Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2006. There are 39 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, President Kennedy is shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same limousine as Kennedy, is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested.
In 1718, English pirate Edward Teach -- better known as Blackbeard -- is killed during a battle off the Virginia coast. In 1890, French president Charles de Gaulle is born in Lille, France. In 1935, a flying boat, the China Clipper, takes off from Alameda, Calif., carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight. In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. In 1975, Juan Carlos is proclaimed King of Spain. In 1986, Elzire Dionne, who gave birth to quintuplets in 1934, dies at a hospital in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, at age 77. In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership, announces her resignation.
November 22, 1981: Arthur G. Young, president of the 113-year-old Mahoning National Bank, the area's oldest surviving financial institution, says he believes the Mahoning Valley has a brilliant economic outlook for its long-range future.
Marshall Wexler, president of the Eastern Ohio Pharmacy Association, says judicial leniency has contributed to drugstore robberies, including one in Liberty Township in which a customer was shot to death.
Emanuel N. Catsoules, superintendent of Youngstown schools, says that despite a healthy increase in state funding for city schools, it appears the district will still need some sort of tax levy in 1982.
November 22, 1966: City Law Director Patrick Melillo tells the Youngstown Board of Education that it cannot seek an injunction against striking school teachers; the board's only option to force an end to the strike is to invoke Ohio's Ferguson Law and fire the teachers.
About 100 uniformed registered nurses employed by the Youngstown Hospital Association march in downtown Youngstown with picket signs to call attention to their salary dispute with the YHA. The nurses are demanding 540 a month; the YHA has offered 455.
Youngstown University wins court approval to turn over the recently created Youngstown Education Foundation assets of all donations to the university for protection and use for educational objectives after the school becomes a state university.
November 22, 1956: An estimated 50,000 people see Santa arrive in downtown Youngstown at the end of a parade featuring 16 floats and 14 high school bands.
The Mahoning County Welfare advisory Board has adopted permanent rules for operation of the county home, sharply limiting the superintendent's authority.
Seventh Ward Councilman Michael J. Dudash proposes that City Council post a 5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for 43 bombings in the last 41/2 years in the Youngstown district.
November 22, 1931: A delegation of supporters of a Lake Erie to Ohio River Canal from the Youngstown district will attend the Mississippi Valley Association convention in St. Louis.
H.H. Hooper, general chairman of a stockholders committee, predicts that the City Trust & amp; Savings Bank may reopen by Christmas if a plan proposed by the state superintendent of banks is followed.
Two Youngstown bandits, one a high school student, are overpowered and severely beaten by customers when they attempt to rob the Bruno Polito grocery store at 2608 Wilson Ave. The robbers were armed with shotguns.