Word: youngstown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mobsters were overheard deploring the 1962 hand-grenade slaying of "Cadillac Charlie" Cavallaro in Youngstown, Ohio, because the blast also killed the victim's eleven-year...
...Youngstown steelworker, Humphrey followed his father into the mills, then quit to study art at Youngstown University and in Paris before coming to New York. A cheery sort, who refuses to wear a beard because it is "too establishment among artists," he began with representational painting. Then, he explains, "I got to a point where objects didn't mean anything any more." Humphrey's canvases of 1964 and 1965 were cold-gray with narrow colored borders. Slowly softer and more vibrant colors began to glow in his works. Humphrey says that the added warmth of his latest pictures...
...York City schools finally opened, a different kind of crisis caused the 44 schools of Youngstown, Ohio, to shut down at least 15 days before and after the Christmas vacation. The reason was lack of money. This month Youngstown voters simply refused to raise the school-tax rate, even though it is the lowest of Ohio's seven largest cities. Although other cities have balked at school-tax hikes, this was the sixth time in two years that Youngstown had rejected a higher levy...
...latest tax increase would have passed easily if Youngstown's powerful unions had supported it, but organized labor has long felt estranged from the city's schools. Until recently, the school board had no labor-oriented representatives. School officials failed to support a United Steelworkers plan to open a community college in Youngstown that would have provided more opportunities for high-level vocational instruction. The main source of friction was a rivalry over who should represent the city's teachers in contract negotiations: the local affiliate of the National Education Association or the growing Youngstown Federation...
...Youngstown hopes to reopen its schools early next year, when regular taxes again come due, but the board must try again at the polls for an increase that will allow them to stay open. Meanwhile, Youngstown's cantankerous voters inadvertently helped school systems elsewhere in Ohio. School supporters in Akron won a tax increase by waging a highly effective word-of-mouth campaign with the argument "Let's not become another Youngstown...