The Virginian-Pilot
                            THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, December 4, 1995               TAG: 9511300018
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   22 lines

MONEY WELL SPENT

Biggest laugh of 1995: Portsmouth spending $2 million (or is it $4 million?) to attract tourists to town. (Perhaps shooting galleries will help.)

Second biggest laugh of 1995: Chesapeake establishing an information center in the Portlock section of the city. (Two most likely questions to be asked of information-center staffers by out-of-towners: ``Where the hell am I?'' and ``How do I get out of here?'')

CARL CAHILL

Chesapeake, Nov. 21, 1995 by CNB