Years Ago

Today is Monday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2012. There are 119 days left in the year. This is Labor Day.

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On this date in:

1189: England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1861: During the Civil War, Confederate forces invade the border state of Kentucky, which had declared its neutrality in the conflict.

1939: Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.

1951: The television soap opera “Search for Tomorrow” makes its debut on CBS.

1976: America’s Viking 2 lander touches down on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet’s surface.

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1987: Niles City Council unanimously passes legislation defining dangerous and vicious dogs and setting fines or jail terms for owner-violators.

Youngstown firefighters bring under control a fire at the city sewage treatment plant on Poland Avenue.

Youngstown Superintendent Emanuel N. Catsoules says city school teachers are being asked to take a pay freeze until the district’s revenues improve.

1972: Some 10,000 employees at the Lordstown General Motors plant get a Labor Day pay boost of three cents an hour to meet inflation.

The three-day attendance at the Canfield Fair reaches 223,336, only 260 below the same period for the last five day fair, in 1970.

“It will be necessary, not only in higher education but in most fields of human endeavor, to shed the notion that bigger is always better and that growth is better than stability,” Dr. E.T. Dunlap, Oklahoma chancellor of higher education, tells the Youngstown State University graduating class.

1962: Labor Day weekend traffic accidents claim two lives in Mahoning County, Harry Kabetso Jr, 20, of Canfield and George Bowser, 30, of Girard.

Labor Day in Youngstown is marred by widespread economic difficulty, coupled with three industrial strikes that are idling about 3,500 workmen.

1937: A special meeting of common stockholders of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is called for Oct. 19 to act on a financing program for the company’s proposed $30 million in improvements and expansion.

Stephen Troxil, 26, a Youngstown barber, is home from the Spanish revolution and hospitalized for shell-shock after serving 4 Ω months fighting for the Loyalists.

Sitting in front of the apple house at the Canfield Fair, Clarence Williamson, 84, of Greenford declares, “This is the greatest fair I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen heaps of them.”