Years Ago

Today is Thursday, June 16, the 167th day of 2011. There are 198 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland. (She escapes almost a year later but ends up imprisoned again.)

1858: Accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln says the slavery issue has to be resolved, declaring, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

1911: The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. is incorporated in New York State; it later becomes known as International Business Machines, or IBM.

1932: President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis are renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

1933: The National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law. (It is later struck down by the Supreme Court.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Mahoning County Engineer Michael Fitas says that if a $5 license plate tax in Mahoning County is rejected by voters, there will be little money to pave county roads in 1972.

Philippines-born Thelma G. Cupino realizes a life-long dream as the new owner of Youngstown Steel & Alloy Corp. and Mahoning Culvert Co. She started in business selling roofing and insulation products, but always aimed at owning her own company.

Barbara Gallager, coach of the Youngstown Gymnastics Center’s “Firecrackers,” is heading to the Soviet Union for a seminar to sharpen her skills.

1971: A woman motorist fails to negotiate a curve in Market Street and rams into the Beil & Evans Printing Co. causing an estimated $25,000 damage to the brick structure.

The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare announces a grant of $200,000 in Hill-Burton Act funds for the Youngstown Hospital Association.

GML Investors Co., owned by Clifford Fisher of Canfield, begins a new development on a 74-acre farm on Tippecanoe Road just north of route 224 that will feature homes in the $45,000 to $60,000 range.

1961: The Downtown Board of Trade and other merchants groups agree after a meeting with the city law director to police stores for compliance with blue laws requiring stores to be closed on Sunday.

Three men are killed instantly when their convertible, traveling at an estimated 100 mph, shears off two poles in Irvine Avenue in Sharon. Dead are Roland Bair, 26, of Sharon and brothers Charles W. Haines, 34, of Farrell and Alfred E. Haines, 29, of Sharon.

1936: As World War veterans begin receiving the first of their bonus checks, Youngstown area merchants are looking for an increase in business from close to $2 million that will be in the hands of a couple of thousand recipients.

The Youngstown park commission appoints 57 employees to oversee parks and swimming pools through the summer season that will begin June 24 and end Aug. 26.