Thursday, February 23, 2012
Today is Thursday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2012. There are 312 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1861: President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington to take office, following word of a possible assassination plot in Baltimore.
1927: President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission.
1942: The first shelling of the U.S. mainland during World War II occurs as a Japanese submarine fires on an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, Calif., causing little damage.
1945: During World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima capture Mount Suribachi.
1992: The XVI Winter Olympic Games end in Albertville, France.
VINDICATOR FILES
1987: Employees of the United Engineering Corp. approve a contract that contains about $4 per hour in concessions. About 375 members of the USW are employed at United Engineering plants on Phelps Street in Youngstown and in Canton and Vandergrift, Pa.
Larry Lissimore, 12, is treated at North Side Hospital for 30 bites suffered when he picked up what appeared to be a friendly ferret he found near a creek off Tippecanoe Road.
1972: The Mahoning County grand jury returns seven first-degree vehicular homicide charges against James Anderson, 31, charged with driving down a West Federal Street sidewalk in November, mowing down pedestrians.
Dr. Wilfred B. Dodgson is named pediatrician-neonatologist for the 75-bed Tod Babies and Children’s Hospital that will open April 3.
1962: Two Steubenville High School youths and a 20-year-old conspirator are arrested by the FBI, charged with planting a bomb at the Cleveland Hotel on E. Boardman Street in Youngstown and then attempting to extort $4,000 from Costas “Gus” Leamis.
Youngstown Detective Leo J. Tyrrell, second oldest man in point of service on the Youngstown Police Department, retires after 44 years to spend more time with his family, which includes 22 grandchildren.
1937: Verda Foreman, 21, dies in Salem’s Central Clinic Hospital of burns suffered in an explosion when she pours kerosene into a kitchen coal stove and the bottom blows out of the can she was holding.
Dr. David H. Hauser, who as Mahoning County coroner has examined the bodies of more than 100 people killed by autos in the last two years, suggests a crackdown on traffic violators that would include arresting jaywalkers.