Years Ago

Today is Saturday, March 1, the 60th day of 2014. There are 305 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1790: President George Washington signs a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census.

1867: Nebraska becomes the 37th state.

1872: President Ulysses S. Grant signs an act creating Yellowstone National Park.

1914: National Baseball Hall of Fame announcer Harry Caray is born in St. Louis, Mo.

1919: A group of Korean nationalists declare their country’s independence from Japanese colonial rule.

1932: Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)

1943: Wartime rationing of processed foods under a point system begins in the U.S.

1954: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire from the spectators’ gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members of Congress.

1961: President John F. Kennedy signs an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.

1964: Paradise Airlines Flight 901A, a Lockheed L-049 Constellation, crashes near Lake Tahoe Airport in California, killing all 85 people on board.

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1989: Youngstown-area rackets figure Orland Carabbia of Struthers, sentenced in July 1985 to seven years in prison for drug and bomb-making charges, is released from Allenwood Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Pa., and will be on parole.

About 2,500 children die each year in Ohio, and the state’s Department of Human Services is tracking the causes of those deaths to find ways to decrease their numbers.

The overcrowding at the Trumbull County Jail and the accompanying smells have forged an unlikely alliance — inmates and guards — who have sent a letter to Sheriff Richard Jakmas complaining about poor ventilation.

1974: A two-alarm fire destroys the Arena Lanes on Simon Road in Boardman. The loss is estimated at $500,000.

Youngstown police conduct the year’s largest narcotics raid, netting some $7,000 in pure, uncut heroin at a home on Ellenwood Avenue.

Gov. John J. Gilligan signs into law a bill lowering the speed limit on Ohio’s highways to 55 mph.

1964: The James A. Rhodes administration will commission a study to determine the cost of building a water pipeline from Lake Erie to central and western Ohio in an effort to promote industrial development.

There’s a new boom in oil and natural gas exploration going on in Ashtabula County and northern Trumbull County, with recent leases signed for 57,000 acres in Ashtabula and 3,500 in Trumbull.

Youngstown cigarette dealers say sales of cigarettes by the carton are down by about 20 percent, an apparent indication that some smokers are trying to quit in reaction to a government report on the dangers of cigarettes.

1939: Directors of the Buckeye Liquor Dealers Association in Youngstown pass a resolution protesting abolition of the state liquor board’s Youngstown district office and the transfer of Karl T. Broadley, local enforcement chief, to the Akron office.

Two gunmen, their faces covered with black handkerchiefs, stage a Jesse James train robbery when they boarded a freight train at Ohio Junction west of Girard and rob the conductor and flagman.

The U.S. House Rivers and Harbors Committee approves improvement of the Calumet-Sag canal on the outskirts of Chicago costing nearly $26 million.