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

Page 4 · column 1 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved

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

Most of us have

been hoping that, with

Tuesday’s cloudy weather, the ground hog didn’t see his shadow, at least not in Rappahannock County. We’ve had enough snow and record-breaking low temperatures to last us for a whole winter. But, in many past years, the last part of the winter has been the roughest.

Frances Foster dropped by the office last week to look at some old papers from 1962. She remembered that we had a bad snowstorm then in March. Sure enough, the Rappahannock News reported, in a front page story, snowfall measuring up to forty inches in a storm that hit the county on March 5 and 6. “The worst storm of the winter blew across the eastern section of the country Monday and Tuesday, “Critical power failures paralyzed

Rappahannock and surrounding areas and telephone service is not yet completely restored. “Snow here measured from 25 to 30 inches. Power and phones were out for

76.1%