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(Continued from Page 1) said. “I don’t think that’s right.” "How many more roadside hunters is Bankston going to be able to catch with this law?" asked Welch. “I didn’t see in the paper where he caught a single one shooting from the road” during the past hunting season, he added. "Why does Mr. Bankston want to put more laws on this gun thing when he can’t enforce the laws already on the books?” asked Herbert Foster. According to Foster, a lot of deer were shot in his orchards during apple picking. "I never saw Mr. Bankston up there this fall—not one time,” he said. "Whether he thinks the hunt club ought to look after that hollow up there, I don’t know."

In answer to Col. Luke, Charles Foster reported that the combined membership of the hunting and fishing clubs was approximately 100 persons and all were opposed to adoption of the hunter control ordinances.

Carson Johnson, noting he was not a member of either the hunting or fishing clubs, also opposed the ordinances. Adoption would "put us right into something this county just does not need,” he maintained.

Bob Dennis, speaking for approval of the ordinance pertaining to carrying a loaded firearm on a public road, pointed out that the regulations wouldn’t apply to persons hunting on their own property. The new law would affect only someone walking down the road carrying a loaded rifle or shotgun without having permission to hunt from property owners along the road, Dennis noted.

“How many counties have ! passed ordinances similar to i those proposed for Rap' pah an nock?” asked Charles Foster.

Bankston reported that Culpeper, Fauquier and Loudoun Counties had ; enacted similar legislation. He acknowledged that

proposad hunter control \ ordinances had been tabled .* in Madison County for a year *■ and turned down in Warren.

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