Years Ago

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

Today is Monday, March 22, the 81st day of 2010. There are 284 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1765: Britain enacts the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies.

1882: President Chester Alan Arthur signs a measure outlawing polygamy.

1929: A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks a Canadian-registered schooner, the I’m Alone, in the Gulf of Mexico. (The schooner is suspected of carrying bootleg liquor.)

1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson names Gen. William C. Westmoreland to be the Army’s new Chief of Staff.

1978: Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, falls to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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1985: Creditors for the Hunt Steel mini-mill on W. Federal Street reject a $25 million offer for the mill from Pennsylvania Engineering Corp. because the offer would not have been finalized for 45 days.

Consumer costs rose .3 percent in February ,the highest rate in six months, government analysts say, driven by higher food prices attributable to a devastating freeze in Florida.

1970: A strike by postal workers that began in New York is spreading across the nation. Clerks and letter carriers are off the job in Cleveland, but the post offices in Mahoning and Trumbull counties remain fully staffed.

Bus Service in Warren is endangered, despite the efforts of two businessmen, Jay Goswick and R.J. Weir, owners of the Zone Cab Co., who have kept the buses running. Without government subsidies, the service can’t last much longer.

1960: A new bridge will be built over the Shenango River to replace the Kidd’s Mill Bridge near Transfer, but the original span, the last covered bridge in the Shenango Valley, will be retained for historical purposes.

The worst snowstorm of the season hits the Youngstown district, dropping eight to 10 inches of snow, closing schools and bringing rush hour traffic to a crawl.

1935: Youngstown police arrest a 39-year-old Green Street woman who is alleged to have attacked and beaten Miss Vivian Thomas, a relieve case worker who was visiting homes in the neighborhood. The woman, who had received relief clothing in the past, was angry because Miss Thomas told her that others in greater need were likely to get clothing before she got more.