Years Ago


Today is Easter Sunday, the 94th day of 2010. There are 271 days left in the year.

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1818: Congress decides the flag of the United States would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state of the Union.

1841: President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office.

1949: Twelve nations, including the U.S., sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C.

1960: The Biblical-era spectacle “Ben-Hur” wins 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Elvis Presley records “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” in Nashville for RCA Victor.

1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, is shot to death at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. (James Earl Ray later pleads guilty to assassinating King, then spends the rest of his life claiming his innocence before dying in prison in 1998.)

1975: More than 130 people, most of them children, are killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crash-lands shortly after take-off from Saigon.

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1985: Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste testifies during a hearing in Washington, D.C., that the closing of Home State Savings Bank and 70 state-chartered savings and loans resulted from state regulatory short-comings as well as the fraudulent activities of a Florida securities dealer.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro is stepping up efforts to sell the municipal parking deck after the county threatens to foreclose on the structure for $222,366 in back taxes.

Two Youngstown Board of Health members say the city should not have paid a $7,500 settlement to an employee of the department who said she had been laid off while other employees with less seniority remained on the job. Mayor Patrick Ungaro said the city was under a court order to make the payment and did not want to appeal.

The Market Street Merchant’s Association says a scaled down revitalization plan costing about $1 million could bring new life to Market Street and the Uptown area.

The Eastern Ohio Chapter of the American Heart Association is likely to be merged into a larger unit with Akron and Canton, says William Jacob, chapter executive director.

1970: City police raid a “dope den” at 838 Ohio Ave., arresting 31 people during a five-hour period and confiscating narcotics, guns and hypodermic needles.

New Castle Police Chief Richard Hanna leads a raid on an East Side pool room, arresting 12 people for gambling and confiscating cards and cash.

A city health inspector and assistant high school principal, accompanied by a reporter, make a spot check of two inner-city Civil Defense shelters and find rusted water cans, outdated food and medicine packages and opened boxes of radioactivity detection equipment with batteries of questionable reliability

Five head of cattle stolen in West Virginia in February are recovered after Youngstown FBI agents arrest a 37-year-old Niles man.

1960: Youngstown University’s Jambar is named the best paper for the third year by the Penn-Ohio Collegiate Press Association.

Gov. Michael DiSalle pledges help from the state for Geauga County, where mud slides have made many unpaved roads impassable. The West Geauga School District has declared a week of vacation because buses were unable to navigate the district.

Four future teachers are candidates for 1960 Junior Prom queen at Youngstown University: Rosemary Hackett, Mary McFarling, Carole Albright and Carole Pope.

1935: In the face of plant closings in Western Pennsylvania, officials are recommending the consolidation of the cities of Farrell and Sharon and the boroughs of Wheatland and Sharpsville.

More than 500 people on relief indicate a desire to get garden seeds from the Mahoning County Relief Administration, which has $2,000 for the purchase of seeds and hopes to help 3,000 people.

The St. Margaret’s Guild of St. John’s Episcopal Church presents a show of Easter and bridal fashions in McKelvey’s Tea Room.

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