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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 19, 1990                   TAG: 9004190342
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: GEORGE KEGLEY BUSINESS EDITOR
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

JOKES TOP MENU FOR CREDIT GROUP

Ten years ago, an investor won a toaster for opening a savings and loan account - today, you buy a toaster and get a free savings and loan association, said satirist Dick Flavin in Roanoke Wednesday.

The sins of a few savings and loans have been visited on others, he told more than 200 people at the Credit Marketing & Management Association's annual dinner-meeting at the Tanglewood Holiday Inn. Many S&L executives "are tired of the excesses of others," he added.

Flavin also talked about the problems of former House Speaker Jim Wright and John Tower's unsuccessful bid to become defense secretary. When someone asked Tower what he would do as secretary of defense if he were bombed, Tower said, according to Flavin: "I'd get someone to drive me home."

Reporting the forthcoming marriage of the son of New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and the daughter of the late Robert Kennedy, Flavin said, "Just when it seems liberals are about extinct, they mate."

As talk turns to 1992 elections, Flavin said, "Don't sell Ted Kennedy short . . . Anyone who can gain weight on a trip to Ethiopia . . . "

Vice President Dan Quayle brings criticism on himself, the speaker said. "The administration wanted to send him to Central America and three days later they found him wandering around Ohio."

The organization of merchants and credit bureaus in the Roanoke Valley and throughout Western Virginia elected Wylie E. Walton as board chairman, following William H. Tuttle. Walton is credit coordinator/internal auditor of Grand Piano & Furniture Co. Tuttle is a Crestar Bank vice president.

Monty W. Plymale, regional vice president of Central Fidelity Bank, is first vice chairman; C. Stan Cross, vice president and general manager of Holdren's, second vice chairman; and Fred L. Newhouse Jr., senior vice president of First National Bank of Christiansburg, treasurer. New directors are Harold N. Hoback, Edward C. Moomaw Jr. and Jimmy W. Robertson, Roanoke; Frank D. Terry, Salem; and Allen W. Dudley, Rocky Mount.

In the past year, the association bought the Credit Bureau of Christiansburg and combined its operations with those in Dublin.

by CNB