DATE: Friday, May 23, 1997                  TAG: 9705230666

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LOCAL SCENE

NORFOLK

NEELEY APPOINTED TO LEGAL ADMINISTRATOR: Angela A. Neeley was named a legal administrator at Knight, Dudley, Clarke & Dolph. She was formerly with the certified public accounting firm of Failes & Associates.

HAMPTON ROADS

STRONG APRIL FOR PORT: The port of Hampton Roads had a very strong April. Cargo volume across the docks of the state-owned marine terminals grew 19.7 percent compared to last April, Virginia International Terminals Inc. announced. According to VIT, the terminals it manages for the Virginia Port Authority handled 784,000 tons of cargo in April, up from 655,000 last April. So far in 1997, the state terminals have handled nearly 3 million tons of cargo, a 12.8 percent gain over the 2.66 million tons in the first four months of 1996. Joseph A. Dorto, VIT's chief executive and general manager, said the growth is coming in all trade lanes. The growth is so strong that it's nearly outstripping the port's capacity. ``We have the same equipment at (Norfolk International Terminals) as four years ago, but we're doing 40 percent more volume,'' he said. The costs, added overtime for labor in particular, depressed VIT's April income, Dorto said.

VIRGINIA BEACH

MINTON NAMED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT WITH BAY MECHANICAL: George T. Minton, former chief executive officer and chairman of Minton & Roberson Inc., was named executive director of business development for Bay Mechanical. He will help develop and market new manufacturing processes and equipment aimed at serving the needs of regional and national customers in the commercial mechanicals industry. He will assume his new role June 2.

NEWPORT NEWS

nVIEW ANNOUNCES HOME THEATER ALLIANCE WITH RUNCO INTERNATIONAL: nVIEW Corporation announced an agreement with Runco International Inc., to jointly develop a new projector targeting the home theater market based on the single chip Digital Light Processing light engine from Texas Instruments Incorporated. Runco International, based in Hayward, Calif., is the leader in the highly specialized home theater market. Runco has developed products using conventional CRT-based and digital displays. Runco has been rated the No. 1 brand in home theater by Inside Track magazine for the past five years. nVIEW Corp. is a designer and manufacturer of projection and other visual display solutions, as well as components incorporating electronic imaging technology to project and display images from computer and video sources.

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