THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, October 23, 1994 TAG: 9410220153
SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN PAGE: 04 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 85 lines
The customer, writing a check, hesitates, then asks the date.
``I had a man one time who didn't know the month, day or year,'' the clerk says.
``Did he know what city he was in?'' the customer asks.
``I'm not sure,'' says the clerk. ``But I carried his cleaning out to the car. I was afraid he would put it in the wrong car.''
- Susie Stoughton TUESDAY, OCT. 18 11 a.m. - Suffolk municipal parking lot on Saratoga Street, across from Crestar Bank
It isn't every day you find that the parking lot attendant's hut has become a crime scene.
But there he is, a city police officer, dusting for finger prints around the tiny shack, with attendant Stewart Smither and two onlookers watching.
``Are you actually dusting for prints?!'' the passerby asks, incredulous.
``Yes,'' says the officer, putting the cap back onto a jar from his dusting kit.
``Why in the world would anybody break into the parking shack?'' the passerby wonders aloud. ``There wasn't any money in there, was there?''
``No,'' says Smither, the attendant. ``But they took my radio.''
Just a simple portable radio Smither's predecessor gave him when he retired.
``Now I won't be able to listen to my favorite program,'' he says.
And what show is that?
``Rush Limbaugh.''
The passerby chuckles.
``Some would say your burglar performed a valuable community service,'' he says.
``Not many, perhaps, but some.''
- Don Naden 3:15 p.m. - West Washington Street, near Saratoga Street
The buildings with their Victorian facade on Washington are getting a welcome face lift.
A painter standing near the top of a tall ladder is brushing cream-colored paint onto the gingerbread trim of a freshly painted red-brick building.
It's good to know the historic buildings, which were probably constructed in the late 1800s and represent a portion of Suffolk's history, are being preserved.
- Shirley Brinkley WEDNESDAY, OCT 19 2:30 p.m. - West Washington Street, near Main Street
It is a question of priority. The funeral procession is moving west on Washington. Before it crosses Main, the wail of a siren is heard.
A couple of drivers decide to stay with the funeral vehicles. Finally, one car stops to let the ambulance go through, then he and several behind him speed up to catch up with the rest of the procession.
- Frank Roberts 7:45 p.m. - Suffolk City Council chambers
It is the end of a rather short City Council meeting and Mayor S. Chris Jones has just finished announcing the hiring of Myles E. Standish as the new city manager.
Jones peers into the audience to find the city's new boss.
But he isn't there.
Heads swivel. Hearts beat. Tension mounts. Days of speculation about a new city manager have come to a head - and the guy is a no-show.
Then, as if it were staged, Standish strides out of a side door behind the seated council. And as Standish walks to the podium to thank the council, one council member breathes a heavy, and noticeable, sigh of relief.
- Mac Daniel ILLUSTRATION: Staff photo by JOHN H. SHEALLY II
Just hangin' around
A headless figure hangs from a tree limb at Jim and Cori Evans' home
on Cherry Grove Road in Suffolk. Waiting for the mail . . . or
Halloween?
by CNB