Years Ago
Today is Saturday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2010. There are 335 days left in the year. On this date in 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi is shot and killed by a Hindu extremist.
In 1882, the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is born in Hyde Park, N.Y. In 1933, Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. The first episode of the “Lone Ranger” radio program is broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit. In 1960, the American Football League awards a franchise to Oakland, Calif. In 1962, two members of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit. In 1964, the United States launches Ranger 6, an unmanned spacecraft carrying television cameras that crash-lands on the moon, but fails to send back images. In 1968, the Tet Offensive begins during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launch surprise attacks. In 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers are shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what becomes known as “Bloody Sunday.” In 1979, the civilian government of Iran announces it has decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who’d been living in exile in France, to return. In 2003, Richard Reid, the British citizen and al-Qaida follower who’d tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes, is sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston.
January 30, 1985: At least five Mahoning Valley sites are being prepared to be presented to General Motors for its new Saturn project.
Youngstown State University’s winter enrollment is 14,468, a decrease of 786 from the fall.
Robert Moosally, the former Youngstown man discovered in Switzerland after being a fugitive from justice for two years, is being held in Akron on $1 million bond on charges that he defrauded the former Union Savings & Trust Co. of Warren of $1.2 million.
January 30, 1970: A seven-alarm fire sweeps through the Salem Fruit Growers Cooperative Association on Lisbon Road in Greenford. The loss is estimated at $400,000, including the apple crop and other fruit stored there.
The Trumbull-Mahoning Counties Council of Governments agrees to deve-lop a pilot project, relative to in-stream treatment of Mahoning River pollution.
Vindicator Photographer Lloyd Jones receives a community service award from the United Veterans Council and Ike Epstein is honored as veteran of the year.
January 30, 1960: A U.S. Senate investigation discloses that a tranquilizer sold to the government for 60 cents by Ciba Pharmaceutical Products is sold to druggists for $39.50 per thousand. The suggested retail price is $65.35 per thousand.
George Jolly, chairman of the annual Mothers March of Dimes in Mahoning County, declares the march a success with more than $13,500 raised in Youngstown alone.
Youngstown Law Director S.S. Fekett tells Police Chief Peter Venorsky that citizens have the right to call the towing service of their choice to move a damaged or stalled automobile. Police have been calling Passarelli Brothers Automotive Service for all tows and recently arrested a motorist for interfering with an officer when he attempted to use a different tower.
January 30, 1935: With $75,000 in capital subscribed, a group of 75 women led by Clara E. Westropp organizes a savings and loan in Cleveland that will be run exclusively by women, although men will be accepted as customers.
A flood of telegrams to U.S. senators at the instigation of radio evangelist the Rev. Charles Coughlin is credited with handing President Roosevelt a defeat as the Senate rejects U.S. membership in the World Court.
A convict-witness in the probe of the tenure of former Warden Preston E. Thomas testifies that narcotics were traded inside the prison.