Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 10, 1991 TAG: 9104100392
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Ed Shamy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
They do.
But a bigger problem has developed.
The creases are wicked on the little round tips on the heels of high-heeled shoes. Women are losing them by the jantakinzillion, those tips, getting them yanked right off their shoes.
Some entrepreneur is going to open a Kwik-Serv High-Heel Repair Shop at that airport soon, mark my words.
USAir flights are often delayed long enough to fix space shuttle hydrogen leaks. A rubber high-heeled tip ought to be a breeze.
Men don't have the problem because we wear our high-heeled shoes only at night. On Salem Avenue. On Wednesdays. And we wear pumps when we travel on Fridays and Sundays.
The AT&T Phone Center has abandoned Valley View Mall.
The nearest center to buy an AT&T phone is just a hop, skip and a jump away in Winston-Salem, N.C.
If you want your AT&T phone repaired and you are one of the quarter-million people who live in the Roanoke Valley, you just have to stroll over to New River Office Supply in Blacksburg, the nearest location.
AT&T, always concerned for its clients, has moved to an area with half (50 percent, 1/2) the population. Maybe it's a way to apologize for closing its giant plant in Fairlawn and pushing New River's economy down the manure chute.
Of course, in Blacksburg they do the same with your busted phone that they did at Valley View. They ship it to a repair shop in Atlanta for an oil change, a booster shot and a flea dip.
Jack Hanna was in town a few weeks ago to help the Blue Ridge Zoological Society raise a few dollars.
Hanna is the director of the zoo in Columbus, Ohio, and a gregarious spokesman for animals, conservation and zoos in desperate need of cash.
He is a regular on the late-night television talk show circuit, a Mutual of Omaha-less Marlin Perkins for baby boomers.
Jack Hanna says he loves Mill Mountain Zoo. He spoke here last year. He sent a pair of white tiger cubs to our zoo for a couple of weeks last fall - at no charge. Every time he visits, he gushes about the mountaintop location.
But Jack got ahead of himself in March, when he spoke repeatedly about Ruby, the zoo's Bengal tiger.
Ruby has for the past three years been billed as a Siberian tiger. But the whole reason she's here, and not at a real zoo, is that she's not a Siberian tiger. No one can prove her bloodline.
She got to Mill Mountain Zoo via a horse trailer near Danville. Through Natural Bridge Zoo. By way of a Siberian mother and a father of unknown origin.
Some of Ruby's traits - her forehead and some of her fur tufts and colors - say she has some Bengal blood. The rest says Siberian.
Jack Hanna notwithstanding, the cat is a mutt. That's why she's here.
But forgive the guy. He raised $7,000.
by CNB