Years Ago

Today is Sunday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2011. There are 62 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1944: The Martha Graham ballet “Appalachian Spring,” with music by Aaron Copland, premieres at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role.

1945: The U.S. government announces the end of shoe rationing.

1953: Gen. George C. Marshall is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1974: Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, known as the “Rumble in the Jungle,” to regain his world heavyweight title.

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1986: The operators of two homes for the mentally disabled on Youngstown’s North Side may lose their licenses after inspections by the Ohio Department of Mental Health.

The state board of education opens hearings into a proposal that a section of Boardman Township that is in the Youngstown City School District be transferred to the Boardman Local School District. The city school district is opposing the transfer, noting that Youngstown students are 58 percent black, Boardman schools are .8 percent black and all 84 students who would be transferred are white.

1971: Campbell Mayor Rocco Mico and member of city council break ground for a new $2.5 million water treatment plant on Wilson Avenue.

The Youngstown United Appeal campaign ends with pledges of $1.6 million, about 90 percent of its goal, but officials are hoping an upturn in economic conditions will add to the final total before the year is out.

1961: Youngstown has another new, unflattering nickname: “Murdertown, Ohio,” courtesy of Argosy, a national men’s magazine that is running an article about a gangland reign of terror.

1936: Walter A. Shellito, an Andover farmer, reports he is harvesting 64,000 bushels of potatoes from his 160-acre farm using modern mechanical methods, making him and his son, Harold, the largest growers in the state.

Forty oil and water color paintings are exhibited at the Buckeye Art Club’s annual show at the Butler Art Institute.