Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2011. There are 359 days left in the year.

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1759: George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis are married in New Kent County, Va.

1838: Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail give the first successful public demonstration of their telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.

1919: The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, dies in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.

1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlines a goal of “Four Freedoms”— Freedom of speech and of worship; freedom from want and from fear.

1950: Britain recognizes the Communist government of China.

1967: U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.

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1986: A 15-year-old boy, Bryant Johnson, is killed when a fire of undetermined cause sweeps through the Steel Valley Home for Boys at 182 E. Midlothian Boulevard.

U.S. heating manufacturers complain that the engineers who have drawn up plans for a $3.2 million refurbishing project at the YMHA’s Westlake Terrace call for a type of hot water system that uses pipe made in Europe.

Myra Benedikt is elected president of the Jewish Community Center.

1971: The city of Youngs–town and the Youngstown Hospital Association announce that they will become financial partners in the $16 million hospital expansion program, with the city issuing tax-free revenue bonds to finance the project.

A. Irving Kidston retires as president and chief executive officer of the Dollar Savings & Trust Co.

1961: Four Youngstown pro football players were home for the Christmas vacation: Art DeCarlo of the Baltimore Colts, John Nocera of the Philadelphia Eagles, Paul Maguire of the Los Angeles Chargers and Andy Cvercko of the Green Bay Packers.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. recalls hundreds of men to work as it sharply boosts iron and steel production at its Campbell Works.

1936: Joseph Winfred Parkin, who was in the draying business for 56 years and hauled stone for the old Courthouse foundation, dies in North Side Hospital. He was 78.

T.M. Girdler, chairman of Republic Steel, says several publications that have described the Mahoning Valley as a high-cost steel area are off base. He predicts the Mahoning Valley will be a big producer of steel for 100 years.

A united emergency campaign to raise $100,000 for St. Elzabeth’s Hospital and the South Side unit of Youngstown Hospital is announced by Harry L. Rownd, general chairman. His co-chairmen will be Charles B. Cushwa and Clarence J. Strouss.