Years Ago

February 22, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2010. There are 312 days left in the year. On this date in 1980, the “Miracle on Ice” occurs in Lake Placid, N.Y. as the United States Olympic hockey team upsets the Soviets, 4-3. (The U.S. team goes on to win the gold medal.)

In 1862, Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, is inaugurated for a six-year term following his election in November 1861. In 1909, the Great White Fleet, a naval task force sent on a round-the-world voyage by President Theodore Roosevelt, returns after more than a year at sea. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge delivers the first radio broadcast from the White House as he addresses the country over 42 stations. In 1940, the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) is enthroned at age four in Lhasa, Tibet. In 1959, the inaugural Daytona 500 race is held in Daytona Beach, Fla.; although Johnny Beauchamp is initially declared the winner, the victory is later awarded to Lee Petty. In 1984, 12-year-old David Vetter, who’d spent most of his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, dies 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant.

February 22, 1985: Salem nursing home operators testify at an Ohio Department of Health public hearing in opposition to a plan by Salem Community Hospital to convert 18 beds to “skilled nursing” status.

Veteran legislator Herman P. Starks and a retired Youngstown policeman, Anthony F. Ignazio Sr., file to oppose Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro in the Democratic primary. The winner will face Republican Ronald P. Schroeder.

Girard Municipal Court Judge Michael Bernard opposes a city ordinance that would required the court to be self sustaining. The court ran a $44,000 deficit in 1984.

February 22, 1970: A $3 million plan to rebuild Central Square in dramatic fashion, with Federal Street at Central Square turned into a pedestrian mall and Wick-Market running beneath it in a tunnel, is unveiled to enthusiastic response.

Youngstown State University will tie into a $782,000 state educational television facility to be built at Alliance and operated jointly by YSU, Kent State University and the University of Akron, says Dr. John J. Coffelt, YSU vice president for administration.

February 22, 1960: Dr. J. Fred Essig, 67, superintendent of Youngstown Public Schools and one of the city’s leading Methodist laymen, dies in South Side Hospital a day after being admitted with chest pain.

Sydney R. Montague, former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will speak at a noon luncheon of the Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y Civics Day. His topic: “North to Adventure, and ‘Riders in Scarlet.’”

February 22, 1935: The discovery of a blood-stained woolen cap worn by Frank Suhovecky when the 13-year-old Millett Avenue boy disappeared leads to a widespread search for the boy. Youngstown police are holding a 60-year-old man who denies knowing anything about the boy’s disappearance.

Dr. Frederick H. Treudley, 82, former superintendent of Youngstown City Schools for 18 years, dies in a Washington, D.C., hospital after being struck by a hit-skip motorist.

Youngstown Mayor Mark E. Moore suggests establishing a “red light district under proper supervision” in an effort to control vice throughout the city. In the meantime, police are arresting known prostitutes and padlocking their places of operation.