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...When Gerald McIntyre returned home to Waynesboro, Pa., last week after a year of active duty at Fort Lewis, Wash., waiting for him were wife Pam, son Jacob, 6, and a house that is two-thirds the size of their old one. McIntyre is starting to look for work - he left his civilian job so that he could cash in his retirement and profit sharing to pay off the family's debt before going into active duty. Pam quit her job to be home for Jacob. Rather than go out to eat as they used to, Pam and Jacob will...
...been bitterly unhappy since Julia's remarriage." Waynesboro's genteel bigots are scarcely more compelling. Germans are "hucksters" and the Irish "pa pists." The enduring central themes of Ladies are the passage of years and the sense of moribund small-town life. These the author conveys effectively, if windily, as she regards time as "an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew...
...such small district is Waynesboro, Pa. By investing $2.6 million of this year's $12.6 million budget in the fund, Waynesboro School District Business Manager Wallace Jones expects to increase interest earnings by 20%, to $200,000, which may be used to buy equipment, such as computers, and reduce property taxes. Says Jones: "Anything you can do to lessen the burden on the taxpayer is very important...
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...year U.S. business supported culture to the tune of $25 million and is expected to spend 10% more in 1964. Chase Manhattan Bank has a $500,000 collection of modern art and gives some $350,000 a year to educational and cultural projects. The Basic-Witz Furniture Co. of Waynesboro, Va., commissioned a concerto by Robert Evett for its 75th anniversary, and General Motors recently sent its employees 600,000 copies of two booklets: French Impressionism and Masterpieces from the Louvre...