Years Ago

Today is Saturday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of 2014. There are 123 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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1861: Union Gen. John Fremont institutes martial law in Missouri and declares slaves there to be free. (However, Fremont’s emancipation order was countermanded by President Abraham Lincoln).

1862: Confederate forces win victories against the Union at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va., and the Battle of Richmond in Kentucky.

1905: Ty Cobb makes his major-league debut as a player for the Detroit Tigers, hitting a double in his first at-bat in a game against the New York Highlanders. (The Tigers won, 5-3.)

1945: Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrives in Japan to set up Allied occupation headquarters.

1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which is intended to promote private development of nuclear energy.

1963: The “Hot Line” communications link between Washington and Moscow goes into operation.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: Youngstown police receive search warrants for information contained on 10 computer disks seized in a gambling raid on Cy-Rak’s Auto Repair, the first time the department has gotten a warrant for a computer. The FBI has been called in to help search the computer files.

Andrew W. Allen joins St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center as chief operating officer. He had been chief operating officer of Marian Health Center in Sioux City, Iowa.

Antone’s drops its court suit seeking to force the Canfield Fair Board to provide the restaurant with a prime location similar to what it had in 1988, but intends to pursue its claim for $25,000 in damages because another vendor was assigned the space.

1974: A Cook County judge in Chicago orders a Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. facility to install a new recycling system that will cost $30 million by 1980 to stop the discharge of pollutants into Lake Michigan.

Allan Kosik of South Range High School and Patricia Kemerer of Canfield reign as 4-H King and Queen at the Canfield Fair.

Rain cuts attendance at the Canfield Fair on Youth Day to 42,871, down from 79,420 on the same day at the 1973 fair.

1964: Visitors to the medical tent at the Canfield Fair will see the “transparent twins,” one showing the body’s skeletal system and the other showing its organs. At the TB and Health Association exhibit, crowds waiting for a chest X-ray will be entertained by a six-piece Dixieland band.

1939: W. Frederic Miller, minister of music at First Presbyterian Church of Warren, is chosen as a teacher of organ at Mount Union College Conservatory of Music In Alliance.

Youngstown City Law Director Vern B. Thomas upholds the right of any group of citizens to hold peaceful assemblages in city parks and orders the park commission to act accordingly.

Mrs. Minnie Wagner files a $40,000 lawsuit against the Cincinnati Fireworks Display Co., the Regione Napolitana Society and the city of Youngstown for injuries suffered by her son, Paul, when he found a firework near Berkley Woods that exploded in his hand.