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(Continued from Page 1) Eaatham said. He maintained that the board, like Congress, sees a tax Increase as the only means of balancing a budget. Rappahannock is witnessing “a total failure in leadership, and time is running out on you,” he warned the supervisors.
Calling the idea of an ABC store “the Krebser/Gilkey proposal,” he said that local churches won’t speak out against the package outlet “until hell freezes over” and the supervisors are “skating on the ice.” But if the liquor store plan gets the board’s endorsement, Mr. Eastham warned, the supervisors will be removed from office, “either by the voters or by the process of law in this courtroom!”
In a rambling, disjointed discourse, he called upon the board members to give up their seats “early New Year’s Day to go skating together,” apparently anticipating that the incumbents will be defeated in elections this November. And if five good men can’t be found as replacements, better for Rappahannock to be governed by martial law, Mr. Eastham concluded, saying the present board “has permitted this county to drift into utter chaos.”
Ron Frazier of Amissville called the ABC store proposal “a county problem and not just a district problem.” Allowing a package store here will cause increased truancy, broken homes and highway accidents, he said, asking the supervisors to request that the ABC Board reject Dr. Krebser’s application.
“It’s a county problem,” Jackson District resident Dorothy Whorton repeated. “I and my family and friends have to travel these roads” with those who will be driving after drinking alcohol bought at the package store, she said. Alcohol sales will contribute “to crime, violence and car accidents,” she concluded.
“I don’t see why you’d even think twice about this if you have any conscience,” Jackson resident Cathy Frazier told the supervisors. “We do not need one more sale of this stuff ... I ask you to say a silent prayer and ask the Lord to direct you on what you should do,” she admonished the board members.
“I think Bob (Eastham) is feeling the pulse of this county,” Ms. Frazier continued. “If my supervisor voted for this, he would be out and quick! There’d be no thinking twice about it!”
John Burke, pastor of the Gid Brown Bible Church between Washington and Sperryville, said he opposes the package store because “God opposes it.” As verification, he quoted the scriptural passage which warns: “Woe unto him who gives his neighbor drink.” According to Rev. Burke, “75 percent of our people who are in jail are there because of alcohol.” Community interests would be better served, he said, by renting the empty space at Flint Hill
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