
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 4, 1995                   TAG: 9505040112
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                                LENGTH: Short

CONSERVATION CHIEF KILLS PIGS IN PARK

Virginia's director of conservation and recreation stopped a caravan of state officials driving to False Cape State Park last week so he could shoot two wild pigs with a handgun.

H. Kirby Burch, appointed last June by Gov. George Allen, explained through a spokesman Wednesday that he was carrying his own gun in hope of bagging a big pig for a Virginia National Guard barbecue next week.

State personnel rules bar employees from carrying firearms or weapons on state time, according to the Virginia secretary of administration's office in Richmond.

The spokesman responded that his boss was driving his own car, that the gun was licensed and that Burch was headed to a meeting and dinner at False Cape with state park managers and other staff.

- Landmark News Service

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