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The disease of disinterest has hit again in Rappahannock. It struck twice last Thursday —first in the courthouse at the Supervisor s public hearing on the proposed hunter control ordinance and later that night at the Rappahannock Athletic Association’s organizational session to plan a summer baseball program. The outlook is bleak. Judging from letters and comments received by the Rappahannock News during the past two hunting seasons, there’s support for laws that would assist the Game Warden in enforcing restrictions against roadside hunting. But that interest certainly wasn’t evident on Thursday. Only four citizens bothered to show up at the Supervisor ’s public hearing and stand behind ordinances that would make it illegal to carry a loaded rifle or shotgun in an automobile or along a public road.
Maybe people who were concerned last winter feel that the problem with "slob hunters" has disappeared now that the guns are silent for another year.
It hasn’t and it won’t until Game Warden Jim Bankston has the tools he needs to enforce existing laws. Bankston feels that passages of the ordinances proposed by the Supervisors will help him combat “slob hunting.” He's the one who spends hours patrolling hundreds of miles of county roads. If anyone knows what is necessarv to control hunting violations committed by the small percentage of bad apples, Bankston should.
Wisely, the Supervisors decided to hold the record open until June 1 rather than vote on the ordinances at Thursday’s meeting. Rappahannock residents who support the proposed
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