Today is Wednesday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2008. There are 343 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2008. There are 343 days left in the year. On this date in 1968, North Korea seizes the Navy intelligence ship USS Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mission. (The crew is released 11 months later.)
In 1845, Congress decides all national elections will be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1943, critic Alexander Woollcott suffers a fatal heart attack during a live broadcast of the CBS radio program “People’s Platform.” In 1950, the Israeli Knesset approves a resolution affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In 1964, the 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, is ratified.
January 23, 1983: The Mahoning County Bar Association is expect to list its “concerns” over the nomination of Vickie L. Jackson, a Mansfield lawyer, to the U.S. bankruptcy judgeship in Youngstown, says bar President Lou D’Apolito.
Will Knecht, a 16-year-old Boardman High School student, is one of only 85 congressional pages in the U.S. House and the first to be chosen from the 17th District.
U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams of Lordstown opposed President Reagan on key congressional votes more often than all but 11 other House Republicans in 1982, according to an analysis by Congressional Quarterly, which rated him one of the least conservative members of the GOP.
January 23, 1968: R. Thornton Beeghly is named president of Standard Slag Co., succeeding W.E. Bliss, who was elected chairman.
The A.P. O’Horo Co. of Youngs–town submits the apparent low bid of $6.6 million for construction of the 1.6 mile Madison Expressway.
Asael E. Adams Jr., president of Union National Bank since 1951, announces that he will retire as president and take the title of chairman of the board.
Dan Green, a 17-year-old senior at South High School, will be Youngstown’s student mayor during the 1968 Youth in Government Day at City Hall.
January 23, 1958: Mayor Frank X. Kryzan writes an open letter to missing Sixth Ward Councilman John J. Tobin asking him to resign by letter from his Council seat so that full legislative operations can be resumed.
Michael V. DeSalle is the 10th Democrat to enter the race for governor, launching his campaign with an attack on the record of Republican Gov. C. William O’Neill.
J.L. Mauthe, chairman of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., says the Youngstown district, which has been a “plus-steel area,” producing more steel than it uses, is becoming a stronger steel-using area as more companies move into the area.
Mayor Frank X. Kryzan urges city council to pursue the annexation of a large portion of Coitsville Township.
January 23, 1933: Andrew O. Fleming, executive secretary of the Community Corporation, urges elimination of slums in a talk on Social Service Sunday at St. John’s Church.
A crowd of 5,000 shows up to watch two visiting circus elephants pull down a brick wall at the old Smith Brewery Co. in W. Federal Street. The crowd was so large that the elephants couldn’t do their work.