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Down by the Riverside. Appalled by the growing decay, Newburgh's city council last fall went looking for a businesslike city manager. The council's choice was brash, balding Joseph McDowell Mitchell, 39, who had already served in administrative jobs in Culver City, Calif., and Marple Township, Pa. Mitchell ordered a survey of the welfare program, discovered that Newburgh's relief expenditures -$983,000 out of an overall city budget of $3,134,000 for 1961-came to more than the city spent on police and fire protection. He seemed shocked to learn that most...
Though the new code pleased most of Newburgh, it angered the State Board of Social Welfare, which reimburses Newburgh for 33% of its relief costs. A special investigating committee protested that at least two provisions-the three-month cutoff, and the discrimination against unwed mothers-violated both state and federal standards, warned that the Federal Government might withhold as much as $200 million in annual welfare payments to New York State if Newburgh put its new code into effect. The board also questioned whether Newburgh was as badly off as Manager Mitchell claimed. The city's welfare costs, according...
...Mood. Backed up by a tide of approving mail from across the nation, Mitchell was in no mood to back down. When Newburgh's own welfare director admitted that he, too, thought the code illegal, Mitchell and the city council forced his resignation, appointed a more pliable acting commissioner, ordered a departmental shakeup. Mitchell denounced investigating state-welfare officials as "Gestapo agents," and fortnight ago he put his code into effect. Last week he carried his fight to Washington, and waded deep into the choppy waters of Republican politics...
...Republican Congresswoman Katharine St. George, Mitchell starred at press conferences, explained his code to a crowded meeting of the far-right Human Events Political Action Conference, found other interested listeners in conservative Republican Senators John Tower of Texas and Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Goldwater was particularly entranced. The Newburgh program was "as refreshing as the clear air of Arizona," the Senator declared. "I would like to see every city adopt the plan. I don't like to see my taxes paid for children born out of wedlock." Goldwater also took the trouble to deny that his remarks had "anything...
...cuff opinion, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff announced that at least work-relief programs were within the law, made no judgment on Newburgh's other code provisions...