Years Ago

Today is Thursday, June 5, the 156th day of 2014. There are 209 days left in the year.

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1794: Congress passes the Neutrality Act, which prohibits Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that is at peace with the United States.

1884: Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refuses the Republican presidential nomination, saying, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”

1933: The United States goes off the gold standard.

1947: Secretary of State George C. Marshall gives a speech at Harvard University in which he outlines an aid program for Europe that comes to be known as the Marshall Plan.

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1989: The Boardman Booster Club and the Rotary Club of Boardman form a panel of trustees to oversee fund-raising for a community athletic complex that is expected to cost $450,000 and would be built behind Boardman High and Glenwood Middle schools.

The former Higbee building’s $4 million sale price is a bargain, its sellers say, but the former downtown department store building attracted a paucity of potential buyers, even at far less than the asking price.

1974: Three Warren policemen fired in 1969 after their indictment on charges of grand larceny will be returned to the police department in an agreement reached with the city after the 11th District Court of Appeals ordered the Civil Service Commission to hold hearings into the firings.

Kay Ann Bobbitt, who became known as the “miracle baby” by beating overwhelming odds by surviving surgery to correct a birth malformation, graduates from Ohio State University and plans to go into public- health nursing.

1964: H. Ross Packard, retired executive secretary of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in South Side Hospital.

Boardman Township trustees table a zone change request opposite Boardman High School for a $17 million air- conditioned shopping mall proposed by William Cafaro and Associates.

U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti returns to his alma mater to give the commencement address for 228 graduates of East High School in Youngstown.

1939: A lone daylight bandit holds up a filling station at 640 Oak St., escaping with $80 after locking the attendant, Frank Pagano, in a washroom.

Mahoning County commissioners approve payment of a $500 reward to Mrs. Lua Anderson of West Austintown, who furnished information leading to the arrest of Norman Leland Smith, who is serving three life terms in the Ohio Penitentiary for the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baumeister at their North Lima farm.