Years Ago

Today is Sunday, May 29, the 149th day of 2011. There are 216 days left in the year.

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1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution.

1911: The U.S. Supreme Court rules the American Tobacco Co. is in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1917: The 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass.

1932: World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they aren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.

1943: Norman Rockwell’s portrait of “Rosie the Riveter” appears on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

1953: Mount Everest is conquered by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal, the first climbers to reach the summit.

1961: A couple in Paynesville, W.Va., become the first recipients of food stamps under a pilot program created by President John F. Kennedy.

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1986: Don L. Hanni Jr. wins a 5th term as chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, vanquishing his opponents, Dr. George D. Bee-len and Robert W. Bannon, and offers to meet with his arch political rival, U.S. Rep James A. Traficant Jr.

Wean United Inc. announces its plan to sell its foundry products division, which operates a plant on Crescent Street in Youngstown, and its Pittsburgh rolling mills division for $6 million to an unidentified group.

Trumbull County Democrats unanimously re-elect Dr. William J. Timmins chairman of the Trumbull County Democratic Party, but they also elect as first vice chairman Atty. Richard McLaughlin, a man Timmins had branded as “disloyal.”

1971: A Warren man is charged with drunken driving after striking and killing two boys walking home from a Little League game along Route 422 in Southington, Trumbull County. Dead are Clifford Gauntt, 10, and George R. Forrest III, 12.

After Youngstown firemen again reject a new contract offer, Mayor Jack C. Hunter remains firm that they will get “not a penny more” than what was offered, which is also what police accepted.

The use of a parish priest in Philadelphia of “altar girls” to help serve Mass is ordered stopped by the office of John Cardinal Krol, head of the diocese.

1961:Mahoning County’s last one-room schoolhouse was recently closed in Goshen Township, but there are still five such schools operating near New Castle, Pa., primarily serving Amish youngsters.

A Turbocraft 19-foot boat, ordered by President Dwight Eisenhower as a gift for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, will be given instead to the Rev. Donald McClure, a graduate of Westminster College in New Wilmington, for his use in missionary work in Ethiopia. The gift became unnecessary when a planned visit of Eisenhower to Moscow was cancelled.

Youngstown University graduation week opens with a baccalaureate service in the C.J. Strouss Memorial Auditorium. The Rev. W. Frederic Miller, minister of First Presbyterian Church, delivers the address on “What is Truth.”

1936: Rabbi Isaac Peskin of Shaareh Torah Temple, who applied for citizenship immediately after arriving in Youngstown from Poland five years ago, dies of heart disease, just a week from reaching his goal of becoming an American citizen.

John Lloyd, 85, who remained on the job he had held for 46 years as a Youngstown City Schools truant officer, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Ray T. Miller, once a gridiron star for Notre Dame and more recently Cuyahoga County prosecutor and mayor of Cleveland, will head a state investigation of insurance fraud in Youngstown.