Years Ago

Today is Thursday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2011. There are 233 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1932: The body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is found in a wooded area near Hopewell, N.J.

1937: King George VI of Britain is crowned at Westminster Abbey; his wife, Elizabeth, is crowned as queen consort.

1949: The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.

1978: The Commerce Department says hurricanes would no longer be given only female names.

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1986: A Portage County Common Pleas judge sentences Timothy A. Combs to maximum consecutive sentences of life in prison in the murder, kidnapping and torture death of Raymond Fife, 12.

On his birthday, Mike Collins goes eight-for-eight with three home runs to lead Noday’s Lounge to a sweep of D.J.s’ Pub, 15-1 and 16-4, in the Inner City Softball League

1971: A federal grand jury investigating loan sharking has issued subpoenas to three Valley police characters, including Anthony “Tony the Dope” Delsanter of Warren.

Carl G. Rango, 65, co-owner of the Colonial House, dies of head injuries after falling down the basement steps at his home.

Frank Nemec, president of Lykes-Youngstown and CEO of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., predicts that Sheet & Tube’s second quarter shipments will reach a new high.

1961: Edward J. DeBartolo, Youngstown shopping plaza developer, joins industrialist Marvin H. Itts and William M. Cafaro, a contractor, in a plan to modernize the Realty Building on Youngstown’s Central Square.

Lee Hanuschak, eighth grade student at St. James School in Warren, tops a field of 116 contestants for a four-year Catholic high school scholarship provided by the Trumbull County Deanery of the National Council of Catholic Women.

Military officials reject a city proposal that the Air Force rent at Youngstown Municipal Airport be reduced from $27,500 to $10,000 a year for five Air Force buildings.

1936: Miss Betty Carson, Struthers High School’s last May Queen in 1926, will crown her 1936 successor at the school’s May Day festival. Candidates are Irene Kopp, Nina Ola, Ruth Seaberg, Virginia Ahrens, Jane Holt, Jane Hackett, Margaret Everett and Eleanor Crossley.

Raymond J. Sheetz, 21-year-old Ohio State University senior, is elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary society, despite being hospitalized in North Side hospital with blood poisoning as a result of an automobile accident.

Frank N. Bouslough, 15, of Forest Hill Road, Boardman Township, rides a bicycle equipped with a two-tube radio set of his own construction.