coates and James Coates, all of Culpeper, Hugh Coates of Haywood, and . Clayton Coates of Norfolk. +++•4When minutes count, cost is no consideration. Expert emergency medical care when and where it is needed; Support • your rescue s<Juad’-—1f*s tax-deductible. Commercial Rezoning Okayed (Continued trom Page 1) directly with Jerry Mills. “You didn’t address this board or your supervisor, did you?” Luke countered. Sharon Genebach Luke, attorney for Mills, emphasized that Rappahannock’s ordinances don’t include requirements for screening, noting that other garages haven’t been asked to proceed with this expensive undertaking. She noted that Bullock and William Kelly, both adjacent landowners opposed to Mills’ request, have a large farm of a couple hundred acres which they’ve subdivided into lots. The subdivision has substantially increased the usage of the private lane that runs between their land and Mills’ garage, the same road on which they want evergreen screening, according to Mrs. Luke. Screen Subdivision “To many people, a subdivision is worse than a garage,” she said. “It’s no more Mr. Mills’ obligation to screen their private road from his garage than it is for them to screen their subdivision,” Mrs. Luke maintained. “How many lots are in that subdivision?” the supervisor chairman asked. Bullock replied that most of the property lies in Culpeper County. The subdivision lots, 11 total, are in the back wooded portion of the parcel. The open agrarian land opposite Mills' garage and bordered by the private road has been in continual farm use, Bullock said. "They are land developers,” Mrs. Luke countered. “I don’t think it’s Mr. Mills’ responsibility to protect their investment.” “If Rappahannock County doesn’t tighten up its ordinances, we’ll have more and more controversy, more and more lawsuits,” Carrigan said, repeating his proposal for tabling Mills’ rezoning request until the ordinances are updated with provisions for screening and conditional zoning included. Must Be Voluntary Under conditional zoning, the applicant must offer venditions, such as screening. Flu Closes Schools (Continued from Page 1) fever between 101 and 104 degrees, aching joints, nonproductive cough, sore scratchy throat, headache DIAMONDS Thej,'re“^ordaWe CULPEPER CUSTOM JEWELERS Diamond Clusters from $119.50 to $525.00 Diamond Earrings from $35.00 to $500.00 Diamond Solitares from $145.00 up . Come in and look at our large selection of Diamond Rings—something for everyone at , prices so affordable. Culpeper ’■V:' ® ® ‘<s* ’ ;v Custom Jewelers 140 E. Davis Street Culpeper 825-8366 MAYTAG SPECIAL COUPON romwiMKimaaiiihiB \\V M\M\(i \\\ M AM \(, J_ -- ■' '-.-i — arts• Sinrt^a " 5 APPUah~- . MS AT B9j «**.: t,• --"-t ILL'1 u, A/"Mr ? ‘V'*'■■ + £"*: ' -N a ..;- • ILL'Mr, ILL'Mr, *>«w F«Peper, Va. *-\A" and runny eyes. According to Martin, those infected are probably contagious when they start coughing. Airborne germs are spread primarily through the respiratory route. This type of influenza usually runs its course in two to four days, the doctor said, with a few infections hanging on for as long as a week. ■ In most cases, Martin said, he prescribes aspirin, plenty of fluids and rest. He noted, however, that there is a drug available, brand name symeltrel, which if administered before infection can prevent cathing the virus or at least lessen its severity. If given to a patient with the flu, symeltrel can ease symptoms. But Martin said he rearely uses the drug, believing it to be of benefit primarily with high risks, those over 65 with underlying respiratory problems or conditions, such as emphysema, brodhhis or diabetes. These individuals have a much greater chance of developing complications — Primarily pneumonia—from influenza, Martin said. Antigenic shifts enable flu viruses to break out periodically, Martin continued. “The viruses change themselves year to year,” the doctor explained, with a big shift coming every three to four years. Then the antibodies built up by the body from previous exposure are no longer effective in combating the virus, he said. JT" " " "i •Paint ' . - -V •Lumber •Milwork •Hardware v«,t .• • - Complete One-Step BUILDING SUPPLY Warrenton Bidding : Material to, Inc. ontfwBy-RKs Wvranton W-iim himself, according to ■ commonwealth’s attorney Douglas Baumgardner. “The county can’t require it against his will.” He added that he’d checked with the planning commission secretary and found that the minutes of the commission’s public hearing on Mills’ rezoning showed the vote to recommend approval to the supervisors came in open session, not in executive meeting as of the rezoning request. “Everybody got to say their piece and then Mr. Miller said ‘Well, that’s it.’ Someone else said ‘Everyone can go now,’ ” said Bill Kelly, who attended the meeting and with Bullock owns the property adjoining Mills. “Your recollection is a little fuzzy,” said Luke, adding that after the commission’s public hearing, the planners went over site plans with Mills’ attorney. “Was that open to anyone from the audience to listen in on? When the vote was taken, who was there? Members of the planning commission. Mills and his attorney?” asked Kelly. The audience can come and go as it wishes at the official close of the public hearing, Luke replied. “Doesn’t that strike you as somewhat peculiar—that the entire audience would get up and leave?” Kelly asked. “Although there is a record that the correct procedure was followed. I don’t think the record is correct.'' Planning commission member Newbill Miller reported that the vote on Mills’ application was taken in open meeting. “I think the, planning commission has only been in executive session one time since 1 was appointed,” he added. Luke said the public hearings are misunderstood. Often when a public hearing is declared over, everyone leaves although the public meeting often continues, he noted. Sharon Luke interjected that she and Jerry Mills also left at the close of the planning commission’s public hearing and so weren’t there either for the vote to recommend approval to the supervisors. Not An Extension Opponents of the rezoning have charged that the request from Mills constitutes spot zoning and is not an extension of the commercial zone on the adjoining country store as maintained by the applicant. Commonwealth's attorney Douglas Baumgardner supported that contention on Monday. He explained that Mills’ Store was “grandfathered in” as an existing^ use when the county's zoning ordinance was adopted. “I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s in a commercial zoning category. It’s a commercial type use that was grandfathered in.” Luke noted that Mills has been "dealing with the public” for the last 2'/i years. He also maintained that there are other people operating similar type uses—small garages—in agricultural areas throughout the county. Mills was advised to seek commercial zoning, the supervisor chairman claimed, “In order to be in more strict compliance” with local regulations. Despite Baumgardner’s opinion, supervisor Dick Latham persisted in describing Mills’ application as an extension of a commercial zone. He noted that the property across the road owned by Carrigan is not residential but instead is zoned agricultural Luke raised the possibility that Mills could conduct his garage operation as a home occupation, a use allowed by right in an agricultural zone. Baumgardner advised that under the ordinance’s definition of home occupation, Mills’ proposed use falls outside the scope of that allowance and that the property would have to be rezoned for Mills to legally run a garage. In addition, the commonwealth’s attorney suggested the supervisors consider adopting a conditional zoning ordinance. “If the board feels it’s in order, I request authority to take it up with the planning commission,” Baumgardner said. There was no response from the supervisors. In a final question, Luke asked Mills if he had his state inspection license. “I’ve been operating with that since October,” Mills replied. With no further discussion, the board members voted unanimously to grant the commercial rezoning. Funeral Service Inc. Rt. 29N Cemetery Mfimririi Cvlpeper, VA —SPECIAL — AUCTION Thursday, Dec. 18 Beginning at 7:30 p.m. Partial Estate from Front Royal will be sold Door Prize Given Sofa and chair floorlamps Kitchen table * and chairs Lot of old glassware Several end tables Several nice beds Several cabinets Oak dresser Lot of bed clothing Lot of cooking utensils ' Baby bed Lot of items too numerous to mention. Come early and browse around. Many Christmas items on sale. -Jenkins Auction House-i John Walker Jenkins Auctioneering Service Washington, Va. 675-3325 f f Complete line of Western and English Saddles f and TackHorse Shoes and Farrier Supplies Western Jackets - Vests - Shirts - Hats Wrangler Jeans Durango Western Boots priced from *3260 1 Wood Stoves featuring: SIERRA EARTH - OLD MILL - TIMBER RIDGE • ATLANTA CHAIN SAWS—STIHL & PIONEER ■4 ■ ■ COME LOOK US OVER Ye Ole General Store and Lucky "D" Saddlery Rt.211, Amlssvllle,VA Open 9-6 Daily--2-6 Sundays J

Classified Ads Reach nearly everyone in Rappahannock County with your Classified Ad. Just call or stop by our office before Noon on Tuesday. Rates: $2.50 for the first 20 words, 10 cents for each additional word. Box number, $1.00 additional. Loudoun Times-Mirror Leesburg, Va. (703)777-1110 Fauquier Democrat Warrenton, Va. (703)347-4222 Rappahannock News Washington, Va. (703)675-3349 HORSE AND TACK INDEX Boarding and Training Farrierr . Veterinarians Fencing, Gatas A Jumps Hay tor Sale Horses A Ponlas • ForSRi^ Hors as A Ponlas Wantad Hors as A Ponlas toGhraAway Instruction Halp Wantad Position Wantad Raal Estata Stables tor Sala or Rant Stud Service Saddtarias Tack A Equipment for Sala Vans and Traders Miscellaneous Bam Construction \__/ BOARDING - excellent TLC for your horse on private farm. 703-3274851. (17) BOARDING - Stalls - Indoor Exercise Arena - Outdoor Ring $50 - $125 a month - Turnouts - Full Care - Riding Lessons offered to Boarders AEROWOODS FARM. (703) 439-3744 or (703) 439-8829 BOARDING: Full care, large ring, jumps, trails, proposed lighted ring. $90 per month Lessons available. Carriage Ford Farm, Nokesville 5942894. BROOK HILL FARM - 12 stall fully equipped enclosed brood mare facility with paddock space, indoor and outdoor riding ring and much more. 703-687-5541. (12-11-2H7) HORSES. BOARDED.- Z miles from, Leesburg. Telephone 703-7771116 after 6p.m. (17) JANUARY 1st. 1981 - Opening of new indoor facilities (20x40m arena) with 10 stall barn attached, in Marshall. Virginia. Limited number of stalls still available. Call 703-687-5259 (17) STALLS AVAILABLE - excellent facility and good care for your horse Located Leesburg-Middleburg area 703-777-8817 (11-27-51-17) BOARDING Pasture - Summer; Hay - Winter., I Stalls, shelter. On Historic Land-j mark 700-acre Estate near Mid-’ dleburg $40. per month. Year round. Also, grain feeding. 703-687-6935 or 703-687-3201 Centennial Farms P'Owdiy olters Boardmg-tratnmg Ci«mcs instruct*'-') m Dressage and Comhmpd training Your horse Of ours mma to Advanced Indoor Arena W miles from Warrenton (703) 937-4920 GREENBRIER STABLES Indoor and Outdoor FacWios Private and 6roup Instruction Hunt Soat/Dressago/Evonting 703-327-4454 Always a fine selection of horses for sale. immmmmmrmrnmmd 'W-A A COMPLETE LINE. 61 Horseshoes and farrjer tedfc Wholesale prices to farriers Lucky D Saddlery, Rt. 211 Amissville TFN . horseshoeing BILL DAVIS (703) 364-1670 HORSE SH0EIM6 ZIM R. DEAR DEN 754-2715 HORSESHOEING. HOT & COLD SHOEING. Mark Cotterman, Farrier 703-3784232 HORSESHOEING and hoof trimming. 25 years experience Call evenings or early morning John Stafford, (703) 347-3284 FARM GATES Mad* to Order, Any Six* Oak Lumber H. G. ROSE Delaplane, Va. 364-1574 FENCING Complete line of wire, plank and ral. Also will install GEORGE WHITE SUPPLY, INC. MkfcHeburg, Va. 703-687-6371 STRAW - Bright yellow wheat straw. S1.75. delivered. 703-7775885.(17) ALFALFA • TNOTNY Mixed Hays, Straw Topqaa1ity±& guaranteed -SeiFby-bate out of barn or deliver by truck or trailer load CadJrtm—an 137-5454 BAY Thoroughbred-Welsh 3 year old filly. Good conformation Nice mover and jumper. Trotting small courses. Good for beginner. (703) 439-3545 or 825-8028. FLASHY 14.1'/2 Chestnut mare. Welsh cross. 8 years old. Nice mover, jumper Was Third in Virginia Point standing Must sell—outgrown (703) 439-3545 or 8258028. GREY Thoroughbred Welsh gelding 14 2 aged Nice mover and jumper Has won locally. Will carry a beginner rider (703) 439-3545 or 8258028 PINTO COLT - Will mature 15.3 hands. $350. Bay colt. $275. Both quiet and nice to work around. 703-327-4851 (17) PUREBRED ARABIANS: lwo almost 3 years old geldings; $900 and $1200. Also one yearling colt. $700; family raised—good size for hunter prospects. Call (703) 825-3311 any time REGISTERED DARK BAY - 15 T hands. Tennessee Walker mare. 9 years. Excellent family or trail horse. Proven brood mare. $800. 703-822-5407 (17) REGISTERED QUARTERHORSE MARE -10 years old. Well trained, very gentle. 703-347-7813. (12-18-2M7) 12 YEAR OLD PALOMINO GELDING - 16 hands. Has done some jumping but needs work 703-347-7813. (12-18-2M7) 11 year old brown and white large pinto pony 14.2 hands , Hunted and pony clubbed 3 years with Middleburg-Orange Co. Hunt. Show winner. Also hunted with 6 hunt clubs the last 3 years. First class hunter. in snaffle. Reason for sale is owner outgrown. For more information contact Richard Mayberry, 347-3711, (6-9 p m.) and weekends. tttTtt ■ ■ RIDING LESSONS Maintree Indoor Lighted Ring Private and Group Beginners to Advanced Child or Adult TRAIL RIDES 703-777-3012 703-777-3279 Sgan’a Stable located between Warrenton A Middleburg Snowden Clarke (703)347-3127 Quality horses and ponies. Horses bought, sold, and schooled. Top class boarding in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sun Decks Additions Custom Bams Sheds ‘Experienced, Professional, Affordable* Bob DeLong 364-2708 Mike Bonfils 364-1112 1 R. Edward Daffan i, Inc^ P.O. Box 100 Nokaavilla, Va. (703)594*2116 Arenas, Stables, and all other types of Farm Buildings We Specialize in custom design and construction of fireproof steel and masonry buildings or economical post frame buildings. A > ■ V Centennial Farms Instruction in Dressage* • and Combined Training. • Beginning to advanced •Your Horse or Ours •In-door arena (703)937-4920 BARN HELP - to clean 3 stall barn, and other misc. barn duties, approximately 1 'A hours per day, 7 days per week $35. Call 703777-7604 after 5 p.m. (12-11 -2t-17) MEN'S Sandwich Case. Used twice, made in England. Like new. $45. (703) 347-9635. 1971 STIDHAM - 2 horse trailer, like new. Less than 3.000 miles. $2250 or best offer. Call 703-7771296, 703-777-2114 or 703-4711800. (12-18-2M7) DO YOU kk Need a Horse? Need a Pony? Need new Boots? Need a new Hunt Cap? Want Riding Lessons? ADVERTISE YOUR NEEDS in the HORSE & TACK TRADERS’ CORNER EXPERIENCED HORSEPERSON wants work. Write V Morell, Box 118. Purcell ville, Va. 22132 (17) LEASE-MADE PONY. 10 2. Leadline through short stirrup jumping Includes maintenance vetting, farrier work, and use of halter and bridle (with deposit). Wintering optional Transport to shows available. $400 to 11-1-81. 703-777-2110.(17) PUPPIES: LHASA APSOS AKC. champion, BOS line puppies. Ready for Christmas week (703) 594-2575 SADDLES - (2) - like new One youth or ladies' Western. $160.: one English, 17-inch. $125. 703327-4851.(17) Bring IriTour SVHIUI,' Clipper Blade*, Knives, and Saws SHARPENED B«tter Than New HORSE COUNTRY SADDLERY By Pass, Wan an Ion (7031947-3141 m TRAILERS vanrepair •WJELOINO •bodywork *mats^ •HITCHES •WIRING • BRAKES FLOORS .... P»y-R—eoneble ptek up In Wanenti Doug Hayes (703)937-4402 NOWON SALE First Edition Virginia Hunt Country Map Includes the 11 Hunt Boundaries .which are verified by the Masters of Foxhounds Association of America. Printed on ivory color paper in 3 colors, measuring 18"' x 22 'h. ” Phone and mail order accepted. $3.95 per copy (plain j paper); $6.50 per copy (laminated .paper). Va. residents include 4% sales tax and 75 cents for postage and handling. ; Loudoun Time*-Mirror P.0. Box 359 Loesburg, Va. 22075 703-777-1111 G JWtwwQm 3 tlAMlAA jt A rtvMHHi • rVUliV ♦ :.,„;.r ^soi HORSES TO SELL? HUGHES-O’KEEFE BLOODSTOCK, Ltd is now accepting entries for the Marland Sales Agency. Inc. MIXED SALE to be held on Sunday, February 15,1981 ENTRIES CLOSE DECEMBER 20,1980 Winter boarding facilities available with indoor arena. Call Michael Hughes or Will O’Keefe for information. 439-3545 439-8831 Umbaugh Pole Building Co. Bamt-Aranai-StablM From 3 stalls to 300 The Worlds Leading Builder of Horse Barns For free information A brochures Call Collact 703-371-0227 P.O. Box 218, Fredericksburg, Vs. 22401 RJUJ P. J. Williams Co. Inc. Somerset, Va. 22972 (703)832-3493 (703)347-3173 Barns-Stables, Arenas, Run-In Sheds Machinery Buildings And Remodeling We can custom design a new building for you at a reasonable price or remodel your existing building. Contact us for our Ideas. ; Ham:*Nb 'zM bush^css services] ARTISTIC SIGN PAINTER will create original farm signs, business signs, etc. Also will hand letter calligraphy invitations, announcements. Please call Patty at 347-4222, Mon. Wed., 8-5 or Thurs.-Sun., 937 5752. 43tfn THURMON WHORTON, Flint Hill—Plumbing, Heating, Electrical work.. 24 hour emergency service at 675 3607. 43 tf HEAVY DUTY bushhogging with industrial equipment. Call 825 0473 or 987 8429 after 6 ELECTRICAL work, water pump installation and service. William E. Sisk, Electrical Contractor, Sperryville, Va. 987 8772. _ 43 tf RAPPAHANNOCK REFINISHERS— Pick up and delivery. Barbara Sharan and Sandra Maskas. Call 987 8134. _ 43tfn STEVE RICHTER, Jour neyman Carpenter. Experienced ii? all aspects of building. Licensed. Local references. After 6 p.m. Call 675 3538. __ 43 tf ROOFING—Gutters and down spoutings. Tinning and roofing of all kinds; Aluminum gutter and downspout. Roof repair. Call Bill Starks, 675 3630, Washington, Va. 43 tf APPLIANCES, only the finest available, Thermador, JennAir, SubZero, Waste King, Crown and more. CABINETS, featuring the exclusive RichMaid kitchens of incomparable quality. Come by and see the difference at COUNTRY CUPBOARDS, Jett Street, Washington, Va. 675 3294. 43tfn LIME spreading, W. T. Wayland, Sperryville, 9878132. 43tfn REMODELING, restorations, all phases of carpentry. Call F. W. Hutchinson, 937 5579. 43tfpd s~ 35RENTALSLAND WANTED: Land to rent for remainder of deer season, for deer hunting. Call collect, ask for Mr. Bobbitt, 703-893-1049 evenings. 38d25 ORCHARD FOR RENT: One of Rappahannock County's prime apple orchards may be available for rent after January 1, 1981. Make an appointment for reviewing the past performance and other details. Call Helen Kilby, 9878282. 35d18 G HELP WANTED FARM couple, good salary, plus modernized 3 bedroom house, many other benefits, must have references. Call 635 7189 between 9 and 5. F15tfn . GERMAN WIREHAIRED Pointer pups. 4 months, best breeding. Versatile hunters, intelligent. beautiful, strong. Male and female. 703-368-7030 or 703323-5603. We Can Supply All Your BUILDING NEEDS Culpeper Building Er Supply Corp. Phone825-8383 Culpeper Expariancad and Fully Inaurad Modern Equipment Call Today For Froa Ealtmala QPlbc Futymub Strata Northam VhpgMa FHot HIM. Va. H your Chimney Isn't Clean It Isn't Safel •No Mess •Prompt Service RAPPAHANNOCK’S RESIDENT SWEEP Jim Northup (703)636-1065 TE6-22S2 675-3501 cblmchi gcoegps (evenings) REAL ESTATE FOR SALE LARGE house on quiet street in Washington, Va. Suitable for single family home or up to 5 apartments. Currently income producing. $78,500. 675-3825. _ 41tfn FOR RENT OR SALE, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, large living room with stone fireplace, dining room and huge family kitchen; hot water heat, situated on 2 acres with 400 ft. frontage highway. Rent on short-term lease, $225 per month. Selling price includes extra garage and 2 room apartment. Owner financed, for details call 9878282, Mrs. Helen Kilby, Sperryville, Va. 41dl8 Sperryville area, 2 bedroom trailer for rent, furnished, immediate occupancy, rent by the month. Phone 987-8146. 34 + House for rent—Flint Hill area, 3-bedroom brick home, den, fireplace. Lease deposit and references required. $300 month. Call 804-340-4475. 34 tf RENT, country home, newly remodeled with 2 bedrooms, living room, dining room, study, kitchen and mud room. Near The Plains on private horse and cattle farm overlooking rolling hills and pastures of Orange County and Warrenton Hunting Country. To be available Nov. 1. $500 monthly. Contact The Phoenix Group 347 7755, Thomas 8. Talbot 687 5522, Ian Montgomery 347-2222 or D. H. Lees 347-3104. 34tfn MODERN 6 room house on Greenfield Farm, $265 per month. Contact Gibson Wharton at Ginger Hill. Phone 987 8478 after 6 p.m. 34d25 legal notices VIRGINIA: IN THECIRCUIT COURT OF RAP PAHANNOCK COUNTY MARY SKELLY ASHBY, Complainant v. In Chancery No. 3032 OSCAR ANDERSON ASHBY, Defendant ORDER OF PUBLICATION The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony from the defendant on the ground of separation for more than one year under the provisions of Sec. 20 91 (9) of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended. It appearing from the affidavit that the defendant is not a resident of this State, it is ordered that the defendant appear before this Court within fifty days after due publication of this notice (on or before February 3, 1981) and protect his interest herein. It is further directed that this Order of Publication be published once a week for four weeks in the Rappahannock News. An Extract Teste. -s- Michael B. Hubbard for MFG. p.g. Enter this 9th day of December, 1980. Karen Bear, Dep. Clerk, Circuit Court of Rappahannock County I ask for this: Michael B. Hubbard for MFB Maurice F. Biddle The Old Parsonage Flint Hill, Virginia 22627 703 675 3449 A Copy Teste: Karen Bear, Dep. Clerk 47|8 >m. m.<.. iiliflinTiiiy MtSCFORSALE ] W i i i1111m11miimihiiii mmmmJ 20 PER CENT OFF all western jackets and rubber boots. Large selection to choose from. Ye Ole General Store, Amissville, VA. 25d25 WOOD STOVE 15 PER CENT DISCOUNT with this ad. Featuring Sierra, Earth, Old Mill, Timber Ridge, Atlanta. Also ad on furnaces, Kem Stone stove mats. Sale ends Dec. 31. Ye Ole General Store, Amissville, VA. 25d25 CHAIN SAWS 10 PER CENT DISCOUNT, Stihl and Pioneer. Also chains made to order. Also, used chain saws for sale. Financing available. Ye Ole General Store, Amissville, VA. 937-4455. ' ■2Sd25 WOOD COOK STOVES and cast iron heating stoves. Prices start at $149. Many to choose from. Ye Ole General Store, Amissville, VA. 25d25 WRANGLER JEANS, $13.50, Durango boots, $32.95 up; Western shirts, $7.50 up; Western vests and jackets. Christmas lay aways welcome! Ye Ole General Store, Amissville, VA. 9374455. 25d?5 FIREWOOD for sale, by the cord or by the pickup load, pitched in, split or unsplit. Also, tree surgery. Call 9878429 or 825 0473. 25tfn TRIUMPH Spitfire parts, from 1948 75. Body, mechanical, etc. 347-4997 after 4 p.m. 3tfpd TOY POODLE PUPPIES, AKC, 8 weeks. Silvers, White, Apricot. Championline Sire Pedigree, $125 up, 475 3340, Marilyn Bailey. 25 + pd CHRISTMAS TREES, choose and cut. Rt. 211 one mile west of Amissville, VA. to Rt. 411, turn left, go 300 yards to farm on right. Frank McWhirt. _ 25dl8 FOR YOUR Christmas giving, Rappahannock County Tshirts are now on sale at Rush River Company, The Country Store, Washington House of Reproductions, Nature's Foods and Mountain Magic Cinema. All proceeds to to the Washington Fire Company and Rescue Squad. $4.50 per shirt. 254_ CHRISTMAS TREES,.choose and cut. Rt. 211 one mile west of Amissville, VA. to Rt. 411, turn left, go 300 yards to farm on right. Frank McWhirt. Open daily. ' 25dl8 TRAINS, HO-scale, Make up a Christmas set from large private collection. New-used. Will buy any used trains. Phone 475-3493. _ 254TOY POODLE PUPPIES, AKC, 8 weeks. Silvers, White, Apricot. Championline Sire Pedigree, $125 up, 475 3340, Marilyn Bailey. _ 254 9* ROUND hay bales for sale, $12. bale, delivery available; V FORD cutoff saw, $275. or best offer; 2-wheel trailer, . $175. Call 475 3459 after 8 p.m. ^ ' 25d25-pd f AUTOS, TRUCKS \ [ fOBSAU I 1980 SUBARU GL wagon, 4 wheel drive, 4 cylinders, 4 speed, 4000 miles. $4400. 4753777 or 937-4388. 34_ 1978 OLDS OMEGA BROUGHAM, 4 door, ex cellent condition. Offers in vited. After 5 p.m., 703-487 4838. __3 + 1978 YAMAHA 400 SX, like new condition. Make offer. After 5 p.m., 703-487-4838. 234 ARTIFICIAL BREEDING. ALL BREEDS: will go anywhere. James C. "Doc" Johnson. 825-5148. __ tf WOOD STOVE CLEAR MICE We must cut our wood stove, fireplace Insert and wood furnace inventory In half by January 1,1981. Our low prices are even lower. Come by and make us aj offer. v 703-987-8566 5 Rt. 1 Box 60, Nethers Sperryville, Va. 22740 1 r -i« The Shadow ol ^ Old Rag"

For an inexpensive special treat the whole family will „ enjoy, come to Mountain Magic Cinema this Christmas week. See Coal Miner's Daughter Dec. 25, 26 & 27. See Academy Award Winner Breaking Away Jan. 1-3. All shows 8 p.m. Enjoy fresh popcorn, a great snack barn in Washington, Virginia's warm and friendly movie theater. Happy Holidays to all from Mountain Magic. 28+ tost AN© FOUND LOST: Blue eyed husky dog, 4 years old, in the National Park near Chester Gap. REWARD. Call 635-7547. 21 + r INSTRUCTION LEARN TO DRIVE IHAUIUK TRAILER j NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED We train MEN and WOMEN. No need to quit present job. FULL or PART TIME training For More Information Call Anytime Revco Tractor-Trailer Training. Inc HARRISONBURG 703-434-5326 I9d25' SANTA—our elves have worked overtime on beautiful handmade things: quilts, pillows, stuffed dolls and other goodies. Make a sleigh stop at Second and Chester Sts. in Front Royal. The Bizarre Bazaar __ 29dl8 In loving memory of the birthdays of our mother, Mary Frances Freeman on December 12; our grandmother Lillie C. Hughes on December 15 and our father, Reuben C.Freeman on December 30. December brings sad memories of loved ones gone to rest You will never be forgotten by the ones who loved you best Your gentle face and patient smile with sadness we recall You had a kind word for each and died beloved by all The voice is mute and stilled the heart that loved us well and true Oh bitter was the trial to part for loved ones as good as you You are not forgotten loved ones nor will you ever be As long as life and memory last we will remember thee We miss you now, our hearts are sore as time goes by we miss you more Your loving smile, your gentle tace no one can fill your vacant place Happy Birthday to the three of you we all love and miss you. Ypur children, grandchildren ' and great-grandchildren _ 294-pd RAY T. CANNON CO.. INC. REAL ESTATE SINCE 1951 HOPE HILL—Like new 4-year old ranchstyle home, includes 2 bedrooms, large living room with brick fireplace, eat-in kitchen, half basement, central air, located orr 5 acres (part woods) with stream, view, paved road, school bus and mail route. $62,000 REDUCED TO $55,000 CASTLETON (703) 937-4111 Ray T. Cannon (7Q3) 937-4900 James M. Cannon (703) 937-4700 Paul Nichols (703)675-3500 ... In loving memory of Lee Taylor Settle who passed away five years ago, December 19,1975. 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For moro Information, contact. ?\appal|amwck Keuis Washington, Va. 875-3348 A division of Warrsnton Printing and Publishing Co., Warrenton, Va. Printing dona at tha plant In Warrsnton, Va. For your convanlsncs, you may also call Alan Poo. Production Managsr. at 347-44SS. Supervisors Adopt Tax Changes (Continued from Page 1) appraisal of automobiles at the higher Blue Book value rather than loan value. If his ideas are adopted, “farmers will still be paying the most,” Miller said. He reported that the current personal property tax on 40 to 50 cows amounts to twice as much as taxes on a house and lot, whether in the county’s villages or on a farm. "That’s not fiction, that’s fact,” he stated, adding that he’d reviewed public tax records in the commissioner of revenue’s office for his information. H. L. Manwaring said he thought taxes should be taken off means of production whether from a farmer’s machinery and livestock or a plumber’s tools and equipment. ‘‘Most farmers are getting taxed not only on their means of production but on the production itself,” he said, citing as an example the carry-over of calves past the year in which they were born. Manwaring added his support for further revisions in the proposed tax changes to make the county’s system more equitable. "But I still want to see the tax taken off cattle,” he concluded. Per Cent Of House Value Foster asked why a per cent of the assessed value of a house couldn’t replace the current personal property tax levy. Commissioner of revenue | Merle Scoggin acknowledged ;that a property tax expert in the state department of taxation had suggested this alternative, adding that tax on a percentage of the value of a house could only be used to replace the levy on household goods, not on all personal property. ‘‘Is there a law that precludes levying a county income tax?” asked Robert Eastham. ASCS NEWS By TOM G. TAYLOR The Rappahannock County. ASC Committee has tabulated the ballots for the community committee elections which ended December 1 and the results are as follows: In the South section the chairman is James H. Falls while vice chairman is A.F. Cannon; regular member, I.R. Kilby; first alternate, A.Y. Stokes and second alternate. Marvin Dodson. From the central section Thomas B. Massie was named chairman, with Michael Massie. vice chairman. Dale Welch was named regular member and first and second alternates are W.T. Wayland and Robert Dickey, respectively. W. Clifford Latham is chairman of the north section with Aubrey North vice chairman; regular member is Thomas G. Eastham and John A. Tapp and T.V. Williams, Jr., are first and second alternates, in that order. Community committeemen and alternates served a one year term of office which begins January 1, 1981. At the county convention December 11, Raymond M. Johnson was elected to serve a three year term on the county committee, with Michael Massie and James Falls chosen first and second alternates, respectively. Louis Moore was elected chairman of the county committee; Raymond Johnson, vice chairman and James F. Massie regular member. According to Baumgardner, there is no state law specifically prohibiting a county income tax. He noted, however, that Virginia operates under the principle of the so-called Dillon Rule which holds that a locality has only those powers specifically delegated by the state. The right to levy an income tax is not one of the local powers enumerated by the General assembly, he added. Eastham proposed further investigation, maintaining that Rappahannock should eliminate all taxes except that on real estate and instead generate local revenue through an income tax using figures from state returns. With his proposal, he said, “ability to pay would determine how much you pay.” The supervisors’ vote will determine whether “farmers pay everybody else’s taxes or spread them out,” said Mike Massie. In response to charges of unfairness on shifting the tax burden from persona] property to licensed vehicles, Massie noted that farmers have cars and trucks like everyone else and so would pick up their share. In reviewing the county’s current tax structure, supervisor chairman E. P. Luke noted that in the past five years, taxes on land here have increased just 12.S per cent while taxes on merchants’ capital have gone up 139 per cent and personal property by 76 per cent. Addressing other potential revenue sources, Luke said a transfer tax could be applied to land sales. “We might increase business and occupational license fees.” he added. In addition, he said, regulations governing contractors have been changed and now anyone doing over $1,500 worth ~ of business a year must have a license. But. the supervisor chairman emphasized, alternative revenue sources are limited. “Like most rural counties in Virginia, we have no industrial or commercial base" to absorb part of the tax burden, he said. Rappahannock has no budget surplus, according to -Luke, and therefore, if the county is hit with unexpected expenses, it must borrow money and repay the loan the following year through increased taxes. According to date Luke used from last year's personal property tax rolls. 1,158 Rappahannock residents had one car; 1,498 had two cars; 759 had three cars and 580 had more than three. He further noted that 110 farmers (defined as owning 10 or more cows) had 370 cars of the total 4,365 licensed vehicles in the county. Most Pay Little Of the approximately 2,800 personal property taxpayers in the county, 1,032 paid less than $25 last year, 664 paid less than $50 and 405 paid less than $75, according to figures supplied by the supervisor chairman. Farmers, on the other hand, pay as much as 100 times more in personal property taxes than the county's average non-farming households, Luke said. “We have a few people paying a high percentage (of the county’s personal property taxes) and a lot of people paying practically nothing,” he pointed out. The supervisor chairman maintained that use value taxation, a step he endorses, must be considered as a part of the total picture in deliberations on whether to eliminate the three classes of LAND & DWELLINGS MINI-FARM near Little Washington, house, horse bam, root cellar with roots, fenced 5 acre pasture, Views of Blue Ridge, $59,500. (Al—why not buy for Marion for Christmas?) MAXI-FARM, 770 acres, large bam, decrepit house, river frontage, $693,000. YOR-FARM: 76 akers, larg remodeld farmhows, manee bams, panoramik Mr. vus, sekluded medo on plato, $275,000 or wot hav u? LITTLE WASHINGTON: Old homes longing for new identify, Call.. . SCRABBLE: INVEST in a Mr.? Views, timber, road frontage, 39 Vi acres - $43,000. 20% down, balance at 11% interest, 12 years, possible interest only for 5 years. SEXagenarians and Fleeing Democrats welcome! ROGER BATCHELDER, REALTOR Across from The Rush River Co. , Washington, Va. 675-3777 Res: 937-4388 personal property taxes. “SI million in local money has got to come from somewhere...How much shifting will be politically acceptable?” he asked. Luke noted that Rappahannock will face increased demands for money next year for the schools and to purchase a landfill site. “We've got to have a landfill by July 1, 1981. We don’t have any money to buy a site. We'll have to pay for it with taxes over the next few years.” Luke suggested dropping the personal property tax on household goods and livestock, taxing farm machinery and merchants' capital at a lower rate and taxing a percentage of the finance value of automobiles. He emphasized that a determination on the actual tax rate couldn’t be made until after the supervisors draw up next year’s budget. After the county completes its reassessment at 100 per cent fair market value and institutes use value taxation, then the entire tax structure should be re-examined and further changes considered, according to Luke. Even with differing opinions on the proposed tax changes, “everyone agrees that they want to keep this county in a general agricultural situation.” he added. "We’ve only got so much tax base to use to keep it that way.” Drop Merchants Tax First stating that he didn’t want to put an unfair burden on residents who must drive to work outside the county, supervisor Dick Latham proposed eliminating personal property taxes on farm machinery and merchants' capital as well as on livestock and household goods. Keep taxes on “what you know you can see—real estate and vehicles,” he advocated. “If land taxes must go up, so be it.” “Take some of these young men and women off welfare and make them go to work. That will save us some tax money.” interjected K. P. Grigsby, his suggestion meeting with muttered agreement from the audience. Baumgardner questioned whether the supervisors could exempt merchants’ capital from the tax rolls. He said the county may have to require merchants’ inventory to be reported and then set a tax rate at zero to achieve the same result. ‘‘As a practical matter, you can exempt it by assessing merchants' capital at zero.” he said. “If we can eliminate it. we will. If we can't, we’ll assess (merchants’ capital) at a reduced rate." Luke said. Trying to determine what exactly the supervisors were voting on. clerk Diane Bruce asked if they intended to pass the tax ordinance as h was advertised for public hearing. "Not as it was written because we’re not going to shift the tax burden all on automobiles," replied supervisor H. B. Wood. "I'm bothered by not knowing what the tax will be on cars." said supervisor Clarence Baldwin. Wood agreed that he too didn't want to see changes in personal property tax place an undue burden on automobiles. He maintained that the supervisors would have to trust each other to see that this doesn’t happen when the budget is approved next spring. Likewise, Supervisor Hubert Gilkey objected to not knowing the impact tax changes will have on automobile assessments. Ceiling Proposed As protection, Newbill Miller suggested that the supervisors put a ceiling on the amount of money that can be raised by the automobile tax, limiting it to a specific percentage increase of this year’s license revenue. “And whatever other revenue we have to have would be made up on real estate,’’ Baldwin added. The supervisors agreed that total revenues collected next year from automobile r-AmerlGas-i SHENOAS DIVISION 327 No. Royal Ave Front Royal, Va. 635*3556 l.P. Gat distributor sawing a four county area Propane gas for fu« house use; heating, water heating and cooking. license fees shall not exceed a 30 per cent increase over this year’s total. “I’d like to see (the tax change proposal) tabled until we have all our figures but if it can’t be. I’ll have to accept 30 per cent," Gilkey said. “If we say 30 per cent, I can live with that," added Baldwin. With the 30 per cent stipulation, the motion to eliminate personal property taxes on farm machinery, livestock and household goods won unanimous endorsement. In addition, the supervisors directed Baumgardner to determine whether the tax on merchants’ capital can also be eliminated. The courtroom cleared after the vote, leaving only a few spectators for the hearing on charging late penalties of 10 per cent or $5 minimum for persona] property returns filed after May 1. Noting that taxpayers have from January to May to file, William Foster said he could find nothing to oppose. “I can’t see anything wrong with it. I’d like to but I can’t,” joked the Flint Hill contractor to chuckles from the audience. By unanimous vote, the supervisors approved the late filing penalty. The changes in personal property taxes will take effect on January 1. 1981, for the coming tax year. REAL ESTATE ! BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN VIEW From this 3 bedroom, 2 bath house on 5 open acres, living room, dining room, full basement, state road frontage, excellent buy at S75,000. Owner Financing. NEWBILL MILLER Realtor i »„,w.v.7ra»re-3e9i K» I 22747 £ Property Offerings . $69,000 can buy you a home and business on Route 211 in a substantial and versatile building; ample parking; high traffic area. EILEEN M. DAY, REALTOR CLOPTON HOUSE WASHINGTON. VIRGINIA 22747 Lucille K. Price 675-3427 Robin O. Day 636-1361 675-3400 REALTY WORLD Beverly Atkins 675-3883 Mitzie Young 937-5196 OFFERINGS BY LYNE You can best become aware of the potential wooded property offers when the foliage is off. Inspect these mountain properties now! The views they offer, slopes of the land, their betler home sites, their sheer beauty. 50 acres at $46,000 230 acres at $258,700 or If you want cleared land ready for operation these 50 to 60 acres (to be sold by survey) at $2,250 per acre are ideal. ‘ '.V'- "V " I m REALTOR Roger Lee Atkins Salesman 987-8171 CALL US! IV. H. Lyne, Realtor Rt. 1, Box 465 Washington, Va. 703/987-8588 Prestige Rental Downtown Warrenton, at corner of Culpeper and Lee Streets. Formerly housed ABC Store. 2500 square feet on one level. Rent as-is, or owner will remodel. Attractive facade treatment planned. For more information, contact John Toler at 703-347-4222. SPERRYVILLE EMPORIUM Spenyville, Virginia 22740 (703) 987-8088-Office WASHINGTON, VA. Three bedroom brick rambler, living room with fireplace, 2 baths, full finished basement, nice landscaped lot and pretty views. $85,500. MODERN 3 bedroom colonial on 6.6 beautiful acres near Washington, VA. Home has family room with fireplace, nice size living room, eat-in kitchen, 1V4 baths and basement. $75,000. FOR RENT: Modern 2-3 bedroom home, stove, refrigerator, 2 baths, good location. $200 monthly. IB KALTOO Jamas W. Leaks. Realtor 987-8236 John Eubank, Jr. 987-8146 J. Mauric# O'Bannon 987*713 Eddie Way!and Bud Cordar JMM1

BZA Denies Castleton Farms Apts. ’11 (Continued from Patre 0 administrator feels he lacks jurisdiction. He added that the board would have heard Williams’ request if he had appealed Baumgardner's denial. Homer Henry, former owner of Castleton Farms, challenged Biddle's contention that the 19 acres involved in the permit application had not been used recently for agricultural purposes. “It was used for grazing all this summer by Ray Cannon,” he said. Zoning Questioned Henry also questioned whether the land was under 14 per cent slope, the basis for determining whether land is zoned agricultural. “Take the flood plain and the pond out and I think this tract will be more than 13 per cent grade. ” he maintained, particularly citing the area immediately around the proposed apartment building. “It seems to me like the septic fields are very, very close to the neighboring property line for that much sewage." Henry continued, pointing out that the sewage disposal system would also require a pump but that none was shown in the development plan. “The plans are very vague. They don't spell out anything.” Henry continued. According to Castleton Farms’ former owner, the proposed parking space is so inadequate that cars won’t have room to turn around and will instead have to back out on the road. He pointed out that all seven units are supposed to have fireplaces yet the development plans show not a single chimney on the building. “Out of eight units. someone's going to have a washing machine," Henry maintained, adding that it’s unrealistic to expect there won’t be a single automatic washer in any of the seven families using the drain field. As for using the apartments as guest housing, Henry maintained that the existing dwellings on the farm should be sufficient for Parlagreco’s visiting relatives. "Italian families are very large." Gardiner interjected. “That's their problem, not ours." Henry countered, noting that Parlagreco’s proposal had been changed considerably since its first presentation to the BZA. "More wHl be changed once he gets his permit." Henry warned. He also questioned sewer provisions, maintaining that effluent would pollute Allen Run and the Castleton Farms’ pond"That’s his pond, isn't it?" Gardiner asked. Henry replied that the stream flowing to and from the pond crosses other property and eventually empties in the Thornton River. “I did not sell this property to him for this purpose and 1 don't think it should be used for this purpose.” the previous owner maintained. Slope In Doubt Commonwealth's attorney Douglas Baumgardner asked if the land around the proposed apartment building is over 14 per cent slope or below 14 per cent slope. "I have no idea what per cent it is." Biddle replied, describing the area as “up and down.” If the predominant slope is over 14 per cent. Baumgardner explained, the land is in a conservation zone. rather than --*— Do Your Christmas Shopping at Down to Earth Naturaf 104 So. Royal Avenue Front Royal, Va. 636-9889 Natural Foods, Vitamins, cosmetics and bath items Homemade crafts: quilts, rugs, and Christmas ornaments LBIIVEI’S READY FOR YOUR * CHRISTMAS SHOPPING C Open until 9 p.m. on f | December 12,13,18,19,20,22 and 23 Close at 5:30 Christmas Eve | LERNER’S DEPT. i STORE Dswatswa Calpeper I agricultural. He noted that his position holding that the BZA has jurisdiction to grant or deny Parlagreco’s application rests on the property being zoned agricultural on information supplied by zoning administrator Evan McNear. If the slope is over 14 per cent, as indicated by testimony at the hearing and by opinions of the BZA members following their onsite inspection, then the land is zoned conservation, according to Baumgardner. He further stated that if this is the case, then the zoning appeals board has no jurisdiction to hear the case 'as the application is presently drafted." Biddle said that application for a special use permit was filed on the basis of the property being zoned agricultural because that’s the classification the zoning administrator gave to the land. If the predominant slope on the l4) acres is over 14 per cent, then the special use permit must be amended and-or redrafted, according to Baumgardner, since the criteria the BZA must consider in granting a special use permit are different for the two zones. Continuing with testimony, Don Hudson, a nearby landowner, stated his opposition to granting the permit. Mrs. Irma Hensley maintained that approval would lower the value of the 548 acres she owns surrounding the propsed apartment tract. She also expressed concern over pollution to Allen Run. noting that the stream runs through property she has rented for cattle pasture. Drainfield Adequate? Carroll Fox. identifying nimselt as someone who d worked with building, planning—-afitl zoning codes "'Tns’’entire life, asked how the health department had arrived at drainfield size of 2.000 square feet as sufficient for 14 bedrooms. “That’s 143 square feet per bedroom.” he said. According to Cox. he w|is required to provide a 1.200-square-foot drainfield for his three bedroom house just two years ago. Biddle replied that plans for the septic system had been drawn by an engineer and approved by local health department sanitarian Jack Lockhart. “There's been lots of discussion here of minor details.” the attorney continued. " Reading from Rappahannock's ordinance, he pointed out that the county’s zoning regulations require that “following issuance of a special use permit, a detailed plan will be submitted to the zoning administrator...The adequacy of water supplies, sewage, whether we’re going to have washing machines, whether we're going to have pictures on the wall are totally irrelevant to what this board The joyful Christmas Season is here again giving you the opportunity to snare the special gift that has been serving Rappahannock County since 1949 You can solve your gift problems—save money—even give yourself a present—if you act on this offer before December 31 1980 ^appabannuck 2 SUBSCRIPTIONS for $13 IN RAPPAHANNOCK AND ADJOINING COUNTIES— REG $14 ELSEWHERE $16—REG —$17 SPLIT THIS OFFER ANY WAY YOU PREFER: •Give one year subscription to two different people $13 in Rappahannock and adioinina counties. •Give one person a 1 year subscription and extend your own subscription for one year (no matter when your subscription expires) for $13 •Or a combination of one subscription in Rappahannock or adjoining counties plus one ' "beyond" for $14.50 SAVE $1. NO SUBSCRIPTIONS ACCEPTED FOR MORE THAN ONE YEAR YOU MUST TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS CHRISTMAS OFFER BEFORE DEC 31.1980 ^appahannock^mi^ (Sift g>ubacriptian P. o. Box 631, Warrantor). Va. 22186 - Nam#_ Address__ City-Stale _NEW RENEWAL Name__ Address __ City __State_ __NEW -:_RENEWAL I cocIom S-(of _subscriptions offer expires 12/31/80 is considering today,” Biddle said. Only First Step Under the county's zoning ordinance. Baumgardner added, a detailed development plan is submitted to the planning commission after the BZA issues a special use permit. Then the planning commission must determine compliance with a multitude of requirements before approving or disapproving the plan. Any action taken by the planning commission can be appealed back to the BZA. Baumgardner said, and in turn, the BZA’s decision can be appealed to the circuit court. Thursday's hearing, he noted, is “only the beginning of a lengthy process." His voice getting louder with every word, Henry attacked Biddle's description of Sewage plans as “a minor detail." Noting the apartment project’s potential for pollution, he pointed out that only one area landowner was in favor of the proposal while 40 were opposed. "If you took that plan to anywhere in Northern Virginia, they'd laugh at you! They wouldn’t even look at it!” he said. “We consider these as preliminary plans,” Biddle countered. Referring to the attorney’s contention that all those opposed to Parlagreco’s request live two miles or more away from the proposed apartment site. Mitzie Young pointed out that Allens Run crosses her property. “So even if our land isn’t contiguous. we’re very affected by what’s done.” she said, suggesting that the State Water Control Board be informed of Parlagreco’s plans. Hazel Fannon reported that she lives within a mile of the property and can see the 19-acre parcel. She maintained that approval of the "major variance" would drastically change the character of the area and would set a dangerous precedent for the county. First Determine Slope Commonwealth’s attorney Baumgardner acknowledged that he'd originally advised the BZA by letter that it had jurisdiction over Parlagreco’s application. He said, however, that testimony appears to corroborate the impression that board of zoning appeals members received when they visited the property—that the predominant slope of the 19acre tract is over 14 per cent. Since the special use permit application was filed for property in an agricultural zone (under 14 per cent slope). Baumgardner said he had “serious reservations” as to whether the BZA had jurisdiction to consider the application "as presently drafted." He acknowledged that further delay would work a substantial inconvenience on all parties but insisted that the BZA “must have some type of definitive answer on what the zoning category is" before the board can decide whether it can “grant or deny” Parlagreco's application. Baumgardner’s suggestion that an engineer check the exact slope met with immediate agreement from Biddle. In apparent disregard of the commonwealth attorney’s advice and with no further comment, the BZA members voted unanimous approval to George Muth's motion for denial of the special use permit application on the grounds that Parlagreco had not carried the burden of proof required by the zoning ordinance. The vote drew a round of applause from the partisan audience. r FAUQUIER LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE -'Ntownmo r ULUStU Tuesday 4 ' Dec. 23rd■ SEASON’S GREETINGS 1 Mile East of Marshall Rt. 55 PHONE 364-1S66 “SCHEWELS DOES IT AGAIN!” (HELPS YOU BEAT INFLATION!) FRIDAY 8:30 A.M.-8 P.M. SATURDAY 8:30 A.M. - 5 P.M. 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