Years Ago

Today is Thursday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2014. There are 342 days left in the year.

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1845: Congress decides all national elections will be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

1932: New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1933: The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the so-called “Lame Duck Amendment,” is ratified as Missouri approves it.

1937: Seventeen people go on trial in Moscow during Josef Stalin’s “Great Purge.” (All were convicted of conspiracy; all but four were executed.)

1950: The Israeli Knesset approves a resolution affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

1960: The U.S. Navy-operated bathyscaphe Trieste carries two men to the deepest known point in the Pacific Ocean, reaching a depth of more than 35,000 feet.

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1989: Michael J. Cubbin, manager of General Motors Corp.’s Lordstown Complex, says workers will be putting in “maximum overtime” to meet demand for the Cavaliers and vans produced there.

State Rep. Michael G. Verich, D-Warren, is named chairman of the Ohio House Aging and Housing Committee, the day after Gov. Richard Celeste stresses the need for elder care during his State of the State address.

Sharon Speedway holds its annual awards banquet at the Yankee Lake Ballroom with 1,500 in attendance. Point- winners honored are: Tom Quarterson, sprints; Dick Barton, late model; John Braymer, modified; Charlie Jasinski, thunder cars, and Mark Thompson, pure stock.

1974: Joseph Ghossian, owner of the Humble Restaurant, 2935 Market St., receives an anonymous letter containing three $50 bills and a note apologizing for stealing a check-writing machine from the back of the restaurant five years earlier.

The Youngstown YMCA adopts a 1974 budget of $966,380 for 1974.

Eight YSU coeds complete their first quarter in the ROTC program, the first women permitted to join the program.

1964: Youngstown City Council gives second reading to an ordinance abolishing the car allowance for city employees and establishing a mileage rate of 8 cents.

Triplets, two boys and a girl, are born to Phillip and Carol Rickard of Niles at North Side Hospital within 6 minutes of each other.

The initial step in creating Mahoning County Community College in conjunction with Youngstown University is taken when county commissioners pass a resolution establishing a college district embracing all of Mahoning County.

1939: Contracts for virtually all the work and materials needed for Youngstown’s new low-cost housing project have been awarded to Youngstown district firms and will furnish employment for hundreds of local men, Ben J. Bucheit of the Youngstown Builders Syndicate says.

Mahoning County pays an average of $19.92 monthly in Aid to Dependent Children payments, 61 percent above the state average.

Youngstown’s seven high schools elect presidents of their June classes: Philip Tear, Rayen; Robert L. Dove, South; John Carney, Chaney; Robert C. Stetson, Woodrow Wilson; Joe Anzivino, Ursuline; Robert Cowder, Scienceville, and Alfred Esposite, East.