Years Ago

Today is Sunday, June 5, the 156th day of 2011. There are 209 days left in the year.

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1884: Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refuses the Republican presidential nomination, saying, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”

1933: The United States goes off the gold standard.

1947: Secretary of State George C. Marshall gives a speech at Harvard University in which he outlines an aid program for Europe that comes to be known as The Marshall Plan.

1967: War erupts in the Mideast as Israel raids military aircraft parked on the ground in Egypt; Syria, Jordan and Iraq enter the conflict.

1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel after winning California’s Democratic presidential primary.

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1986: Bruce Zoldan, owner of the B.J. Alan Fireworks Co. and Diamond Sparkler Co., hosts a tour for city officials and the media of his downtown Youngstown plant.

American Legion officials in Alliance are banking on their record of community service to regain any lost trust and soothe the pain of a black eye caused after being cited for gambling and liquor violations in a raid by state liquor agents.

Assistant Trumbull County Prosecutor W. Wyatt McKay is declared the victor in the race for Trumbull County Common Pleas judge after a recount shows him with a 197 margin victory over Niles Municipal Judge Charles B. Zubyk.

1971: Twelve Youngstown police officers raid the Scandinavian Adult Cinema on Chestnut Street and arrest Zsa Zsa Cortez, a stripteaser whom they charge with nudism. A Cashier and a manager are charged with aiding and abetting nudism and 50 patrons, including a minister and one woman, are sent home.

Four of Lisbon’s oldest structures are on the village’s second annual home tour, including the Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eberhart home on Roller Coaster Road, the Victorian home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lewis and the columned home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Toot, both on Lincoln Way, and the old stone tavern built between 1803 and 1805.

Girard Principal Donald Boyee presents diplomas to the high school graduating class for the last time; he’s retiring from an education career that began 40 years earlier at Mineral Ridge.

1961: A sign is installed on Central Square that calls attention to Youngstown’s strategic position in the nation, listing the mileage from the city to New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, noting it is “in the heart of industrial America.”

A tear gas cartridge tossed into a car in N. Champion Street sends four young people to South Side Hospital for eye treatment. Treated were the driver, Shirley Cox, and passengers Joanne Connistra, Tom Gibbons and Roy Nagel.

Gov. Michael DiSalle signs a bill stiffening enforcement against Ohio’s numbers racket, which is estimated at $100 million a year in the state. “Such income is considered socially nonproductive and thus an economic waste,” says DiSalle.

1936: Leroy Milligan, 21-year-old Youngstown man who shot and killed 52-year-old voodoo doctor Earl T. Wilson in Warren, is acquitted by a jury of 12 men after three hours of deliberating. Milligan testified that he had been “under Wilson’s power” from the age of 15 and killing him was the only way to escape his attentions.

Mill operations in the Youngstown district are at 76 percent, the highest for any corresponding week since 1929.

Youngstown teachers will receive pay raises of 3 percent in the coming school year, but salaries will still be 7 percent below the 1930 rates, which were cut 20 percent in 1931.