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“The board must decide if the loitering problem is serious enough to merit passage of this type of ordinance,” he stated.
Baldwin pointed out that a deputy driving by a country store faces a difficult decision in determining if the person sitting around is "whittling on a stick or punching holes in tires.”
The ordinance takes care of that point, Buntin noted, by specifying that an individual must move on when requested by a peace officer before that individual can be charged with loitering.
Sole Amusement
For Some
The only amusement some people can afford "is to go down to Skippy Giles’ store and sit for a few hours watching the cars drive by,” said Baldwin. “I have sympathy for them. I know these people.” If the law is administered properly. Baldwin maintained, police will have to ask those old fellows to move along just like the troublemakers.
In response to questioning from Col. Luke. Wood reported no difficulties with loiterers in Woodville. “Everybody is too busy. They don’t have time to sit around,” the StonewallHawthorne supervisor said.
Supervisor Hubert Gilkey said there’s no problem in Chester Gap but added that Flint Hill, the other half of Wakefield District, had difficulties with loitering.
Wih no futher discussion, the board voted unanimous support for J. R. Latham’s motion to table the proposed loitering ordinance "for the time being.”
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