Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, May 29, the 150th day of 2012. There are 216 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1917: The 35th U.S. president, John F. Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass.

1932: World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.

1943: Norman Rockwell’s portrait of “Rosie the Riveter” appears on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

1953: Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal become the first climbers to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.

1961: A couple in Paynesville, W.Va., are the first recipients of food stamps under a pilot program created by President John F. Kennedy.

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1987: The Boardman Board of Education votes to discontinue extended kindergarten in the new school year because of a shortage of classroom space.

In a continuing effort to improve federal disaster programs that were found wanting after the 1985 tornadoes in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, U.S. Rep. Thomas Ridge proposes legislation that promises more assistance and better delivery.

1972: Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis throws out the first pitch at the Boardman Youth Baseball Association’s dedication of the Ray T.. Davis-Boardman High School Athletic field, which is named after the sheriff.

Boardman police arrest a 49-year-old Burgettstown, Pa., chiropractor after he sold amphetamines to an undercover cop at a township motel.

1962: The opening of the Market Street Expressway will be delayed after officials discover an elevation error of more than a foot; the Market Street span has a clearance of only 14 feet, while 15 foot, 3 inches is the minimum.

Detective Nicholas Pavelko, chief of the Youngstown juvenile bureau, says gangs of boys are gathering to pick fights, and he urges residents to call police when they seen such gangs forming.

1937: The Republic Steel Corp. uses airplanes to drop food and supplies to managers and workers still in the Warren and Niles plants keeping the open hearths up. Pickets have blocked all entrances to the plants.

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