Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 22, 1990                   TAG: 9005220448
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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FOUNDATION FINANCES ARE APPALLING

Be it for-profit or non-profit, any corporation that takes such a cavalier attitude toward its debts to companies trying to "make a living," and toward its tax debt to the government, deserves nothing from the public but scorn. To learn that although the River Foundation has no qualms about not paying its bills, it continues to pay its management more than $360,000 a year, can only heap more scorn upon them and every member of the foundation's board of directors.

If Mr. Carter wishes to donate his half-million dollars and such companies as Dominion Bank and your newspaper wish to contribute $90,000 each, fine! Keep it for your private toy.

I, for one, will be keeping close watch on my representatives to Richmond and to Washington to see what they will do in the future regarding state and federal support of this project.

While there are people in Roanoke going to bed hungry or having no bed at all to go to, I will fight however I can to keep my taxes from lining the pockets of Messrs. Ewert, Burrow, and Gleason.

\ BARBARA S. FOSTER\ ROANOKE