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NEWS BUREAU INC.
CLEVELAND, OHIO 44115
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ANDERSON TWP. 489
Trustees oppose state
money for Freedom Center
‘The township’ trustees don't want
any of Ohio's capital money tobe used
tohelp sustain the financially trus-
ling National Undenground Railroad
jn favor of resolution opposing the
Freedom Center's request the Ohio
General Assembly or $28 milion
from the state's pening capital bude
‘Trustee Pegay Reis was absent
ffom the meeting the trustees oP-
pose the funding request the resol:
Hon says, because Hamilton County
‘taxpayers “were solemnly promised
that no tax monies beyond those al-
ready expended would be devoted to
this faeilty" and because capital mon-
fe should be used only to build new fx
‘ities, not to fund the Freedom Cen-
fer’ endowment. The $2.8 milion
requested by the Freedom Center ac,
{ually isthe final installment of $5 mi-
lion that had been appropriated by the
‘state to construct the facility, said Paul
Bemnsh, Freedom Cente spokesman,
He said the Freedom Centers funding
request has widespread support
among state legislators ay