Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Aug. 25, the 238th day of 2012. There are 128 days left in the year.

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1718: Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana, with some settling in present-day New Orleans.

1916: The National Park Service is established within the Department of the Interior.

1944: Paris is liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.

1982: Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin is installed as head of Chicago’s Roman Catholic archdiocese.

1985: Samantha Smith, 13, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov results in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union, dies with her father in an airliner crash in Auburn, Maine.

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1987: U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, is urged by Don L. Hanni Jr., Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman, to consider a run for the presidency, especially in light of Gov. Richard F. Celeste’s decision not to run.

Former East High Principal Lock Beachum calls in sick after attending a court hearing on his lawsuit protesting his transfer to Princeton Junior High, saying he had a doctor’s appointment to evaluate a medical condition that has kept him from reporting to his new assignment.

1972: Dr. Henry S. Ellison, chairman of the Youngstown Area Development Corp., says the YADC has secured over $1.4 million for minority and small businesses in Youngstown in three years of existence.

Two armed gunmen hold security guard John Ely at gunpoint and force employees to open the safe at the A&P Supermarket on Belmont Avenue. The robbers escape with an undisclosed amount of cash.

1962: Inez Naples, widow of slain Billy Naples, files a motion to quash the search warrant that turned up weapons at the Naples’ home at 505 Carlotta Dr.

Orders remain slow and steel operations in the Youngstown district remain at 45 percent of capacity as steel executives hope that business will pick up in September.

1937: Youngstown vice squad officers conduct a series of raids against the bug, slot machines and marble boards in the city, and the squad, which has been under scrutiny, is expected to hit more joints.

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