Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, June 24, 1995 TAG: 9506260010
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-11 EDITION: METRO
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Chaney is partly right. Companies may want to be near an interstate highway, but they get along without one where they must. New Jersey has left a 28-mile gap in I-95, with no plans to connect it. Despite this, industries are locating in that void along U.S. 1 (a divided highway with stoplights) and the New Jersey Turnpike (a toll road not included in the interstate system).
Semiconductor manufacturers in California's Silicon Valley prefer the handy Bayshore Freeway (U.S. 101) to interstates a few miles away. The Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio, is some distance from an interstate. Biotechnology thrives around Lancaster, Pa., which has only federal and state expressways. Timber exporters bring their trucks to Port Angeles, Wash., along a narrow U.S. highway.
Even if Martinsville needs an interstate highway, Roanoke need not be involved. Danville and Lynchburg are other possible destinations, both currently unserved by interstate highways.
Certainly, if ``people traveling from Detroit to Charleston are not going to go the long way around Roanoke,'' then it would be deceptive to imply continuity with a single number.
CHARLES JORDAN
BOONES MILL
Edwards' military service outstanding
VETERANS SHOULD vote for an outstanding veteran - John S. Edwards. To me, he's the best candidate for the Virginia Senate.
His accomplishments are too numerous to list here. But for veterans' information, he was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, served as judge advocate with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Japan and Okinawa, and was in the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejune, N.C.
I have known Edwards for some time, and we won't get a better man for the Senate.
WILLIAM W. ARNOLD
ROANOKE
`Rave' story was informative
REGARDING Don Assaid's June 13 letter to the editor, ``No raves for a decadent culture'':
I disagree with Assaid. Parents need to be aware of things such as the raves.
Where does he get his information about 13-year-olds going to raves? How dare him to shame parents? They can't monitor children every second. Children do lie about where they go.
How dare him to shame the police department. Police are our safety enforcers. Would he rather them have to break up a rave or stop a murder or rape from occurring? They do the best they can.
I liked reading the story (May 28 Extra section article, ``Rave'') about raves, and thought it was informative. We don't need to hide facts of life. These things should be reported in the newspaper.
SARA HARRIS
HOLLINS
Doctors do serve Tangier Island
I WANT to thank you for and compliment you on the outstanding photographs and Travel article from the Associated Press on Tangier Island (June 11, ``Tangier Island retains unique way of life''). A friend of ours in Roanoke sent a copy, and the reason will become apparent in the following paragraph.
The article states that there is no doctor or hospital on Tangier Island. This is true, but what should also have been mentioned for complete accuracy was the fact that a doctor comes to the island by air each Thursday. Our son, Dr. Robert J. Newman, and his partner, Dr. David Nichols, of the White Stone Family Practice in White Stone, alternate each Thursday. They have a nurse and a secretary on the island who schedule appointments and assist in seeing patients. They average seeing about 25 patients each Thursday, and have been doing this for about seven years.
The article and pictures were especially interesting to me. I flew with my son to Tangier Island on June 8 and spent the day while he was seeing patients.
ROBERT C. NEWMAN JR.
WILMINGTON, N.C.
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