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Another sort of Mayor entirely is Detroit's Jerome P. Cavanagh. Cavanagh and Yorty were both elected in surprise victories in 1961. Yorty proceeded to rehire a hard-line police commissioner and to turn a calm racial situation into a bloody one. Cavanagh took office following a tremendous Negro protest to a harsh police crackdown, and he hired as police commissioner a liberal Justice of the Michigan State Supreme Court, George Edwards. Edwards, who is now a Federal Circuit Judge, immediately antagonized the police by insisting on equal treatment for Negroes. His insistence paid off: a 1963 incident (a policeman...
Meanwhile, Cavanagh has continually tried to keep in contact with the rank and file as well as the leaders in the Negro community. He has set up the most advanced and far-reaching antipoverty program in the nation, and has put the city on a sound financial basis at the same time...
...reductions and some ardent wooing of company executives by Cavanagh have stemmed the flight of industry from Detroit, brought a new Chrysler foundry, expansion of G.M.'s Cadillac and Ternstedt facilities, new plants for Budd Co. and Lear Jet Corp.-Detroit's first large-scale industrial construction in 35 years...
Industry's Return. Cavanagh showed equal vigor and imagination in tackling Detroit's other problems, which were legion. To pump revenues into the nearly bankrupt city treasury, he introduced a 1% income tax that adds $42 million annually to city revenues. With added funds generated by the current auto boom, Cavanagh has wiped out the $34.5 million deficit he inherited, put the city budget in the black, cut property taxes, and halved a tax on industrial machinery...
...stimulate use of the city's huge and handsome new convention hall, which had been languishing because of prohibitive fees and Neanderthal union practices, Cavanagh threatened to replace union labor in the center with city employees. The unions got into line. As a result, the city's convention business has doubled, from $13 million to $26 million annually, in five years...