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

DATE: FRIDAY, December 9, 1994                   TAG: 9412100058
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
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IN VIRGINIA

RICHMOND - Gov. George Allen said Thursday he will not force new prisons on communities that do not want them.

``If they don't want it there are other parts of Virginia, regions of Virginia such as the Southside as well as southwest Virginia, that would be happy to get those sorts of jobs,'' he said.

Allen made the comment on his statewide radio call-in show a day after hundreds of people turned out to oppose plans for a new maximum-security prison on the Eastern Shore.

The largely hostile crowd of more than 700 heard corrections officials outline plans for the 1,267-inmate prison just outside Cape Charles in Northampton County.

Allen wants to build about two dozen new prisons under his recently approved plan to abolish parole and lengthen sentences.

- Associated Press

Civil war museum draws opposition

RICHMOND - One of Richmond's top black officials has likened a proposed Civil War museum to an exhibit glorifying Nazi Germany.

``You wouldn't request the Jewish community to accept the glorification of Nazi Germany today,'' Richmond City Councilman Chuck Richardson said Wednesday. ``It's somehow insulting to accept any aspect of the Confederacy.''

The proposed National Center for the Civil War and Emancipation is a linchpin to a project being put together by Richmond Renaissance to attract tourists to Richmond, which was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

- Associated Press

Juvenile mother may be charged

DANVILLE - The city's prosecutor may decide next week whether to file a criminal charge against a 16-year-old identified as the mother of a baby abandoned at the door of a medical office, officials said Thursday.

Meanwhile, the child temporarily named Baby Noel is in good condition at Danville Regional Medical Center, where she is receiving numerous gifts, requests for adoption and extra attention, director of communications Lisa Mitchell said.

The investigation revealed that the mother of the newborn girl left at Piedmont PrimeCare on Sunday was a juvenile who doesn't live in Danville.

- Associated Press

Doonesbury puts Bliley in pocket

RICHMOND - When last month's Republican sweep earned him the chairmanship Wednesday of the House Commerce Committee and put him among Washington's elite, Rep. Thomas Bliley, R-Va., learned that with power come the peeves.

Although he was not mentioned by name, cartoonist Garry Trudeau took a poke at Bliley in his ``Doonesbury'' comic strip, portraying the conservative as an acolyte for cigarette makers.

Trudeau's new story line features ``Mr. Butts,'' an ever-smoldering cigarette anti-hero, signing autographs and celebrating before a kinder, gentler GOP-run House subcommittee considering tobacco industry regulations.

Tuesday's strip had Mr. Butts saying ``the chairman's squarely in my pocket,'' a reference to Bliley's comments that Congress would ``certainly be less hostile to tobacco'' under GOP control.

- Associated Press