THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, June 18, 1995 TAG: 9506160157
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 09 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 53 lines
Chatterbox is a not-quite-newsy look behind the scenes from City Hall to City Park.
A LITTLE BIT OF PORTSMOUTH will welcome Coast Guard employees moving to Martinsburg, W.Va., where the USCG documentation center will be consolidated from regional offices in 14 ports, including Hampton Roads.
The new center will be located in Liberty Business Park. The front entrance is marked by a brick sculpture by Portsmouth sculptor Sue Landerman.
Landerman's design features the Liberty Bell, crack and all.
FAMOUS PICTURE - The photograph of a Portsmouth native that has long symbolized the national mourning over the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt takes most of a two-page spread in the June 8 special issue of Life magazine.
The issue is a recollection of 1945, the year World War II ended.
The picture is of Graham Washington Jackson playing his accordion as Roosevelt's body was borne from his Warm Springs, Ga., cottage on April 12, 1945. Jackson, a chief petty officer in the Navy, is wearing his uniform. Tears are streaming down his face.
Life photographer Ed Clark snapped the photograph that has been used many times in many places. Although Jackson already was well-known around Atlanta for his musical skills, the picture made him a celebrity. He played for Roosevelt about 24 times, both in Washington and Georgia.
Untit the year before he died in 1983, Jackson continued to play nightly at Pittypat's Porch in Atlanta.
BROKEN PROMISE - Although the Fort Lauderdale Commissioners last month gave tentative approval to a 7.5 percent pay raise for their city manager, former Portsmouth City Manager George Hanbury, they reneged on it this month.
Instead, Hanbury got a 4-1 vote of confidence and will be evaluated and considered for a raise in October.
RING AROUND THE JOHN - Big topic at a recent bridge game for local matrons was the problem of getting rid of a dark ring at the water line of toilets.
Portsmouth Public Utilities Director Jim Spacek said changes in chemical contents in city water could cause the problem.
``If all else, mainly bleach, fails, we have an answer,'' Spacek said.
The answer is a substance called ``Rover,'' he said.
``Anybody who has this problem can call the plant on Godwin Street and we'll even deliver it to them,'' Spacek said. by CNB