Clarke County Agriculture Faces Modern Pressures and Growth
Clarke County's agricultural sector accounts for about 62 percent of the 111 000 acre area with 257 farms averaging 290 acres. Major products include beef cattle apples dairy cows and horses while mechanization rises and land consolidates. Despite price pressures farmers remain committed and the Master Plan safeguards farmland.
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Star
Clarke County
Russell Martin
Martin
March
Clarke County Faces Mixed Industrial and Retail Trends
Clarke County seeks new industry while retail trade shows minor gains. County Clerk James Wood notes limited industrial interest since the Johns Manville plant visit. Doubleday & Co. employs about 500 locally with 250 residents. Retail talks reveal uneven gains, with Berryville stores reporting March upticks and several merchants noting varied sales versus last year.
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Clarke County
James Wood
Johns-Manville
Gaylord
Local Obituary and Notice Highlights Names In Memoriam
Roy E Potts and Lulu Williams are listed among figures named in a local obituary and notice. Jim Ackley John Hickey Fran Coombs David Newlin and Roy E Potts Ill Doug O Connell appear in the accompanying memorial snippet.
Clarke County Master Plan Advocates Limited Industrial Growth
The Clarke County master plan approved last year calls for limited industrial development with no nuisance industries in enclosed, landscaped tracts and aims to prevent strip commercial development along by passes to preserve visual order while noting industrial growth will broaden the tax base and provide local jobs.
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Clarke
Clarke County
Clarke County Faces Shifting Economic Balance From Agriculture
Clarke County's plan notes an ongoing rural character with growth centered in Berryville Boyce and Millwood. State figures show agriculture shedding about 5.4 percent of jobs yearly since 1969 while per capita income rises and retail trade grows about 4.4 percent annually.
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G. F. Sponseller
Sponseller
Berryville
Clarke County
Boyce
Millwood
Mike McCarthy
State Division of Planning and Community Affairs
Clarke
McCarthy
University of Virginia
Tayloe Murphy Institute
Virginia Employment Commission
Winchester
Washington, D.C
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By Jim Ackley
Gene Rhode
Blue Ridge
Fran Coombs
Wood
The
Doubleday
Ken Carr
Carr
C. A. Hobert
Coiner’s Dept
Hobert
Eustace Jackson
Scheuer’s Dept. Store
Jackson
Oscar Kave
East Side
Kave
Donald Nesselrodt
Boyce Grocery
Nesselrodt
Ethel Carper
Ethel’s Grocery
Lone Oak
Doubleday Plant
Gene Rhodes
Star Color
J. Miles Cary
Roy E. Potts Ill
Lulu Williams
Jim Ackley
John Hickey
David Newlin
Doug O'Connell
McCarty
Doubleday & Co
Boise-Cascade
Smalley Package Co
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