THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 4, 1995 TAG: 9508040579
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 60 lines
Knight-Ridder Inc. closed a research lab it established to explore electronic publishing alternatives such as the flat-panel newspaper. The Information Design Laboratory, which opened three years ago, was developing a notebook-sized computer for receiving and displaying electronic newspapers. Knight-Ridder plans to concentrate its electronic publishing efforts on existing technologies such as the Internet and on-line services. It recently launched a joint venture with Norfolk-based Landmark Communications Inc. to put 100 newspapers on-line over the next two years. The venture operates under the name InfiNet and is also based in Norfolk. (Associated Press) Metro Machine wins repair job on destroyer
The brand-new destroyer Ramage arrived at Metro Machine Corp. on Wednesday for emergency repairs. The Norfolk shipyard got the Navy job because its drydock was available, a yard executive said. It will take about a week to repair a minor problem with one of the Ramage's propeller hubs. The value of the work hadn't been determined. ``It certainly comes at a nice time when we didn't have any ships in the plant,'' said Joe Gilbert, Metro vice president. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., the destroyer was commissioned July 22 by the Navy. The repair is under the warship's warranty. (Staff) AirTran offers jet service from Norfolk to Orlando
AirTran Airways will inaugurate service to 0rlando on Oct. 6, 1995 with Boeing 737-200 jet aircraft. AirTran will offer daily non-stop service between Norfolk International Airport and Orlando International Airport. No airline provides nonstop service between the cities. Fares from Norfolk to Orlando are all sold one-way, with prices ranging from $79 to $119. As part of AirTran's October expansion, it will also inaugurate service to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas; Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.; and Kansas City, Mo. In less than one year of service, the airline has grown from two 737 aircraft serving five cities to seven 737 aircraft serving a total of 19 cities. (Staff) Clinton approves funds to help fishermen
President Clinton announced a $53 million disaster relief package Thursday to combat emergency fishing problems and put unemployed fishermen to work in New England, the Northwest and Gulf of Mexico. The biggest share of the money, about $25 million, will go to Northeastern states hit hard by declines in groundfish stocks. About $15 million will go to states along the Gulf of Mexico to assist the industry with uncharted seabed obstructions caused primarily by flooding. About $12 million will go to the Pacific Northwest, extending programs started last year to buy back fishing permits as well as put fishermen to work restoring fish habitat and counting fish for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (AP) by CNB