Word: newburghers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once a Hudson River whaling port and a headquarters for George Washington's colonial army, steep-sloping, tree-shaded Newburgh (pop. 31,000) has long been a shopping center for the green and pleasant fruit farms that prosper in the rolling hills of Orange County. Since World War II, most of the farms have been serviced by migrant workers, mostly Negroes from the Deep South, who drift from harvest to harvest during the long summer. Inevitably, many migrants have settled in Newburgh; since 1950 the number of Negro residents has risen 151%, even though the city's overall...
...also means public intervention in private lives, job-shirking relief chiselers who loaf at government expense, and tax burdens that soar higher every year. Can the side effects be nullified without crimping the cure? Last week one city answered with a resounding yes -and in the process, Newburgh, N.Y., gave the nation cause for some sober second thoughts on the use-and misuse-of civil charity...