Years Ago

Today is Friday, August 1, the 213th day of 2014. There are 152 days left in the year.

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1714: Britain’s Queen Anne dies at age 49; she is succeeded by George I.

1876: Colorado is admitted as the 38th state.

1907: The U.S. Army Signal Corps establishes an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force.

1913: The Joyce Kilmer poem “Trees” is first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.

1936: The Olympics open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: Attorney Charles Richards, representing Fairhaven School Superintendent Fred D. Cleary, sends a three-page letter to Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins asking him to instruct the Trumbull County commissioners that they should stop meddling in the affairs of the Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.

Youngstown is one of 376 U.S. cities in which American Express is offering “1-900-weather” service, aimed at travelers, which allows anyone to use a phone to get a weather report for another area for a fee of 75 cents a minute.

1974: The Northeastern Ohio Manpower Consortium approves grants totaling $3.9 million to provide jobs and training for low-income residents of Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana and Ashtabula counties.

Thomas P. Racich, director of the Youngstown Area Community Action Center, is honored by 600 people during a testimonial dinner at the Sokol Center.

Michael W. Taylor, an instructor in advertising at Youngstown State University, sues a fellow teacher seeking $1 million for defamatory comments that Taylor alleges cost him a promotion to department chairman.

1964: Methods for developing Mahoning County Community College are discussed at two meetings between local educators and members of the community college’s board of trustees.

Earl Watson, 60, of E. Western Reserve Road, Poland, is burned to death and his wife is critically injured when their compact car collides with a Pennsylvania Railroad train near Hillsville, Pa.

1939: Youngstown’s retail business shows more improvement in June 1939 over June 1938 than any of the leading eight cities in Ohio, the Department of Commerce reports with 32 firms reporting $1.4 million in retail trade during the month, a 43.5 percent gain.

Lucius B. McKelvey, president of the G.M. McKelvey Co., announces plans to build a large public parking garage on Commerce Street across from the store’s rear entrance.