Years Ago
Today is Friday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2009. There are 62 days left in the year. On this date in 1938, the radio play “The War of the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, airs on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake breaking news reports, panicked some listeners who thought the portrayal of a Martian invasion was real.)
In 1893, the U.S. Senate gives final congressional approval to repealing the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890. In 1944, the Martha Graham ballet “Appalachian Spring,” with music by Aaron Copland, premieres at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role. In 1945, the U.S. government announces the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight. The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb. In 1974, Muhammad Ali regains his world heavyweight title by knocking out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, known as the “Rumble in the Jungle.” In 1989, Mitsubishi Estate Co. announces it is buying 51 percent of Rockefeller Group Inc. of New York. (However, amid a real estate slump, Mitsubishi ends up walking away from its investment in 1995.)
October 30, 1984: A jubilant team of United Way of Trumbull County workers celebrates a victory as the 1984 campaign tops its goal of $2.4 million.
Trumbull County’s unemployment rate dips nearly 3 percent to 10.8 percent in September, the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services announces.
October 30, 1969: Wean Industries Inc. creates a new Environmental Control Division which will seek solutions to industrial water, air and land pollution.
Mayor Anthony B. Flask denies accusations that city police cars provided escorts for some of the private cars carrying Teamsters to Stop 5 at Republic Steel, where violence resulted in the death of one man and injury to eight others.
October 30, 1959: The Mahoning County Welfare Department is faced with a difficult relief situation due to increased demands brought on by the steel strike, but is not yet broke, says Welfare Director I.L. Feuer.
Boardman Township opens its new fire station at Shields Road and Lockwood Blvd., which will serve the township area west of Mill Creek Park.
October 30, 1934: Ralph Lane, a 38-year-old mill worker, his housekeeper, Anna Applegate, and four children ages seven to 12 die in a fire that destroyed the family’s two-room home in the Dry Run district of East Liverpool.
Clyde Hossel, prominent West Side hardware man, is general chairman of the West Side Halloween celebration which will include a large parade.