Rappahannock News, February 19, 1987

RICHMOND 19? W. ts219 ^ * ‘ ,V ';^?J PAID C IRCULATION NOW >!?*'■ »**-•« irf ^ *APt>lHANNIKkil*<KEHUU>S !?*£/» i f! il * ttOfe -W ■ itlv aA3>.'-\ %'■ . ?v '""' >■i$ <r.»r y 37TH Year, No. 8 USPS 465580 Founded 1977 THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19.1987 Si. ,.. llB>i,o V ‘Bambiscam’ sting nets slob hunters By LOU HATTER Rappahannock New Staff Writer Rappahannock Game Warden Jim Bankston released final tallies for the county’s big game harvest last week. “Actually, the deer kill should be a bit higher,” he quipped. “We had one eight-point buck which was shot 12 times.” He was referring to an “Abscamstyle” sting operation mounted by wardens from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. The twist was, instead of fake Arab sheiks, the bait was a stuffed whitetail with a rack which no self-respecting roadhunter could resist. None did. The operation was set up three times in different locations in Rappahannock County, and each time the bait drew fire from slow-moving vehicles cruising the back roads. The game wardens, led by Col. Gerald Simmons, chief of the commission’s enforcement division, coordinated their arrests via radio while the entire operation was recorded on videotape. Game Commission Captain Don Miller, who assisted in the sting, said that the idea originated after a group of citizens, including representatives from the Piedmont Environmental Council, sportsmen’s groups and landowners went before the game commission last year and begged that something be done about the problem of slob hunters in the state. A similar technique was used once before along the border of the Shenandoah National Park near Harrisonburg, with the assistance of Park Service rangers. That operation was mounted at night to nab spotlightero. Capt. Miller said that operation “might have been a bit too successful.” The dummy deer was placed so close to the road that the wardens felt that some innocent deer-watchere may have bean caught in the etj ng. “Now, we put the deer back far ’ enough so thfct you couldn’t see it unless you were looking - and looking hard,” Capt. Miller said. Warden Bankston said that a total of 27 summonses were issued for violations of hunting regulations resulting from the operation. All but two of the defendants were convicted of the violations. A majority of the defendants pleaded guilty to the charges in Rappahannock County General District Court, and Judge Charles B. Foley Photo courtesy of Jim Bankston AMONG BAMBISCAM’S PARTICIPANTS were Rappahannock County G|me Warden Jim Bankston (left), Col. GeraldSimmons, chief of the Game Commission’s Enforcement Division^ and “Bambi,” the eight-pop buck which was the “target” of the operation. v ? rtvi- ? **’ ■ ' , ' levied fines ranging from $50 to $100. % . .David Thomas ConeyjrT, represented by Madison County attorney S. P. Higgenbotham, challenged the charges, based on the argument that he was falsely accused of “hunting or attempting to hunt any game bird or game animal within 100 yards of a state road.” The decoy deer, Mr. Higgenbotham argued, “was certainly not a game animal on that day.” His client, the attorney continued, was not hunting until he saw the deer, and then he was stilTnot hunting because it was not a deer. “It was an impossi bility,” he concluded. “There was no crime.” 's .., Commoawealtn’B Attorney Pster Luke replied “The statute gets at intent . .. Under the statute if he attempts to take a deer, that is all the Commonwealth needs to prove. “It looked like a deer. When he stopped the car and raised his rifle and shot - in his mind that was an attempt to take a deer. The fact in this case that the deer was a decoy does not lessen or change what was in his mind when he pulled the trigger.” Warden Bankston testified that when he approached Coffey’s vehicle to issue the summons the young man said “That’s a nice deer you’ve gut -up.thei* I guess you got what you wanted.” Mr. Higgenbothara also objected to the fact that Coffey and his companions, Oscar Ray Sisk and Erika Maureen Coffey, were not advised of their rights under the Miranda rule. Judge Foley overruled that objection, saying that the Miranda rule only applies if the offense charged could result in jail time. Another objection followed: that a misdemeanor offense must occur in (Continued on Page 14) Weather lessens pothole woes Rappahannock Round-up Inside 7 Jonathan Watson receives appointment to Air Force Academy . p. 10 Government at a glance • Architectural Review Board: Thursday, Feb. 19,8 p.m., Courthouse. • Board of Zoning Appeals: Tuesday, Feb. 24,9 a.m., , Courthouse. • Wednesday, Feb. 25: Bids due for RCHS expansion project. o School Board: Thursday, Feb. 26,2 p.m., School Board office, bid opening. 7:30 p.m. Bid review with architects. Y Weekend Weather According to the National Weather Service, skies should be partly cloudy through the weekend. High temperatures should be in the mid 30s to mid 40s, lows in the mid 20s. By LOU HATTER Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer Aside from the double-barreled blast of two late January snows, the generally moderate weather so far this winter has lessened that perennial bane of the late-winter motorist - potholes. Don Askew, resident engineer for the Rappahannock/Fauquier highway department residency, said that “we have some, but it’s not as bad so far as in years past.” He attributed the favorable report to the fact that there has been no big freeze this winter. “The ground might be a little crusty on top, but it’s not frozen deep down.” He added that he can remember only one winter in the past 10 in which there has not been a mid-winter freeze which penetrated deep under ground. He said that even the bitter cold nights of the past week have not really frozen the ground very deep, speculating that the snow cover may have acted as an insulating blanket. “The spring thaw is where the real problems come,” the engineer said. Once the weather begins to warm and the freeze/thaw cycle begins, the potholes become a real problem for both motorists and the highway department. Potholes form when moisture seeps through tiny cracks in the road surfaces, or from the shoulders, down undef asphalt. Then, when temperatures fall during the night, the moisture expands as it freezes. This expansion forces the pavement up, creating a pocket of frozen moisture between the road surface and the underlying roadbed. As the sun warms the road the next morning, the temperature rises, melting the frozen moisture. As it melts, it contracts, leaving the asphalt with no support underneath. It takes only a few impacts with car tires for the pavement to crack. Once cracked, subsequent impacts tend to throw the chunks out of the MOISTURE ’PAVEMENT’ SUB-BASE TEMPERATURES RISE How A Pothole Forms hole, widening and deepening it further. Mr. Askew said that he hopes the lack of a real deep freeze so far this winter will mean the spring damage will be relatively minor. He reported that he had just come off some gravel-surfaced secondary roads in Fauquier County, and “for mid-February, those roads are in excellent condition.” The resident engineer’s optimism was echoed by Walter Jenkins, a highway department veteran in Rappahannock County. “We don’t have too many potholes,” he said, adding that those few which have ' been found “are pretty well patched up.” “We’ve been pretty lucky so far,” Mr. Jenkins continued. “The blacktops are in pretty good shape, and the gravel roads are frozen so hard that we’ve not had any problems.” Stover site passes preliminary testing Zoning administrator John McCarthy reported on Tuesday that preliminary testing conducted on the Stover property near Amissville indicates that it may be suitable for a landfill. Geoseismic tests run Monday on the 100 acre tract off Route 639 showed “pretty good depth to bedrock,” Mr. McCarthy said. “We still don’t know what type of soil is there and we won’t blow until we drill test holes . . . The top is- clay, not great clay but clay. Underneath, it might be great clay or it might be sand.” A determination on soil type must await permission from the property owners for more definitive testing. Reportedly, the Stovers are unwilling to allow test holes to be drilled — which would require felling trees - until the county has entered into a contract to buy the land. Mr. McCarthy noted that an independent appraisal of the property has been completed and work is continuing on a sales contract which will be acceptable to be the county and the Stovers. Geo-seismic tests were also conducted Tuesday on 440 acres off Route 211 owned by Lee Albrecht. According to the zoning administrator, Mr. Albrecht is willing to sell 60 to 100 acres of the tract, should it prove suitable for a sanitary landfill. "But it doesn’t look very good,” Mr. McCarthy said. “We found only 12 to 18 feet to bedrock - tentatively. . . The best part for a landfill is far in the back (of the tract) and split up.” The county’s search to find an acceptable landfill site continues to be a race against the clock. Existing state permits for the privately owned and operated landfill on Clifton Clark’s property in Woodville will expire July 1. According to regional solid waste supervisor Robert Forman, a closure plan has been approved and implementation begun. Engineering reports received last month found property owned by Lee Partnership unsuitable for a dump. That site, located on the Fodderstack Road near the town of Washington, had the Board of Supervisors’ endorsement and was the only landfill application before the state’s permitting agency. According to Mr. Forman, the Department of Solid Waste Management is taking upwards of eight months to process applications for sanitary landfills. Sen. Miller: Optimistic about annexation bill By DON DEL ROSSO Anind*l NunmMH Staff Writer .JICIHMOND - San. Kevin G. Miller says he’s pleased with the progress he’s made so far during the General Assembly session. He’ll admit that he and his fellow conservatives — Republicans and Democrats alike — have lost some majorbattles. The voters will get a chance in November to decide if they want a state-run lottery. Sen. Miller opposes the concept of a lottery and the idea of putting it to referendum. The General Assembly approved a bill that would require front-seat passengers in most vehicles to wear safety belts. Sen. Miller doesn’t believe the state has a right to force people to wear seatbelts. He also supported the pre-notification bill, which would have required doctors to inform parents that their daughter wants an abortion. 'That bill was defeated in Senate committee. Despite those setbacks, the Re publican senator — whose 26th District includes parts of Fauquier, Culpeper, Page, Rappahannock, Madison and Rockingham counties — said he’s happy with the status of the handful of bills he’s submitted this session. Foremost among the legislation that has been reported out of committee is his bill that would put a moratorium on all annexations for 18 months, beginning Jan. 1,1987. The Senate adopted the measure and now it must be considered by a House committee before the House of Delegates decides the matter. “I feel optimistic” the House will pass the bill, he said Monday. “I feel it will be reported out of committee.” Such a moratorium is needed, he said, because counties are concerned that expanding water and sewer services near municipal boundaries will lead to annexation. In effect, the concern is that municipalities would annex services af tel* counties have made large investments in them. Another MUier bffl, also passed bjTthife Senate, would allow landowners to poet property by stripping bark from a tree and marking the spot with paint. Sen. Miller believes such a marking would be far more cost effective SEN. KEVIN MILLER than paper signs, which are easily destroyed and a nuisance to replace. A third bill, which seems destined for passage, would recognize James Madison University as the state’s “flagship institution” in commemorating the 200th anniversary of U.S. Constitution. Initially, the senator worded the bill to make JMU Virginia’s official “bicentennial university” in celebrating the Constitution. But Sen. Miller said he had to change the wording because delegates and senators who graduated from other Virginia colleges and universities were offended that JMU alone should be given such status. The sens tops most important bill, however, was defeated on the Senate floor. His so-called index bill would (Continued on Page 14) Lane’s disclosure missing Despite repeated reminders from the Board of Supervisors’ administrative assistant and the clerk to the board, Supervisor Nelson Lane not only failed to meet the January 15 deadline for filing financial disclosure forms but has yet to complete the required paperwork. Virginia law requires members of the Board of Supervisors, Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals - all bodies with advisory or decision making powers regarding land use and development to disclose real estate holdings and business connections. Only the StonewallHawthome District representative failed to do so by January 15. Similarly, Mr. Lane missed last year’s deadline and did not turn in his disclosure form to the clerk’s office until March. - Failure to file disclosure forms is a misdemeanor offense.

UTews of Record No cause found for illnesses An investigation by the Virginia Division of Occupational Safety and Health into an accident at the Rappahannock Gourmet Fruit and Produce Co. in Sperryville failed to produce a definite answer as to what caused five employees of the company to become ill on Dec. 17. Jan Hatchcock, a public information officer with the Department of Labor and Industry, which oversees the occupational health and safety division, said Tuesday that an inspection the day after the accident failed to pinpoint the cause of the illnesses. The type of symptoms described by the employees indicated the possibility of exposure to carbon monoxide,’' she said, adding that the use of a propane-fueled forklift inside the building lent some credence to that hypothesis. "Apparently, the forklift could have generated some carbon monoxide,” she said, “but the driver had instructions not to run it for extended periods in any enclosed spaces.” She explained that at the time of the VOSH inspection only one em ployee was working inside the building, and it was therefore not possible to recreate the circumstances of the accident. She said that the inspection “failed to reveal any chemicals used in any process at or prior to the incident.” There were no tests done on the affected employees after they were transported to Culpeper Memorial Hospital by the Sper^ville Rescue Squad, so it was not possible to determine through blood samples what caused the illnesses. The rescue squad and sheriffs department were called to the plant, located on Rt. 1003 next to the Sperryville Antique Market, about 11 a.m. on Dec. 17 after several employees complained of nausea, dizzi ness and headaches. Sheriff John Henry Woodward said that when he arrived and opened the door to the large, bamlike structure used to grow Belgian endive, he noticed an unpleasant odor. The incident was also reported to zoning administrator John McCarthy, who notified the state agency. Ms. Hatchcock said that as a result of the VOSH inspection, the company was issued one "other than serious” citation, which carried no penalty. It related to the failure to display a VOSH poster advising employees of their right to report unsafe working conditions, the failure to display a federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration Form 200 (a log of all reportable illnesses and injuries), and, in the absence of a first aid clinic or medical department, the failure to provide a person on the site capable of rendering first aid in case of illness or ipjury. She said that a conference was held with the plant’s general manager after the investigation was completed, at which time the citation was explained and several safety recommendations were made. These included a suggestion that the propane-powered forklift be replaced with an electric truck, or that the propane power plant be modified to provide for more complete combustion. Also, she said, if the forklift was not replaced, VOSH recommended that carbon monoxide sensors with audible alarms be installed in areas where the lift is operated. Ms. Hatchcock said that because the plant closed on Jan. 27 for an indefinite period, “it is impossible to do any further testing. It is our understanding,” she added, “that the company is no longer in operation.” Looking for a bargain? Check the classi fieds in it fcappafamtocfeiietos. INVITATION TO BID The Rappahannock CountyBoafd «f Supervisors hereby invites interested contractors to submit bids to provide all labor and materials for tite^rotftsibtf of hlnd&apped access to the * Rappahannock County Courthouse in accordance with drawings and specifications which are available in the Building, Zoning and Administration Office of Rappahannock County, Washington, Va. from 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday. The bidding procedures for competitive sealed bidding provided by the Viiginia Public Procurement Act, Section 11-37 et seq of the Code of Virginia, shall apply. The County reserves the right to have its architect inspect any portion ot the construction project, to assure compliance with specifications. Sealed bids should be submitted to the Administrative Assistant of the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors, at P.O. Box 222, Washington, Virginia, 22747, so to be received by him no later than 2:00 P.M. on Monday, March 2,1987, at which time bids will be opened and publicly read. To be acceptable a bid must state a fixed price, must contain the name, address and telephone number of the bidder, and must be signed by the bidder. The winning bidder will be expected to sign a standard A.I. A. or similar contract with the County of Rappahannock. Applicable provisions of the Virginia Public Procurement Act will be included in said contract. Rappahannock County reserves a right to reject any, or all, bids. BY: John W. McCarthy, Administrative Assistant to the Board of Supervisors Rappahannock County I i Yes! Please enter my new subscription to ftappafjannocfe iJetos Subscription rates by mail: Rappahannock & adjoining counties.$8.00/yr. Elsewhere in the U.S.$10.00/yr. Outside the U.S.$8.0Q/yr. 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He estimated damage to the building at $3,000, and the car was totalled. County emergency log Fire and rescue The following calls were routed through the dispatch center in the past week: Feb. 10: 12:26 p.m., brush fire, Rt. 522, Boston, Castleton Fire Department and Sperryville Fire Department; 1:29 p.m., chimney fire, Rt. 681, Sperryville Fire Department, Sperryville Rescue Squad, Castleton Fire Department and Washington Fire Department; 4:03 p.m., possible DOA, Rt. 681, Sper^ ryville Rescue Squad and Washington Fire Department; 4:07 p.m., bleeding from moutfy Sperryville Rt, 618. Castleton Fire Departments lfeb.$12:4:09 p.m., chimney fire, Town of Washington, Washington Fire Department, Sperryville Fire Department and Flint Hill Fire Department; 7:02 p.m., auto accident, Rt. 211 west, Amissville Fire Department. Feb. 13: 11:53 a.m., difficulty breathing, Town of Sperryville, Sperryville Rescue Squad, Washington Fii’e Department and Flint Hill Fire Department; 2:38 p.m., auto accident, Town of Washington, Washington Fire Department and Flint Hill Fire Department. Feb. 14: 10:04 p.m., difficulty breathing, Rt. 211, Washington Fire Department; 12:26 p.m., possible heart attack, Chester Gap Fire Department; 6:04 p.m., structural fire, Rt. 626, Castleton Fire Department, SperryyjUe F^re Department and Culpe$erCompany 8. Sheriff Feb. 9: Vandalism, Rt. 628, Washington; domestic, Rt 522, Wood ville. Feb. 10: Public service, Rt. 622, SperryviUe; domestic problem, Sperryville; animal complaint, Rt. 622, Sperryville; possible suicide, Rt. 681, Sperryville. Feb. 11: Public service, Rt. 211 west, Sperryville; property damage. Feb. 12: Animal complaint, Rt. 211 west, Sperryville; suspicious vehicle, Rt. 643, Amissville; grand larceny, Rt. 638, Amissville. Feb. 13: Public service, Rt. 649, Castleton; intoxicated driver, Rt. 522 north, Sperryville; drunk in public, Rt. 231 and Rt. 707, Sperryville; hunting complaint, Rt. 522, Woodville. Feb. 14: Auto accident, Rt. 626, Washington; domestic problem, Rt. 211, Washington; harassment, Rt. 211, Sperryville; drunk in public, Rt. 1001, Sperryville. R&3$§3pttblic service#?Rt. 211 and Rt. 522, Sperryville; domestic •iBT<*Wem, Rl. 600, Sperryville; trespassing, Rt. 211, Amissville; unauthorized use, Five Forks, Woodville; domestic problem, Rt. 622, Sperryville; public service, Rt. 606, Flint Hill. Real estate transactions The following real estate transfers were recorded during the past week: t. Charles B. Raynor and wife to Ashby Stephen Berry and wife, 18.2 acres, Jackson District. $150,000. Winfred 0. Craft Jr. and wife to Winfred O. Craft and wife. Gift. Edith O. Baker-to Paul M. Bald win and wife, 0.63 acre, Hampton District. $52,000. Wilson L. Frazier to Richard L. Worden and wife, Lot 2, 8,130 square feet, Sperryville. $26,600. John H. Noal to William L. Reed and wife, 10,614.4 square feet, Hampton District. $1,600. Prices are hot on “NO-BELT” Whirlpool DIRECT-DRIVE Washers Whirlpool Model UtiSOOXS Direct-Drive Washer • 7 Automatic Cycles • 3 Water Temp Settings • 3 Water Level Selections • Gentle Wash System • Easy-Clean Lint Filter | sa^s399m No Bens to Break! : Proven Dependable and Durable: | Whiripool Direct-Drive System ' With fewer serviceable parts than conventional » bed-drive models, there is simply less that cm ’ 90 wrong. The Direct-Drive System also moves ; the Super SURGILATOR* Agitator through a ; short, quick agitation arc, genending extra suds ; for better performance. Rappahannock Farmers Co-op Sperryville, Va. 987-8555 Tara Fisher named to honor society Tara Fisher, daughter of Dawn and Brad Fisher of Washington, has been elected to membership in Phi Eta Sigma National Scholastic Society. Phi Eta Sigma is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies. Tara is a Dean’s List freshman student at the University of Richmond and a 1966 graduate of Rappahannock County High School. Carriage Licenses James Edward Jordan, Washington, and Virginia Marie Fletcher, Washington. Real Estate fg> Eileen M. Day realtor SEX, AGE NO BARRIER TO SUCCESS Are sex or age barriers to being successful in die real estate business? Absolutely not! Women occupy an increasingly large segment of the real estate industry. Real estate has long been a career where more women top producers in residential real estate than men. Where else can you go into a whole new field that is going to produce the kind of income you would like - without college as a prerequisite. Many women who have raised families, find that real estate careers oner exiting new horizons. Age, also, is no barrier to entering the real estate field. There is no retirement age. No such thing as being “over the hill”. Many excellent real estate salespeople have gone long past what would be considered normal retirement time in any other field. Young men and women likewise are able to achieve a substantial income much earlier than they would in professions where, for instance, they would need 6 to 8 years of formal college education. Real estate is one career where success is not governed by your age or sex - only by your results! 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, The Clopton House, Washington, Va. 22747. Phone: 675-3400, We’re here to help. School menus l RCES February 23-27 Monday - Sausage pattie, hash browns, baked apples, pancakes/butter, syrup, choice of milk. Tuesday - Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, buttered broccoli, homemade roll/butter, choice of milk. Wednesday - Beans and franks, French fries, celery & carrot sticks, homemade cherry muffin, choice of milk. Thursday - Pork chops, buttered rice, buttered succotash, fresh apple wedge, homemade biscuit, choice of milk. Friday - Beef barbecue on bun, cole slaw, sliced peaches, homemade yellow cake, choice of milk. RCHS Monday - Hot dog on bun, mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, homemade yellow cake, choice of milk. Tuesday - Choice of - chili con came/blueberry muffin or hamburger on bun, vegetable sticks, spicy applesauce, choice of milk. Wednesday - Spaghetti/beef, cheese, tossed salad/dressing, sliced peaches, homemade French bread, choice of milk. Thursday - Choice of - clam chowder or chicken noodle soup/crackers, grilled cheese sandwich, onion rings, fresh apple wedge, choice of milk. Friday - Chicken nuggets, macaroni & cheese, green beans, pineapple & oranges, homemade roll/butter, choice of milk. ASCS offers CRP sign-up The fourth sign-up period for the USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) will be conducted through Feb. 27 by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Farmers may bid to enter their highly erodible cropland into a 10year CRP contract beginning with ^either the 1987 or-1088 crop year, according to IAidd<('P. Henry, County Executive Director of Rappahannock County ASCS Office. r To restrain further buildup of corn stockpOes and encourage excess corn acres into the long-term program, the sign-p contains a bonus annual rental payment for highly erodible com acreage. This offer is limited to new Conservation Reserve Program contracts effective with the 1987 crop year and is not retroactive for corn base acreage under CRP contracts already signed. The additional rental payment will be made in generic commodity certificates when the new 1987 CRP contract is accepted. Farmers who have already signed up in other 1987 acreage reduction programs and received advance payments in cash or certificates may cancel or revise their contracts and enter into the CRP. No penalty will be charged, but payments already received must be refiinded in cash. The bonus payment will be equal to $2 times the farm program yield for com, times the number of com base acres designated for the CRP. For the purpose of determinincr eligible land to be placed in the program, alfalfa and other multi-year grasses and legumes in rotation between 1981 and 1985, approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, will be considered to be agricultural commodities. Not more than 25 percent of the total cropland in a county may be placed in the program. However, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to waive this limit if there will be no adverse effect on the local economy. The Conservation Reserve Program encourages farmers to stop growing crops on highly erodible cropland and plant it to grass or trees through 10-year contracts with USDA. The increased annual bonus payment for highly erodible com acreage is a one-time, one-year bonus. think about your heart. | American Heart Association

Black history: One man’s story (Editor’s note: David S. Summers, M. D., a distinguished neurologist who now lives and practices in Erie, Pa., has family roots in Rappahannock County. He was bom in Canton, Ohio, where his parents Stuart Elizabeth and William Edward Summers had moved when his father took a job in a steel mill. He moved back to Rappahannock County with his brothers and listers following the death of his mother. The family was raised by an aunt, Madelena Freeman, in a house in Gid Brown Hollow which is now the Gid Brown Bible Church. Two of Dr. Summers’ brothers, Robert and John, still live in Washington. His uncle, Marshall Jordan, lives in Gid Brown Hollow, and several other relatives reside in the Sperryville area. Dr. Summers wrote the following account of his childhood in Rappahannock and his exodus to pursue his education.) Without the philanthropy of Julius Rosenwald, I probably would not have received even the separate and entirely unequal elementary education which I completed in 1946; the “school” in Smedley, Va. (Gid Brown Hollow) was the traditional single-room structure where one teacher was responsible for seven grades. And neither the Commonwealth of Virginia nor Mr. Roeenwald had provided a high school for blacks in Rappahannock County, so concurring with an aunt that I was “too young to stop school,” I elected to be bused to the two-room elementary school in Washington, Va., where I was fortunate to be influenced by Anna Williams Green, who taught me completely new seventh grade concepts, especially in grammar and rhetoric. Determined to provide a secondary education for me, Mrs. Green persuaded a relative in Williamsburg, James C. Williams Sr., to foster my educational efforts; consequently in September 1946 I entered Bruton Heights School, a relatively new physical structure DR. DAVID S. SUMMERS, who left Rappahannock County to pursue his education. The photo was taken around the time of his graduation from Virginia State University in 1954. provided through the philanthropy of John D. Rockefeller III for the secondary education of black students of James City County. I graduated as valedictorian in 1960, and in 1961 received one of the first Abby Aldrich Rockefeller scholarships, thereby being enabled to complete my college education at Virginia State University (then Virginia State College) in 1954. Meanwhile, my high school science teacher, Mrs. Ophelia Gist Hawkins, had become another essential link in the chain of events which led to my enrollment in medical school. She encouraged me to remain steadfast while promising to provide financial support. So, in the 1954-65 academic year, I matriculated for electives at Howard University (analytical chemistry) and Virginia Union University (two semesters including calculus and physical chemistry). Although a variety of academic deficiencies became apparent during my first two years at Virginia, selfdiscipline, intense study and the encouragement of Dr. Alto E. Feller (microbiology) and Dr. William Parson (internal medicine) were mqjor factors in my eventual success. With additional assistance from . .. scholarships, I was able to receive the coveted M. D. degree in June 1959. (Follotving the attainment of hit M. D., Dr. Summers completed a residency in neurology at the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse in 1963. He then served three years in the United States Army, including duty at the 2nd General Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, where he was the Assistant Chief of Neurology. After his discharge from the service, he joined the faculty of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Strong Memorial Hospital as an Assistant Professor of Neurology (1968-72) and director ofEEG laboratories (1970-72). From 1972 until 1976 he served on the faculty of the University of Utah College of Medicine as an assistant professor. In 1976, Dr. Summers tons recruited by the St. Vincent Health Center in Erie, Pa., where he accepted a position as Chief of Neurology. In 1978 he was appointed Staff Neurologist and electrophysiologist at the St. Vincent Health Center, a position he still holds. He also serves as a consultant and instructor in neurology at several educational institutions in the Northeast, In 197k Dr. Summers was appointed by former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services) Caspar Weinberger to the National Advisory Council of Services and Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled, an organization concerned with services and funding for epilepsy, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, autism and related neurological disorders. Time short to sign-up for CRP Virginia fanners who want to enroll their highly erodible cropland into the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) have until Friday, Feb. 27, to place their bids. This is the fourth sigh-up period for the program, which waa enacted in late 1985,,£o epcourage farmers-io stop growing: cr^ps on highly erodible cropland* Under CRP, farmers agree to cease crop production for a Id-year period and to plant their land in grass and trees. In return, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pays annual rental payments to the farmer, as well as up to 50 percent of the cost of establishing permanent vegetative cover on the land. This year’s sign-up has an added incentive, reported a Virginia Tech, Extension specialist. “In addition to the annual rental payment, a onetime bonus will be paid to produc I Shop early for Spring at the a/leen. \ FACTORY | OUTLET Small selection of shorts and tops at only i $2.99 each, i Winter I Garments I for those K cold days P $5 to $7.99 Store Hour* Monday-Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Located in Flint Hill, Virginia Routa641 off Route 522 FINAL CLEARANCE! I All winter merchandise now reduced to 50% Lay-a-away available. 131 E. Main St. Front Royal, Va. 635-2219 ers,” said Harlan E. White, Extension agronomist. “The bonus will be equal to $2 times the farm program payment yield for corn, times the acres of com base designated for enrollment into CRP.” viduaT situations, Virgiiiia Extehsioh agehts are offering budgets ftt various crops. “The budgets can be used to estimate the acreage and profit potential of designated fields,” White said. “The CRP can be an attractive alternative to those who are nearing retirement and who would have rented their land anyway,” said White. “It may also be attractive to young farmers who can make more money at an off-farm job than they can farming the land.” During the sign-up period, producers will be given the option to enter into a CRP contract beginning with either the 1987 or 1988 crop year. nr. 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Local forester writes guide to woodland management ByTHERESA REYNOLDS Rappahannock New* Special Writer Wolves are on the prowl and lonely hearts lurk in the forests of Rappahannock County, according to a privately-published manual written by long-time Rappahannock forester Lyt Wood. A “wolf,” Mr. Wood explains in “Forestry Basics,” is a large old tree with a far-spreading crown. “Lonely hearts” is forester’s talk, and refers not to gentle souls overlooked by romance, but to trees left standing after a clear timber cut. Wolves, like their warm-blooded counterparts, make survival difficult for smaller and younger woodland denizens. They crowd out their neighbors by blocking the sun, and may physically take the place of several younger trees. These trees are undesirable for timber managment, Mr. Wood ex plains, but they do provide nesting cavities and feed for wildlife. Decisions for the landowner managing his woodland are tremendously complex. Forest ecology, timber, firewood, wildlife, watershed and recreation are uses he must analyze. “It is not only possible to manage for several objectives at once; it is, except over the very short term, impossible to selectively manage for just one or two forest values,” says Mr. Wood. This belief, which Mr. Wood calls “integrated forestry,” is what makes “Forestry Basics” different from other books on woodland management. “This book describes forest management from an ecological perspective,” said Mr. Wood. “Forest management, as described in this book, considers long-term effects on all forest values.” Mr. Wood believes that, with this book as a guide, the landowner is provided with all the basic information needed to compose a forest management plan for his own property. Certainly “Forestry for Landowners” conveys a sense of confidence as well as guidance for its readers. Although the information is there, it’s presented in a way that is clear, readable, and not technical. In fact, “Forestry” is such interesting reading that even the person who loves the woods but doesn’t own any would find it interesting. Besides the instructive sections on forest management for specific uses, there are sample management plans and a description of all our major Rappahannock tree species. Mr. Wood used the book as a text to teach a small forestry course here in Rappahannock at a private home. In early March, he’ll try it out on a larger student body, those attending his forestry course at Lord Fairfax Community College, off-campus in Warrenton, and at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Those interested may register through the respective colleges. Mr. Wood is presently negotiating for national publication of his book; meanwhile, a limited number of copies are available fronvRed Oak Hill, Post Office Box 211, Washington, Va. 22747. Illustrations are by local artist Dan Lewis. 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Rappahannock Jictos An Independent Newspaper Established 1877 Published Every Thursday ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL, Publisher JOHN T. MeEWAN, President JOHN T. TOLER, Exec. Vice Pres. BARBARA C. BURKE, General Manager LOU HATTER, Managing Editor USA H. BURKE, Adverting To Subscribe Phone (703) 675-3338 BY MAIL: $8.00 a year in Rappahannock and adjoining counties $10.00 a year elsewhere in the United States BACK COPSES: 3 months or more 70c. 1 -2 years - $1.00; over 2 years • $3.00 (if available) OFFICE: Rappannock News Bldg., Washington, Va. 22747 HOURS: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Published by the Rappahannock News, a division of Arundel Newspapers, Inc. Member, Audit Bureau of Circulation. J THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19.1987 Editorial Common sense Two pieces of legislation approved by the Virginia General Assembly this week will save a lot of lives in the coming years, no matter the arguments advanced by opponents of the two measures. Legislation requiring that drivers and front seat passengers wear seat belts will save between 200 and 300 lives each year in the Commonwealth, proponents of the bill predict. Studies have also shown that wearing seat belts can reduce the incidence of serious injuries in auto accidents by 50 percent. And legislation requiring hunters to wear blaze orange should help in reducing the number of senseless and tragic hunting accidents which sweep the state like an annual plague during big game season. Many people opposed to government intrusion into their lives argue that they should have the right to risk their own lives if they choose. That may be a valid point, but as long as hunting and traffic accidents require the services of law enforcement officers, rescue personnel and state-supported medical facilities, avoiding accidents is everyone’s concern. No matter what one’s opinion of the new legislation, we would hope that he or she would wear seat belts in cars and blaze orange in the woods - if not to comply with the law, then because it makes good common sense. A tug-of-war over control By WILLIAM R. HAWKINS , aawaimaockNmn Contributing WiHac „.<■ For over a decade, Congress has been expanding its role in the conduct of foreign policy. In 1973, Congress passed the War Powers Act to limit the President’s role as commander-in-chief by directly involving Congress in the decision to commit troops to action. In 1974, Congress banned the use of federal fluids to support military operations in Southeast Asia. Both of these moves were unprecedented and scholars have debated their constitutionality. However, in the absence of court ruling, Congress has continued to use them as precedents. Aid to rebels in Angola and Nicaragua, sanctions against South Africa, arms control proposals, the use of troops in Grenada and Lebanon, and oversight of intelligence operations are all issues showing a new Congressional activism. Congressmen increasingly use “fact finding” trips to conduct their own personal diplomacy. Prolonged investigations of the Iranian-Contra arms deal will in all likelihood be used to justify new measures shifting more authority from the executive to the legislative branch. How did the Framers of the Constitution deal with this? Control of the military was divided between the President and Congress. Congress had the power to raise armies and fleets and to call out the militia. The forces thus created would be the President’s to command. Congress had the power to declare war, but the President could still "make” war if the nation’s security was threatened. The Framers were well aware that nations fought “undeclared” wars and engaged in raids, pre-emptive strikes and reprisals. The first three presidents, Washington, Adams and Jefferson, all had to commit American forces to combat without formal Congressional declarations of war. The responsibility for carrying out foreign policies short of war, however, was divided differently. Article II invests the President with “the executive Power.” Under this article is the power to make treaties and appoint ambassadors with the “advice and consent” of only one chamber of the Congress, the Senate. The President’s duties also include receiving "Ambassadors and other Public Ministers.” It is clear that it is the President who is to formulate foreign policy and carry out negotiations. This was the traditional function of monarchs, the only executive Power that the Framers were familiar with from history and political theory. The Senate is involved only if there is a war situation. The unique position of the Senate in regard to treaties reflects the fact that .when the Constitution was adopted;' Senators were elected by their respective State legislatures rather than by the people. Senators represented the residual sovereignty of the States in a federal union. It was felt that a treaty that obligated the nation to a course of action must be accepted by the States since they collectively made up the nation. With the decline of State’s Rights and the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment (1913) providing for the popular election of Senators, the Senate has lost this special character. It can no longer be said to differ from the House. The House was excluded from diplomacy. The House, directly elected with short terms, reflected public opinion. However, many of the Framers felt that public opinion was too uninformed, emotional and fickle to be the basis for a sound foreign policy. The Senate, a smaller body, appointed by the States with longer terms, was better suited to form a council of advisors to the President. Even then, the President was free to ignore advice. The interpretation is most clearly set forth in the Federalist No. 75 written by Alexander Hamilton in March 1788 In the latter, Hamilton states: “The Legislative Department is not the organ of intercourse between the United States and foreign Nations. It is therefore not naturally the Or gan of the Government which is to pronounce the existing condition of the Nation, with regard to foreign Powers.” A critical weakness of the Articles of Confederation that led to the creation of a new government under the Constitution was the lack of a strong executive — a lack felt most strongly in foreign policy. Under the Confederation, there was only Congress. It proved incapable of speaking with one voice or of acting with dispatch or of following a consistent policy. So weak was this Congressional system that several State governments attempted to pursue their own independent foreign policies. Foreign governments could neither understand nor respect such a chaotic system. The creation of the Presidency and the separation of the executive Power from Congress was the outstanding achievement of the Constitution. The President was to provide leadership and embody, national unity, functions that were beyond Congress then and which remain beyond it now. In this dangerous world, the nation cannot afford to turn back the dock and watch the power of the executive erode. Dr. William R. Hawkins it Research Director of the South Foundation and a consultant to the United States Business and Industry Council. Rappahannock Heritage ■UfVahaanock New* photo/Cindy Mahan I ACCORDING TO SEAMUS, it’s never too cold for a golden retriever to take a swim, especially in pursuit of a stick. Letters to the editor Thanks for support To the editor The chapter of Future Homemakers of America at Rappahannock County High School would like to thank the members and friends of the Rappahannock community for their support dur ing our fundraising activity of selling cookbooks. Thank you! FHA Rappahannock County High School A dream cure? To the editor: God’s Spirit, I feel, (though I could be wrong) gave me a dream showing the nation’s Public Health doctors advancing from trenches, filled hypodermic needles at the ready - like soldiers with fixed bayonets - fighting the war against AIDS. I wrote a letter to this paper (which I do not believe was published) pointing out that Reagan’s military budget for helping the Nicaraguan Contras would be better spent if it were diverted to curing AIDS. That was a while ago, but since then I’ve been justified in my position by Reagan’s finally taking up the issue (now that it’s safely a sexually transmitted disease rather than still considered God’s plague against homosexuals) and support ing research for p cure/And also by the fact that today our military leaders are claiming that the Contras cannot win no matter how much we help them. Then, the other night, I had a "dream” telling me that there is a cure for AIDS in the powdered bark of the cottonwood tree - a couple of spoonfuls! George Washington Carver identified hundreds of uses for peanuts and soybeans including, I believe, plastics and medicines, by way of meditation. He said that the plants talked to him - and then went into his laboratory and proved scientifically what he had learned from supernatural sources. Some of his "products” are in use today. Hopefully my "dream” will also prove true. PETER B. HOLLEY Boston Slop the con job To the editor. You can help prevent the citizens of Virginia from being conned into inviting a multiplicity of problems by expanding legal gambling. First, a summary. Next, a suggestion. By pushing gambling (including lotteries), the states encourage people to gamble their lives on drugs and waste their resources on fantasies. That discourages the working at constructive problem solving and promotes a plague of drug law violations. Witness the 1985 arrest rate for them per 100,000 people which was 111 percent higher in gamblebig Maryland than in limited-bingo Virginia. In their mad grab for dollars, states disregard gambling’s destructive impact on individuals and families. They ignore the way citizens turn to crimes that reflect the way those states defraud their people of the money the poor and others need for proper nutrition of bodies and minds. Arrests for fraud and embezzlement jumped from 35,000 in 1960 to 279,000 in 1984 and to 353,400 in 1985. As people obey states’ pleas to mismanage resources, problems multiply. Then governmental costs go up in an effort to cope. During the gambling riddled 1800s crime and corruption were so terrible that the American people rose up to get most gambling outlawed by 1900 - a time of great power for organized crime. Result - the crime rate declined from 1900 to 1950. As gambling doors have opened, crime has climbed. In 1960 the likelihood of an individual’s being the victim of a violent crime was one in 625. According to US News & World Report (5/20/85, p. 18), in 1985 that likelihood had become one in 33. Lotteries and other forms of gambling have played prominent roles in Latin American countries for centuries. Note their predicaments. Help waken your people so that they will clamor effectively for the prohibition of lotteries and other gambling. / ENA MAE FOX Springfield Letters The Rappahannock News is your newspaper. We encourage our readers to express their feelings on matters of public concern. "Letters to the Editor” provides a forum for your opinion. Letters should be concise and not exceed 250 words. Letters that are too long may be edited due to space limitations. Whenever possible, letters should be typed and doublespaced. To be considered for publication, they must bear the writer’s signature, address and daytime telephone number. Letters must reach the editor by 5 p.m. Monday to be considered for publication that week. Letters may be mailed to the Rappahannock News, P.0. Box 59, Washington, Va. 22747, or delivered to the news office There IS no defense To the editor. Referring to Harold W. Rood's article of Feb. 12 on "Defending the defense budget,” I submit the following: The Japanese have made and mounted no nuclear weapons, nor have they attempted to build an anti-nuclear defense system. Why? Certainly they haven't done the latter because they know that there is no audefufjpd thermonuclear weapons. If any people incentive to plan qn«*nti-nudear defense, it would be the Japanese, the nation that has experienced significant nuclear destruction. Even if the Strategic Defense Initiative (i.e., Star Wars) proved somewhat successful against some weapons, it would be useless against sabotage, terrorism and many other more conventional means of atomic attack, George Washington, James Madison or Benjamin Franklin notwithstanding. SDI proponents know or should know that there is no defense possible against nuclear attack. Why do they proceed with such a costly plan? Last year $29 billion of defense procurement went to California alone. A bottomless pork barrel such as this is hard to resist for such as Reagan, Shultz and Weinberger, all of whom come from California. That's why Representative Hawkins thinks Star Wars appropriations are a good place to look for funds for useful social programs. Hawkins is interested in jobs too, but not necessarily contracts to manufacture weapons systems. Because both the USSR and the US understand that there is no defense against atomic attack, they concluded an anti-ballistic missile treaty years ago, and it is this treaty that President Reagan now proposes to scrap in order to prepare for the Star Wars system. The President is subject to many delusions. SDI is one of them. Spending money on SDI isn’t spending money on defense any more than tiie Frenrfi investajeiit, in the Maginot Line before WW ILwas a meaningful defense expenditure. mi > Experience teaches us that" power seekers tend to be powerproud men who make power crazy mistakes. That’s why we have a democracy here - to allow us to get rid of people with poor judgment and faulty programs before the nation is destroyed - if we are lucky. One of the things our government seems to have forgotten is that it could try to promote peace rather than war. It has been so long now since we did any work for peace that we seem to see international relations and international influence entirely from the point of yiew of armaments, and weapons sales and gifts - hence Secretary Shultz’s efforts to convince us that the Contras are defending us. This twisted attitude needs attention. I challenge anyone to go to the Middle East where the Camp David Peace Accords were to help settle things to see what a peace plan based on massive infusions of weapons into an area has wrought for the people there. DIANA BIRD Washington 2.5 Correction In Gibson Whorton’s letter the editor, which appeared last week’s Rappahannock News, a word was misinterpreted. The sentence should have read “If the ordinance keeping the dogs off the streets and other people’s property had been enforced all this hullabaloo would not have been started.” The Rappahannock News regrets the error. Alternative crop conference set A conference on alternative crops and alternative farm management systems will be held Monday, Feb. 23, at the Sheraton Conference Center in Fredericksburg. With a theme of “Sustainable Agriculture tor Virginia’s Future,” the conference will appeal to both conventional and organic farmers who are looking to improve profits with research-based information. Among the features of the conference will be panels composed of farmers who are organically producing beef, grain, herbs, mushrooms and vegetables. They will discuss the management and marketing aspects of their operations. Conference registration will begin at 8 a.m. Following a brief welcome, Robert H. Miller of North Carolina State University will deliver the keynote address. Mr. Miller serves as head of N.C. State’s department of soil science and is - a chairman of the National Research Council’s Committee on the Potential of Alternative Agricultural Systems. At 9 a.m., Virginia Tech Extension entomologist John M. Luna will discuss “Biological and Cultural Control of Insects on the Farm.” Pat Sullivan, Virginia Tech agronomist, will then address “Legumes: There’s More Than Alfalfa Out There.” The producer panels will make presentations at 11:15 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. Questions will be taken from the audience. A registration fee of $11 will include lunch and program materials. The conference is being sponsored by the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service, in cooperation with the Soil Conservation Service, yVirginia Committee for Sustainable Agriculture and the Tri-County/City Soil and Water Conservation District For more information, contact your local Extension agent or Anne D. Edwards, P.O. Box 410, King George, VA 22485 or call (703) 7753062.

Synthetic food: good for you Syn food. It’s hardly aoul food, but chances are it’s better for us than much of what we eat. For centuries the human diet has consisted of relatively few kinds of plants and domesticated snimsia Since the 1940s, however, increased population, new technology and economic factors have challenged traditional concepts of food supply, leading to the discovery of synthetic food. The process was given a boost by our space program, which stimulated research with wider applications. Dehydrated items became convenient for astronauts because water is a by-product of the hydrogen and oxygen-powered foel cells of space vehicles. Other developments have resulted in bite-sized foodstuffs with the consistency of soft, moist plastic. Here on earth such technology is important, especially in areas where meat and fish — important sources of protein - are lacking. New foods made from protein concentrates actually resemble the textures of meat, fish and shellfish. I he deception is made possible through the fabrication of chewy granules which simulate ground meat. Synthetic milks and coffee whiteners rely on protein concentrates, too. In more elaborate processes, protein fibers are extruded through spiimerets, then blended with flavoring and coloring for processing into bits and cubes. Stiff synthetic doughs that have been dried and sliced make an excellent base 'for casseroles. Just add water. Most of us are familiar with lowcalorie substitutes for weight-watchers, low-sugar products for diabetics, and low-salt items f Jr those with heart or circulatory problems. These too are syn foods. For the unafflicted, many new snacks developed with synthetic flavors and textures have a higher nutritive value than our favorite junk foods. Among the more popular items are potato chips, cheese pufib and popcorn in new shapes and THE TECHNICAL EYE forms. And that milkshake you love so well? At some well-known fast food outlets, it’s simply carboxymethylcellulose, mixed with water, milk made from soybeans, and air. One method of food synthesis reported by Steven R. Tannenbaum, professor of food chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the simulation of prebiotic conditions - conditions associated with the development of life. In this approach, basic chemicals such as ammonia, methane and water are exposed to radiation to produce sugars and amino adds, the building blocks of protein. In addition, certain techniques of tissue culture have been employed to produce plant foods without an agricultural base. Such foods are good for us, if unappetizing. And since people cater to taste before physiological need, the syn food industry provides us with synthetic flavors - beef, chicken, pork and ham - for use with soup 3 and gravies. For those with vegetarian tastes, there is hard candy in natural flavors of celery, parsley *nc carrot. And if you can’t keep your fingers out of the cookie jar, try the new “pregelatinized modified waxy maize food starch.” It’s guaranteed to make your cookies soft and chewy. For an update on just what’s available, take a look at Food Technology, a monthly food world journal, or talk to Don Baird in his chemical engineering laboratory at Virginia Tech. Social Security information tips Many new parents have been receiving letters from companies offering, for a fee, to help them get Social Security cards for their infants. The companies claim infants need cards because the law is about to change, and they charge $10 to s$pd you the forms.. >ncfuy.ii In foct,J«nfonts onty need Social Security cutis When they are paid as » models or have a bulk account opened in their names. Brides have also heard from the same companies offering to help them change their names on Social Security cards. If you do need to get your child a card, or if you need to make a change in your information, you can get a free application form from your local Social Security office. For those thinking about retirement benefits, the amount you receive depends to a large extent on when you stop working. You can retire at age 62, but your benefits will be reduced permanently. Sixty-five is the age to begin to receive full Social Security retirement benefits, but if you can continue to work beyond age 66, it could be to your advantage. First, you can earn up to an annual limit that changes each year and still draw the same Social Security check as if you were completely retired. Then, if you earn over the limit, for every two dollars you earn, your retirement benefits will only be , reduced by one dollar - so you still come out ahead. If you make so much m a year that your benefits are reduced to zero, then you’ll earn the right to higher retirement benefits when you finally do stop working. By the way, the limit on the amount you can earn before your benefits are reduced applies only to people under 70. When you turn 70, your wages have no effect on your Social Security checks and you will get full retirement benefits, no matter how much you earn. Did you know that Social Security can also help provide for your dependent parents age 62 or older in the event of your death? There are benefits as well for unmarried children under 18 or workers who die, retire or become disabled. And if you are divorced but were married for ten years or more to a person who was insured under Social Security, at age 62 you will be eligible for Social Security benefits. You would be eligible at age 60 if your exspouse has died. To learn about how to apply for a Be Resourceful. Recycle. For Information Call 1-800 KEEP ITT Social Security card, what benefits are available, who is eligible to receive them, how long you have to work under Social Security for benefits, and when you can retire, send for a free copy of the Social Security booklet, Your Social Security. Just send your name and address to Deputateftt 610P, <3 wnmxiafHlwfortnatiort Center, Pueblo', Colorado 81009.- For more information on preretirement planning, contact your local Extension office. PULLIN TOURS TRIP TO ATLANTIC CITY Saturday, February 28 $25.00 Rebate at Casino For more information call Leonard Megby 703-347-4565 Charles Pnllin 703-825-1419 This was the news In bygone Rappahannock times 20 YEARS AGO RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS From the Feb. 23,1967, edition Page Moffett, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Moffett Jr. of Washington, and Patrick Alther, son of Martha Alther, also of Washington, were among the students on the dean’s list at the University of Virginia for the first semester. Page is a freshman at the college and Patrick is a second year student. The bake sale sponsored by the FHA Club of RCHS to be held in front of Leggett’s store in Culpeper was called off because of bad weather. It will be held this Saturday, the 25th at the same location starting at 10 o’clock. 15 YEARS AGO RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS From the Feb. 24,1972, edition David William Streagle was presented his commission to Warrant Officer at the Basic School at Quantico Tuesday, February 22. Streagle joined the U.S. Marine Corps in July 1957. He is married to the former Elizabeth Latham and they have two children, Shannon and Marc. The Streagle family presently lives in AmissvUle. Va. 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Church Activities Gid Brown revival Revival services will be held at Gid Brown Bible Church Feb. 2327 at 7:30 each evening. Dr. Bobby Roberson from Walkertown, N. C., will be preaching. There will be special singing each evening, a nursery will be provided and transportation can be arranged. For additional information or church directions call Pastor John Burke at 703-675-3662. The public is invited. Si. Peter’s Catholic Mission Old School Annex Washington Rev. Maurice duCastillion, C.I.C.M. Holy Masses: Daily: Sundays: Holy Days: Sunday: Wednesday: Rectory 8:30 a.m. 9 a.m. and 11a.m. (Sung) 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday School in the rectory after 9 a.m. Mass Woodville Baptist Pastor: Rev. Ernest Cornwell Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. . Bible Study and Choir practice 7:30 p.m. Nethers Mill Lighthouse Tabernacle Weekly services at Nethers Mill Lighthouse Tabernacle include Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5:30 p.m. The Rev. Charles Clinedinst, pastor, invites the public to attend. Slate Mills Baptist Pastor: Rev. J. Harold Eaton Sunday: Wednesday: Thursday: Sunday: Wednesday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Morning Worship.il a.m. Children’s Choir 6:45 p.m. Youth and Adult Choirs 7:30 p.m. W.M.U. meeting Mt. Lebanon Baptist Rt. 522 at Scrabble Pastor: John Warren Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Bible Study 7 p.m. Prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. Amissville Baptist Church Sunday: Wednesday: Sunday: Pastor; Rev. J j PaulFranklin Sunday School 9:45 a.iffiisri Worship Service 11 a.m. Evening Service 7 p.m. Prayer, Praise and Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Forest Grove Baptist Pastor: Rev. Sidney Rodriguez Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. County Methodist Services The United Methodist Churches will have worship services for Sunday, Feb. 22, as follows: Flint Hill at 11:15 a.m., Sperryville at 8:45 a.m. and Willis Chapel at 10 a.m., with Communion. The Rev. Merlin Short), pastor, invites the public to attend. Five Forks Regular Baptist Pastor: Carl Menefee Sunday: Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Evening Service 7 p.m. Wednesday: Prayer Meeting and Bible Study 7 p.m. Family Worship Center Pastor: Rev. Robert Dunphy Assoc. Pastor: Rev. William Taylor Phone: 987-8505 Phone: 987-8014 Sunday: Wednesday: Thursday: Adult Worship and Children’s Church 10:30 a.m. Evening Service 7 p.m. Intercessory Prayer 6:30 p.m. Praise Singing 7 p.m. Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Aerobics. All welcome. No charge. 6:30 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church Sunday: Wednesday: Thursday: Epiphany 7 Holy Eucharist 8 a. m. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Holy Eucharist 11 a. m. Bible Study and Holy Eucharist 9:30 a.m. Choir Practice 7:30 p.m. Washington Baptist Church Sunday: Wednesday: Interim Pastor: Rev. Earl Jarrell Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Communion Deacon’s Meeting 7 p.m. Amissville United Methodist Church Pastor: Rev. Steven D. Parker Phone: 937-4397 Sunday: Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. Confirmation Class 6 p.m. Diet Support Group 6:30 p.m. Jr. Chou- Practice 7 p.m. Youth & Adult Choir Practice 7:30 p.m. Cub Scouts 7:30 p.m. Mary Martha Fellowship 1 p.m. Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Flint Hill Extension Club meets The Flint Hill Extension Homemakers Club met Feb. 10 at the home of Mrs. Flo Du vail. Those present were Margaret and Elsie Dodson, Ethel Pullen, Alice Pullen, Janet Eastham and Russie Miller. Miss Denise Howell of Richmond spent the weekend with her grandmother Mrs. Paul Miller. Mrs. Miller and Miss Howell were dinner guests Saturday of Mrs. Downing Wood at Washington. They were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hall of Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hounshell of Front Royal were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Welch. Keith and Kevin Kinsey of Front Royal spent the weekend with their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Huff. Mrs. Irene Hamilton of High Point, N. C., is spending several weeks with her mother Mrs. Moffett Brady. Mrs. Brady’s son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Crane of Lanham, Md., joined them for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. William Lee spent last Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Spence and Sara at Harrisonburg. By POLLY N AYLOR PfaoM 987-8136 Mr. and Mrs. Terry McCaffrey of Sterling visited Mrs. Ethel Pullen Saturday. Bernie Gilpin who has been recuperating from surgery has now returned to his home at Flint Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Lillard of Springfield were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hickerson. They had dinner at the Quality Court Restaurant in Front Royal. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Butler and boys Daniel and Todd of Front Royal spent Sunday with Mrs. Butler’s mother Mrs. Wade Pullen. Little Jennifer Bywaters spent the weekend with her great-grandmother. Also visiting Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. David Bywaters. Mrs. Bonnie Cameron and girls of Front Royal visited her mother Mrs. Ethel Lillard Saturday. Guests in the Lillard home Sunday were Ronnie Lillard and Susie Wood of Warrenton and George Grimsley. Mrs. Barbara Gentry continues to improve at her home after being hospitalized. Mrs. Debbie Wimmer and Mrs. Thelma Jeffries of Front Royal spent Sunday with their mother Mrs. Ethel Pullen. Mrs. Charlie Lillard was a weekend guest of her sisters Mrs. Maizie Montgomery and Mrs. Lois Sours and Mr. Sours at Warrenton. Mr. and Mrs. Sours accompanied her home Sunday and they had dinner at Country Cookin Restaurant in Culpeper. Guests Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. Bunny Hudson and Kathy were Gloria and Larry Clark of Front Royal. Mr. and Mrs. A. 0. Smoot recently visited Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Smoot and Krystal in Culpeper. Weekend busy for Boston residents Mr. and Mrs. Danny CappUetti of Connecticut and their three-monthold son Rodney Lucas were here last week to visit Mrs. Cappiletti’s grandfather Oliver Durant II and Mrs. Durant at The Hill. Mrs. Durant also reports a terrible fire at their place last week when their car caught fire in the garage and the car, garage and another building were destroyed. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Pullen and family have moved to the Durants’ Hill farm here. Marvin Wilson of Goldvein spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hawkins. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Wood of Dun-Lookin had a lovely surprise Saturday afternoon when Mr. and Mrs. Stan Mrozowski of Hummelstown, Pa., came by to visit them. Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Meredith and Mr. and Mrs. Nick Meredith and their families of Leon were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Nicholson and family on Rt. 615. Belated birthday wishes go out to Mrs. Phyllis Frazier, who celebrated hers Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Alphin, By MARIE F. ATKINS Phone 967-8802 accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Yeaman and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carpenter, spent last week in Dallas* Texas, where they attended the National Rural Electric Co-op meeting at the Convention Center. Mrs. Leo Wood of Boston-Reva route was a guest Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. Ashby Wayland in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. George Whorton, Sarah and Stephen spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Frazier at Jeffersonton. Mrs. Cary Thornhill and Mrs. George Butler visited Mr. Butler and Mrs. Lucy Thornhill at the Culpeper Health Care Center last week. Mrs. Alvin Atkins of Sperryville visited Mrs. Thornhill Saturday. Mrs. Anthony Reed of Vienna was a guest Monday of her brotherin-law and sister Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Hash. Mrs. Hash continues to show improvement from her recent illness. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Mason of Rt. 522 accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Meier, Mrs. Sharon Kelchner and family, Mrs. Rose Sawyer and family and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jenkins attended a birthday party in Winchester Sunday in honor of J. M. Dodson at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Corbin. Rev. Charles Clinedinst spent last week in West Virginia on a revival mission. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Frazier and family were supper guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Meade in Culpeper. Other guests of the Meades were Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Jenkins of Brandy Station. Be patient with the faults of others; they have to be patient with yours. W. F. GRANDSTAFF Revival services at Five Forks The Five Forks Regular Baptist Church near Woodville will have revival services Feb. 22, 25, 28 and March 1. The services will begin Sundays at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., and Saturday 7:30 p.m. Evangelist Waldo F. Grandstaff of Lynchburg will be the visiting preacher. Pastor Carl R. Menefee extends a cordial invitation to everyone to attend these services. The Five Forks Regular Baptist Church is on Route 621 at Woodville. Clerk’s office open evenings Diane Bruce, Rappahannock County Clerk, announced that her office will be open on Wednesday evenings during the next few weeks to assist people interested in doing research or geneology work. Ms. Bruce said that the office will be open from 7 until 9 p.m. on Feb. 25, March 11 and 25. She 'will be available to answer questions or provide assistance in locating reference materials. There is no charge for the service. We live and act like men foredoomed to destruction. —Paul Hutchinson WOUIARD JoHmonS ‘ 14th Street Shenandoah Avenue Front Royal, Virginia 8 a.m.-8 p.m. 703-635-3466 THE MUSTARD SEED B00KSH0PPE "If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit." Gal. 5:25. Royal Plaza Shopping Center Front Royal 636-3517 THE MOUNTAM CABINET SHOP Fin* Cabinet Making Thomas Von Fang* 703-987-8834 Woodville, Va. Belle Boyd Restaurant Aner cnurch have dinner with us" 643 S. Royal Avo. ■ 703-636-6556 & 7 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. /ft E.G.H ACKLEY Groceries - Dry Goods Feed - Hardware Amissville, Va. 937-5373 FRONT ROYAL MOTORS, INC. Sales Service "Your Friendly Ford Dealer" 703-636-2901 SPERRYVILLE CORNER STORE General Merchandise ' 987-8165 OIL HEAT & BURNER Distributor of Exxon, Mobil Petroleum Products & Exxon LPGas Front Royal, 703-635-4155 Washington, 703-675-3214 COUNTRYSIDE FLOOR FASHIONS CwpelOnentaisSHeel Vmyis-T/le tteupholslerySlip Covers-Drapet- Wall Coverings 347-0400 - Amssville. Va. SPERRYVILLE EMPORIUM Gifts • Pottary - Country Hams Solid Wood Furniture Open 7 days a week - Sperryvile. Va Brambles Restaurant. Mon.-Wed. 8 a.m. • 3:30 p.m. Thurs.-Sun. 8 am. - 8 p.m. Breakfast and Lunch Write! During World War II. Kate Smith made famous the statement: “If you don’t write, you’re wrong." She eticouruged folks on the homclmnt to write military |>eo|>le to help keep up their spirits during one of the worst wars in history. And her admonition si ill rings true Writing to people is u concrete way to touch them. Iliere’s something ulamt u good letter tiiat con* j tinues to bless with the |»assing of years. A person can rcud a letter over and over; cun keep it tucked away in u s|>eeial place und bring it out for re-reuding during times of low cl»b. On impulse one day. I wrote a high school English teuchcr whose careful and demanding style extracted the last from me. Had it not been for her diligence, freshman English at college would have rolled me out! And I told her this. Her response came by return mull. “A bright spot in mv low duv.’* is the way she dese rilicd mv letter. The V|M>stle I‘mil was a great letter write*. Ami in each letter lieexpressed grutittide lor those to whom he w rote. “I thunk m\ (mnIuimhi every remembrance of you. . . . " (l»liil. jj:.S) If you don i .write, you’re wrong." Copynght '967 KMS. Wul.wn8 **««***, S«ry p 0 Bo. 800b CbartoamviOa. V* 22906 Sunday Monday I’salni Psalm ttl 14-24 HI 18 Wednesday Thursday fSuhn Isaiah 1181-14 92-7 Sul n r< lay 1 * I Th«? Amtr.'ic 50: MS 12 M> *?• Se*«ctod bv • Bit>*e Socieiv FADELY CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH-DODGE, Inc. 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Washington residents entertain, travel ™ Mrs. Sam Caldow accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. John F. Schultz attended the wedding of w«r grandson Lt. Michael Patrick Keough, USN, son of Dr. and Mrs. George K. Keough of Vienna, to Miss Deborah Lynn Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Lewis, a«o of Vienna. The ceremony took place Feb. 14 in the Main Chapel at Fort Belvoir. Visiting Mrs. Mattie Ball Fletcher Monday were Mrs. Helen Fletcher and Mrs. Bucky Slater and daughter Kate of Upperville. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Mank said they really appreciated the plume calls from concerned people of the community about their health. The Manks recently moved into their new home at Peyton Estates. Mrs. Betty Jean Moulis of Silver ' Spring, Md., was an overnight guest Saturday of her mother Mrs. Ned Settle and family. Happy birthday to Bobby Frazier of Castleton whose birthday was Feb. 17. Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Burke of Hm CLASS PktMfflHM Front Royal, Mr. and Mrs. Ashton Burke of Warrenton and Mrs. Charlie Burke had dinner at Country Cookin in Culpeper Wednesday to celebrate Ashton Burke’s birthday. Later in the evening Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Burke and Mrs. Charlie Burke visited Mr. and Mrs. Trenton Burke and Sirs. Janie Burke in Culpeper. Mrs. John Metzger of Lorton was a luncheon guest Saturday of her mother Mrs. Charlie Burke. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donald of Castleton visited Mrs. Burke in the afternoon. Mrs. Edward M. Clark and Robert L. Frazier were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Frazier, Carla, Lisa, Keith and Mrs. 01lie Vann in Castleton. Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Keyser visited Mrs. Si O’Bannon in Warrenton Saturday. Guests Sunday of the Keysers at The Oaks were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Slaughter of Leesburg, Mrs. Betty Campbell of Leesburg, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Baber and son Joey of Brandywine, Md., Mr. and Mrs. J. Clark Crews, Lorissa and Eric of Manassas and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Crews. Mrs. Russie Miller of Flint Hill visited Mrs. Frances Eubank Monday. Mrs. Eubank and her son Johnny Eubank had lunch Wednesday at Country Cookin in Culpeper, and ThursdayMrs. Sarah Latham of Amissville and Mrs. Eubank had lunch at Brambles. Mrs. Marjorie Atkins visited Mrs. Eubank Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Eubank’s granddaughter Mrs. Mary Carter Depression: Environmentally influenced By JOHN BORGENS B«—hunocfc New. Contributing Writer Environmental factors can be major contributors toward depression. I think many of us can identify times in our lives when we have felt a serious loss or stress and the inevitable sad or blue feeling. Any change may trigger this feeling. A move to a new home, the death of a loved one or the loss of a job are but a few of the causes. Sometimes the feelings are temporary but sometimes treatment is required to alleviate the symptoms. It is interesting to examine various populations in our society thyt appear to be particularly vulnerable to depression. For instance, up until age 65 twice as many women as men are treated for depression. After age 65, the percentage of people treated for depression becomes more equal between the sexes as a higher ratio of men seek professional help. Some experts believe retirement contributes to the higher rates of depression among older men who see their self-worth in terms of work and productivity. Other men may have been too tired or pressured to develop interests or skills other than those found in conjunction with their job. Thus, after retirement they find themselves feeling unable to contribute anything .^efdngfiil to their lives. _ \ <4* Boredom and the loss of self-esteem associated with retirement may be compounded by other conditions of the elderly. Poor health, waning strength, the deaths of friends and loved ones add up, making the older man more vulnerable to depression. Among women, the highest rates rdffliLY Fklh of depression are found in young, poor mothers of small children who are single heads of households. These women, faced with little if any emotional and financial support, appear particularly vulnerable to depression. Actually, families headed by single women are among the poorest in the country and their numbers, reflected in increasing divorce rates, are growing. Factors contributing to their poverty are inadequate finances, lack of child support payments and the woman’s inability to earn a sufficient income to make ends meet. Often they may have left school before graduating and lack the educational skills required to gain access to higher-paying jobs. Also, in many cases unless they can arrange affordable child care they may not be able to work at all. „ The stress facing women today may explain their higher MKecvaf'depression, yet some experts argue that women are no more vulnerable to depression than men, but that the two sexes deal with symptoms differently. They point out that women are more inclined to admit feelings of depression and seek professional assistance. Men, on the other hand, tend to be socially conditioned to repress Be Resourceful. Recycle. For Information Call 1-800 KEEP ITT such feelings or bury them in escapist behaviors such as excessive drinking. This is reflected in the higher rates of alcoholism among men as compared to women. Whatever the cause may be, treatment for depression is readily available. In most cases, individuals no longer need to suffer or remain nonfunctional due to the symptoms of depression. John Borgens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who recently established a practice in Rappahannock County. Smoot and daughter Crystal of Lake Front Royal spent Saturday afternoon with her. On Sunday Mrs. Eubank entertained at luncheon for Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hudson and daughter Victoria of Sperryville and Mr. and Mrs. Frankie Hitt of Woodville. Miss Desiree Pother of Richmond spent the weekend with Mrs. Janie Pullen and Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Ray Pullen and family. •••... Guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Campbell were Mr. and Mrs. Gordan Bailey and daughter Kirsten of Manassas. They all enjoyed dinner at Country Cookin in Culpeper. Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Crews were Mr. and Mrs. Herman Baber and son Joey of Brandywine. Md. Visiting Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. J. Clark Crews, Lorissa and Eric of Manassas. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hall of Camilla, Ga., are spending a few days with his grandmother Mrs. Alice R. Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Butler and daughter Alicia of McLean spent Saturday with Mrs. Erma Jenkins. Congratulations and best wishes to Mary Botts Quaintance and Dr. John P. Snead III who were married Saturday at Trinity Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. John Schultz returned home last Thursday night after spending four weeks in Venice, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Caldow joined the Schultzs for the last two weeks. En route home they visited Mends along the East Coast, including Mr. and Mrs. Phil Butten in Palm Bay, who sent greetings to all their Mends in Rappahannock. The Buttens had recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. A good Uiing to remember and a better thing to do is to work with the construction gang and not with the wrecking crew. Have a good week! 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LUNCH & DINNER Brookside Makes Their Own Homemade Bread & Desserts Fresh Daily FEATURING: w Salad Bar With Unlimited Entrees ^ w Dally Luncheon Buffet—11:30 to 1:30 Pinner Specials Pally^ WEEKEND BUFFET I Friday * Saturday 5:00-8:30 Sunday 8 a.m. -11 a.m. Breakfast Buffet 11;30 a.m. ■ 8 p.m. GREEK NIGHT GREEK-AMERICAN BUFFET Fri. & Sat, February 27 & 28 5:00 to 8:30 p.m. CARDS AVAILABLE Get your card punched for a free meal. “Wo Serve The Beet of Everything With a Smile99 We Use Only Pure Vegetable Oils—Cholesterol Free—For All Our Cooking 8R00KSIDE RESTAURANT ft* asm Iff £ - FOOTHILLS OF 9UfS PIPOF MOUHTAIHS 8un.-Thure.7lo8 Frl. A Sat 7 to 8:30 PH. 709-5099 unw. moiHiA Upcoming Events Woman’s Club to meet The Rappahannock Woman’s Club will meet Tiiesday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Pat Giles in Washington. All members are urged to attend. Dance planned at CCLC A performance of International Dancing by Sid and Margaret Gottlieb will be presented at the Child Care and Learning Center on Friday, Feb. 20, beginning at 7:30 p.m. There will be a small fee for the two-hour event. Those attending are asked to bring refreshments to share. For ftuther information call (703) 676-3788. Movie hour for pre-schoolers Movies scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Rappahannock County Library are: Lion on the Loose, Jonathan and the Dragon, Scruffy, The Little Rooster Who Made the Sun Rise, and Did You Say Meow? Showtime is 10 to 11 a.m. All area pre-schoolers are invited to the free movies. Historical Society meeting The winter meeting of the Rappahannock Historical Society will be held Friday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Courthouse on Gay Street. The speaker will be Judge Harris Grimsley and the topic of discussion will be “Events Leading up to the Constitution of the United States.” All members and interested persons are urged to attend. ARB to meet The Architectural Review Board will meet Thursday, Feb. 19, at 8 p.m. in the courthouse. Interested persons are urged to attend. Dance at Amissville The band Royal Tones will play for a dance sponsored by the Amissville Volunteer Fire Department Saturday, Feb. 21, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Proper dress is required and persons attending must be 21 years of age. For reservations or additional information call 937-4357. ‘Artists and Friends9 at Middle St. The Gallery Artists and Friends show will open Saturday, March 7, from 5 to 10 at the Middle Street Gallery. The show is a survey of work from Los Angeles to New York, from Chile to Moscow and points in between. It will also include the premiere showing of photographs by Russian Edik Gladkov who was former official photographer for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Fire Dept, plans auction The Amissville Volunteer Fire Department will sponsor an auction March 21, starting at 6:30 p.m. For fruther information or pick-up of items for sale call Paul Poling at 937-5205, David Sheffield at 9375595 or Sheila Scott at 937-4357. Bland music contest Sunday The Bland music scholarship contest will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, in the music room of the Rappahannock County Elementary School. So for seven contestants, vocalists and instrumentalists, will participate, with the winner to go on to the regional contest in Warrenton on March 15. A varied program of pianists, trumpet, flute and singers will be featured. Everyone is invited. Beginners horse school set A beginners horse school will be held Feb. 25 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Front Royal Youth Cehwr on Commerce Avenue. For additional information, call the Extension office at 675-3619. ‘The Boy Who Could Fly’ The movie The Boy Who Could Fly will be playing at the Gay Street Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 21, and Sunday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. The movie stars Fred Gwynne, Jay Underwood, Bonnie Bedelia and Louise Fletcher, and is directed and written by Nick Castle (The Last Starfighter). This is a sophisticated magical fantasy for sensitive adults as well as for young people about an autistic boy following the loss of his father. Man’s universal dream of flying - about life’s pain and confusion — is at the heart of this delightful fantasy adventure. It is a warm, imaginative tale that will capture your heart. The movie is rated PG. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for children. Fashion show planned The annual fashion show sponsored by the Rappahannock Woman’s Club will be held Sunday, April 5, at 2 p.m. Fashions are by Franks and Warren Quality of Front Royal, Jack & Jill of Culpeper, The Second Look and The Peppermint Stick of Madison. This year’s show, “Bon Voyage” will be held at the Rappahannock County Elementary School and proceeds will go toward the Woman’s Club scholarship and Rappahannock Area Little League Baseball safety equipment. Advance tickets or patron ads may be purchased from any member. Spaghetti dinner scheduled The Amissville Volunteer Fire Department will serve an all-youcan-eat spaghetti dinner on March 28 from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Cost is $6 for adults, $2.50 for 5-12 years old, while 4 and under are free. Call 9374357 for additional information. Forum on heart disease A community health forum on coronary artery disease will be held Feb, 24 at 7 p.m. in the conference room at Culpeper Memorial Hospital. Cardiologist Dr. Stephanie Mendlow will discuss evaluation and treatment of coronary artery disease, heart attacks, angina and prevention by reducing risk factors. To register for this free presentation, call the community relations department at CMH, 829-4307, or from Orange 672-4322. Forage and grassland conference A Virginia Forage and Grassland conference and trade show, “Forage Ahead With VFGC,” will be held in Staunton Feb. 26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For information, call the Extension Office at 675-3619. Qiieen contestants sought The Amiss ville Volunteer Fire Department are seeking queen contestants for their upcoming carnival. Anyone interested should contact Melody Settle at 937-4781. Swine school scheduled The Area Swine School will be held Wednesday, Feb. 25, at Graves Mountain Lodge in Syria. Beginning with coffee and registration at 9 a.m., the program includes discussions of Records and Production Cost; Outlook and Marketing Strategies; Improving Reproductive Efficiency; Aflatoxin; Virginia Boars — Why Not?; New Wormers, Vaccines and Disease Update; Updating and Repairing Facilities. The meeting will adjourn at 3 p.m. Persons who wish to attend are asked to call the Extension Office at 675-3619 so a count can be made for lunch. African dancers at Gay St. Theater Master Senegalese drummers, dancers and storytellers touring with Kancouran, the West African Dance Company, will come to the Gay Street Theater in Washington on Friday, March 6. at 8 p.m. Hie troupe, sponsored by RAAC, will entertain with a program of traditional dance, music and tales from African culture and history. For more information, call 675-3193. Kancouran is appearing in cooperation with the Bluemont Concert Series.

Diets: facts and fads i By SANDRA R. RICHARDSON Extemion Agent, Home Economic* It’s easy to lose weight quickly t and keep it off. Is this statment fact or fiction? Pure fiction! The appeal of all fad diets is that you can lose, weight quickly. The first several pounds lost quickly are simply water excreted from the body tissues. You have not lost body fat and will regain Hie weight quickly if you resume normal eating habits. The best way to lose excess weight and keep it off is to adopt a healthful way of eating. To encourage awareness about your eating patterns, ask yourself these questions: • Do I usually eat deep-fat fried and breaded food? • Are my serving sizes small or large? • Do I eat when bored or frustrated? • Do I eat when preparing meals or clearing the table? • Do I avoid regular exercise? - If..you answered yes to any of these questions,'perhaps you need to evaluate your eating practices. Successful weight control depends on the individual’s motivation to change, attitudes and habits concerning eating the right kind as well as the right amounts of food, and exercising or walking regularly. Snacks of fruit or raw vegetables or air popped popcorn (minus the butter) are filling, yet have few calories and are much better for calorie conscious people than potato chips. Beef and pork need to have the fat trimmed closely. Chicken needs to have the fat and skin removed be fore cooking. Following are some recipes to help with dieting: Vegetable garden dip 1 tsp. finely grated green pepper 1/2 cup blended cottage cheese 1 Tbsp. finely grated carrot 2 tsp. finely grated onion 1/8 tsp. garlic powder 1 cup plain yogurt Beat cottage cheese with grated vegetables and garlic powder until smooth. Fold in yogurt. Cover and place in refrigerator. Use as a dip with raw vegetables. Yield lVz cups. 11 calories per tablespoon. Spicy meat loaf 1 pound lean ground beef 1/2 cup bread crumbs 1/2 cup milk 1/4 tsp. each, pepper, fennel seed, oregano and basil 1/4 cup grated onion 1 egg slightly beaten lTbsp. chopped parsley 1 dove garlic, minced 1 tap. salt 1/2 tap. paprika Mix all ingredients well; place in 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. If desired, spices may be omitted. 16 slices. 76 calories. Counter weight pie Meringue pie shell Heat oven to 275 degrees. Butter 9-inch pie pan. In small mixer bowl, beat 2 egg whites (1/4 to 1/3 cup) and 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar until foamy. Beat in 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time; continue beating until stiff and glossy. Do not underbeat. Pile into prepared pan, pressing meringue up against side of pan. Bake 45 minutes. Turn off ftappafjannocfe iJetos gift subscriptions are enjoyed 52 weeks a year. Call 675-3349 to give one. oven, leave meringue in oven with door closed 45 minutes. Remove from oven; cool. Filling 1 tsp. unflavored gelatin 1/3 cup sugar 2/3 cup unsweetened pineapple juice 3 egg yolks (reserve 1 egg white for the filling 1/4 tsp. vanilla Low-calorie whipped filling (below)’ In small saucepan, dissolve gelatin and sugar in pineapple juice. In small mixer bowl, beat egg yolks until thick and lemon colored. Stir into gelatine mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture boils. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in vanilla. Place pan in bowl of ice and water or chill in refrigerator, stirring occasionally, until mixture mounds when dropped from a spoon. Prepare low-calorie whipped filling as follows. Low-calorie whipped filling 1/4 cup nonfat dry milk 1/4 cup iced water 1 egg white 1 tsp. lemon juice 2Tbsp. sugar 1/4 tsp. vanilla Rappahannock Business & Service Directory Next Deadline Feb. 20 Call 675-3338 to place your ad! Only $3.25 per week for a 1 inch space! 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Directory ads are sold only on 13 week contracts, bringing the entire cost for a 1 inch ad to $42.25 In order to be in our March directory ads must be received k _by Feb. 20 / In «"«H mixer bowl, beat nonfat dry milk, water and egg white 3 minutes on high speed. Add lemon juice; beat 1 minute longer on high speed. On low speed, blend in sugar and vanilla gradually, about 1 minute. Fold into gelatin mixture. Pile into meringue shell. Chill several hours until set. 8 servings. 100 calories per serving. WoodviUe area news By JUNE CLARK Phoae 967-M27 The surprise birthday dinner held for Mrs. Chester Wayland was held at the Golden Corral Restaurant in Front Royal, not in Culpeper as stated in last week’s paper. Misses Bonnie and Tanya Brown of Gaithersburg, Md., spent the weekend with their parents Mrs. Chloe Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Brown, and visited other relatives and friends in the county. Ralph Brown spent Sunday afternoon with his mother Mrs. Chloe Brown. Curtis Crawford was a luncheon guest Monday of his mother Mrs. Opie Crawford. Don Biggerstaff, Edna Woodward, Tabby and Jeffery Woodward of Castleton were guests Saturday of Mrs. Ada Burke. On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Grigsby and daughter Rena of Castleton and Mrs. Alice Grigsby of Flint Hill visited Mrs. Burke. Mrs. Clifton Clark spent Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Roadcap Atkins in Amissville. On Saturday night Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Clark and Misty Hitt attended the annual meeting of the Northern Virginia Foxhunters Association Inc., held in the community room of the Second National Bank Building in the Dominion Square shopping mall in Culpeper. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Conners were guests Saturday evening of her mother Mrs. Weldon Cline in Culpeper. Spots open forsingers The Culpeper|Piedipont Choral Society still has a few. .openings for singers who can read four-part chat | ral music. Rehearsals are held each Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Precious Blood Catholic Church, 401N. 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News around Sperry ville , T. M. Johnston spent Sunday with her brother Hunter Tanner in Stanardsville. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Nethers were weekend guests of Mr. and Mre- Larry Bolyard and family in Keyser.W.Va. Mro* W. H. Cordle liras hostess to the Sperryville Bridge Club at her home nn Friday night. Guests were Mrs. I. R. Kilby, Mrs. Charles H. Estes, Mre. Dale Metzinger, Mrs. Brown Miller, Mrs. Ulrich Maeyer, Mre. Roy L. Reeve and Mrs. C. E. Johnson Jr. Prize winners were Mrs. Mwsyer, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Metzinger. > Rev. and Mrs. Merlin Shorb were luncheon guests Sunday of Mre. Lee Swindler and Mrs. Roy Swindler at The Deli. Mrs. Larry Kushner of Gaithersmirg, Md., was an overnight guest Friday of her mother Mrs. Catherine Brown. Mrs. George Owens and Mr. and Mrs. Josh Striver of Baltimore, Md., were guests Sunday of Mrs. Delia Leake. The Administrative Board of the By MRS. B.M. VARNER PImhw 9874710 Sperryville United Methodist Church met with Mrs. Ranny Aylor on Feb. 9. Those attending were Rev. Merlin Shorb, Mrs. Catherine Brown, Mrs. Jimmy Wayland, Mrs. Lee Swindler, Mrs. Nina B. Brown, Julian Brown, Hugh Chrisman and Nelson Nethers. Guests Sunday of Mrs. Randolph Devers and Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Wayland were Mrs. Buddy Devers, their son Jon and daughter Mrs. Pam Hibbs of Front Royal. Fred W. Schaefer is expected home this week from University Hospital, Charlottesville. Entries inrited for 1987 Virginia beef cook-ofF Obituaries Adriana Parrish Adriana Stuart Parrish, infant daughter of Robert Tyre and Susan Marquand Parrish, of Washington, died Feb. 11 at Culpeper Memorial Hospital. In addition to her parents, she is survived by three brothers, Ned, Sam and Max Parrish, all of Washington, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Parrish of Rixeyville and Mrs. Adriana Marquand of Alexandria. A graveside service was conducted Feb. 14 at Little Fork Episcopal Burial Ground, -Rixeyville, by the Rev. Jennings Hobson of Washington. R. L. Pritchard III Robert Lynton Pritchard III, 29, of Washington, died Feb. 10. He was a construction worker. Mr. Pritchard was a native of Arlington and a member of the Falls Church Episcopal Church. He had lived in Washington for several years. He is survived by his parents Mr. You could be the new Virginia cook-off winner and go on to compete in the National Beef Cook-off where the grand prize is $5,000. Sponsored by the Virginia Cattlewomen, the state contest will be held Saturday, May 16, at James Madison University, Harrisonburg. The deadline for entry in the Virginia contest is April 1, and you must enter the Virginia cook-off in order to be eligible for the national contest. Take time now to pull out your favorite family beef recipes and plan to enter today. The first place winner will receive |200 and the opportunity to compete in the National Beef Cookoff in Sun Valley, Idaho, Sept. 20-22. Hie second and third place winner will receive $100 and $50 respectively. Two honorable mentions have been added to the 1987 contest prises and each will receive $25. Here's how to enter: • Recipe must be typed or legibly written on 8 Vi x 11 inch paper. Include name, address, phone number and a brief statement about the origin of the recipe. • Recipe must contain a minimum of one pound and not fflbre than £ve pounds of beef; Each serving must'*’ . contain at0 Ib&fct three ounces of ' t cooked chuftc, round, fr^sh brisket, * plate, shank or ground beef. • Total preparation and cooking time cannot exceed four hours. This does not include preliminary preparation time such as marinating. • The recipe must be specific, with no use of brand names, and must state the number of servings and approximate preparation time. To be eligible: • Contestants must live in Virginia and be 18 years old or older with a non-professional food status. • Any person who has owned one or more head of beef or dairy cattle (or who lives in a household where any person has owned cattle) in the 12 months preceding Oct. 1,1987, is ineligible. Library Lines By GRACE SIMS luphiunk Ifcti Contributing Writer The Rappahannock County Library has many resources available to help the public in filling out federal income tax forms. The material is prepared and provided by the IRS in cooperation with the nation’s libraries. Forms available include 1040EZ and 1040A; schedules A and B; and others most commonly used. Publication 1194, especially designed for libraries, is a set of the IRS’s most requested publications and is a helpful reference guide. Reproducible tax forms are contained in Publication 1132. This allows a taxpayer to photocopy for a fee of .20 per page more than nine hundred federal income tax forms. Taxpayers wishing to receive recorded tax tips via their telephones can pick up the brochure Publication 1163 “Tele-Tax.” An audio-cassette “How to Prepare IRS Form W-4” is also available. Gifts from James and Elizabeth (Jtlubaugh are two publications of The Research Institute of America, "Tax Guide 1906” and "The RIA Complete Analysis of the *86 Tax Reform Act” IRS stresses that librarians are not expected to serve as tax experts, but they will be able to direct taxpayers to many helpful tax aids. • Cattlewomen and employees of state beef promotion organizations or the National Livestock and Meat Board are ineligible. • Judging criteria are taste, ease of preparation and practicality, originality and appearance. Finalists’ recipes will be selected by professional home economists anH will be prepared by contestants on May 16 at the Virginia Beef Cook-off in Harrisonburg. AD entries become the property of the Virginia Cattlewomen. Send your entries to Beef Cookoff, VDACS, P.O. 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School SPTA joins national association By DEBORAH FLINCHUM Rappahannock Ncwa Special Writer The members of the Rappahannock Elementary SPTA voted at their February meeting to join the National PTA. After research and consideration begun in January, a vote was called at the Feb. 3 meeting and the decision was made to join the national association. President Cindy Andreoni said “This will affect the whole atmosphere of our organization.” Camille Harris agreed, and added “This will push us into new expanded areas of growth. A lot more resources will now be available to us.” The members directed the SPTA’s officers to prepare the necessary paperwork to join the association. Ms. Andreora informed the parents that rugs for the two kindergarten rooms had been purchased and delivered. She said that the teachers were very pleased with the rugs, which will provide a place for the children to sit during story time, discussions and game-playing. Parent-teacher conferences were scheduled for Feb. 12. Linda Mallory, dinner committee chairman, coordinated the effort to provide teachers with dinner from 5 to 6 p.m. Teachers were required to stay until 8 p.m. to complete the conferences. Two more sock hops will be held this year. One is scheduled for March, the other will be in May. The SPTA hopes to have a live band for the May hop. Anyone who knows of a band which would be willing to play is asked to contact Cindy Andreoni (9878760). The SPTA-sponsored movie scheduled for this month has been postponed until March. Members also agreed to send flyers to RCES students about the RAAC film series at the Gay Street Theatre. Two children’s movies, “The Great Mouse Detective” (shown Feb. 14 and 15) and “The Boy Who Could Fly” (Feb. 21 and 22) are on the schedule for this month. A Fun Fair, under the chairmanship of Mary Jane Swift, is tentatively set for May 2 or 9. Mrs. Swift explained that the annual event, which has been' well-received at P. B. Smith School in Warrenton, includes bake sales, fast food stands, plant tables, cake walks and frames. Rappahannock s SPTA plans to organize its event on a smaller scale. ' It is still uncertain whether it will be held inside or outside. One decision was made - the Fun Fair will be full of games and activities and topped with fun. Sandra Antony is preparing a Snow Emergency call list. Forms were sent home asking parents if they would like to be notified if school is closed early because of inclement weather. Mrs. Antony will prepare a list of callers and callees and make it available to interested parents. On the subject of weather, SPTA president Judy Tole informed the members that the following dates would be used to make up snow days: Feb. 16 and 21, March 21, April 15 and 16, June 8. The meeting ended with a short discussion about teacher needs, which will be continued at the association’s March 3 meeting. It will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the RCES library. Any parents interested in planning or assisting with the sock hops or fun fair, who would like more information about the National PTA, or who are concerned with school issues are urged to attend the next SPTA meeting. Watson accepted at Air Force Academy By DEBORAH FLINCHUM Rappahannock Neva Special Writer Rappahannock County High School senior Jonathan Watson, son of Holly and Diane Pendleton of Sperryville, has received an appointment to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was nominated to the Academy by Senator Paul Trible of Virginia. The first step for Jonathan in securing a nomination was to notify his Congressional representative of his interest in attending a service academy, in this case the Air Force Academy. After advising Sen. Trible of his interest, Jonathan wrote to the Academy and completed a pre-candidate questionnaire. This included information on his SAT scores, grades, class rank, extracurricular activities and other information. He was notified shortly af terwards that his scores had qualified him for consideration for appointment and he was asked to submit to a physical exam and take a fitness test. Sen. Trible received a total of 1,300 requests for nominations to the four service academies. The usual procedure is for the representative to nominate the person of his choice from his district to the Air Force Academy. Then a committee from the Academy reviews the nominee’s scholastic record and approves or rejects the nomination. “However,” Jonathan said, “I was lucky. I heard from the Academy before I heard from Sen. Trible. I had an early offer from the Academy pending the senator’s nomination. I now have an appointment pending a medical review.” (Jonathan does not have the 20/20 vision which is required for flight training. He would therefore become part of the one-third of the class which is granted a waiver.) Jonathan will report to the Academy in early July. The first few days are spent filling out forms to allow the cadets time to get accustomed to the rarified atmosphere in the Rocky Mountains. The Academy is located IV2 miles above sea level, and several weeks are required for a person’s lungs to become adapted to the thinner atmosphere. Basic cadet training then occu OWNERS OF EUROPEAN PERFORMANCE SHUNS HWE SUFFERED UNO ENOUGH. The Peugeot STX 2.8i dispels the notion that a foreign sedan must sacrifice comfort for performance. Along with an inimitable ride, it offers the room, quiet and comfort of higher-priced European counterparts. See what we mean by slipping into the handstitched leather seat for a test drive. PEUGEOT 505 STX NOTHING ELSE FEELS LIKE IT." ample huaness Chevrolet—pcuceot •OmMlUCMWfKR 347-9000 Deborah Ftincfauni for the RappabaiaockNcwi THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY in Colorado Springs, Colo., is Jonathan Watson’s college destination. The RCHS senior has been notified of his appointment to the Academy as a cadet. pies the next eight weeks. It is equivalent to boot camp. There are academic studies along with the physical training. The Academy enforces a type of military discipline and training similar to the “rat year” atVMI. First year enrollment averages 1,200 to 1,500 cadets. During the first two years a cadet has the opportunity to resign without any service obligation. If the third year is started a cadet will have a service obligation under enlisted status. If the entire four-year training regimen is successfully completed, the cadet incurs a five-year service obligation. Upon completion of flight or navigation training a seven-year obligation is required. The Air Force rank upon graduation from the Academy is second lieutenant. Jonathan’s major will depend partly upon the needs of the Air Force. He intends to take more advanced placemen courses this year to enable him to double nugor in aerospace engineering and computer science. His eyesight restricts him from majoring in flight training or navigation. There are many benefits to attending the Academy. In addition to the ROTC opportunities Jonathan will receive $100 a month far basic needs. The Academy pays for his tuition, books, room and board. He will also receive $400 a month pay. He will use this money for his uniform and its upkeep plus any other expenses he might have. He will be required to purchase a computer because the Academy has a complete computer system connecting students, professors and other campus personnel and facilities. Jonathan has been interested in attending the Academy since 10th grade, and decided last spring he wanted to join the Air Force. He said, “I epjoy computers and computer technology. These are veiy important parts of the Air Force, especially in the space shuttle program.” Jonathan is considering an Air Force career, however, he will wait to see what it is really like before making any major decisions. He is also interested in aerospace engineering and design with a manufacturer such as McDonnell Douglas or Boeing. “I’m looking forward to the challenge that the Academy will offer,” Jonathan said. “It’s going to be hard and I’ll really have to work. I think the physical part will be the hardest. I’m going to have to get into shape.” 4 4 d 4J4 f 44 4 4 44 4 Jonathan’s high school activities will be beneficial in both areas. Academically, he has been a five—year Pop Quiz Team member, maintained a grade-point average which has placed him on the honor roll since the eighth grade, attended Governor’s School last year and completed several advanced placement. courses. Physically, he is a four-year veteran of the cross-country and track teams. He was in the top 10 in the district cross-country competition in his sophomore and senior years, sixth in the district in the one mile run, and was chosen as the “Runner of the Year” in the 19 and under age group by the Shenandoah Runners Association. Mrs. Pendleton was at a loss for words to express her excitement. “We’re so very proud of Jonathan. He’s worked really hard. This will give him a real opportunity to grow and see things that most of the kids in the county won’t have a chance to Jonathan has three sisters. Dawn, the oldest, has just returned from a semester studying in France. Kristi is a RCHS senior who has received a high honor scholarship from Atlantic Christian College. His younger sister Laura is a sixth grader at RCES. “When I was notified by the Air Force recruiter that I had received the appointment pending a medical review I was really excited,” Jona, ,“Patienc€' and hard work ly paid oft” £ GED testing set for March 14 The General Education Development Test (GED Test) for those persons who were once enrolled in school but who did not complete graduation requirements, will be given March 14 in the Warren County Vocational Center. Testing will begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. The tests, administered and supervised by the Adult Education Service of the Department of Education, are designed to measure the educational development of individuals who left school before graduation. The five tests in English Composition, Social Studies, Natural Science, Literature and Mathematics are designed to measure the major skills that result from a four-year high school curriculum. By achieving satisfactory scores on GED tests adults may earn a high school equivalency certificate, qualify for admission to college or advanced educational opportunities, meet educational requirements for employment or promotion, and sat rirom s UIBTOCK ' BCHUU INCORPORATED Regular Sales Every Tuesday HORSE SALE 2nd Sat, 1 pjn., Every Month "^tategrade" FAT CATTLE IstTu—1 p.m. Every Month 1 Mil* East Of Marshall Rt. 55 _ 364-1566 isfy educational qualifications for induction in the United States Armed Forces. Certificates may be issued to civilian and military personnel who meet the following requirements: An applicant must be at least 18 years of age. Under special circumstances which are considered justifiable by local school authorities, the age limit may be lowered. Applicants must have been a physical resident of Virginia 30 days prior to applying for testing. Persons interested in taking the test may apply at their load office of the Superintendent of Schools in the county in which they reside. Applications will be accepted through March 6. A fee of $15 is charged for the battery of five tests and $3 for each re-test. Applicants who apply must present their Social Security card or another means of identification when an application is made for GED. For further information call 987-8773. LFCC spring registration set Lord Fairfax Community College will conduct open registration for the 1987 Spring Quarter courses on March 2, 3, and 4 from 1-8 p.m., excluding Senior Citizens eligible for free tuition who may register at the College on March 9, from 12 noon to 7 p.m. Registration is on a walk-in, first-come, first-served basis. Tuition is due at the time a student registers. Returning students who have not been enrolled in a credit course since the 1985 Winter Quarter must complete an application as soon as possible in order to simplify their Building? • Paint • Lumber \ • Millwork • Hardware Complete One-Step BUILDING SUPPLY WARRENTON BUILDING MATERIAL CO., INC. on the By-pass. Warrenton 347-1400 —CORRECTION— In the Great Meadow ad which appeared in the February 19,1987Steeplechase issue of Arundel Newspapers, the telephone number for information about the Virginia Horse Trials was incorrect Call (703)687-8211 The Va. Horse Trials are to be held May 16&17,1987. registration. Applications and re-applications submitted after the 21st of February should be hand carried to the registration process. The first day of the 1967 Spring Qiuurter is Monday, March 9th. For additional information or a Spring Quarter Schedule, stop by the campus or write or phone the college at (703)869-1120. Oliver named toDean’s List William W. Oliver IV, of Woodville, was named to the Dean’s List at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for the fall quarter. Bill, who is a freshman majoring in animal science, maintained a straight “A” average to finish the quarter with a cumulative grade point average of 4.0. Bill is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Oliver III of Woodville. Wakefield tied for 1st in contest After having completed three of the six tests of the Virginia Math League 1966-87 contest, Wakefield School in Huntly is tied for first place with Woodberry Forest School and Courtland High School of Spotsylvania County in Region 12. Region 12 includes schools, both public and private, in Rappahannock, Madison, Spotsylvania and Fluvanna counties, as well as thef city of Fredericksburg. Wakefield math team members include seniors Sean Bennett, Stephen Butler, Hank Sohn, and a student from Japan, Takashi Takenoshita.

r* Horse & Farm Directory Your ad will run in all of these newspapers for as little as $14.00 lloufcoun &ime*-jNtrror I Leesburg, Va. 703-777-1110 fcljrjfauquier Democrat Warrcnton, Va. 703-347-4222 The Heston Times Reston, Va. 703-435-7200 fcappatjannocfe Heto* Washington, Va. 703-675-3349 ®lit Clarke Courier Bcrryvillc, Va. 703-955-1111 Reaching 100,000 homes, stables and farms in Fauquier, Loudoun, Clarke, Rappahannock and Fairfax Counties INDEX Auctions- Hone & Livestock Bara Construction Boarding & Training Farm Equipment & Supplies Farm Services Farriers Fencing & Gates Hay, Straw & Feed Help Wanted Horses & PoniesFor Sale Horses & Ponies - Wanted Horses & Ponies - To Give Away Jumps Instruction Miscellaneous Position Wanted Poultry Real Estate Saddleries Shows & Events Stables For Sale/ Rent Stud Service Tack & Equipment For Sale Vans, Trailers & Trucks Veterinarians VIRGINIA HUNTER SALE Sun. March 22, 1 PM Herndon, Virginia Lower consignment fee: $75.00 Commission 10% Deadline: March 4th Call now tor information: 703-777-4480 (day) 703-777-5379 (evening) BOARDING: NEW WINTER rates Catlett area. Pasture and two feedings daily, $110.12'x14' stall, turnout and 2 feedings daily, $175.703/788-4458. BOARDING BETWEEN WarrentorV Marshall: Ryan Stable. Field with stall $100, full $180. Discount lor ponies. Lessons and training available. 703/349-1279. FREE BOARDING/ exchange lor horse feeding. Start immediately. Sperryville area. Call 301/7626704 or 301/649-5429. PRIVATE DRESSAGE STABLE with indoor arena will accept limited boarding. Dressage lessons and/ or horses in training also available from top Grand Prix dressage rider and trainer. Contact Avalon Farm, 703/364-2117. EXCELLENT LOCATION, on Route 15, South of Leesburg. Indoor, outdoor ring, many paddocks and pasture. Now accepting partial or full board. 703-777-8312. NEW FACILITY WEST OF Leesburg, large box stalls, lighted ring with professional jump. Excellent care. 703-771-8123. 3 INDIVIDUAL PADDOCKS with run in sheds and attached private tack/feed room. Self, partial or full board, 13 x 13 full care stalls with turn out available. Outdoor ring, jumps, trails, instruction and training. Owner always on premises. 10 minutes from Leesburg. $100 to $325 per month. 703-338-9223 FARMALL C' TRACTOR — 5* wood body-mower. Extra blades and new built. Used 2 years. *1800/ best offer. 703-338-7394 after 4pm. FORD 7000 WIDE FRONT 3 point diesel, 70 horsepower, dual outlets, 2300 hours, new tires and paint, $6000. IH 300 gas fast hitch, 40 horsepower, hydraulic outlets, $1250. IH super M.D. diesel, new tires, 50 horsepower, hydraulic outlets, super sharp, $1500. New Holland 56 hayrake, Nke new, $900. 20 foot hay and grain elevator, $250.16 foot round bail wagon. $500. 8x16 foot new farm trailer, $600.12 foot IH lever harrow, $400. 2 row IH cornplanter, 3 point, $200. 301-8987426. Overstock Sale on Fuerst Chain Harrow* 4'to 12'Wide IMQIfAwCtahHwwhSacfc Ends 3/31/87 G1 Implement On Ths Bypass. Wmata* 703/347-3721 ANGIE R. RltTER, Horses hoer. Graduate of the Eastern School of Farriery. Call Monday-Saturday, 703-690-7530. BONNIE L. SIZEMORE, farrier. Trimming and horseshoeing. A graduate of Michigan School of Horseshoeing. Can 703/783-9622. CHOICE TIMOTHY HAY for sale. k Delivery available. 703-822-5687. ' tWlll ¥n.i» n.,TONY DEVEREUX quality hay and straw. Timothy and aHalfsrhayr$135 - $180 a ton delivered. 703955-1903. HAY, STRAW AND com silage for sale. Straw is real bright. Hay is alfalfa, alfalfa and orchard grass mixed. Excellent quality. 703-5548269. HAY FOR SALE - $2 a bale. Ralph B. Cochran, Bluemont, Virginia. 703-554-8111. HAY FOR SALE - Timothy. alfalfa, orchard grass, bagged oats. Call after 6 p.m. 703-822-5160. HAY FOR SALE: Excellent quality Timothy. We know — we grow it! 703-668-6253 or 708682-3587 HAY FOR SALE — Excellent quality Timothy. We know we grow it) 703-6686253 or 703682-3587 Haytand Farms Alfalfa, Orchard Gran, Clover, Dmolhy, Mbtad Hay*, Straw. WVDeMver A. estates RU.BcataX.Dowwa.Va. 0047 804/227-3205 ALFALFA - top quality square bales. 45 to 50 lbs., $3. On private farm, 16 miles west of Warrenton. Cafl 703/675-3761 HAY! Alfalfa- orchard grass mixed. Alfalfa, square bales, orchard grass/ fescue, round bales. In our bam. Can The Corral, Warrenton, Va., 703/3436995. HAY FOR SALE - horse and cattle hay, $65 a ton at the bam, $100 a ton delivered. 703/364-3286. Farmers I ha Horn and Farm Directory will appear In tha: Loudoun Times-Mirror Leesburg, Va. 7W-777-I11# The Clarke Courier Berryvilie, Va. 7«V»tt-llll Rappahannock News Washington, Va. 7KH7J-1M* The Fauquier Democrat Warrenton, Va. 7S3447-4222 The Res ton Times 11401 North Shore Drive. Raeton. Va. 22060 US-7200 HAY FOR SALE - Timothy, approximately 600 bales. Call 703/7547330. CATTLE FEED. Ground ear corn with S.B. meal and mineral salt, 13% protein, 500 lb. minimum. Upickup, Manassas. $9.40 cwt. Place order by Wednesday, pickup on Saturday only. Delivery arranged on 1+ ton orders. 703/361-29517:30pm.-9:30p.m. MIXED GRASS HAY — $2- 2.50 per bale at the bam. Rockcrott Farm, Leesburg, VA. 703-7777814. WE INSTALL all types farm fencing. Free estimates. Pruitt Fencing. 703/369-7637. FENCING H211 Country Construction BOARD, STONE, or METAL Free Estimates 703-882-3240 GILES M. SHOWERS FENCING Locuat posts, sawed and round, stakes, fencing board. Also rustic fence. 703/364-1045 FENCING Complete line of wire, HlTENSEL, plank widraH.AIao FENCING,INC. —ddlebuig, Va. 703-687-5803 WOLFE FENCING Residential ft Farm All types installed. High Tensile Specialists Painting and Staining Satisfaction Guaranteed. 703-327-4851. FARM HELP WANTED. Clean stalls, grooming. 6 days per week. p®Ti uauuimit wuimu Mat dfans. Can 703/594-2542 or 5942924. SALES HOP needed for saddlery opening tor stow season in CuF poper. Knowledge of horses and tack helpful but retail sales experience more important. Appfictsits wi start training in Chantilly store March 3. Call Nancy Wyman, 703/471-4329. THOROUGHBRED COMBINATION RIDER and groom. Full time, pleasant employment in small training and racing bam. Lovely small all modem and furnished house provided. Conveninent location near Middleburg. Call 703*87-5129 days, 592-3898evenings. EXERCISE RIDER needed at Middleburg Training Track. 1-367-4334 days 1-869-4864 ovenings and weekends. STABLE HELP needed in dressage bam. Up to 9 stalls, some feeding and other light duties. Could be part time. WiH also consider possible boarding in exchange or working students. Contact Linda Oliver, Avalon Farm. 703/364-2117. TOP SHOW STABLE near Middleburg needs experienced, reliable person. Regular stable duties plus preparing young horses for show ring. Some riding if desired. Braiding/no van driving. 703-338-7787. WANTED RELIABLE STABLE HELP: Living accomodations possible, 703-777-4311. THCTWflN iBfUtlww FoMnr Season is Near. Young daughter o> multiple graded stakes winner ($499,715) ner self a winner at Belmont. Producer with current 3 year old winner. Sell with paid 1987 season ($2000) to Vast Empire. half brother to 1986 leading sires RAJA BABA and SAUCE BOAT. Worth much more but priced to sell quickly at $3,500. 703-777-1883. USER FRIENDLY - 16 h. App gelding, 5 years old. Shown and evented. Sound and durable. Also. 3-year-old App filly. Lovely long stride. Too many horses— both: best offers to good homes (703)759-5037. Specializing farm and J. Reed, Si (703|6S9^|7 facilities, building. Cox, Fauquier 3) 752-4703 “Our buildings are warranted 50 years against snow loads!” + D»°,Prlie '°«J r«Cr Up to $750 «m ‘MID-WINTER BUYING DAYS! OPEN HOUSE Feb 19,20&21 9-6p.m. 3 days only ® MORTON BUILDINGS, INC. =^== Since 1903== 1918 Industrial Dr., Culpeper. Va. 22701 703/825-3633 Call us today! Farm - Suburban - Commercial HUNTER PROSPECT, thoroughbred gelding. 10 years old. big, sound, good looking, gentle. $750. Call O'Brien 703/582-3314 BROODMARE, thoroughbred, 8 wars old, in foal to Farewell Party. Progeny consists of one yearling. One start. By Grimaldi out of a Royal Ascot mare who has had many winners. $1,200. Call O'Brien 703/582-3314. THOROUGHBRED -16.3,10 year old gelding. Used for hunting and open jumping. Extremely good mover and looker. $3,500. 703754-7447. RIDING HORSE, 18 year old thoroughbred mare. Good-looking and gentle. Has been a broodmare but has failed to catch in recent years. $300. Call O'Brien 703/592-3314. 5 YEAR OLD TRAK-ARAB gelding, pleasure horse, teaser, for sale or trade for broodmare. Call 703/4393893. AMERICAN WARMBLOOD gray yearling mare. Should mature 17 hands. Great hunter prospect. Make offer. 703/937-4577. GOLDEN PALOMINO. 15.1 hands. 12 years old, good trail horse. Willing to sell tor $800 or lease. Call 703/830-3011 or 703/531-1697. CROSS BRED HUNTER prospects for sale. Exceptionally nice, big well bred fillies, up to 16.2 hands, nice quiet dispositions, priced reasonably for quick sales. 703/3474764. BIG FANCY FIELD HUNTER MARE Cleveland Bay TB cross, 17 hands, 6 years old. Chestnut with white. Nice enough to show, quiet in the hunt field. Reasonable to good home. 703/347-7313. 804/296-1136. BLACK TYPE -BROOD MARE, • beautiful 16 hand. 5 year old dapple grey by Silent Dignity out of Carrie Diane by Bold Commander. Half sister stakes winner, Vmnys Pride and Carries Crown. 703/347-7313,804/296-1136. CHILDREN S HUNTER, Thoroughbred bay gelding, 15.3, excellent show record, mover, quiet, 703554-8820. BAY MARE MULE. 7 years. 15.1 hands. Will ride and Drive, sale and gentle. $500.703-687-6103. WANTED Fast pony, 14.1 - 14.2, age 6 years and up. Should be good Jumper and a good hunter. Must have good temperament Call Richard, 7p.m.*9p.m. 703/347-3711 TOP PROFESSIONAL - HUNTER, Rider and Trainer - also, first rate equitation background/ Victor Hugo-VWal. Open for all business, can make a Champion on your horse or on the ground. AH ages, your place or ours. Keith Nichols. 703-777-9245. ^Madcap m Farm, Boarding Instruction^ Training Jeanne 3)lackw£U 293-5606 Hie Plains RIDING LESSONS Malntree . Indoor and Outdoor Ring Trail Ridas. Indoor UgMod Ring Private and Group Beginners to Advanced Child or Adult TRAIL RIDES 703-777-3012 703-777-3279 703-777-3204 HAY FOR SALE Timothy, Alfalfa, Straw, Woodshavings, and Purina Feed. Cassidy Brothers Farms 703-777-5134. THE INSTRUCTORS COURsST Great falls Horse Center "Teaching people to teach after they have been taught themsetvea.” Educated in the fine arts of the FEI Disciplines and Instruction Techniques. Instructor Certification Limited Enrollment lor Specialaed Attention Director: Ms. Louie Massinopie Great Falla Hors# Center 10001 Amon Chapel Road Great Falls, Virginia 22060 759-3401 • 759-3400 PUREBRED POLLED HEREFORDS - Specializing in high maternal value. Cows safe to Enforcer and Questor. Heifers and buds out of G. K. Renegade, Enforcer. Mainstream 186P and Banner 3M. 703-338-3643. ON SALE NOW 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"x22Vi". Phone and mail order accepted. $3.95 per copy (plain paper); $6.50 per copy (laminated paper). Plus $1.00 postage and handling. (Va. residents also add 4% sales tax.) ffr itaMPtamtack J}dM P.O.Box 59 Washington, Va. 22747 703-675-3338 EXOTIC DUCKS: Woodies. Mandarins, Malarda, Blue Rubies, Cali Ducks. Peaking Muscovy. Ruein, Teal Ducks, Egyptian Geese many other breeds. 703-43(^6560. WANTED TO RENT: Professional women looking place to rent with room for horses. Call 703/3642671. FOR RENT — Charming top floor of large stone house on Leesburg horse farm. 3 rooms and bath, no kitchen, light cooking permitted, partially furnished. Perfect for two. $450a month. 703-777-5886. ATTENTION HORSEPEOPLE We're cleaning out • please pick up repaired tack, blankets. etc. that we've had tor over 30 days! Clean-out sale begins Feb. 23. JOURNEYMEN SAOOLERS MkkNeburg BATTERTON TRAILER SALES - Va. DL446. Kingston, Foather-Lito, Coiner. BenyviHe (Rt. 613). 703955-3328 GORE & COTNER TRAILERS in stock, steel and aluminum models 9-6 Mon.-Fri., 9-5 Sat. & by appointment. Horse Country Ltd, 254 Lee Highway, Warrenton, VA 22186, at intersection of Rt.15-1729-211.703/347-3141. Dtr#5281. 1973 KINGSTON thoroughbred horse trailer, repainted 1965, white with blue stripe. New radial tires. Excellent condition, $2,200. 703/825-8990 after 6p.m. 1986 GMC 1TON, V-8, 4 speed. 8,400 miles with 3 horse Eby aluminum horse body, inspected. Showroom new. $15,000. 301898-7426. 1969 HARTMAN TRAILER: reconditioned, road-ready. $2000. Call 202-363-7762. GET THE JUMP On Competition! DO YOU... Train Horses? Board Hortes? Shoe Horses? Sd or Buy Hones? Advertise In THE HORSE & FARM DIRECTORY •Trailer Refurbishing,^ Front Jortpalatfaf I •Free Estimates fr CaBJbr appointment AAA TRAILER SALES, INC. JOYCE AINSWORTH RFD 6, Box 260 703-347-0733 WARRENTON, VIRGINIA 22186 AAA TRAILER SALES, INC. We do any kind of hitches any kind of weights any kind of vehicles Ir HITCH SALE Class I Hitch installed. >75.00 Class II Hitch installed. * 140.00 Class III Hitch installed, >210.00 Complete Class III Hitch with wiring euid brakes Reg. price $360.00 - How $325 Also available: Weight-Distributing Hitches Or: Buy & Install Yourself AAA TRAILER SALES, INC. JOYCE AINSWORTH RFD 6, BOX 260 703-347-0733 WARR£NT0NtVA 22186

Classified Advertising Your Action Number 675-3338 ARE YOU A COLLECTOR of a specialized item? I have a large collection of Bennington - pitchers, bowls and spitoons -1 signed piece. Salt glazed stoneware. Antique quilts in excellent condition. Redware - very earty pieces. Cell 703/766-4732 after 6p.m. ANTIQUE ALL^V 55 E. Colonial Hwy., Rt. 7 Hamilton, Virginia “COUNTRY PRICES" 5 mNeeweet of Leesburg (703)338-9029 Ctoeed Mondays 8PERRWILLE ANTIQUE MARKET Winter Hours Open Weekends G Holidays 9-5 Antiques, CoBectfoles Countiy Faim Tables Now Accepting Consignments for the Winter Season For Additional Information Call Arthur or Peggy Smith 987-8050 or 987-8180 ANTIQUE QUILTS The DC area'* largest selection of haad-made, antique (fiitts. Over 60 in Mock at all timet Tlie Guest Room Ltd. 104-1 Church St, SB, Loedbwi 703-771-8107 INTERNATIONAL METAL BUILDING manufacturer selecting builder/dealer in some open areas. High potential profit in our growth industry. 303-759-3200, ext. 2403. LONG DISTANCE TRUCKING - northAmerican Commercial Transport needs owner/operators! If you need training, we will train you. You will operate your own tractor. If you don’t have one. northAmerican offers a purchase program that can put you in a tractor for I $2500 down. If you are 21 or over I and think you may qualify, we'd * like to send you a complete information package. Call any weekday: Toll free 1-800-348-2191, ask for Dept. 524. MAKE AN UNLIMITED NUMBER of long distance telphone calls within U.S.A. for $120 per month. Receive $20 per month for sponsoring users. Call 1-800-247-8572. 3M SCOTCHTINT WINDOW FILM distributor. Looking for dealers. Applications in commercial, residential and automotive market. Low overhead, high profit. $500 fee plus inventory. Call 301-8289144. SURPLUS ROOF TRUSS sale! Half price! Immediate delivery. Call tor available sizes, 709/768-4222. KOMATSU 1981 031S loader, perfect condition (same size as JD450C) 19,500. Case-Davis 70+4 trencher with cable plow, EC, $9,500. 1974 Case 880 track excavator. GC, $17,500. Arrow G400 tamper, pavement breaker, EC, $6,900/best offer. Sullair 750CFM compressor 6V71 Detroit, GC, $6,000/best offer. International 3616 backhoe, excellent farm machine, GC, $5,750. 75yd. Leach ram dump trash trailer, GC, $8,500/best offer. 703/672-5625. COMPLETE EQUIPMENT DISPERSAL of Green Valley Farm plus equipment from Leo Hemingsen. Sat., Feb. 21, 1987, 1:30 a.m., Culpeper, Va. Selling Tractors: J.D. #4010, Ford #5000, Ford #641, Workmaster w/loader Ford #860, Ford #640; Trailers: 32 ft. flat-bed gooseneck, 15 ft.' flat-bed; 1977 International #1600 truck; Hay wagons; Square baler; Silage wagons; disk; plows; loading chutes; manure spreaders; plus much much morel For free brochure contact Sales Manager, Coleman Sales Inc., Route 4, Box 14, Scottsville, Virginia, 804/2862743. HAY. large round bales. Orchard grass, $45 each. Alfalfa, $65 each. Will deliver within 30 miles of Warrenton. Call 703/752-4533. HAY. Orchard grass/ fescue mix, $2.10 per bale. Alfalfa, $3 per bale. Will deliver within 30 miles of Warrenton in quantitites of 150 or more. Call 703/752-4533. MIXED HAY High quality. Tested VPI laboratory. Stored in barn. Large, round bales. $24. Delivery service available. Call 703-547-3530 703?-9enr#0!9! A MITSUBISHI TRACTORS Sales & Service NowAt HOMESTEAD LAWN ■QUIPMKNT 300 Broadview Ava. 349-1066 Inflation Fighter Pre Pay Your Classified Ad And Deduct 25$ from rates below I ®l)t ftappatwnnoch fhetoti CLASSIFIED ORDER BLANK Mame_!Address__— CUV-State_Zip. Classification_ Copy IPhone § To Run;_.Weeks | ($2 chog* pm wMk (or bo* numb* i«pUM) RATES (per insertion) CLASSIFIED WORD AD: 20 words (or less).$4.00 15c each additional word Save 25c when you pay in advance CLASSIFIED DISPLAY: Per column inch.$4.80 HORSE & FARM DIRECTORY: Word ad (20 words or less).$14.00| 50c each additional word: Display type-Per column inch.$iS.oa> TRIBUTES & THANKS: $3.00 per inch - $5.00 minimum MAIL TO: The Rappahannock News P.O. Box 59, Washington, Va. 22747 Attn: Classified Adv. Dept. FIREWOOD: SEASONED. SPLIT hardwood. $95. per cord, you haul. Cassidy Brothers Farms, 703-777-5134,9am to 5pm. SEASONED FIREWOOD 18"-20" length, split to approx. 5” (other lengths available at higher prices) 2 cords, $235 4 cords, $430 Large supply available. Volume of business requires 3 weeks delivery CosteBo Firewood & Tree Sendee 703I63&6527after 6pjrv TILLER Service Special Mention this ad FOR 10% OFF Labor Offer expires 4/1/87 CaB lor appointment HOMESTEAD LAWN KQUIPMKNT 300 Broadview Ave. 349-1066 USED raoondltlonod lawn and garden tractors ready to go for apring mowing. • 1 - IH 782 Hydro PirlM SO** mowor. Exod lent • 1 -IH582QaarCadat50" moiaar* EaoallBit* • 2 - IH 1450 Hydro C«Ms moiaar# - IH 1200 Q—r CHH • 1 -IH 1000GaarCadal44” • 1-IH120 Hydro Cadet 48" • 1 - IH 106 Ga* Cadet 44" • 1 - Wheel Horo* C-145 38" • 1 - Wheel Horst D-160 46" inowiCi i - wizard is non* power 44" mower, laaa tun 10 hour*. - Many other branda and modalaroadytogo. CaNTadorStavaal Northern Virginia Farm Cantor ftoctortown, Vt. 703-364-1541 HAPPINESS IS: commemorating anniversaries and weddings with a song written personally for you. professionally arranged. Contact Margaret Dulaney, 703-662-3696, or 801 Allen Drive, Winchester, Va. 22601, for further information. 15 PUREBRED ANGUS BULLS, many sired by Pine Drive Big Sky. Pick yours now. El Rancho Grande, Castleton. Ray T. Cannon, 703/9374900 or James Cannon. 703/9374700. IF YOU HAVE FOUND OR LOST a dog or cat, call PET REGISTRY anytime., 703/547-2298. Animals available for adoption. ENCYCLOPEDIA OVERSTOCKS, 21 volumes, highest quality, 1987 Edition. Were $899 now $349. 30 day satisfaction/ money-back guarantee. Offer limited, call 1800-545-4141, ext.564. HALF PRICE! Slight paint damage. Large flashing arrow sign $289! Lighted, non-arrow $279! Unlighted $239! Free letters! See locally. Call today! Factory: 1-800423-0163, anytime. NATIONWIDE STEEL DISTRIBUTORS. Steel buildings sold by the pound. Delivered to jobsite. Erection available. No salesman. Free plans. Example 50x100x12, $13,790.1-800-854-7083. HALF PRICE! Flashing Arrow signs, $289! Lighted, non-arrow, $279! Unlighted. $239! Free Letters! See Locally. Call today! Factory 1 -800-432-0163, anytime. PHOTOGRAPHS Permanent prints of the STAFF PICTURES which appear in the Rappahannock News can be ordered from the News Office. Prices are $8 for 5x7 and $12 for 8x10. 703/675-3349 1000 SUNBEDS Sunal-Wolff, save 50%. Call (or free color catalogue and wholesale prices. Commercial & residential units. MIC or Visa accepted. 1-800-228-6292. MANNEQUINS WANTED: male, female and children. For Old Jail Museum, Fauquier Historical Society. Call 703/347-3506. OUT OF THE ATTIC PICTURES NEEDED The Rappahannock News would like to borrow reproducable pictures of events and historic landmarks for use in its Out of the Attic feature. Pictures will be returned. Please brins to the office on Main Street in Washington. WANTED - standing timber. Free appraisal for timber. Call Augusta Lumber and Supply, Inc., 703/3474199. WANTED TO BUY: VHS video movies. 1 to 1000’s. 703-9472894. WANTED - used household furniture and miscellaneous merchandise. We will buy anything. Second Hand Store, 140 East Davis Street, Culpeper, Virginia. 703/825-2800. NEW AND USED rpobile hQrpes, used home's stafti'ng $1,9ti0 and up. Rt.29 and Rt.666, Culpeper, open 7 days per week, Monday - Saturday, 8a.m.-6p m., Sunday 9a.m.-6p.m. Call 703/825-2446. ALL KINDS OF MUSIC LESSONS We take consignments on musical instruments. Culpeper Music Culpeper, Va. 825-1331 INSTANT PRINTING — FOR LEASE - Xerox 1075 Marathon Copier. First copy in 8 seconds, 70 per minute. Copy selector: 1 to 999. Reduction - pre-set 98%, 77%, 74% and 65%, variable from 100% to 65%. Paper supply - Main tray. 1000 sheets (20-lb. stock), Auxilary tray: 500 sheets (20-lb. stock). You have to see the 1075’s copy quality to believe it. Take over lease payments. Call Allen Key at Potomac Press, Leesburg, Va„ Tel. (703) 777-1115. GIRLS PAGEANTS: Are you 4-6 or 7-9? National Little & Junior Star Pageant seeking girls to represent Virginia July 25/26, Richmond Marriott. Openings limited. Call 1-800654-6808/ applications. _ Services To Abused Families, Inc. Providing battered Women Alternatives for Safety. For help or information call: 349-0309 or 825-TURN AKC REGISTERED KEESOND puppies, 12 weeks, 5 males, 1 female. Champion bloodlines. Shots and wormed. Call 703/636-1494. BORDER COLLIE PUPPIES for sale. Registered parents, nicely marked, trial winners on both sides. Bom 12/30/86. Call home, 703/347-1143; work, 703/3479330. ENGLISH SETTER, male, AKC, Canadian champion, 2'A years old, very gentle, loves children and other animals. 703/253-5393 evenings & weekends. RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK PUPPIES - African Lion Hounds, AKC. Excellent farm and family dogs. 3 males, 2 females. Parents on property. Call evenings and weekends. 703/349-8528. AKC POODLE PUPPIES, toy and miniature, good disposition. Call 703/672-1222. _ WOLF HYBRID PUPS - Papers, shots, dewormed. Excellent companions. Timber/Artic Wolf/Great Pyrenees mix. $200 up. (304)7256935. ONE BEDROOM modern apartment located in Flint Hill, electric heat/cac, carpeting. No pets. References and security deposit required. 703-635-4392. MARSHALL, MAIN ST. Attractive 2 story office building, well situated and with ample parking. Perfect for the professional, approximately 800 sq. ft. Living space with full bathroom upstairs. Call 703/3641927. WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE for lease, 10,000 sq.ft., fully insulated, 6,000 sq.ft, open, with 3 truck height loading bays, modem office 1,800 sq.ft, with kitchen and bath, parking lot 20,000 sq.ft., located in Flint Hill. Call Bruce Vierling, 703/675-3508. MODERN 3 bedroom stone farmhouse - Delaplane 2 miles from. 1-66. Central heat, washer/ dryer, $700/month plus utilities. Security deposit. References. Available March> 1st. 703/364-2295 days; 703/937-4461 evenings. 1 BEDROOM HOUSE, Flint Hill area. Retired couple or couple with small child. $400 or $250 plus 25 hours handyman. 703/6753567. CHARTER MEMBERSHIP in North Fork Shenandoah Resort, near Front Royal, Va, Includes campsites, Coast-To-Coast and all amenities. Price greatly reduced from original price. Call 703-662-4484 (Winchester) after 6 p.m. RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY Washington, Va. City home in the countiy, new custom built brick rambler, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, carport, deck, loaded with extras. 3 beautiful acres. Separate 3 bay garage. $142,500. 703/820-1881 CORBIN HOMEBUILDERS, INC. has the home to suit your needs. 50 Nationwide Homes to choose from. Starting at $25,500. Call 703/825-1663. LOCAL ARTIST seeks person to share house. Call 703-987-3106, evenings. AUTO INSURANCE PROBLEMS? Call Leary Insurance for low monthly rates; immediate SR22 filings, call 703/825-4234 from 8:30a.m.-4p.m. daily. GORE’S ELECTRICAL & PLUMBING Electrical Services Sates* Appliance Repair* M Hour Emergency Sendee State Licensed 703/987-8748 Help For Hire •Handyman •Odd Jobs Reasonable Rates Free estimates 703/937-4910 MONEY AVAILABLE for any purpose. $20,000 and up. Second mortgages and equity loans. Call Tom Stuckey. Old Church Finance. 703/594-3368. Modjf^quipmjimU Call Today for Free Estimate. Mi ,/rtttemk AftWtt Bruce Vierting 675-3508 PHOTOGRAPHS Permanent prints of the STAFF PICTURES which appear in the Rappahannock News can be ordered from the News Office. Prices are $8 for 5x7 and $12 for 8x10. 703/675-3349 PIANO TUNING: Work guaranteed 30 years fUU time Warren Emerson Dennis Call collect, Amlssvtlle, Va. (703) 937-5857 ROOFING - GUTTERS - DOWN SPOUTINGS. Tinning and roofing of all kinds. Aluminum gutter; down spout. Roof repair. Bill Starks. 703/675-3630, 703/6753724. SANDING AND REFINISHING hardwood floors, reasonable rates. Call Roger at 703/635-2558. SEWING SERVICES available DRESSMAKING Slacks, Blouaea, etc. Reasonable rate* 705-675-3798 or 705675-3816 TV REPAIR, all makes and models. Factory authorized service center for RCA, Zenith, Magnavox, Philco and Sytvania. Jenkins' TV Sen/ice, 514 Culpeper Shopping Center, Culpeper 703/825-0665. LOCAL AUTHORIZED BUILDER/DEALER can put you in a Continental Modular Home. Prices start at $25,000. 703/987-8043 T.G. Taylor Construction GRAFTING OF APPLES, pears, etc. Grafts guaranteed. Will teach. Add varieties to existing yard of orchard trees. $10/hr., .25/mile. Call Dave, 703/675-3119 evenings. __ DOMINION GENERAL CONTRACTING. Remodelling, room additions, kitchens, bathrooms, rec rooms, garages, decks, patios plus handyman service. For estimates call 703/937-5482 after 5p.m. LOSE UP TO 29 pounds, inches, cellulite this month. Doctor recommended on TV. I've lost over 50 pounds myself! 612-842-1915. BELLYGRAMS - The perfect surprise for home or office parties by professional Bellydancer. 703/8253974. WE PAY CASH for mortgages and trust notes secured by real estate. Top dollar; quick settlements. Call today! Cambridge Corp 703-6622300. ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for our newly remodeled lounge and restaurant. Desire attractive, dependable people to work all shifts. Apply in person to D. Robinson, Royal Oak Restaurant, Quality Inn, Front Royal, Va. BOOKKEEPER - Warrenton accounting firm needs bookkeeper experienced in bank reconciliations, monthly write-up for financial statements, computerized payrolls and payroll returns. Submit resume to Box G, do Fauquier Democrat, P.O. Box 631, Warrenton, Va. 22186. CERAMIC TILE SETTERS, only the best need apply. 40 hr./wk. guaranteed. Top wages. Management. Call collect in Richmond, VA, 804/353-9586. CERTIFIED AIDES in home health and/or geriatrics needed for home health and private duty. $5 per hour, $5.50 per hour weekends. Call 703/347-4778. CHAIN PERSON, experienced preferred, but will train. Apply for advancement. Leonard Surveys Inc., 703/349-8017. NEEDED IMMEDIATELY - welders, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, management, mechanics, machinist, drivers, operators. Entry level/degreed up to $32.60/hour. 308//382-3700 Transcontinental Job Search, fee. DAY AND NIGHT waitresses and dishwashers. Apply in person, Brambles Cafe, Washington. No phone calls. EXPERIENCED TRUCK DRIVER. Only experienced persons need call. Call 703/439-3396. EXPERIENCED PAINTERS, dependable and reliable. Must have at least 4 years experience. Only those who are interested phone 703/347-7707. INSURANCE SALES - Let’s talk about you and success. If you're presently not earning the type of income you desire and need you could be the person for whom we are looking. American Family Life Assurance is a world leader in our field. We offer high income, stock bonus plan, incentive trips, rapid advancement and early retirement. We are looking for a self starter, a positive thinker, a goal oriented person who can work with a minimum of supervision. If you want to be successful call for a confidential interview or write to: State Sales Cgordinamr, .Park Place Ct., Glen Allen, VA •*23060.804/364-4333. LANDSCAPE LABORERS, parttime and full time. 703/754-2222. LPNS, RNS needed for private duty nursing service. Call 703/3474778. MAN TO WORK full time on farm. Must be able to operate machinery. Excellent pay. Call 703/6753429. MEDICAL INSURANCE CLERK, pah time. Experience essential in filing health insurance claims. Send resume to Box K, c/o Fauquier Democrat, P.O. Box 631, Warrenton, Va. 22186. PART TIME FURNITURE SALES Positions open for creative people with congenial and helpful attitudes three days per week. On job training. Apply in person: Country Home Furniture 144 Broadview Aoe. Warrenton or TownCenter Shopping Center RL 7 Sterling PART TIME TEACHER, 2 to 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, grades 7 through 12. Chemical dependent adolescents. Primavera, P.0. Box 898, Culpeper, Virginia 22701.703/937-5133. PROFESSIONAL DOG GROOMING position available immediately. Full or part-time. Experience and knowledge of breed patterns necessary Call Paws Awhile Pet Motel, 703/347-4855 for interview appointment. REPORTER, with 2-3 years experience sought for twice-weekly newspaper to cover county, courts, business, and do some layout. Resume and 3 clips to Editor, Virginia Gazette, P.O. Box 419, Williamsburg, Va. 23187. WASHINGTON VIDEO RENTALS Open Wed. -Sun. 12-7 p.m. Over 100 new movies since new management January 2 including Karate Kid Q, Back-to-Schooi and Labytntth. More new movies arriving weekly SUNDAY SPECIAL: for February & March rent 3 movies get 4th one for Vfe price or children’s movie for $1.00. Mala Street in the base me at of the MffierBldf. 703-675-3454 NEW VHS It BETA SALES HELP NEEDED for saddlery opening for show season in Culpeper. Knowledge of horses and tack helpful but retail sate experience more important. Applicants will start training in Chantilly store March 3. Call Nancy Wyman at 703/471-4329.__ STUDENTS 17 to 34 - Earn $18,000 or more for college or vo-tech. Train part time with a local unit of the National Guard. Call your nearest Virginia Army National Guard Armory or 1-800572-3019. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE/ Credit Manager: experienced person to establish new commercial accounts and credit limits and handle collections for Leesburg company. Must be good with people and have the ability to resolve acoounts receivable problems. Good pay and benefits. Send resume and salary requirements to: Blind Box AA, do The Loudoun Times-Mirror, P.O. Box 359, Leesburg, VA 22075. _ ARCHITECTURAL TECHNICIANS — SMALL energy conscious construction and renovation firm needs a drafts person experienced in mechanical, electrical, and architectural drafting and field work. Some CAD experience preferred. Please send resume to: Personnel, P.O. Box 171, The Plains, Va. 22171. EXPERIENCED ELECTRICIAN AND Helpers needed. Benefits include paid holidays, profit sharing and paid vacation. Insurance available. Call Southern Electric Corporation at 703-777-6200 or METRO 471-6400. NOTICE TO MBE and WBE subcontractors and suppliers. We are seeking bids from electrical, asphalt, and utilitiy/ plumbing contractors and suppliers and from excavating contractors for SRA 2190-006 Brunswick, MD. For assistance/ information call 301-4614359, Amtrac Railroad Contractors, P.O. Box 48, Ellicott City Md., 21043. Bids due by February 25th. OGDEN ALLIED SERVICES are looking for entry level salad bar prep and cashiers. We are located on Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Va. We offer a Monday through Friday work week. No holidays, good pay and benefits. If interested, Call Nora at 703-689-5202 between 6am and 3pm. RESPIRATORY THERAPIST: for TOfne cafe one weekend per month; Fe^dtw noon to 6:00pm Sunday. Call Jan Hardison 703471-9596. n ' CLASSIFIED INDEX GENERAL CLASSIFIED 1. Antique* 2. Auction* 3. Bu*ln*** Opportunities 4. Child Services 5. Chid Care Wanted 6. Commute™ Comer 7. Crafts-*-Plenty 8. Budding Materials 9. Conetfuction Equipment 10. Farm Equipment & Supptlee 12. Firewood tor Saie 13. Qvaq* A Yard Sale* 14. Garden Equipment & Produce 15. Giveaways 20. Happy Ad* 21. Happy Birthday* 22. Horae & Farm Directory 23. HoraeeForSale 24. Household Kerne lor Sale 25. Instruction 40. Livestock lor Sale 41. Lost & Found 42. Miac. tor Sale/Hent 43. Mlsc. Wanted 44. Mobile Homes - Saie/Rent 45. Musical Instruments & Equipment 48. Office Equipment 47. Personal* 50. Pet* 51. Recreational Equipment 60. Rentals - Apis. 61. Rentals - Business 62. Rantsla - Hou— 64. Rentals - Land 66. RanWa - Vacation Homes 66. Rantaia - Wanted to Rent 67. Real Estate-Wanted 68. Real Estate - Sale by Owner <6. Real Estate-For Sale - - - - » —« * . noommnN wvua, Avmm 71. Satvioas - Business 72. Services-Farm 73. Sendees - Home Improvements 74. Services-Personal 75. Sendees-Mac. 76. Swap A Trade 77 Tributes t Thanks EMPLOYMENT 100. Employment Sendees 101. Help Wanted 102. Help Wanted - Domestic 103 . Help Wanted - Farm AQarden 110. Jotoe Wanted NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS 126. Business Nodosa 126. Bidet Propoesls 127. Legal Notlcae AUTOMOTIVE 4 200. VeNctsa tor Sale 201. Motorcycles 202. Mechanic's Height 203. Parts 6 Accessories 204. Recreational VeNdee 206. Boats and Accessories

Classified Advertising Your Action Number 675-3338 PRESSMAN (Press Operator), Chantilly, Va. Printer needs person *"0 fv *eas* ^ years experience on A.B.Dick 360, some overtime company benefits, 8:30a.m 5p.m., Monday - Friday Call 703/631-0800. TRUCK DRIVERS — Tandem dump truck experience, good company benefits. Bring current driving record to: J.B. Shotwell & Son, Inc., 1106 Sterling Rd.. Sterling, Va 703-450-2340 TOWN OF WARRENTON assistant public works q. ^ , superintendent r$’6:682' Saiuy ran^ $21,929. Good Background in street maintenance and repairs. Knowledge of traffic control devices and placement Knowledge ofsnow removal. Good background in supervision. Good Physical condition. Some engineering and surveying badtground desirable. This position may lead to the Pubuc Works Superintendent position in the future. JP Town Manager, Town of Warrenton. RO^Drawer 341 Warrenton, Virginia 22186. Applications will be accepted through February 20,1987. RNs-LPNs Earn Extra Money Top Wages Flexible Hours P Please Call Hunt Countiy Home Health 703/347-4774 ASSISTANT CONTROLLER General ledger, financial statement preparation, ryidget reporting and analysis, estimating. Administrative responsibilities. Must have credit and collection background and the ability to resolve accounts receiveable problems. Expanding operation, excellent opportunity. Barber and Ross^**—^ 110 Catoctin Circle, Leesburg, Va. 703-777-4200 or Metro 478-1970 Commonwealth of Virginia Position Available as: EXECUTIVE Vo. Commission of Game & Inland Fisheries Salary Up To $51,000. Plus Fringe Benefits Please send resume to: Mr. Henry A. Thomas P.O. Box 820 Alexandria, VA. 22313 An Equal Opportunity Employer VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE/CONTROLLER Exceptional opportunity for C.P.A. or equivalent in accounting operation of fast growing company. C.P.A. experience a plus. Knowledge of EDP and internal auditing required. Excellent salary, bonus and fringe benefit package. Send resumes to: Jan Hardison 13873 Park Center Road Suite 301 Herndon. VA 22071 Platemaker Trainee Needed at the Xouboun flTimea-iffltrror. Great Opportunity to learn other areas of Newspaper Production. Growing company; excellent benefits, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays. Apply in Person 9 East Market St. Leesburg, VA ADVERTISING MANAGER Exciting and challenging opportunity for experienced print ad salesperson in Northern Shenandoah Valley. Management veterans and extensive direct sales experience should apply. Aggressive self-starters with proven v track records are also candidates to lead Our local sales staff. Established, reputable company. Send resume, salary history, etc., to P. O. Box 1782, Front Royal, VA 22630-1782. 703636-3197 or 703-636-2046 evenings. All REPLIES STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. WELDER/ FIELD MECHANIC: experienced in installation of stairs, rails, and light structural framing. $8.50 per hour to start for qualified applicants. AO interviews confidential. Equal opportunity employer. Call: Metro 428-3666. MISCELLANEOUS METALS, INCORPORATED. SENIOR MECHANIC — PERSON needed with experience in diesel engine repair, hydraulic circuits, electrical systems, small engines, and welding. Salary plus benefits. Must supply good references. Please can Ms. Spencer at 703253-5217. SHEET METAL WORKERS and Helpers needed. Benefits include paid holidays, profit sharing and paid vacation. Insurance available Call Southern Electric Corporation at 703-777-6200 or METRO 471-6400. AVON SALES-Eam $$$$’s selling AVON at work or where you live. VA/MD/DC metro area 4517103. Va Ton free 1-000-233-1015. SURVEYORS Civil engineering and surveying firm seeks the following survey personnel: CHAIN PERSON Experience preferred, but not required. Please call (703) 444-3707 Christopher Consultants 10 Pidgeon Hill Dr. Sterling, VA 22170 Tractor/trailer driver Daily local runs. Must have good driving record. Barber and Ross 110 Catoctin Circle, Metro 478-1970 VERSATILE EDITOR with 5Yt years' experience on newspapers, seeks position in Warrenton/Manassas area. Interested in magazines. publishing and research projects, newsletters, advertising copy-writing or other challenging job. Graphic design a specialty. Send replies to Box J, c/o Fauquier Democrat, P.O. Box 631, Warrenton, Va. 22186, or 301/268-4599 evenings. NOTICE Advertising published in this newspaper is accepted with the understanding that it will meet the criteria of the standards of a family newspaper. Advertising is accepted on the premise that the merchandise and services as offered are accurately described and are available to customers at the advertised price. Advertising that does not conform to these standards, or that is deceptive or misleading is never knowingly accepted. If any reader encounters non-compliance with these standards, we ask that you inform us. BEST FRIEND KNOWS... CLASSIFIEDS AUTOS • HOMES SELL or BUY CALL 675-3338 Rappahannock News NOTICE OF TRUSTEES' SALE Under and by virtue of the authority vested in the undersigned vested in the undersigned Trustees under that certain Deed of Trust from Philip Roger Bai) and Jewel K. Ball, his wife, to Barbara J. Fried and Samuel N. Klewans, Trustees, dated October 21,1962, and recorded October 21. 1962, in Deed Book 142, at Page 629, among the land records of Rappahannock County, Virginia; and by virtue of the authority vested in the Substitute Trustees by Substitution of Trustee dated January 9,1967, and recorded January 14,1967, in Oeed Book 161, at Page 45, among the land records of Rappahannock County, Virginia; default having been made in payment of the indebtedness secured thereby, and having been directed by the holders of the note secured thereby to do so, the undersigned Trustees, on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27.1987. *12:00 noon E.S.T. in front of the courthouse of the Rappahannock County Circuit Court, Washington, Virginia 22747, wilt offer for sale * public auction for cash to the highest bidder the real property and improvements thereon located in Rappahannock County. Virginia, and particularly described as follows: All the following described tract or parcel of land, together with buildings and improvements thereon and privileges and appurtenances therewith connected, situate, lying and being in Jackson Magisterial District, Rappahannock County, Virginia, and bounded and described, according to a pi* and survey . madebyj.l. Covell, C.L.S., on September 8.1982, as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point at the center of Rt.640, iron pin at a fence row on the west bank in line, comer with the remainder of the tract; thence a new line with the remainder S 64-35-26 W 857.21' to a post in a fence line below a spring; thence continuing new tines with Thompson N 16-54-19 E. 405.00' to an iron pin, N 6435-26 E 602 42' to a point at the center of the road, iron pin in line on the west bank; thence with the center of the road S 22-00-00 E. 300.00' to the beginning. This lot contains 5.017 acres. ,, < ANOkiAEMG the jam prop* arty conveyed to Philip R-Ball and Jewell K. Ball, husband and wife, by deed dated September 21, 1982, recorded October 21, 1982, in Deed Book 142, at Page 626 in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rappahannock County, Virginia The property address is RFD 1, Box 37, Viewtown, Virginia 22746. Tax Map No. 42, Parcel 58B. TERMS OF SALE: CASH A successful bidder's deposit of ten percent (10%) of the successful bid in cash, certified or cashier's check shall be required at the time of sale with the balance of the bid price due at time of settlement. Settlement shall be held on or before thirty (30) days from the date of sale; time shall be of the essence. The deposit shall be applied to the credit of the successful bidder at settlement or, in the event of the failure of purchaser to complete settlement within thirty (30) days after the date of sale in accordance with terms of sale, the deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs of sale, including Trustees' fees, and the property shall be resold at cost and expense of defaulting purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid in cash or its equivalent at the time of settlement. The real property and any improvements thereon shall be sold in "as is" condition without warranties of any kind. All costs of the conveyance, which shall be by special warranty, examination of title, recording charges,notary fees, settlement fees, including preparation of deed and grantor's tax thereon, etc., shall be at the costs of the purchaser. This sale is subject to the covenants, conditions, restrictions, rights of way and easements, if any, contained in the deeds tormina the chain of title to the above property. This sale is further subject to recorded and unrecorded mechanic's and materialmen's liens, if any. Information as to the status of record title and the improvements on the real property and all documents available to the Trustees may be examined by prospective purchasers at the offices of the Attorneys for the Noteholders on Monday through Friday, inclusive, or each day (exclusive of legal holidays), between 10:00 am. and 4:00 p.m. Written notice of this Trustee's Sale, as required by Va. Code Ann. Section 55-59.1 has been given to Philip H. Ball and Jewell K. Ball, husband and wife, at their last known addresses, by certified mail. BETH A PERLMUTTER and GEORGE M. MAYHUGH, Trustees FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth A. Pertmutter, Trustee and Attorney for Noteholder O’CONNELL & MAYHUGH, P.C. 82 Main Street Warrenton. Virginia 22186 (703) 347-2424 or METRO 471 -0528 TRUSTEE’S SALE of Route 647 Boor 52 Amissvilie. Virginia 22002 In execution of a Deed of Trust from Ronoy C. Chambers, Jr. and Annie M. Chanters, husband and wife, dated June 28,1979, and recorded among the Land Records in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Rappahannock County, Virginia, in Deed Book 132, Page 301. the undersigned Trustees will offer for sale at public auction on the 13th day of March, 1987, at 11:00 am., at the front door of the Courthouse of the Circuit Court of Rappahannock County, the property described in said Deed of Tost known as: Alt that certain lot or parcel of land containing 2.0136 acres located in Jackson Magisterial District, Rappahannock County, Virginia, described in the pM and survey made by Wiliam A. Hal, C.L.S.. dated the 23rd day of August, 1976, and recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of said County in Deed Book 120, Page 162. A bidder's deposit of ten percent (10%) of the saies price may be required wften the property is sold and settlement in Ml sal be made within ten (10) days thereafter. TERMS: Cash DOUGLAS W. KIELKOPF WILLIAM C. LEACH Substitute Trustees FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: P.O.BOX 20009 . Roanoke, Virginia 24018-0501 (703)969-4566 VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY COUNTY OF RAPPAHANNOCK. VIRGINIA Plaintiff vs TOLIVER BENNETT, also known as TOLIAFERRO BENNETT, together with the heirs, their spouses, personal representatives and assigns of the abovenamed Defendant, aN of whom are made parties hereto as “Parties Unknown" CHANCERY NO. 3369 ORDER OF PUBLICATION (Section8.01-317.321) Object of Suit This is a suit brought to collect delinquent real estate taxes owed the county of Rappahannock through sale of a certain tract of land containing 10 acres more or less situated on Rt.681 in the Stonewall-Hawthome Magisterial District of Rappahannock County, Virginia, known as the Toliver Bennett property, and shown on Tax Map 47 as parcel 13, said property having been acquired by Toliver Bennett (also known as Toliaferro Bennett) by deed dated 11 March 1886 of record in Deed Book R, Page 441 of the land records maintained by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rappahannock County, Virginia. Parties in Interest: The parties who may have an interest in this suit, the real-estate to be sold, and/or the proceeds from the sale of the real-estate are Toliver Bennett and his heirs, their spouses, perContinued aortal representatives and assigns. Al parties who may have, or cWm to have, an interest in the subject matter of ftis suit must appear in this Court and prelect their interest on or before March 9, 1967. Enter this 10th day ot February. 1967. Diane Bruce. Clerk of the Circuit Court for Rappahannock County. Virginia task tor this: Aster H. Luka. Attorney tor the County of Rappahannock, Virginia 1970 VOLKSWAGON - Runs good, new dutch, new tires, $600 or best offer. Cal after 7.30pm, 703-364-1319. 1982 MERCURY LN7. red with red interior. AM/FM cassette, 4 speed, TRX suspension package, low mileage, great in snow! Extremely dependable car. $3,000. Call Oewe at 703-338-3420 after 6pm. 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Bambiscam (Continued from Page 1) the presence of the officer issuing the summons. Warden Bankston had testified that he did not actually see the shots fired, but that other wardens had advised him of a description of the defendants and their vehicle. Judge Foley overruled that objection as well, ruling that “In modern times, with the use of radios and computers, presence extends beyond the range of the eye .. . The court feels that probable cause - the testimony in this style case - is sufficient to issue a summons.” Coffey took the stand and testified that his wife, charged with hunting within 100 yards of a road and hunting without a license, was innocent. He admitted to shooting at the deer, and said that Sisk did as well. /> Mrs. Coffey said that she did not shoot, and indeed got back into the car when she saw that the two men were planning to shoot at the deer. Mr. Higgenbotham asked that the charges against her be dropped. “If she got back into the car before the shots were fired, I would agree,” Mr. Luke argued. “If she stood and watched, she was aiding and abetting the crime. It is not necessary to have a firearm to be convicted of attempting to hunt... She stood right there while they shot; so she assisted. She is guilty.” Judge Foley, however, said that he was not convinced that the law applied to Mrs. Coffey’s actions, and dismissed the charges against her. In Coffey’s case, Judge Foley observed, “Your attorney has presented a very able argument on your behalf.” He then found Coffey guilty of the charge and fined him $250 and costs. Sisk had earlier pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined $50 plus costs. Leonard Louis Alsberry, also accused of hunting within 100 yards of a state road and shooting from a vehicle, also contested the charges. He said that he was driving on Rt. 637 near Huntly when he stopped the truck to look at some horses near the road. A passenger in the truck, Charles David Hobson, spotted the deer after the truck was stopped. Mr. Alsberry testified that he got out and walked around to the rear of the truck, because “It had a nice shape, a nice rack - I wanted to see it.” Lt. Killinger posted to duty Marine 1st Lt. Matthew A. Killinger, son of Anton D. Killinger of Flint Hill, recently reported for duty at Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico. Lt. Killinger graduated in 1979 from Hillcrest High School, Midvale, Utah, and received a bachelor of science degree in 1982 from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. He joined the Marine Corps in December 1982. if WHY WAIT FOR WEEKS? /Get an ^ - yoiw g^^onl /ooupje 0f . ^ses ^ / /deroneroof]OUra' ^ *»X0IJ2»PAffi I St. tune topics while Vou wait tTfje 3&appaljannocfe ifctoa Main Street Washington 703-675-3338 He added that “I told Mr. Hobson before I got out that I’m not going to hunt from the road.” Mr. Hobson took the stand and testified that it was he who shot at the deer. “I said ‘Stop!’ and I shot at the deer. He got out before I shot.. . He didn’t do nothing but stop the vehicle.” Mr. Luke questioned, “You shot and it just stood there - what happened next?” “You ain’t a kiddin’ it just stood there,” Mr. Hobson replied. “I thought, ‘What a fool I was!’ ” Mr. Luke agreed that the evidence indicated that Mr. Hobson actually shot at the deer, but argued that, as in Mrs. Coffey’s case, Mr. Alsberry had aided and abetted the crime by stopping the vehicle and allowing him to shoot. Hes dnving slow down this road, and his Mend says ‘Stop!’ He gets out and says he didn’t know what was going on . . . It’s difficult to argue.” Judge Foley found that “The evidence is more consistent with innocence than with guilt. The Commonwealth’s burden is to prove aiding and abetting: it’s not illegal to stop and watch deer. The court is not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, and finds Mr. Alsberry not guilty ... It appears Mr. Alsberry was caught up in something he was not sure about.” Eleven other defendants pleaded guilty to various charges stemming from the operation. Lt. T. S. Updike praised Mr. Luke’s efforts in prosecuting the cases, and Judge Foley’s handling of the legal issues. “This was new legal ground. In some courts we wouldn’t have gotten anywhere with it.” Capt. Miller promised that slob hunters have not seen the last of “Bambiscam.” “We’re going to spread out into other counties next year... We know we’re not going to catch every road hunter out there - but we think we can reduce the problem.” The decoy deer is not the only tactic which will be used by the game wardens, Capt. Miller noted. Wardens dressed in “civilian” clothes will be cruising the back roads in pickup trucks, and another warden does aerial surveillance in a Piper Super Cub, directing ground units to areas where he discovers suspected illegal hunting. The criteria for the use of the deer decoy are strict, Capt. Miller said. Each operation must be approved by Col. Simmons. It must be in a heavily hunted area, on posted land, fronting on a state road and the landowner must give permission. The undercover patrols, on the other hand, “can be done with the approval of the warden’s sergeant,” Capt. Miller said. NUGGETS OF TRUTH By REV. BOB DUNPHY Pastor, Family Worship Center Washington, Va. (Continued from last week) Dear Friends, let’s go back to Malachi 3, verse 11; "and I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of Host.” Verse 12, “and all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of Host.” God the Father has said Ha will stop the devil from overtaking you, IF you obey Him. So, all He demands is 10% of your money & time. Not all, but if you rebel and dis- J obey, He may demand it all. \ You farmers should like to know [ if you obey God, you can walk < out in your fields or orchards \ and rebuke storms or freezes * ; when the blossoms are on the [ trees. It sounds far out to the * ! natural mind, but remember, 1 > God is supernatural and if vou *, belong to Him and walk out there and say in faith whatever you need He will honor your prayer. He spoke of offerings in verse 8. If you want extra blessings, give offerings over your tithes. If you will ask Him where to give, He will tell you. Then, you must expect Him to give you a return on your giving. (Luke 6:38) Paul said it like this in Phil. 4:19; “But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” People, I have proof all around me, living proof that God's word works. Here is a very important key to it all. James 1:22; “But be ye doers of the word, and 4 not hearers only, deceiving ] your own selves.” Folks, we * love you here at Family j Worship Center. Come visit us 4 and if yoy don’t have a church i > home, come join us and we will j worship and obey God to- H gather. BLESS ALL GOD’S i HILDREN and if you are not i His child yet, call me and I will j help you. Pastor Bob. * Game tallies for season Game Warden Jim Bankston released figures for big game taken in Rappahannock County during the 1986-87 hunting season. “The deer kill was an alltime high, 1,347 checked compared with about 1,100 last year.” He noted that fewer hunters were out this year, but that they took more deer than ever before. The previous high for a season’s harvest in the county was 1,308. Hunters took 858 bucks, 484 doe and five deer were of undetermined sex. Warden Bankston theorized that the deer had come down from the Shenandoah National Park, where food is scarce, to the orchards and fields of Rappahannock County where forage is more plentiful. He added that statewide the deer kill set a record as well, up 20,000 from last year. Fewer bear were taken in Rappahannock than in most years. Only five were checked (four male, one female) compared to an average of 13 to 14, he said. Turkey hunters had an average year in the county, Mr. Bankston said. Sixty-eight gobblers were taken; 27 males and 39 females. Rockingham County led the state in deer taken, with a total of 5,251 checked. Albemarle County had the most bear checked in the state, 59. And turkey hunters found a bountiful harvest in Bath County, taking 506 during the season. Warden Bankston also reported that the game violations ran “about average” during the season, despite the fact that there were fewer hunters in the woods. Sen. Miller (Continued from Page 1) have given tax relief to the seller of real estate. The break would be based on inflation factors. For example, an individual who purchased 10 acres in 1960 for $15,000 sells the property in 1987 for $25,000. Under the Miller indexing gystem, the seller would pot pay tax -on the income because inflation would have negated any profit. Sen. Miller said colleagues thought it was a good bill but that “it was ahead of its time.” He believes it will be adopted eventually but declined to say if he’d reintroduce it during another session. “If I don’t, somebody else will,” he said confidently. Low enrollment, high maintenance bills contribute to school budget crunch By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer "Clearly, with the administration of our budget for the rest of this year, I’m going to have a chance to be other than everyone’s best friend!” said Superintendent Robert Estabrook as he reported to the School Board last week on tightening financial constraints. It’s a fiscal vise with pressure on both sides - income and outgo, according to the superintendent of schools. The 1986-87 budget for Rappahannock’s public schools was based on a projected "average daily membership” of 948 students. Currently, the ADM for the high school stands at 368 and for the elementary school at 554 for a total of922. "I wish we could see an escalation,” Mr. Estabrook told the School Board last Tuesday, pointing out that ADM determines the amount of basic aid for education Rappahannock will get from the state. “But we’re not seeing an increasing figure there,” the superintendent said, describing the shortfall from the lower enrollment as “a considerable loss of revenue.” The state takes ADM as of March 1 to determine basic aid payments to local school divisions. At this year’s $2,044 per student, if enrollment doesn’t pick up within the next two weeks, Rappahannock will stand to lose $33,144 over what was anticipated when this year’s budget was drafted last April. On the other side of the ledger, maintenance expenditures have been higher than projected, the superintendent said. “Sixty-five percent of our maintenance funds have been expended and the year is only 58 percent gone.” The money has been spent for circulation pump motors for the high school boilers, a hot water heater for the elementary school’s dishwasher, ceiling fan motors in the high school gym, repairs to steam tables in both cafeterias and pneumatic controls for the elementary school’s heating system. “I’m awfully fearful, particularly when I look at the age of the high school, that perhaps we’re seeing the beginning of a pattern,” the superintendent said. “We have a lot of equipment dating back to 1959 when the high school was built.” Mr. Estabrook reported that an inspection of mechanical equipment at both schools is now being conducted for the purpose of predicting where additional maintenance problems may arise. No help from the supervisors To offset unexpected maintenance expenditures, “I’d hoped to show you a bottom line some $4,000 healthier than it is,” the superintendent told the School Board members, noting that the Board of Supervisors had denied their request to retain $4,214 derived from a refund of an insurance overcharge and proceeds from a recent auction of old school vehicles and equipment. "I don’t feel good at all about Eileen M. Day, REALTORS Clopton House, Box 120 m tz| Washington, Va. 22747 Uj 675-3400 LCNDCIt 01 Ai TOO The Blue Ridge is the view from the park-like setting of this countrystyle modern home situated on 25 acres. Used as a bed and breakfast by its current owner, it has a private suite on the lower level and three bedrooms and two additional baths up. 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But it was deemed inappropriate this time.” (The School Board was required to seek the supplemental appropriation because the auction revenue was not included in the 1986-87 school budget approved by the supervisors. By law, the School Board may spend only what is appropriated by the county’s governing body.) “I’m disappointed that the supervisors didn’t grant our request for monies that are due the school sys tern, said Chairman Beverly Massie, adding that she hoped the board will not have to ask later for a supplemental appropriation to cover unexpected maintenance bills. “But if we do, we’ll remind them that the $4,000 would have come in very handy for the maintenance of our schools.” The superintendent stressed that he’s not “sending up the red flag” yet. “We’re just going to have to be very tight from here on in.” Even with the lower-than-antidpated enrollment and higher-than-anticipated maintenance costs, “we don’t have a big budget problem. It will just have to be administered carefully,” Mr. Estabrook said. “We knew we were working with a tight budget. We knew that when we presented the budget to the supervisors last April,” said Mrs. Massie, commending the administration for keeping spending in line. She noted that in past years, school ex penditures have come 'within one percent of the amount appropriated by the Board of Supervisors. “I don’t think the supervisors or the general public can say that we haven’t been frugal or that we haven’t lived within our budget.” But returning to the supervisors’ refusal to allow the School Board to retain the auction proceeds and insurance refund, the chairman maintained that “all education monies should be spent on education ... I just hope it doesn’t take as long for that philosophy to be adopted as it took for the building program to be approved,” Mrs. Massie concluded. In other business at last week’s meeting, the School Board: • Rescheduled the opening of the bids for the high school expansion to 2 p.m. Feb. 26 with a meeting with the architects to review the bids set for 7:30 that evening in the central office. • Approved acceptance of the elementary school’s offer to purchase two commercial radios ($350 each), two antennas ($75 each) and a base station and antenna ($1,500). The radios will be installed in the buses that carry vocational students to Piedmont Vocational Technical Center in Culpeper and the base station in the Rappahannock school bus garage. This is the first stage of a project to provide radio communication for all school buses, a process that should take three to four years, according to Assistant Superintendent Tom Campbell. • Approved an overnight senior class ski trip to Bryce Mountain. Adult courses offered at RCHS The administration at Rappahannock County High School announces that two 30-hour adult education courses will be offered at the school during the spring semester. The courses will be held on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. beginning March 3 and ending May 5. Introduction to Cabinetmaking: Students will learn the use of hand tools, power hand tools, and power machines in the design, construction and finishing of projects of the individual’s choice. Tuition is $15 plus the cost of materials. Computer Concepts: Students will learn the “basics” of computers. The course will progress from an explanation of how the computer works through specific applications in business and at home. “Hands-on” experience will be emphasized and a section on programming in the “Basic” language will be included. Tuition for the course is $15. Registration deadline is Friday, Feb. 27. Interested persons are urged to register early, since enrollment will be limited. 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— Douglas lxcs ior Arunuci Newspapers Nine point-to-point meets, an equal number of hunter pace events, a few old fashioneds and four sanctioned meets promise prosperity for ’chasing. A big card of spring steeplechases By TINA SKINNER Arundel Nempapen SUIT Writer It started in early fall. Horsemen all over Virginia got out their pasture-fattened mounts and saddled up. Throughout the fall and into the cold, inclement months these horsemen exercised their horses, meeting several times a week to follow the hounds, working the fat off and the fit in. Now primed, all are poised to match skill and speed over tough terrain and towering obstacles. The point-to-point season arrives and they’re off. This year there will be nine point-topoint meets on the Virginia circuit, as many hunter pair races and four sanctioned meets to entertain race fans or to provide festive picnicking spots for tailgaters with refined tastes. Casanova Hunt Traditionally the Casanova Hunt starts out the point-to-point season on the last Saturday in February. Barring any weather complications, this year’s 30th annual pointto-point meet will be held Feb. 28. For the fourth year the meet will be held at Dr. and Mrs. Robert Gaines’ Mt. Sterling Farm near Warrenton. The meet will feature a card of nine races with a hunter pace event held the following day. The racing will kick off Saturday with a maiden hurdle race at 12:30 p.m. Three-yearold horses that have never won a hurdle race will compete over a course of IV2 miles with the homemade Casanova obstacles — cedar stuffed boxes. The second race will be contested over timber for about three miles. Next a fast, three-quarter-mile race will be run on the turf. The fourth race is for the ladies only. Two and a half miles await these women with solid timber obstacles to be overcome. A second hurdle race will follow. The owner-rider timber race will be held at 3 p.m. For 2Vz miles owners and their loyal mounts will contest the Casanova timber course. Following, foxhunters with the will to race take to the course for a 2Vi-mile timber race. An owner-rider hurdle race will follow, with IV2 miles of brush-box obstacles to be conquered. Finally, the day will be rounded off with a flat race across I'A miles of turf. The following day, Sunday, March 1, Casanova will host its hunter pace event. At 12:30 the Longwood will be held. Here entries can compete for optimum time, fast time and junior optimum time over a 3-mile course. Following the Longwood a hunter pace event will be held on the flat. Junior and senior foxhunters, as well as hilltoppers, may challenge the 2-mile course. For subscriptions and parking for the races call (703) 347-3611 or 788-4401 or write the Casanova Hunt, Casanova, Va. 22017. Rappahannock Hunt On Saturday, March 7, the second meet of the season will be offered by the Rappahannock Hunt on Thornton Hill Farm near Sperry ville. Nine races and a hunter pair race are slated. The day of racing warms up at 10:30 a.m. when members of recognized hunts compete in the hunter pair race. The race will be timed as pairs of horses and riders navigate a 2.'/>- to 3'/i>-mile course over natural hunting country. The race will be run in three divisions: for optimum time, junior optimum time and adult fast time. At noon a flat race will pit riders against each other in a three-quarter-mile race on the turf. At 12:30 the action heightens with an open timber contest over a 2'/i!-mile course. The ladies come next, competing over a timber course of about two miles. Next comes a maiden 1%-mile race for new horses over natural cedar hurdles. Juniors will get their hands on the reins next, competing across two-thirds of a mile of turf. An open hurdle race will be held for a challenge trophy. A three-time winner may retire the trophy for his own shelf. The foxhunters follow in the seventh race. About two miles of Rappahannock Hunt’s notorious terrain will be contested over timber by members of registered foxhunts. Next, owner-riders will challenge the timber course for 2'/> miles. The final race will be held for an exclusive group — the hound owners in Rappahannock Hunt territory and/or members of the

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Hunt members will come out in pairs to try their mounts over a 2V2-mile course of natural hunting country. Adults will compete for fast time as well as optimum time with the juniors. Winning pairs in each division will be awarded trophies. The first flat race will be held at 12:30 over IV* miles of turf. Then novices will get a crack at the timber course. Three miles of timber will challenge riders toward the finish line where a trophy donated by the family of the late A. A. Baldwin will be awarded. A maiden hurdle race will be held next for 4-year-olds. One and a half miles will be raced over the manmade National Hurdles. The ladies are. up next for the timber course with a trophy donated by the Clarke Courier as a reward. Next the foxhunters will try their hand at the timber for about 2 Vi miles. An open hurdle race will be held at around 3 p.m. over 1% miles, with the Hunt Supporters Trophy as the prize. Then an open timber race will be held over a 3-mile course with a perpetual trophy for the winner in memory of the late William A. Dryer. Owner-riders will challenge the 3-mile timber course next for the George P. Greenhalgh Perpetual Trophy. Finally, the day will round out with a novice flat race for ladies and gentlemen who have never won a race under NSHA rules this year. For further information call A. R. “Pete” Dunning Jr., chairman, at (703) 955-3828 or 837-1719; for parking information contact Mrs. Martin Fleming, secretary, at (703) 9552300. Warrenton Hunt On March 21 the Warrenton Hunt will host the 46th running of its classic point-to-point meet. Held at the Broadview Race Course, historic home of the Virginia Gold Cup, the meet offers a card of eight races. The following day Warrenton Hunt will sponsor a hunter pace event at Land-Ho Farm near Warrenton. The rich racing will offer permanent trophies to owners and riders in each race along with traditional trophies. The first race on Saturday will be for the juniors and their small ponies. The children with small ponies, under 13 hands, will contest about a quarter mile on the flat. The larger ponies will race about half a mile. Owner-riders race next. The ladies and gentlemen will contest two —Douglas Lees for Arundel Newspapers Fast flying hooves pound Virginia’s soil every spring. miles over National Hurdles. Next, ladies alone will race about three miles over the timber course in fair hunting country. A three-time winner may become the permanent owner of the Warrenton Hunt Cup Trophy. An open timber race will be run next over about 3 miles of fair hunting country. Enough entries may split the race into divisions of maidens and winners. The Warrenton Hunt steeplechase trophy, known as the Daniell Cup, a perpetual trophy donated by the late Mrs. J. Chilton Gray in memory of her brother, R. C. Daniell, will be presented to the winner. A maiden hurdle race will be staged around 2 p.m. One and a half miles of National Fences will face non-jump winners, and the Great Run Trophy will be presented in memory of William Henry Pool by Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Tufts. An owner-rider timber race will be held next over a 3-mile course. The Dell Cup perpetual trophy will be presented by Effie Melchior Fox. Next an open hurdle race will be held over lVi miles for the Riverland Bowl, a perpetual trophy and permanent trophies. The final race of the day will be a flat race held over IV2 miles on the turf. On Sunday, March 22, the hunter pace event kicks off at 1 p.m. Teams of juniors and adults will compete for optimum time and adults may run for fast time. The course will traverse about 2Vz miles of flagged hunting country. For further information, subscriptions and parking, call (703) 347-3104 or write Warrenton Hunt Point-to-Point Races, P.0 Box 972, Warrenton 22186. Piedmont Fox Hounds Qft Saturday, March 28, the Piedmont Fox Hounds will host their 46th annual point-to-point meet, with eight races and a hunter pace event on the card. The team races will kick off the day at 11 a.m. Adults only will compete on this course aboard mounts that have fairly and regularly hunted. The first race, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. will be for novice riders. The newcomers, who must be at least 16, will race three-quarters of a mile on the turf. The second race is also a flat race where last season’s nonwinners can compete for a trophy over a three-quarter-mile course. Then owner-riders will challenge a set of National Hurdles spread across a lVa-mile course. The fourth event is an open hurdle race with a trophy for owner and riders, followed by a maiden hurdle for nonjump winners. Then the owner-riders come back for a timber contest. Three miles will be contested on horses which have been regularly and fairly hunted. The ladies compete in the seventh race —3 miles over timber with a piece of plate awarded the owner and rider by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. The day will finish with the gentlemen’s open timber race when men

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[Chasing sport booms By CLIVE CARNIE Araadd Ncwapapn* Special Writer Imagine for a moment that this newspaper is a television set — black and white, of course. Just coming into view on the screen are two horsemen making their way home from an uneventful morning’s fox hunting in the meadows and dales of southern Ireland. A muttering can be heard among the riJfii* that slowly becomes intelligible. “Edie,” says one, a certain Mr. Callaghan, to his friend Mr. Edmund Blake. “My mare, Flanagan’s Bessy, could beat your old gelding, Paddy’s Wagon Puller, to yon St. t«ger steeple with no problem.” “You’re talking rubbish, to be sure,” replies a disgruntled Mr. Blake and pulls out his money bag. “My Paddy could beat your old Bessy with a wagon tied behind him, and here’s three sovereigns says he will.” As the two go lumbering across the field towards a stone wall and the St. Leger spire, four miles distant, the camera pulls away and thev picture on the screen is replaced with a shot of a triumphant chestnut gelding named Census thundering under the wire at Fair Hill Race Course in northern Maryland to win the inaugural running of the $250,000 Breeders’ Cup Steeplechase. “I think it grows every year, it seems to be a contagious disease. People who own horses come to the races, see how much fun they are and say they want to try it.” —Peter Winants Hie announcer is heard to say, “When Mr. Callaghan and Mr. Blake made their friendly bet to race cross country to the St. Leger steeple in 1752, little could they have known that one day their wager for a race would grow to a purse a quarter of a million dollars. ” V Now your television is a newspapeKagain — 50 cents doesn’t buy much-air time these days. Though the picture may have faded, the fact remains that steeplechasing has grown into a big sport in the 1980s. In the past five years, according to Charlie Colgan, the executive vice president of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, steeplechase purses have grown 100 percent. Last year chasers raced for more than $2 million at 37 race meets. A total of 222 races, run by 610 different horses, brought total purses of $2,436,221 to the steeplechase industry. That represented a growth of $699,026 in purses and 65 more horses on the field over 1985. In 1987 purses are expected to increase still further. Among the local sanctioned meets the Middleburg Spring Races have already announced that their purses will double to $78,000, including a $25,000 open hurdle race. “It’s a matter of quality rather than quantity,” says Race Chairman Chris Dana. “Every year we have so many entries we have to turn some away, but maybe we’ll get some big, famous horses with these increases.” Last year, for the first time, the steeplechase circuit had an overall sponsor, with Chase Manhattan Bank offering a $50,000 season-long brush jumping competition. The sport also made its debut on television with the Breeders’ Cup race going out live to an international audience at prime time. See Growth, Page 23 Richmond. Virginia State Fairgrounds. Activities start at 11:00 A.M. STRAWBERRY HILL RACES THE COMMITTEE of the STRAWBERRY HILL HORSE RACES cordially invites you to join us for THE FIFTY-FIFTH RUNNING Saturday, April 11,1987 at the Virginia State Fairgrounds Laburnum Avenue at Carolina Avenue Richmond, Virginia for the benefit of Historic Richmond Foundation Six Races *** Flat, Brush, Timber POST OFFICE BOX 26805 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23261 5 PHONE 804- 228-3200 TO BENEFIT THE HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDA TION A WINNER RICK HUNT FORD LINCOLN MERCURY Fauquier County’s Largest Dealer o 1984AWARD DEALER Available fully equipped with complete trailer tow package, to accommodate all your horse needs. Route 29-211 North, Warrenton 347-1234

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ames of the sport By MUPHEN WHITNEY Arundel Newspaper* Special Writer For 10 weekends each spring, Northern Virginia jfeerberates with the pounding of hooves as horses fly around race courses at point-to-points, National Steeplechase and Hunt Association races and all the other places where horses and riders gather to see whose horse can go fastest. There are pair races, old-fashioned point-to-points and huntdjgfpace races in the offing. The best-known contests are the races at the nine area point-to-points and the four NSHA meets. The NSHA meets are referred to as “sanctioned” races and have somewhat more formal rules than do the point-to-points. The point-to-points, which are sponsored as fundraising activities by local foxhunting organizations, do have rules that are enforced by stewards, but the atmoSee Races, Page page-10 — Douglas Lees for Arundel Newspapers [ Horses can simply brush through a cedar-packed obstacle or the National Hurdles. the Si ;c with FcSfrield Races 1987 Spring Running Saturday, April 25th 1987 Fall Running Sunday, September 27th For further in formation contact: The Foxfield Racing Association Garth Road, Charlottesville, Virginia (804)293-8169 Steeplechase time... —photo courtesy of Douglas Lees Party time... ,<v thgchokseop A NEW GENERATION. M1»iCtatt«INnr( Remember that glass bottles & aluminum cans can be recycled - Keep Virginia Beautiful -

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— Douglas Lees for Arundel Newspapers Competitors cannot brush through a timber obstacle. They must clear the solid barrier. From Page 10 ►Races country race meet. Pony races for juniors (children under 18) are always run on the flat. In these races one will see the children of many of the older riders pushing their ponies at their fastest pace towards the finish line. In a hurdle race the obstacles will be either cedarpacked wooden boxes or the plastic-topped, man-made National Fences. Horses run at great speed over hurdles, literally “brushing” through the top of the jump. Jumping ability is important in a hurdle race, but it is not as crucial as in a timber race. In general, horses running over hurdles can be younger and less experienced than timber horses. The fences in a timber race are supposed to approximate those a horse would encounter in the hunt ing field. Therefore, some courses have stone walls and coops as well as the usual post and rail fences. The fences on a timber course — regardless of what form they take or of what materials they are made — are very sturdy. A timber horse has to be a careful jumper and be very fit for the; distance of a timber race. Also, he must have some speed left for the run-in after the final fence. In addition to having different types of fences, hurdle races and timber races also differ in the distance of the courses. A hurdle course will vary from about 1 Vito 2'/z miles. Most timber contests are over a distance of about 3 to 4 miles. A special type of timber race found on the card at some point-to-point meets is the foxhunters’ race. These races are for “foxhunters who are not ready for regular point-to-point competition.” The rider usually must be the owner of the horse, See Races, Page 25 [Purinal I ® Fauquier Grain Omolene 200 The Performer's Choice Now Only $0M Fauquier Grain Co. Bealeton, Virginia 439-8915 Redwood! i!Ivh*sc .1 nuiiu; %et which will urou with \t>ur ihtklren from prowhool through preteen vearv stimiil.irmu creativity. mii'vle strength aiul exert im:. X"'ur attorJahle, premium qualify revl\to«kl pl.i\ v.enter-* .ire out-tamlim: m JeM^n. «.i>twriKiH>n atkl vilely hath in no\alive mixlel lei' you .kIJ on a- your netxN urou. without mcroiitul atuhoruu:. " ile' l>ttu Near You 1 all hoi I VtaiU i ool "'print* R.hkI, P.lV B>>\ Sxjp hrevleru k'hurt*. Va 22404 703/371-2299 ( '.ill or u nic /or our .ill net» i .ir.i/oe /^TMf ..Great’ Northern Swinc mm STEEPLECHASING Xp/ie Pro//*/ ^y/easer For the thrill of your racing life—go 'chasing and join the jumping action as a member of the National Steeplechase & Hunt Association. Your NSHA membership offers: • Free admission to 35 hunt meetings • Distinctive pins for each member and a guest, plus personalized identification cards • Chasing, a bi-monthly newsletter • Special "NSHA Days" at major tracks • Racing excursions to famous chasing events home and abroad *■ All these benefits for only $75 yearly! NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE & HUNT ASSOCIATION ( P. O. BOX 308, ELMONT, NEW YORK 11003 I Please enroll me as a member of the National Stee- ! plechase & Hunt Association. Enclosed please find 1 my check in the amount of $75. | NAME ADDRESS Forty-Sixth Running Saturday, March 21,1987 Post Time: 11:30 a.m. Broadview Course, Warrenton, Virginia r Pony Race Owner-Rider Hurdle Race Ladies Timber Race Open Timber Race Maiden Hurdle Race Open Hurdle Race Flat Race Owner-Rider Timber Race (all hurdle races over national fences) Old Fashioned Point-to-Point Sunday, March 15, 1:00 p.m. Hunter Pace Pairs - Sunday, March 22, 1:00 p.m. For tickets & information call 703/347-3104 or 347-9145 In log. each fence sents not only an ■ obstacle, bat an oj>. portunity to achieve excellence. „ . The fences of mortgage tending are the diverse borrovvtng needs of Our customers. For many, theah .•; s ; . fordability of our prte or three year adjustable roteS isthean1 ' • nay ) wr our f teen or thirty year fixed rate ban. Bring us your fences^; We’D help you dear them with ease. ' $ wrn mim LENDER SAVINGS 6LQAN ASSOCIATION *7 vh?«i\V.ifK'!\u.»n. hvsUu’-q. i ,ur«*t

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►Riders From Page 12 perience,” Mrs. Rouse says with a grin. “The biggest things I’ve had to learn are not to try to look for a spot coming into a fence and not to try to count strides in between fences. “These techniques are fine in the show ring,” she continues, “but they have no function on the race course. “When you are a few strides out from a fence in a race you are already ^IPimitted. You just have to sit quietly and not interfere with the horse. You just ‘sit chilly.’ “I’ve also learned the true function of walking the course before the race,” Mrs. Rouse continued. “You don’t just walk the course to inspect the course and the footing. The really savvy riders are out there figuring out where they can save every inch at every fence on the course. “This is really a game of inches, even though the races are miles long. You have to know every fence and set up a game plan to save ground wnere you can. Uf course, you often have to change your plans during the race because the other riders want to go the same place that you do,” she said. Rider John Dale Thomas, known to race fans as Dale, is another proponent of saving ground. “You save every step that you can,” he said. “Every step you don’t have to take gets you that much closer to the finish line before the other horses.” Nevertheless, Mr. Thomas does not credit his tactics or ability for his wins in flat races last year when he rode Hit Short for Massachusetts trainer Robert Croteau. “You can’t ever take the credit, especially when you have a horse who does it all and a trainer who prepares the horse so he’ll win.” Mr. Thomas, a 10-year racing veteran, did not have the difficult “When you are a few strides out from a fence in a race you are already committed. You just have to sit quietly and not interfere with the horse. You just ‘sit chilly.’ ” —Michelle Rouse riding transition to make that Mrs. Rouse had. UI gallop horses each morning,” he said, “so there’s not much change about my position or stirrup length when I go out in a race.” Mr. Thomas is passing along the benefit of his experience to his fiancee, Elizabeth Gray, who will begin her career at the point-to-points this year. “Elizabeth has been galloping horses for Paul Fout and Ray Norton and she has some mounts this spring in the flat races at the pointto-points. The most important thing I’ve told her is to save that ground and get your horse to relax. Your horse has to relax and rate for you — especially in the longer hurdle and timber races. ” “Rating” the horse is always a concern of jockeys. The longer distances (I1/* to 4 miles) of the jump races demand that a horse go easily at first and not run out of steam before the race is over. One rider who is fairly new to the point-to-point scene is John Beasley, who owns, trains and rides the 1986 Virginia point-to-point mare of the year, My Happy Way. Mr. Beasley says that Happy always listens to him and that she rates well. “Happy and I have done a lot of work together,” said Mr. Beasley, whose love and admiration for his mare is evident when he talks about her. “We hunt with Bull Run and Pohick and I whip off her for Jim Kincheloe (MFH of Pohick).” Happy raced at Charles Town race course before Mr. Beasley bought her, but, according to Mr. Beasley, “she was a great show horse when she raced. She was always on her tippy toes and never did anything. She’s all business now, though, and she loves the competition of racing over timber.” See Riders, Page 15 Gill Implement Co., Inc. Your Dealer For Kubota • Bush Hog • Cub Cadet • Woods • J-Bar • ARPS Snapper • Toro • Echo Poulan • McCullock • Ohio • Danuser • Kelly • Fuerst and Many Other Fine Products for the Farmer, Contractor & Home Owner. Paris & Service 365 West Shirley Avenue Wamenton 347-3721 Mon - Sat. 8-5 James F. Gaines D.V.M., M.S. 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J ►Riders From Page 13 Anyone who saw the mare in her spectacular race against Marat at the Rappahannock races won’t doubt that for a minute. While rating his horse has not been a problem for Mr. Beasley and while he feels that his hunting experience has been invaluable to him, there were some things he had to learn. “Upn’t realize what good shape the rider has to be in in order to ride effectively,” he said with a laugh. “The horses are always in better shape than the riders! I learned that even though we go hunting I had to cAercise u> gei myseu in 8 nape. “I’ll tell you one hint that I’ve had to learn,” Mr. Beasley continued. “We always tak^ big diaper pins to fasten down the lead weights so they don’t get lost during the race. And Sherra (Mr. Beasley’s wife) is the other reason — besides Happy — that I can get everything done at the races. “I’ve always had her there to backstop and she helps me a whole lot.” Dr. William Russell of Elizabeth City, N. C., who last year took home three year-end championships from the Virginia point-to-point circuit, is another rider who gives all the credit for his success to his horse and to others. “Marat is a great horse,” Dr. Russell said. “All of the honors are for him. I just try to sit there and be quiet and not interfere and he just goes out and Hops it all.” First Colony Series champion Nelson Gunnell of Middleburg, who captured his First Colony title two years ago when he was a high school senior, says he is still learning the craft of race-riding. “Give me another 10 years,” Mr. Gunnell said with a laugh, “then maybe I’ll be a jockey. I’ll probably never know everything I want to about racing. I’ve got the best teacher in the business, though, to help me.” Mr. Gunnell is talking about “Speedy” Smithwick, his neighbor in Middleburg. “The most important thing Speedy has taught me is when you leave that paddock, just clear your mind of everything but the race and the instructions that the trainer has given you. “All other things I’ve ever done with horses — like hunting — are more relaxed than racing and they don’t require the same degree of concentration. When I go out in a race I just try to relax, concentrate and control my thoughts.” All the many riders who will take to the courses this spring have different degrees of experience and they all have different things that they find easy or difficult about racing. But there’s one thing they all have in common: when the last Saturday in February arrives, they wouldn’t think of doing anything but racing in Virginia for the next 10 weekends. &7ie Middleburg National Bank Located in the village of Middleburg, to better serve you, hopes you enjoy the Steeplechase season. Httabluhed IV24 MiddJtburg, Virginu 22117 Mrafctr hJn^ Urfuni ( 3MI •! HE FIRST SATURDAY IN MA " "1.POST TIME 1:30 P.Mir - VA Gold Cup Association P.O. Box 1051 Warrenton, VA 22186 Please send me a member’s invitation at once Name:_ Address:_ City:-State:_Zip-.Advance tickets also available at area tack shops. Benefit of The Meadow Outdoors Foundation and community activities at Great Meadow ?t)R INFORMATION CALL (7031347-261

How to finil the meets: Your guide to the races There are plenty of races in Virginia this spring to kick -m■ mm i mm mmm — Doulas Lees for Arundel Newspapers up your heels about Feb. 28 Casanova Hunt Point-toPoint Mt. Sterling Farm, Warrenton Post time 12:30, Saturday (703) 347-3611 or 7884401 March 7 Rappahannock Hunt Point-to-Point Thornton Hill Farm, Sperry ville Post time 12 noon (703)987-8703 or 5472011 March 14 Blue Ridge Hunt Pointto-Point Woodley Farm, Berryville Post time 12:30 (703) 955-3828 or 8371719 March 21 Warrenton Hunt Pointto-Point Broadview Race Course, Warrenton Post time 11:30 (703) 347-3104 or 3471431 March 28 Piedmont Fox Hounds Point-to-Point Salem Course, Upperville Post time 1:30 p.m. (703) 592-3304 or 5923377 April 4-5 Middleburg Hunt Pointto-Point Glenwood Park, Middleburg Post time 11:30 (703) 687-6266 or 7776700 April 1 Old Dominic Point-to-Point Ben Venue Fa Post time 12 nooJ (703) 347-4540] 4740 Hunt or 345April 11 Strawberry Hill i State Fair 'Grounl mond Post time 1:30 (804) 228-3200. places is, FJfch April 18 Bull Run Hunt Pace Events Greenville Farm, Hay market First event 11 a.m. (703) 754-8589. April 18 Middleburg Spring Races Glenwood Park, Middleburg Post time I p.m. (703) 687-6545. April 19 Oatlands Poini-to-Point Oatlands, Leesburg Post time 2 p.m. (703) 777-3456 or Metro 478-1042. April 25 Foxfield Races Foxfield Race Course, Charlottesville (804) 293-8169 April 26 Fairfax Hunt Point-toPoint Belmont Plantation, Leesburg Post time 1:30 p.m. (703) 777-3805 or 7592651. May 2 Virginia Gold Cup Great Meadow, The Plains (703)347-2612.

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But for now, “we are biding our time. ” A veteran pairs racer and timber and hurdle jockey herself, Ms. Jones regrets the predicament. “It’s just a shame that we didn’t get our foot in the door earlier.” In addition to accomplishing a workable date rotation, Mr. Young said attother problem area resolved by the advisory council was that of race entries. “The most significant thing that has happened is the centralized entry service that has streamlined entries into the races.” Horses and riders entering any race in the circuit must register with Will O’Keefe who runs this entry operation. This service helps immeasurably for several reasons. For one, Mr. O’Keefe can keep track of who owes back entry fees. Until those are paid, said Mr. Young, whoever owes cannot participate in upcoming meets. All hunts agreed that horses had to race under their registered names, so from year to year Mr. O’Keefe collects all pertinent information needed by race officials and for the race programs. That in itself saves a lot of time. Doubtless the advisory council has helped to straighten some kinks in the Virginia circuit, but in so doing it has occasionally met with controversy. Mr. Young said the use of artificial National brush fences rather than natural cedar brush was “debated” with a some-do, some-don’t result. It came down to “aesthetics versus practicality,” he said. Gradually coming out of the wings and heading for the spotlight of controversy is the question of commer cial sponsorship. Point-to-point races, unlike their steeplechase counterparts, do not carry commercial sponsors such as Volvo and Budweiser to infuse money and promotional help into the event. But there is a growing need for money to keep hunt clubs in business. So, to some, cutting a deal with Virginia Slims, for example, looks mighty tempting. But many belong to the opposing faction, and Mr. Winants appears to be one. Point-to-point racing is a very important sport in Virginia, and an important source of income for the hunts, he said. But what makes it so much fun is that “it still has wonderful amateur flavor and fiber.” That flavor, he said, is “very contagious” and should Jjf preserved. “(Point-to-point racing) maintains that wonderiui feeling of amateurism. You so seldom see this in life any more,” said Mr. Winants. There’s a lot to be said for doing something just for the fun of it. Once cash prizes and sponsorships come into the picture, it changes considerably, he added. Noting the potential for controversy, Mr. Young explained that Virginia point-to-points “are under in> creasing financial pressure ... to secure some kind of sponsorship.” “There are arguments on both sides,” Mr. Young said. For some hunts, membership and capping fees just aren’t enough, so their annual point-to-points bring in the all-important revenue that keeps them going. But these days it’s more difficult to run profitable race meets, so sponsorship is an option under serious consideration. Although the issue most likely will be debated among council members for some time, the outcome will be determined ultimately by the individual hunts. After all, as both Mr. Young and Mr. Winants emphasized, the council is strictly advisory. Past or future controversy notwithstanding, the Virginia Point-to-Point Advisory Council’s accomplishments are a testimony to teamwork, according to Mr. Winants. “Virginia has the best point-to-point racing in America. There is no other circuit like it.” Introducing The COMMONS At Linden Hill A New Concept in Gracious 1 Country Living C in Leesburg, Virginia Borrowing on Virginia’s long-standing quality of life, the legends of the hunt country, and the majestic landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains, The Commons at Linden Hill presents the finest in location and beauty. 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►Growth From Page 7 Several prominent new owners from the world of flat racing got involved in ’chasing for the first time in 1986 and one, Cot Campbell’s Atlanta-based Dogwood Stables, offered syndicates in steeplechase horses. Just as steeplechasing has grown, so too has its amateur cousin, point-to-point racing, albeit with different measurements of success “The sport seems to be getting more and more popular,” savs Will O Keefe, the central racing secretary for the entire Virginia point-topoint circuit. “We’ve had a big growth in point-to-point racing despite offering absolutely no prize money. It’s been at least the same as the sanctioned races and we’ve had a lot of competitive races.” Last year a total of 98 races on the nine-meet Virginia circuit attracted 640 starters. Besides Virginia, there were also point-to-point races in Maryland (four meets); the Delaware Valley, comprising Delaware and Pennsylvanie (six meets); the Midwest circuit comprising Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio (four meets); California (one meet), and Michigan where the Metamore Hunt recently renewed its fall meet. “It’s hale and hearty in many sections of the country, not just Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania,” says Peter Winants, publisher of The Chronicle of the Horse and hon orary secretary of the Virginia Point-to-Point Advisory Council. “I think it grows every year, it seems to be a contagious disease. People who own horses come to the races, see how much fun they are and say they want to try it. Our editor at The Chronicle, John Strassburger, for example, has got a horse in training for the flat races now after a couple of seasons reporting on the races.” Horses, owners and riders are not the only quantities that have increased at point-to-point meets in the last few years. Crowds have also grown quite considerably. Once hunt races were limited to hunt members and a few of their friends. Now, however, crowds of 6,000 to 10,000 are not uncommon at many of the meets. “We’ve done a much better job of getting people out from Washington, D. C., and Fairfax the last few years,” says Douglas Lees, former chairman of the Warrenton Hunt point-to-point. “Our gate has really picked up. We got on TV one year which really helped us a lot.” Steeplechasing’s growth is due in large part to the increased number of sponsors and the corresponding increase in money that the sport has been able to attract in the last few years. Putting a finger on the cause of point-to-point racing’s growth is not so easy, however. Part of the reason is undoubtedly the colorful people that pointto-point racing attracts. Not even steeplechasing could boast of having riders like Randy Rouse, a 60-plus year-old millionaire realestate developer from Fairfax, Patti Cassell, an AT&T employee from Leesburg, or Paul Cramer, an ex-World War II aircraft carrier and commercial pilot, and Will Russell, a radiologist from Elizabeth City, N. C. ‘The fun is people get to know the Randy Rouses and the Paul Cramers,” says Mr. Winants. ‘The races are ftin to watch and you can feel the amateur flavor. The local media have really helped create a spectator event out of these races in the last few years.” The enthusiasm of the participants and their obvious enjoyment can even make some spectators want to become owners or riders themsleves. The lack of purses has not stopped people from coming into the sport in increasing number. Around here people run their horses over fences whether there’s money or not,” says Mrs. D. M. Smithwick, a highly successful breeder and trainer of steeplechasers from Middleburg. “I think it’s just because they like to see their horses run.” Besides training horses Mrs. Smithwick also helps young novice riders get started racing over fences. Several young riders have apprenticed at her barns and gone on to successful riding careers. During the Virginia point-topoint season Mrs. Smithwick sponsors a division for novice riders to recognize up and coming talent. The Middleburg and Piedmont hunt meets both have special races for See Growth, Page 25 Cafinfima^ecrs (jencbvman Traditional Woodworking Architectural Millwork Libraries & Kitchens Formal Wall Paneling Mantels—Entrance Doors » ♦» M ♦» ♦» « Reproduction Furniture > 7?(>. R\\^' n ‘£»nv ff <Stmt ’ | Y%- VfainsSVa. 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►Races From Page 11 and horses and riders in these races cannot compete in any other race on the card that day. Riders and horses must be certified by the master of foxhounds of their hunt that they have hunted regularly and fairly during the current season. Often at these races you will see the stars of the next season’s owner/rider timber races. In addition to the regular races at a point-to-point, the host hunt often will offer a hunter pair race or a hunter pace event before the day’s racing begins. In most of these contests — with the exception of some that afk held on the flat — it is necessary to be a member of a recognized hunt and to have fairly hunted dur- - ing the current season. Horses are started in nairs and ran enmnete for op timum time over the course, fastest time over the course, or optimum time for junior riders. Hunter pair or hunter pace courses are usually 2x/> to 3 miles in length. The riders are not allowed to ride their horses over the course before the actual event but are encouraged to walk the course so they will know what to expect. It does not matter if a horse refuses a fence or if a rider has a fall. Horses and riders must complete the specified course and only time counts. An old-fashioned point-to-point harkens back to the days of the first steeplechase in Ireland in 1752. A starting point and a finishing point are given, but then it is up to the rider to determine which course will take • him to his objective in the fastest time. Knowledge of the country is a definite advantage here. These different races often come with their own rules. For instance, some races are limited to ladies, others to maidens. A maiden is a horse which has never won a steeplechase race. VIRGINIA POINT-TO-POINT CIRCUIT Casanova Rappahannock Blue Ridge Warrenton Piedmont Feb. 28 March 7 March 14 March 21 March 28 Middleburg Old Dominion Bull Run Huntar Pace Oatlands Fairfax April 4 April 11 April 18 April 19 April 26 JOINT CONDITION BOOK FOR ALL MEETS NOW AVAILABLE Virginia Point-To-Point Council c/o Will O'Keefe Box 398. Warrenton, VA 22186 703/439-3669 ►Growth From Page 23 this type of riders. “The novice rider races, which are always overfilled, give riders a chance to ride who might not get that chance otherwise,” Mrs. Smithwick explains. “Unless the conditions are written for novice riders owners are going to want to put the best jockeys like Beraie Houghton or Ricky Hendriks on their horses and the novices aren’t going to be able to get rides.” Among the winners of the S. H. R. Fred Plate that Mrs. Smithwick sponsors have been John Fitzge% raid, a young Irish rider who last year recorded a highly successful season racing on the flat. The thrill of having a novice horse or rider that you have trained do well is one of the major attractions to public trainers in point-topoint racing. “Financially it’s a break even situation for most of us,” says Don Yovanovich, a public trainer in Upperville who was the leading trainer on the Virginia point-topoint circuit last year. “The best thing I can hope to do at the end of the season is sell a horse that’s won a couple of races for a profit. But nothing makes me feel better than watching a young horse I’ve trained do well or having a novice rider I’ve trained win a race.” Last year Mr. Yovanovich was the conditioner behind Dr. Russell’s impressive conquest of the Seven r Comers Owner Rider Timber Series aboard Marat, who also won the Timber Horse of the Year award. Mr. Yovanovich also helped Bruce Rosenbaum, a riding stable manager from Middleburg, who had never ridden in a race before, win his first race at Casanova and another later in the season at Fairfax. “You share the exhilaration and the feeling with these guys when they win because you work with them every day. That’s really rewarding to me. I get the most natural high from that — and that’s why I keep doing it.” FARRAR’S cTt'/w (y/of/u/uj ty/fx For Gentlemen Living in the Country 10 A.M.- 5:30 P.M. 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The second race, the Manassas Open Pace, will offer the optimum time and fast time divisions for adults and/or juniors who do not have to belong to hunts. The Greenville Flat Pace will t challenge pairs of riders and their mounts across two miles of hunting country in optimum time. No jumps will be used in this race. The Blue and Gray Team Pace will be held for teams of three horses and/or ponies who will cross the 3mile jumping course for optimum time. For additional information call (703) 754-8589. Middleburg Spring Races On Saturday, April 18, the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association sanctioned Middleburg Spring Races will be run at Glenwood Park near Middleburg. Purses have doubled this year and promise to attract quality horses. Along with a seven-race card, two exhibitions will be offered by the Middleburg Spring Race Association. There will be a carriage exhibition and a pack of foxhounds exhibition and demonstration at the racecourse. Gates open to the public at 10 a.m. and the first race takes off at 1 p.m. The first race, the Foxhunters’ Bowl, will take maiden horses across a mile and six furlongs dotted with National Fences. A $7,500 purse is the offing for a first-time winner. The Thomas and Talbot Bowl will follow. This is a maiden claiming hurdle over a mile and six furlongs. A $5,000 purse is up for the winners. The Piedmont Hunt Cup runs next —again a maiden race but this time over the park’s sturdy new timber course. The first completing the 3-mile course claims the $10,000 purse. An allowance hurdle, the Glenwood Hurdle, runs fourth. Two miles over National Fences will determine the winner of the $10,000 prize. The fifth race is a stakes race. The $25,000 purse should draw stiff competition to try the 2l/2-mile hurdle course. The Middleburg Hunt Cup runs sixth. Three and a quarter miles of open timber await the challengers for the $20,000 purse. Finally, a tun race will cap the day. A long 1%mile course has been designed to help train future steeplechase horses. For further information and parking reservations call (703) 6876545. Loudoun Hunt The Loudoun Hunt will sponsor its 21st annual Oatlands Point-toPoint on Easter Sunday, April 19. Eight races are on the card and though the races don’t start until 2, the gates will open for tailgaters at 11 a.m. The first race of the day will be the owner-rider hurdle race. Two and a quarter miles spotted with National Hurdles will challenge entries. Non-winners over timber get the next crack at the course. An open hurdle race will be held next over V/2 miles, before the field is turned over to the maiden horses who will go for their first win. Ladies come out next for a run around the timber course. The William Corcoran Eustis Cup is up for grabs at approximately See Preview, Page 31 Waller? 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►Preview From Page-27 5 p.m. To capture this prize, horses and riders must cross about 4 gruelling miles of timber course with weights upward of 175 pounds. A $2,000 purse goes to the winner. A 2-mile flat race will be the sundowner. For further information, parking and subscriptions call (703) 777-3456, 777-9519 £>r Metro 478-1042. F'oxfield Races On Saturday, April 25, the Foxfield Racing Association will host a :ard of seven races on the Foxfield Race Course in Charlottesville. The day will start off at 10:30 a.m. for activities and tailgating. ■ *ost time for the first race is 2 p.m. I The first race of the day otters a at purse of $75,000 for maidens. 'Ion-winners can challenge the 2nile course complete with National lurdles. In the second race there nil be no hurdles. A flat race will rnsue over a fast mile of turf. The third race brings the action lack to the hurdles. Non-winners of wo races, older than 3-years-old, ■an 'chase for the $10,000 purse. The fourth race sets the older lorses, 5-years-old and up, against hree miles of timber, for a $5,000 irize. That will be followed by a laiming race over hurdles for an squal purse. The sixth race of the day is the eature Foxfield Cup. A $12,500 purse should attract quality hurdlers to 'chase 2'A miles. The final race of the day is also a hurdle race, this time a maiden claimer. For further information, subscriptions and parking call (804) 2938169 or write Foxfield Racing Association, P.O. Box 5187, Charlottesville, Va. 22915. Fairfax Hunt The Fairfax Hunt will sponsor a card of eight point-to-point races and a hunting pair event Sunday, April 26, on the historic Belmont Plantation near Leesburg. lhe day will kick on at 11:30 a.m. with the hunting pair event. Pairs of horses will compete for optimum time, fast time and junior optimum time over 3 miles of flagged, natural hunting country. Trophies are offered to the winners. The first race of the day is for the juniors. Youngsters under 18 will take their horses over seven-eighths of a mile, ponies over half a mile of turf. Then a flat race will be held for the adults, challenging riders with 1% miles of fast-paced running. An open hurdle will be held over natural cedar hurdles and 2'A miles for owner-riders. Ladies mount up next to try the 3-mile timber course, then the owner-riders give it a shot. The Ricacho Memorial, a perpetual trophy, is awarded to the winner of this race. The final race of the day is an open timber race over the scenic 3mile course. For information call (703) 7773805, 532-2956 or 759-2651. Virginia Gold Cup The first Saturday in May will bring the 61st running of the Virginia Gold Cup Races at Great Meadow near The Plains. A National Steeplechase and Hunt Association sanctioned meet, the seven-race card promises to attract top horses. Also, a tailgating competition sponsored by Mid-Atlantic Magazine promises a fun and filling day. The first race, the Stratfordupon-Avon, offers a $10,000 purse to the first horses across the 2-mile brush course of National Fences. The following race, the V irginia Silver Cup, offers an equal prize for its 3'/4-mile timber contest for maidens. The USTA Cup will also be run across 2V-> miles with National Fences for a $10,000 purse. Following that an open brush race will be run at 2'/± miles. The purse, to be sponsored by First American Bank, should be a big one and promises to draw a fine field. The fifth race is the historic Virginia Gold Cup. A tough timber test, it will be run over 4 miles of countryside, with heavy timber fences including the famous water jump. The prize at the end, though, pays for the miles with a purse of $30,000. Next the William Rochester Memorial will be contested by maidens. This 2-mile, claiming brush race offers an $8,000 purse. The final race will be the Virginia Thoroughbred Association Plate, a 2-mile flat race offering a $1,000 purse. 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