1958 Retrospective
THE PLAIN DEALER . SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1999 5-D OURCENTURY 1958 ATA GLANCE Right-to-work measure voted down; Bricker loses Building up, moving out The “right to work” con- stitutional amendment would mean Ohio workers couldn’t be forced to join or pay dues to a union. The Ohio Chamber of Com- Freeways help suburbs explode; merce and Ohio Manufac- turers Association hoped destroy older neighborhoods outlawing the union shop routes of other freeways — the North- would weaken labor. In- By Fred McGunagle west, Airport, Medina, Willow, Outer stead, the vote almost de- Belt South, Outer Belt East, Clark, Bricker stroyed the Ohio Republi- “Oh, God, all my stuff!I worked so Lee, Bedford, Central and Heights — can Party. hard for it,” Hazel Deubel sobbed as radiating in all directions. All told, Voters overwhelmingly she watched her belongings carted metropolitan Cleveland would get defeated the amendment and Republicans from the ramshackle house in the $500 million worth of freeways. who backed it. Michael DiSalle — who had rain. “Can’t you do something about won the Democratic primary over, among oth- it?” The Regional Planning Commis- ers, Mayor Anthony Celebrezze and County sion had asked suburbs and the de- The bailiff sympathized with the velopers who were gobbling up sub- 61-year-old widow on relief, but there urban acreage, notably Forest City Engineer Al- was nothing he could do. The state Materials Co., to reserve vacant land PLAIN DEALER FILE PHOTOS bert S. Porter had bought the old house on E. 27th along the routes. But in older areas, — replaced St.
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