Years Ago

Today is Thursday, June 9, the 160th day of 2011. There are 205 days left in the year.

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1911: Carrie A. Nation, the hatchet-wielding temperance crusader, dies in Leavenworth, Kan., at age 64.

1954: During the Senate-Army Hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berates Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, asking: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

1973: Secretariat wins he Belmont Stakes, becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

1986: The Rogers Commission criticizes NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the Challenger explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

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1986: New Castle’s Chuck Tanner, former manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and current manager of the Atlanta Braves, says drug testing is good for Major League Baseball.

Junkyard operators say they’re being forced out of business by importers of cheap parts from Taiwan, Mexico and Europe.

1971: Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt sentences Jeffrey Cousins, 21, of W. Earle Avenue to four consecutive sentences on narcotics charges providing a total of 60 to 120 years in prison. He was convicted on two counts of possessing heroin for sale and two counts of sale of heroin.

Four Youngstown district men graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: James A. Walter of Youngstown, William C. Quinlan of Warren, George E. Hale of McDonald and Ronald M. Musser of East Liverpool.

1961: Barbara Brogley, a senior at St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing, will reign as queen of the junior-senior prom in Hotel Pick-Ohio.

Feverish attempts of a 40-man rescue squad at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Campbell Works fail to save the life of a 22-year-old Youngstown State University student, William McCarthy, who was buried under tons of coal, limestone and iron ore.

1936: H.S. Warwick, lake-to-river canal campaigner and an active member of St. John’s Episcopal Church, is unanimously elected president of the Federated Churches during a meeting at the First Christian church.

Miss Frances Davis, a Wellesley graduate with a notable background of community service, is announced as the new general secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association in Youngstown.