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Show SPORTSMEN ASKED TO REFRAIN FROM SIGN SHOOTING A plea for sportsmen, if sportsmen sports-men they are, to desist from shooting shoot-ing holes through state road signs Monday was issued by officials of the state road commission. Pointing out that the road department de-partment has 'about 50,000 signs to maintain over the state and that only about thirty can be repaired re-paired and repainted per day, Ray H. Leavitt, state road commission chairman, said unless the sign vandalism van-dalism ceases, the state's road markers will be in ill repair during dur-ing the centennial year. Garth Van Campen, superintendent superinten-dent of the state highway sign shop, deplored the large number of signs that are brought to his department de-partment for repair or replacements. replace-ments. He said that ordinarily only on-ly sportsmen carry firearms but, he added, "real sportsmen would confine their shooting to something some-thing that offered the victim a gaming chance." He said shot-up signs come to his department by the truckload. |