Friday, August 29, 2008
Today is Friday, Aug. 29, the 242nd day of 2008. There are 124 days left in the year. On this date in 1944, 15,000 American troops march down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continues to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
In 1533, the last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, is executed on orders of Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro. In 1708, French Canadian and Indian forces attack the village of Haverhill, Mass., killing 16 settlers. In 1877, the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Brigham Young, dies in Salt Lake City at age 76. In 1943, responding to a clampdown by Nazi occupiers, Denmark manages to scuttle most of its naval ships.
August 29, 1983: Ohio Edison Co. announces that it will apply for approval of a rate hike that will add $1.40 to the average residential electric bill.
Joseph Bertolini is hired as elementary and secondary principal and athletic director of the Lowellville Local School District.
Dropping wholesale gas prices and decreased consumption continue to send prices at the pump down as the Labor Day weekend approaches. The average sale price is $1.25 per gallon.
August 29, 1968: The 122nd annual Canfield Fair opens its annual five-day event when the gates open at 7:30 a.m. for Youth Day.
Negotiations resume in secret between the Youngstown Board of Education and the Youngstown Education Association. Woodrow W. Zinser, superintendent, says the school district is due to run out of operating money for the calendar year Dec. 1 and will have to close then, giving students an extended Christmas vacation.
The Park Burlesque Theater, which operated for years at a Champion Street location that has been acquired by the city for urban renewal, may be relocated to the site of the old Earle Hotel on W. Federal Street.
August 29, 1958: Quick action by Paul Baxendale, a driver for the Lane Ambulance Service, is credited with saving the life of a 35-year-old Poland Township woman found badly hurt near an electric power saw at her home by performing an emergency tracheotomy.
Youngstown police destroy 15 sticks of dynamite that were found lying in the open behind a West Side construction company by two boys, Daniel Stirk and Joey LaBerto.
George Bishop, a Canfield Fair director, misses the opening day of the fair for the first time in 30 years after his doctor orders him to bed with a virus cold and cough. He hopes to be up and about before the fair closes.
August 29, 1933: Mill whistles at Sheet Tube, Truscon and Carnegie plants blow at 9 a.m. to signal the opening of National Recovery Day sales downtown. More than 400 clerks have been added to store payrolls for the sale’s opening.
The final chapter of the murder of Pennsylvania State Highway Patrolman Brady Paul near New Castle on Dec. 27, 1929, is written when Judge R.L. Hildebrand hands down a decision dividing the $3,200 reward for the capture of Irene Shrader and Glenn Dague between 25 men involved in their capture. The amounts range from $25 to $250 each. Irene and Glenn were captured in Arizona in January 1930, tried, convicted and executed.