The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, August 13, 1994              TAG: 9408120022
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A12  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

MORE LETTERS, PLEASE

Thank you for including your syndicated columnists' addresses at the end of their columns. It's a welcome addition, allowing us to write to them. At the rate we're going, they may be the only people we have a chance of reaching with our ideas!

I can't believe you tell your readers of your efforts ``to present as many views as possible'' in an insert to a letters column with only three short letters (Friday, Aug. 5). Your ``expanded'' letters column on Saturday does not, in my estimation, make up for giving your local readers/writers short shrift the rest of the week.

MARY G. MARTIN

Virginia Beach, Aug. 5, 1994 by CNB