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said. “But we have unusual problems here. There’s an awful unemployment rate. In Front Royal and up into the mountains we have drifters - transients brought her with the tourist business, with the apple - pickers, or those who come down from somewhere in the mountains and run out of money.” Hawks said that out of about 20,000 in the Warren County area, an estimated 2,000 commute unbelievable distances to work - many as far as Washington and Baltimore. Ahhough most visible in the town of Front Royal, Hawks said that he wanted to encourage those in the lesser - populated areas of Warren, Rappahannock, Shenandoah and Page counties to make use of the Salvation Army’s services. “I think the rural poor are sometimes neglected,” Hawks said. “They surely don’t have the wealth of services you’d find
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