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...Mark Goodson, 42, a onetime radio announcer, and Bill Todman, 41, a onetime copywriter, who branched out into journalism last week when their offer of $3,000,000 for the Pawtucket, R.I. daily Times was accepted by the owners...
...Virginia, only three out of 55 counties have kept their school buildings up to par; the rest have either been unable or unwilling to foot the bill. Rhode Island, which says it needs between $60 million and $70 million in the next four years, also has a crisis. (Example: Pawtucket recently had to close temporarily nine out of 23 schools as too dangerous to use.) In Kentucky, almost all of the 220 districts have already reached the maximum tax rate allowed by state law. Though the 1956 legislature appropriated more than $54 million to help districts maintain certain minimum standards...
...were not enough to be one of the ugliest cities in the U.S., Pawtucket, R.I. (pop. 81,000) has in the past also been one of the most corrupt. Under the long rule of Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy, its school buildings crumbled with neglect while Democratic bosses boasted of the city's low tax rate. But McCoy died. Though his successors in the city hall were also reluctant to allocate adequate sums for school repair, in 1954 Pawtucket got a school superintendent named Edmund J. Farrell who had an urge for reform. After months of wrangling. Farrell finally...
...spite of the report-and the fact that fire broke out in one school in January-Boss McCoy's successors firmly opposed closing the schools. Mayor Lawrence A. McCarthy complained of foreigners poking into Pawtucket's business, and suggested darkly that if this sort of thing went on, there would soon be demands to tear down every school building in the state more than 50 years old. Not until the state board of education finally approved a compromise did McCarthy & Co. give up. Last week the order went out to close nine schools and to put the displaced...
Botch Dog. In Pawtucket, R.I., Eugene J. Moreau's Dalmatian neglected to bark when a fire broke out late at night in the kitchen closet, got himself deeper in the doghouse by biting the first fireman to show...