Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, May 15, the 136th day of 2012. There are 230 days left in the year.

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1911: The Supreme Court rules that Standard Oil Co. is a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and orders its breakup.

1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a measure creating the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, whose members come to be known as WACs.

1970: Just after midnight, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi, are killed as police open fire during student protests.

1972: Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace is shot and left paralyzed by Arthur H. Bremer while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1975: U.S. forces invade the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recapture the American merchant ship Mayaguez. (All 40 crew members had already been released safely by Cambodia; some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the operation.)

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1987: A countywide 0.5levy is proposed as the most feasible way of paying for 911 emergency telephone service.

William E. Blair Jr. of New Springfield, the new owner of Waterford Park in Chester, W. Va., says he wants to end its image as a “low level” race track.

1972: The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that the Amish are exempt from state laws requiring compulsory school attendance beyond eight grade.

U.S. Steel Corp. announces that John E. Harrod, general superintendent of the company’s Youngstown Works, has been assigned to Spain in a position with the U.S.S. International Department.

Quoting the late J. Edgar Hoover, Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne terms policemen, “our first line of defense against predators of all kinds” during a police memorial service on Central Square.

1962: James P. Griffin, District 26 director of the United Steelworkers of America, asks the federal government for funds for the Lake Erie-Ohio River Interconnecting Waterway.

Rollin C. Steese, 94-year-old former chairman of the board of Bessemer Limestone & Cement Co., leaves an estate of $4 million, one of the largest on file in Mahoning County.

1937: Youngstowners in Pittsburgh where the Steel Workers Organizing Committee is holding a “war council” to force companies to sign union contracts include John L. Mayo, Frank Greggs, Ed Strum and M.W. Wilson.

Twenty-two Youngstown area people are being treated at county expense for exposure to rabies and three dogs believed to have been rabid are destroyed.