Years Ago

Today is Thursday, June 14, the 166th day of 2012. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.

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1775: The Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, is created.

1777: The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopts the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.

1801: Former American Revolutionary War general and notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold dies in London.

1922: Warren G. Harding becomes the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcasts his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.

1940: German troops enter Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis begin transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.

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1987: Liberty developer Louis DeVicchio, auto dealer John Baglier and Realtor Ronald Antonelli are spearheading the Liberty Development Committee, which is promoting growth and better living conditions in the township.

A company official says that LTV Corp. is attempting to determine the cost of tearing down its idle Youngstown area steel mills.

Boardman Township officials will seek an independent traffic study of U.S. Route 224 in an effort to improve traffic flow and reduce accidents on the commercial strip.

1972: Anthony Phillips, 60, is charged with murder in the Lawrence County Courthouse shooting of Gary Couch, 19, minutes after Couch was sentenced to 6 to 12 years in the penitentiary for killing Phillips’ brother, Alex, in January.

About 160 tons of molten steel fall through the bottom of an open hearth furnace at the Ohio Works of U.S. Steel Corp. There are no injuries, and production at other furnaces was not delayed.

The Youngstown Community Action Council has more jobs than young applicants for its summer work programs. The agency has enough money for 797 jobs for youths between 14 and 18 who fall below the poverty line, which is $4,000 for a family.

1962: A high-speed race in Market Street between a Youngstown man and his nephew, both workers at Schwebel Baking Co., ends with one car crashing into a building and the other striking gasoline pumps. Horace Beauchemin, 40, was killed when he was thrown from his car.

A 7-year-old Austintown girl visiting relatives falls into a ditch on Ohio Avenue in Youngstown while playing with other children and is pinned by an earth-boring auger. Janice Hernan, who was trapped for more than an hour, is in satisfactory condition in St. Elizabeth hospital after the leg was amputated.

Dr. Ray Fenton, head of the Mahoning County Health Board, urges that dogs be tied or on leashes, warning that otherwise the area could take “a fatal step backward” and see the first case of rabies in years and years.

1937: The Youngstown Police Department hires 60 special policemen for duty during the steel strike. Their employment is expected to last only a few days.

Republic Steel Corp. officials report 2,372 workers are inside the company’s Warren plant and that they have sufficient supplies for them after 115 railroad cars of material were rolled into the plant during a rally by striking workers at the plant gate, away from the rail line.

The Rayen Swing Band, the McDonald High School Band and the Troop 15 Drum and Bugle Corps present a concert in Wick Park to raise $1,800 to send the Troop 15 Corps to the Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington.

The Rev. Roland Luhman, pastor of First Reformed Church, is named president of the Youngstown Rotary Club, replacing Dr. W. H. Hayden, who was presented a radio by the club in recognition of his work.