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When the century was younger and Motown was Boomtown, jobs were for the picking on the conveyor belts of Detroit. Forrest Jones got one, leaving behind the dust of Piggott, Ark. So did Paul Youker's father, trading hard times in New York to be a security guard for General Motors. Terrace Turner's father got another, moving north from Mississippi...
...boom has gone bust. Haifa million auto-related jobs have been lost since 1979, and migration today is away from Motor City, not toward it. Turner, 29, has gone to Arizona to look for work: "That's what my father did when we moved up to Detroit." Youker, 28, an engineer with Chrysler's defense division, headed for Los Angeles and a higher-paying job with Hughes Aircraft. Jones' daughter, Anita Cousins, 41, has taken the path most traveled by departing Michiganders. She has followed the Lone Star beacon to the plenty of Texas...
...staff worked around the clock on the big story. When the Star needed a detail map to show the destruction of the industrial district, Cub Reporter Bob Beason went into the water and waded and swam from building to building to assess damage. Reporter Bill Blair and Photographer Bob Youker persuaded a passing Army amphibious truck to ferry them about, were arrested for their enterprise; their soldier-chauffeur and truck were AWOL from Fort Leavenworth...
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