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30 YEARS AGO
December 20, 1962
James W. Coates of Sperryville
assumed duties officially as county of ice manager of the Rappahannock Agricultural Stabilization Committee on Monday, Dec. 17. He was appointed manager in November and since has received six weeks of training in Southampton, Patrick and Fauquier counties before returning to the Rappahannock of ice. Mr. Coates is a native of Madison County where he was employed as a field reporter in the A.S.C.S. program several years ago. He previously worked with Rappahannock Farmers Cooperative and was manager of Washington Apple Growers Cooperative.
A merger of the First National Bank of Flint Hill and the Citizens National Bank of Front Royal won the approval Wednesday of Currency Comptroller James J. Saxon. The merger is effective Jan. 1. The $572,000 Flint Hill bank will take the name of the $7 million Front Royal Bank, the Associated Press said in a dispatch from Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lindgren from Stockholm, Sweden and more recently of Los Angeles, California have purchased 2600 acre Jessamine Hill Farm in Tiger Valley near Washington,
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