Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2011. There are 81 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1811: The first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, is put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J.

1890: The Daughters of the American Revolution is founded in Washington, D.C.

1958: The lunar probe Pioneer 1 is launched; falls back to Earth, and is burned up in the atmosphere.

1968: Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, is launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.

1991: Anita Hill tells a Senate Judiciary Committee that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her; Thomas re-appears before the panel to denounce what he called a “high-tech lynching.”

2001: In his first prime-time news conference since taking office, President George W. Bush says “it may take a year or two” to track down Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network in Afghanistan, but asserts that after a five-day aerial bombardment, “we’ve got them on the run.”

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1986: A tapestry entitled “Creation” is presented to Temple El Emeth by the Monte Friedkin family in honor of Ben Friedkin.

A congressional panel reports that the Reagan administration has reduced steel imports into the United States, but more needs to be done for an industry that is in a “crisis for survival.”

1971: Young armed bandits rob attendants at two Youngstown service stations, firing a shot at one of them, Ronald Johnson, who was working at the Kayo Service Station, 1852 Oak St.

Stambaugh pro George Bellino and Fonderlac club champ Roy Cestary card a 66 to win Fonderlac’s two-man best ball tournament.

The United Appeal’s $1.8 million fund raising drive opens with a pops type concert at Powers Auditorium.

1961: West Federal Street merchants and property owners ask city council to remove the rush-hour parking ban on meters in front of their stores.

Quick action by Youngstown police in four cruisers responding to a neighbor’s tip avert a gang fight by some 30 youths at Kyle Playground on Oak Hill Avenue. Police take the names of 15 of the youths, but no arrests are made.

Kay Louise Houser of Warren and Kathryn Zimmerman of Lake Milton are among five finalists for homecoming queen at Kent State University.

1936: Some big political guns will be coming to Youngstown as Ohio becomes a focal state in the presidential election. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, will speak at an Ohio Women for Landon meeting; Sen. Robert Bulkley will speak at a Democratic rally and Charles P. Taft, son of the late chief justice and president, will speak for Landon.

Mahoning County’s edition of the “Ohio Guide,” written and edited by 17 WPA Federal Writers Project workers, is awaiting publication. It is more than 600 typewritten pages long covering general history, a county encyclopedia and tourist guide.

Real estate is making a comeback in Youngstown with prices of real estate owned by the banks increasing by 10 to 20 percent over 1935 values.