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Rt. 5 Box 110-109 Ridgewood Mobile Home Park Chapel Hill , NC 27514 May 20, 1987 Shirley Marshall , Chair Orange County Commissioners 106 E. Margaret Lane Hillsborough, NC 27278 Dear Ms. Marshall : Through my support of such national environmental organizations such as Defenders of Wildlife, National Wildlife Association and the like, 1 naively thought the Steel-Jaw Leghold Trap was a Western problem which all Americans should be concerned about. Now I am_: shocked to learn that this cowardly, brutal and despicable method of "entrapment" is used in Orange County, North Carolina. I honestly thought the leghold trap was banned years ago in eastern states. You don' t need to be reminded of the agonizing death caused by such traps, as you know there is no quick "painless" death to the animal or bird caught thusly. To think that a wandering child could stumble into such horror is of a magnitude beyond the thinking of a civilized person. That, fortunately, has not happened in Orange County, but many domestic pets in this county have been caught in the leghold trap and have suffered needlessly--often losing a limb. I support the ban on Steel-Jaw Leghold Traps in Orange County, indeed I would like to see their ban throughout North Carolina. I urge you and your fellow commissioners to approve that section of the ordinance banning the use of leghold traps in Orange County. I would also urge the County Commissioners to ban their sale in Orange County and to encourage an educational program among hunters and trappers and in the school systems as to the barbarism of this method of entrapment. Such educa- tional programs in the form of literature, video tapes, : photos are available from many national wildlife organizations. S. cerely yours, / (Mrs. ) Carroll C. Carrozz/I