The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, May 14, 1996                  TAG: 9605140010
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A14  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   31 lines

HELPFUL TO VOTERS

The news coverage by The Virginian-Pilot on the candidates and issues in the elections of recent days in the five cities of South Hampton Roads and your evaluations of them have been noteworthy and represent the finest ideals of newspaper journalism.

Without your information, it would have been impossible to vote. We would have thrown up our hands and said, ``Enough already.''

It was your finest hour.

CHARLES B. LEVITIN

Virginia Beach, May 7, 1996

I am grateful to The Virginian-Pilot for giving us the very fine sheet, with pictures, of pre-election information about the candidates in South Hampton Roads on the morning of the election.

Also, the reports on the day after. I have been wishing for just this for years. Please keep on doing it.

FRANCES B. JONES

Norfolk, May 8, 1996 by CNB