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AFTER COVERING an estimated one and a quarter million miles in 17 automobiles, Trooper W.A. Buntin has retired from the Virginia Department of State Police. His 29 years service, all in Rappahannock, was officially completed May 31, 1975.
He joined VSP on April 1, 1946 at a starting salary of $1,800 a year and was required to work 10 hours a day, six days a week. His law enforcement career had begun earlier, however, for he was an MP during his tenure of duty with the U.S. Army.
Prior to Buntin’s assignment in Rappahannock, the county had been without a trooper for three years, since the resignation of R.E. Wood, nowofSperryville. For the next six years he worked alone except for an aging sheriff and his deputy who did not drive. The state radio dispatching system had just been initiated and Buntin was one of the first policemen to have a radio in the mobile unit.
Though much of a trooper’s duty is on the highway, they are also vested with the powers of a sheriff to enforce all laws. Among the problems which have confronted him are robberies, burglaries, domestic relations, strikes, riots, suicides and escaped convicts, in addition to wrecks and other traffic control.
W.A. BUNTIN was born in Houston, Va. (later changed to Halifax) on July 8, 1915. After graduating
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