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50 years ago December 1, 1960 Lyle Updike, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Updike near Washington Va., won second place in the 4-H Livestock Judging Contest, held in connection with the International Livestock Exposition at Chicago. He judged classes of beef cattle, swine and sheep last Friday and on Saturday received...
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50 years ago November 24, 1960 Thirty deer have been checked in at game checking stations in Rappahannock County since Monday morning when the hunting season opened. At Payne’s Garage in Washington the following deer were reported: Robert M. Collier, Falls Church, 9 pt.; Charles F. Baldwin, Washington, 8 pt.; Roy W. Clatterbuck, Washington,...
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50 years ago November 17, 1960 Washington Rescue Squad met Thursday, Nov. 10 and reorganized under the name of Rappahannock Rescue Squad since it covers a greater part of the county. The captain, Frank Huff, presided at the meeting with 11 members present. A 1961 Ford station wagon, fully equipped for use as an...
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50 years ago November 10, 1960 The Virginia Teachers Association Convention closed its 79th annual session in Richmond on Friday. Rev. Martin Luther King of Alabama closed the Friday session with an address. Mrs. Julia Boddie was a delegate from Rappahannock County Teachers Association to the convention. Also from Rappahannock were the following teachers...
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Rena Mae Pullen, 19-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Pullen of Washington, won the Cherry Pie Contest held at Clarke County High School in Berryville. By baking the best cherry pie in the competition she will represent Virginia at the National Contest in Chicago on Feb. 22. The winner will go to Washington...
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Blue Ridge Fruit Growers Cooperative at Sperryville -- processors of famous Skyline Drive Brand apple juice -- has installed a new press at the plant for extracting the juice from the apples. Irvin R. Kilby, as production manager and technologist, is responsible for sample checks on vacuum temperature, fill, acid content, soluble solids,...
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50 years ago October 20, 1960 Mr. “Buck” Brown of the Lee Highway Garage, has made and donated to Rappahannock County High School, three volleyball net supports. These supports are constructed of used automobile wheels complete with inflated tires. They hold the uprights, which in turn hold the nets. The three heavy durable fixtures...
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50 years ago October 13, 1960 Miss Dorothy Wood, a former resident of Rappahannock County now living in Las Cruces, N.M., has been awarded the New Mexico Delta Kappa Gamma special scholarship, which she will use for doctoral study in the field of elementary education at the University of Denver in Colorado. Miss Wood,...
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50 years ago September 29, 1960 Cletus Printz and his son, William Printz, are developing an 11 1/2 acre subdivision known as Jackson Acres in Amissville, Va. The lots of approximately a half acre have been marked off and construction of the first building is under way. This house, Westwood, is a six-room dwelling...
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50 years ago September 29, 1960 Chester Gap, once referred to as a sleepy little community, sitting high atop a mountain peak in the Blue Ridge, between Warren and Rappahannock counties, no longer fits the description. Since the opening of the post office there in 1954 in the country store owned and operated by...
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50 Years Ago September 22, 1960 A 21 inch, 4 pound 7 ounce bass caught by Clyde Burkhart of Front Royal, Saturday, Sept. 10 in the South Fork of the Shenandoah River is to date the largest fish entered in the contest sponsored by Bill’s Sporting Goods Store in Front Royal. The fish, caught...
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50 years ago September 15, 1960 Open house at Rappahannock County High School will be held Sunday, Sept. 18 from 2 until 6 p.m. Everyone interested in bring shown through the building is invited to come. Teachers and some pupils will conduct visitors through the school. Refreshments will be served, with Mrs. Glenna Bennett,...
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50 years ago September 8, 1960 The Amissville Baptist Church baseball team defeated Remington Saturday in a game played at Culpeper to take the Shiloh Association Championship. The Amissville team, managed by Jack James, had as its players Teddy Hodge, Wendell Latham, Douglas Bywaters, William James, David James, Billy Mills, Earl Mills, Otis Deal,...
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50 years ago September 1, 1960 Miss Elizabeth Taylor Bruce, daughter of Robert S. Bruce of Front Royal and niece of Mr. And Mrs. C. E. Brown of Sperryville, with whom she made her home, received her diploma from Grace Hospital School of Nursing, Friday, Aug. 26. Miss Bruce was a graduate of the...
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50 years ago August 18, 1960 The Rappahannock Farm Bureau has made two awards, one to Miss Phyllis Hudson of Washington, Va., and one to H. B. Wood, Jr., of Woodville, Va., to attend the Young People’s Leadership Training Camp at Camp Farrar, Virginia Beach from Aug. 23 to Aug. 28. The camp is...
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50 years ago August 11, 1960 A rain and wind storm lashed Rappahannock County late last Thursday afternoon, with the most severe portion centered in the Ben Venue and Amissville area. A large hay-filled barn at Bunree, the farm of D. G. Laing at Amissville, collapsed with bales of hay tumbling from its rent...
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50 years ago August 4, 1960 A timber rattler measuring over four feet in length with nine rattles was killed Friday afternoon in the yard at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Merrill at Washington by Clabert Smoot. It is believed that the snake was roused from its home in a nearby...
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50 years ago July 28, 1960 Mrs. Thelma D. Russell, daughter of Mrs. P. D. Dennis and the late Mr. Dennis of Flint Hill, received her diploma from the Winchester Memorial Hospital School of Nursing on Wednesday, July 20, 1960 at the 8 p.m. graduation exercises held in the Presbyterian Church on London Street...
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50 years ago July 21, 1960 Irvin O. Wolf, Hawthorne, Woodville, has been appointed Sales Representative for the Daffin Manufacturing Company, Lancaster, Pa., a division of the Daffin Corporation, manufacturers of mobile feed processing plants, according to an announcement made by Herbert D. Schell, Mobile Sales Manager. Wolf, who was formerly self- employed as...
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50 years ago July 14, 1960 Miss Becky Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Jones of Washington, accepted a position with a meal and flour company and left Sunday for Chicago, where she will attend a training school for two weeks, after which she will work in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and...
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Eleven members of the Hiker's Club started at the Pinnacles on Sunday, June 19 and took the trail to Thornton River Gap. The trail wound through woodland carpeted with moss and bordered with columbine and dozens of other wild flowers. Several times the trail came near the highway where some of the members tried...
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50 years ago, June 30, 1960: The National Apple Institute has expanded its name to The National Apple Institute, the Apple Growers of American.
E. M. "Ned" Jones of Washington, Va., head of the Virginia State Apple Commission, was elected president of the Institute, which wound up its annual meeting on June 24. A budget...
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50 years ago June 23, 1960 The Boy Scouts cleared $13.30 at the bake sale held Saturday. Proceeds will go toward tents for the troop. Those present at the bake sale were Scouts Ned Moffett Jones, Jimmie Jenkins, Tim Keating, Roger Hawkins, and Page and Frank Moffett. Others helping were Mrs. Veronica Keating, Mrs....
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50 years ago June 16, 1960 Cadet Francis Marion Bruce of Sperryville was among the 177 Virginia Military Institute first classmates who graduated from the Institute in exercises held there June 14. Cadet Bruce, an electrical engineering major, graduated with a bachelor of science degree and will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the...
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Mayor and council ladies of the town of Washington will come up for reelection Tuesday, May 14. Not having qualified 60 days before election, as required by law, the election will be a write-in-vote. Mrs. Morgan Johnson has announced that she is not a candidate and will not accept the office of council lady...
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On the evening of Friday, June 10 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. The Sunday School of the Washington Baptist Church is entertaining at a reception in honor of Mrs. J. Frank Jones in recognition of her fifty years of faithful service in the primary department. All of her friends and former pupils are cordially...
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50 years ago May 26, 1960 Top scholastic honors at Rappahannock County High School have been awarded to Walter B. Kilby, valedictorian and Elizabeth Latham, salutatorian. Walter B., son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kilby of Sperryville, is outstanding in 4-H Club work and is a member of the 4-H Honor Club and baseball...
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50 years ago May 19, 1960 Dorothy Reeve was crowned May Queen at the annual May Day-Health Day program held May 12 at Sperryville Elementary School. Health King was Bobby Deal and Shirley Atkins was the Maid of Honor. Prince of Health was Roger Hawkins and attendants were Jo Ann Fox, Ruth Ann Clark,...
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50 years ago: Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors met Wednesday, May 4 for their regular meeting with Chairman E. M. Jones, Herbert Foster, Landern Luttrell and E. M. Estes present. Mrs. Buntin of the Welfare Department presented a hospital bill for payment. It was agreed to pay the bill with the understanding of being...
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50 years ago May 6, 1960 A soft reflection from the lighted pool cast a warm glow of welcome to the two-hundred and forty guests at Meadow Brook Hall, the lovely country place of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Duncan near Flint Hill where the Rappahannock Hunt Club held its annual Hunt Ball Saturday evening,...
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50 years ago: April 28, 1960 Mrs. Irvin Wolf of Sperryville was named Chairman of the Finance Committee for the Rappahannock County Library, organized last week to raise funds for the restoration of the old Presbyterian church building on Gay Street. The trustees announced last week that they had received a grant of $3,000...
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50 years ago April 21, 1960 The Virginia Division of Forestry announced this week that the last orders for tree seedlings have delivered to the landowners. Nearly 40 million tree seedlings have been planted in Virginia during the past four months. The following people planted forest tree seedlings for reforestation in Rappahannock: Wade H....
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50 years ago April 14, 1960 The County Board of Supervisors at its last meeting empowered Judge Rayner Snead to set up a board of trustees to conduct the business of the new Rappahannock Library to be located in the old Presbyterian Church on Gay Street in Washington. Judge Snead this week announced the...
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50 years ago April 7, 1960 Miss Shirley Brown, a forward on the RCHS basketball squad, was chosen for the tourney all-stars at the close of the season. The Rappahannock team placed fourth in District Nine. The Womans Auxiliary of the Flint Hill Fire Company met on Monday evening at the fire hall. New...
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50 years ago March 31, 1960 C. B. Johnson of Woodville, has been appointed Vice-chairman of the Woodville area in the current Red Cross Fund Drive. Long interested in Red Cross activities, Mr. Johnson served as the county fund chairman in 1959. A retired postal transportation clerk. Mr. Johnson names as his hobbies, working...
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50 years ago March 24, 1960 Mrs. Magdalene Dearing, who is vice chairman of the Red Cross Fund Campaign among the colored people of Rappahannock, is a faithful worker for its activities. She has assisted with the Bloodmobile every trip it has made to the county. She is a housewife, living at Washington, who...
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50 years ago March 17, 1960 R. Taylor Hoskins, Superintendent of Shenandoah National Park. Has announced that Park Ranger James R. (Bob) Johnson has been promoted to the District Ranger position being vacated by Charles A. Budge. Mr. Johnson is a native of Rappahannock County where he had his early schooling at Sperryville and...
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50 years ago March 10, 1960 At the annual meeting of the Culpeper Memorial Hospital, Inc., on February 5, 1960 at the Culpeper Baptist Church, Culpeper. Mrs. Charles Edward Johnson, Jr., of Sperryville was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for a term of three years. More than 10 inches of snow...
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50 years ago March 3, 1960 After forty-three years as treasurer of Forest Grove Baptist Church at Viewtown. Mr. William A. Corbin retired on January 1, 1960. Although Mr. Corbin moved to Culpeper in 1920 where he has been associated with Yowell Hardware Co., he still holds his membership at Forest Grove and attends...
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50 years ago February 25, 1960 Miss Alice Wood, daughter of Mrs. Downing Wood of Washington, Va., was the lucky person given the clock radio by the seniors of Rappahannock County High School at the basketball game Saturday evening at Sperryville. In spite of the wind-beaten, rain packed snow, Rappahannock Hounds met at the...
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