Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 4, the 248th day of 2012. There are 118 days left in the year.

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1781: Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers under the leadership of Gov. Felipe de Neve.

1951: President Harry S. Truman addresses the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast.

1957: Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus uses Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine black students from entering all-white Central High School in Little Rock.

Ford Motor Co. begins selling its ill-fated Edsel.

1962: The Beatles, with their new drummer, Ringo Starr, record “Love Me Do” at EMI Studios in London.

1972: “The New Price Is Right” premieres on CBS with host Bob Barker.

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1987: Julian Suso resigns as executive director of the Youngstown Revitalization Foundation to accept a job in Akron, ending a controversy over who would pay his $37,500 annual salary in Youngstown.

Members of the Youngstown Education Association approve a strike resolution after the administration asks for a three year pay freeze. The union wants a 12 percent raise the first year and 10 percent raises each of the next two years.

1972: Trumbull and Mahoning County authorities are searching for a 24-year-old ex-convict in connection with the shooting death of James Wade, 27, and wounding of a young Warren woman at the Warren Travel Lodge, 4258 Youngstown Road.

1962: Ohio has fewer jobs and more people than in 1959, state Auditor James A. Rhodes, candidate for governor, says during a visit to the Canfield Fair with his wife and three daughters.

Encouraged by five days of near perfect weather, a total of 227,643 people attend the 116th annual Canfield Fair, breaking all previous records.

1937: Mrs. Homer Lyon of Canfield, who milks as many as 17 cows a twice a day at home, wins the Canfield Fair milking contest, almost filling a gallon bucket in two minutes. She wins the $5 prize. Mrs. Clark Paulin is second and gets $4; Mrs. Wright Hendricks is third and receives $3.

An 18-year-old Masury boy, Henry Krzyzanowski, is killed by lightning while putting up hay near Petroleum. The lightning bolt split his pitchfork.