ROANOKE TIMES  
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, January 23, 1996              TAG: 9601230068
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY  
MEMO: ***CORRECTION***
      Published correction ran on Jan. 24 in Current
      
      Correction
         The local office of Outdoor East, a company that leases billboard 
      space in six states, is in Dublin. A Tuesday New River Current picture 
      caption about the "Diversity Enriches" sign in Christiansburg 
      incorrectly reported the office's location.

DIVERSITY IN CHRISTIANSBURG

LENGTH: Short :   34 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  GENE DALTON. "Diversity Enriches," a message that didn't
          see the light of day on Roanoke-area billboards because Lamar  
          Advertising deemed it offensive last fall, sprang up in  
          Christiansburg last week. The message, paid for by advocates of gay 
          and lesbian rights, will be up for a month in the 1300 block of  
          Roanoke Street on a billboard owned by Outdoor East. Though a  
          similar billboard message provoked anti-gay criticism in 1994 in  
          Roanoke, as of Monday no one has called to complain, said Frank  
          Amburn, manager of Outdoor East's Salem office. Peggy Eaton, with  
          the local chapter of Parents, Friends and Family of Lesbians and  
          Gays, said her group helped do the legwork to get the billboard up. 
          "This is what makes the world go round, differences in people,"  
          Eaton said. The rainbow-colored message finally got out in Roanoke -
          on the sides of 10 Valley Metro buses. color.