Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2011. There are 352 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1864: Composer Stephen Foster dies impoverished in a New York hospital at age 37. (In his pocket: a note which read, “Dear friends and gentle hearts.”)

1941: A new law goes into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship.

1966: Robert C. Weaver is named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Lyndon B. Johnson; Weaver becomes the first black Cabinet member.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge David F. McLain orders the county prosecutor’s office, Juvenile Court and the Warren Police Department to open up their records for Danny Lee Hill’s defense lawyer. Hill is accused in the murder of 12-year-old Raymond Fife.

1971: Youngstown’s final census count sets the city’s population at 139,788; Mahoning County is 536,003.

Youngstown tells Girard that the city must negotiate a water service contract between the two cities for the continued supply of 18.5 million gallons of MVSD water to Girard.

1961: Hundreds more of Youngstown’s laid-off steelworkers, railroaders and truckers will be called back as steel operations improve, reaching 42 percent of capacity.

Any employee who feels he cannot give his complete support and loyalty to the products and policies of his company should resign, J.A. Coakley Jr., president of “Automatic” Sprinkle Corp. of America, tells the annual gathering of the company’s 25-year club.

1936: Ex-Mayor Mark Moore paid a contractor $5,700 for work generously estimated to be worth $1,240 in the final months of his administration, a time when hundreds of city employees were denied payment for work done.

With 55 open hearths scheduled for operation and two Bessemer plants in operation, steel production in the Youngstown district will be at 65 percent, approaching a new high for five years.