Years Ago

July 30, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

Years Ago

Today is Thursday, July 30, the 211th day of 2009. There are 154 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, during World War II, the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 316 out of some 1,200 men survive the sinking and shark-infested waters.

In 1619, the first representative assembly in America convenes in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony. In 1792, the French national anthem “La Marseillaise,” by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, is first sung in Paris by troops arriving from Marseille. In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces try to take Petersburg, Va., by exploding a gunpowder-filled mine under Confederate defense lines; the attack fails.

July 30, 1984: Youngstown turns to Dr. H. Robert Dodge, dean of the School of Business Administration at Youngstown State University, to help prepare a long-range economic development plan.

Talks begin between Packard Electric and its hourly employees at the union hall in Warren and will resume the next day in Mexico.

July 30, 1969: With only a week remaining for candidates to file for the Youngstown Board of Education, none has, although three board members are to be elected.

Fifty-two high school boys are enrolled in the summer Upward Bound program at Youngstown State University, which is in its fourth year.

Atty. Donald DelBene of Warren is elected president of the Mahoning Valley Planning Association, succeeding Paul E. Martin of Warren.

July 30, 1959: Mahoning County commissioners are again looking for a site for the Boardman sewage disposal plant, but if none is found, they will go to court to get part of the Sam Henry property near route 224 and Tippecanoe Road.

The largest and most complex Civil Defense-Red Cross disaster exercise in Youngstown’s history goes off without a serious hitch. More than 750 people were involved.

July 30, 1934: A 49-year-old mill worker has been arrested in Steubenville, accused of being the “phantom” who killed three workers at the Wheeling Steel Corp. plant over several months. Ballistic experts in Cleveland say the fatal bullets were fired from a 38-caliber revolver the suspect carried.

Adm. Gen. Frank D. Henderson recommends that Youngstown select a tentative site for a new airport in order to get the process started for federal help.

Youngstown Steel Door, which has a plant making steel doors and sides for railroad cars on the Austintown branch of the Erie near Meridian is considering building an addition.