Years Ago

Today is Monday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2011. There are 68 days left in the year.

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1861: The first transcontinental telegraph message is sent by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., over a line built by the Western Union Telegraph Co.

1901: Widow Anna Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

1940: The 40-hour work week goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

1952: Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declares in Detroit, “I shall go to Korea” as he promises to end the conflict. (He makes the visit over a month later.)

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1986: Sen. John Glenn tours the North Star Steel plant in Brier Hill and pronounces it an example of what can be done when the government and private enterprise cooperate in job creation.

Seven months after convincing school Treasurer Max Maley to reject a job offer in another school district and stay in Girard, the board of education votes not to renew Maley’s two-year contract when it expires Dec. 31.

The 11th District Court of Appeals race between Judge David F. McLain of Warren and Judith A Christley of Hiram has sparked voter interest, as well as $27,000 in pre-election spending, $14,500 by McLain and $12,648 by Christley.

1971: Almost 200 local, county, state and federal law enforcement agents swoop down on suspected hangouts and homes of drug peddlers in Youngstown, Austintown, Boardman and Poland, arresting 29 and confiscating more than $10,000 worth of marijuana, speed, heroin, LSD and other drugs.

With the electorate swollen somewhat by the enfranchisement of 18- to 21-year-old voters, Mahoning County officials are expecting more than 110,000 voters to go to the polls.

1961: Daniel L. Lombard, president of Lombard Corp., files a lawsuit for $100,000 against Youngstown real estate developer Edward J. DeBartolo charging that Lombard was not paid for his successful attempt to get the president of the Randall Park Jockey Club to reopen negotiations for sale of the track to DeBartolo.

1936: During a visit to Youngstown to speak at the Republican rally at the YMCA, U.S. Sen. James J. Davis of Pennsylvania has a reunion meeting with a Youngstown cousin, Mrs. Howard D. Price of Idlywild Ave.

W. A. Lanterman, of Four Mile Run Road, who is unemployed says he won’t believe his good fortune until he actually has his hands on his prize money from the Irish Sweepstakes, $2,965.