Years Ago

March 3, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, March 3, the 62nd day of 2010. There are 303 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1931: President Herbert Hoover signs a measure making “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem of the United States.

1945: The Allies fully secure the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during World War II.

1960: Actress-comedian Lucille Ball files for divorce from her husband, Desi Arnaz, a day after they’d finished filming the last episode of “The Luci-Desi Comedy Hour.”

1974: A Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashes shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris, killing all 346 people on board.

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1985: The city’s cost to run Warren Municipal Court in 1984 jumped by 80 percent over 1983, an increase of $268,000, while revenues fell 26 percent.

Four area high school students, three from Austintown Fitch and one from Warren JFK, win first place awards at the Ohio High School Speech League tournament in Cincinnati. They are Staci Kamil, Todd Stratford and Chris Seaman from Fitch and Tim Crish of JFK.

1970: Argonaut, the realty division of General Motors, says in a confidential report that the snowballing growth of the Chevrolet Fisher Body plant and growing General Motors complex at Lordstown is beginning to create an avalanche of real estate problems for the Warren area.

Penn Central officials estimate damage from a train wreck in East Palestine at $900,000, including damage to the track, railroad equipment and new automobiles being hauled.

1960: Juvenile Court Judge Henry P. Beckenbach issues a stern warning to two 15-year-old South Side girls who called in a bomb hoax to Cardinal Mooney High School. The judge says panic could have ensued if school officials had reacted to the hoaxes by evacuating the school.

1935: Tony LiCastro, 38, a world war veteran, is found dead in an abandoned Lowellville house, strangled with a copper wire in the manner consistent with a “blackhand” assassination.

Appearing in section 9 of the Sunday Vindicator, a complete novel, “Mr. Underhill’s Progress” by Elizabeth Corbett. It is the story of a man who discovered unsuspected romance at the age of 40, full of compassion, understanding of human nature and a cheery mood.