Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Sept. 17, the 260th day of 2011. There are 105 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

1787: The Constitution of the United States is completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

1911: Calbraith P. Rodgers sets off from Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., aboard a Wright biplane in an attempt to become the first flier to travel the width of the United States. (After 69 stops, he arrives in Pasadena, Calif., on Nov. 5.)

1961: The situation comedy “Car 54, Where Are You?” premieres on NBC.

1971: Citing health reasons, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, 85, retires. (He dies eight days later and is succeeded by Lewis F. Powell Jr.)

1978: After meeting at Camp David, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sign a framework for a peace treaty.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: The Ronald McDonald House on the grounds of Tod Children’s Hospital opens after being remodeled with the help of several area businesses and $15,000 raised through a local McDonald’s promotion and $25,000 from the Ronald McDonald Children’s Charity.

Janet Guthrie, the only woman to have raced in the Indianapolis 500, tells students at Wilson High School that concentration is just as important in highway driving as on the race track.

1971: With the long hair fad cutting barber business by about 45 percent in the Youngstown area and causing barber shops to close, Barbers Union Local 84 votes to raise haircut prices from $2.75 to $3 and children’s prices from $2.25 to $2.50.

Ground is broken for the $4.1 million, 10-story KMW Building at 100 E. Federal Street in downtown Youngstown.

The newly crowned Miss America, Laurie Lea Schaefer of Bexley, will make Youngstown her first Ohio visit on Sept. 26 at the Haber Furniture store downtown.

1961: Youngstown police are holding a 27-year-old North Side man on suspicion of armed robbery at Stella Young’s Dress Shop, 7 Wick Ave. The robbery was the third hold-up downtown in a 24-hour period.

Two ex-convicts accused of an $8,000 burglary at the home of Constantine Economus, 5044 Lockwood Blvd., plead innocent before Judge Edgar G. Diehm.

A golden-domed auditorium is dedicated in Pittsburgh. The Civic Auditorium will be home to the Hornets hockey team and Rens basketball team.

1936: With steel orders for 1937 model automobiles flowing into Youngstown District mills, steel operations are within one point of the Highest mark since 1929.

A long downward economic spiral as reflected in mounting delinquent taxes is apparently at an end as the county treasurer’s office reports that tax collection for 1936 will exceed 100 percent.