Years Ago

Today is Friday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2010. There are 343 days left in the year. On this date in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson pleads for an end to war in Europe, calling for “peace without victory.” (By April, however, America also is at war.)

In 1498, during his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, explorer Christopher Columbus arrives at the present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent. In 1561, English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon is born in London. In 1901, Britain’s Queen Victoria dies at age 81. In 1905 (New Style calendar), thousands of demonstrating Russian workers are fired on by Imperial army troops in St. Petersburg on what becomes known as “Bloody Sunday.” In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio, Italy. In 1959, 12 workers are killed in the Knox Mine Disaster in Pennsylvania when the mine becomes flooded with water from the Susquehanna River. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, legalizes abortions using a trimester approach. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson dies at age 64.

January 22, 1985: In a surprise move, Cortland Council votes down a resolution that would have cleared the way for Ellis Mellot to build a $6 million condominium project in conjunction with a new golf course off state Route 5.

The Western Reserve Room Restaurant, operated by Strouss adjacent to its downtown store, will be closed Feb. 2. Its 20 employees will be offered transfers to other Strouss eateries.

Youngstown Rayen is in the No. 5 spot in Class AA scholastic basketball, while Warren Western Reserve has climbed to 7th.

January 22, 1970: Many of the 2,300 fans at the Youngstown Golden Gloves Tournament express their displeasure at an abbreviated presentation in which 12 carded bouts took only an hour and 20 minutes. Six ended in abrupt TKOs, three were defaults and three were fought to decisions.

Atty. John R. Mock is named city prosecutor by Mayor Jack C. Hunter and Law Director Nicholas Manos.

January 22, 1960: Eighteen public schools have more than the average 10 percent absenteeism, but school and hospital officials believe that so far Youngstown has not been hit by flu of epidemic proportions.

All 445 junior high school students at Poland Seminary High School gather their possessions and move out the back door in to the new Poland Junior High School building.

January 22, 1935: Mahoning County Commissioner Thomas Bees refuses to sign a contract providing the sheriff with payment of 42 cents per day for feeding each prisoner and says he wants an investigation to determine what it actually costs to feed county prisoners.

A cold wave sweeps into the Mahoning Valley, dropping the temperature by 43 degrees over 18 hours, from 62 to 20.