Years Ago

September 6, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2010. There are 116 days left in the year. This is Labor Day.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1837: The Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-educational.

1860: Social activist Jane Addams, who becomes the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, is born in Cedarville, Ill.

1901: President William McKinley is shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. (McKinley dies eight days later; he is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Czolgosz is executed in Oct. 1901.)

1916: The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, is opened in Memphis, Tenn., by Clarence Saunders.

1985: All 31 people aboard a Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 are killed when the Atlanta-bound jetliner crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee’s Mitchell Field.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: For the first time during the summer of 1985, gasoline prices in the Youngstown area dip below the $1 mark .

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. warns his colleagues that their districts could be the next to suffer if Congress does not act to curb competition from foreign car makers.

1970: Federal, state and local government offices will join Youngstown area banks, schools and many retail stores in closing for Labor Day, but Strouss’ Livingston’s and a number of discount department stores will be open.

Maryann Liguore, a 17-year-od Villa Maria Academy senior, is named Miss Ohio Junior Achievement at the Ohio State Fair.

Consumer crusader Ralph Nader, whose attacks on Corvair automobiles contributed to discontinuance of the compact, accuses General Motors’ top officials of lying in congressional and court proceedings over the cars.

1960: Some 50,000 people attend Labor Day events at Idora Park, including an address by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Democratic national chairman, who hails the free labor movement as the greatest force against communism throughout the world.

For the fifth year, Youngstown motorists heed the warnings of safety officials and complete the Labor Day weekend without a traffic fatality.

Advertisement: As 1961 models arrive, it’s the last chance to get the buy of the year on the car of the year, Chevy’s Corvair — “the car that brought a new dimension to fun-family travel.”

The State Bureau of Unemployment Compensation’s South Ave. office is swamped with unemployed workers seeking to file claims on the day after Labor Day. The claims load is expected to top 10,000 by the end of the week. It had been 9,200, the highest in two years.

1935: Record attendance at the Canfield Fair allows the fair board to wipe its slate clean of debt, paying off the last $4,000 on a $25,000 note taken out 10 years earlier.

The Mahoning County Board of Elections reports nearly 1,000 candidates aspiring for various municipal, township and board of education offices on the fall ballot.