Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2011. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1945: Gen. George S. Patton dies in Heidelberg, Germany, of injuries from a car accident.
1948: The state of Eire, or Ireland, passes an act declaring itself a republic.
1988: Two hundred and seventy people are killed when a terrorist bomb explodes aboard a Pam Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground.
1991: Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaim the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the death of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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1986: Trumbull County commissioners say the county, which is trying to collect on two loans totaling $460,000 to local companies, should get out of the banking business.
The B.J. Alan Co. enters a joint venture with a Chinese company to package and market sparklers manufactured in China, which will create between 40 and 50 local jobs.
The Packard Electric Division of General Motors says it expects employment at its new Vienna Township plant to reach 70 percent by summer as it gears up to provide products for GM’s new model year.
1971: Local 1462, United Steelworkers of America, files grievances against the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in connection with Sheet & Tube’s contract with Stupp Corp. of Baton Rouge, La., to make pipe for customers that will carry the S&T label.
Two bandits armed with sawed off shotguns rob the Reynolds-Transfer office of the First National Bank of Mercer County, escaping with $21,799.
1961:John A. Coakley Jr., president of “Automatic” Sprinkler Corp. of America, is elected president of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce.
Gilbert Menz, a Warren elementary school teacher, is named the city’s safety-service director by Mayor-elect Robert Dunstan.
1936: The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce directors choose T. Lamar Jackson as president of the chamber.
Dr. William H. Hudnut, pastor of First Presbyterian Church for 37 years, announces his resignation to a full congregation attending services the Sunday before Christmas.
Police are investigating a campaign of sabotage directed against Peter Pan Dry Cleaning Co., a cut-rate operator that has had shops in Youngstown and Warren attacked with stench bombs.