Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Sept. 13, the 257th day of 2012. There are 109 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1948: Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine is elected to the U.S. Senate; she becomes the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

1959: Elvis Presley first meets his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army.

1962: Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett rejects the U.S. Supreme Court’s order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a black student, declaring in a televised address, “We will not drink from the cup of genocide.”

1970: The first New York City Marathon is held; winner Gary Muhrcke finishes the 26.2-mile run, which takes place entirely inside Central Park, in 2:31:38.

1993: At the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: The Warren Education Association says it opposes legislation under study by the city’s Committee on Smoking that would regulate smoking in public places, including school buildings.

John Dowling’s 36-yard field goal with four seconds remaining gives Jim Tressel’s YSU Penguins a 20-17 victory over the Bowling Green Falcons at Bowling Green.

1972: A crowd of about 100, half of them students, appears at a Girard Board of Education meeting to speak against a new dress and hair code that has resulted in 80 students being sent home from school.

Two armed robbers escape with an undisclosed amount of cash and jewelry after a daylight robbery at Ben Wilkoff Jewelry, 40 N. Phelps St.

1962: Wean Engineering Co. of Warren is awarded a contract valued at several million dollars to equip a new 60-inch continuous line at U.S. Steel Corp.’s Irwin Works near Pittsburgh.

A federal mediator meets with both sides in a strike that has idled 1,000 workers for two weeks at the United Engineering & Foundry Co., but reports no progress.

1937: A cortege of 400 cars accompanies the body of Roy “Happy” Marino from the Schultz Funeral Home to St. Rocco’s Church, where Father Oreste Salcini tells mourners they should “look into our own souls and ... be more slow to condemn others.”

Rufus Floyd, 28, of 470 St. Louis Ave., Youngstown dies after being struck by a bullet fired by Woodrow Fox, 21, proprietor of a beer garden at 328 North Ave., who was shooting at a fleeing burglar.