Years Ago

Today is Monday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2014. There are 233 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1780: During the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, South Carolina, surrenders to British forces.

1870: An act creating the Canadian province of Manitoba is given royal assent, to take effect in July.

1914: Author and broadcast journalist Howard K. Smith is born in Ferriday, Louisiana.

1922: A 20-ton meteor crashes near Blackstone, Virginia.

1932: The body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is found in a wooded area near Hopewell, New Jersey.

1943: During World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrender.

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1989: The city of New Castle will lease property adjacent to Cascade Park where eight old dismantled rides are rusting away. The owner of the rides has been asked to remove them. Car and cigarette fumes are more harmful to the air than admissions that will come from the new Browning-Ferris Industries medical waste incinerator in Warren, says Dr. Donald A. Drum, who helped form medical incinerator regulations for New York, after touring the Warren site.

Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Patrick Kerrigan dismisses a voluntary manslaughter charge against a Cardinal Mooney High School honor student after Prosecutor Maureen Cronin, who filed the charges, says she has come to believe that the 18-year-old shot his stepfather in self-defense.

1974: Patrick Lehnerd, an eighth-grader at St. Luke School in Boardman wins The Vindicator’s 41st Spelling Bee. He’s the second St. Luke student in a row to win; Mary Kay Pelini was the 1973 champion.

The penny till is virtually empty and two Youngstown banks, Union National Bank and The Peoples Bank, are offering $1.10 for every $1 in pennies brought in.

The former Trumbull County Children’s home behind Trumbull Memorial Hospital on E. Market Street in Warren has a date with the wrecking ball and its current occupant, the Northeastern Ohio Council on Drug Abuse, is looking for new quarters.

1964: Three employees of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Campbell Works are burned, two seriously, when a blast furnace explodes while being lighted.

Robert A. Manchester II is honored as 1964 “Protestant Man of the Year” at the 13th annual spring banquet of Organization of Protestant Men.

In a general report on civil defense in Mahoning County, newly appointed CD Director Bud Fares tells county commissioners that some radio equipment valued at $800 stolen from Youngstown may have ended up in Cuba.

1939: Faced with a shortage of funds, the Mahoning County Relief Administration puts all relief except milk and food on an emergency basis.

Only Youngstown’s mayor may initiate changes in the number and salary of city employees, Judge David G. Jenkins rules in a suit brought by Mayor Lionel Evans challenging city council’s increase in the pay of a water department employee who is also the father of a councilman.

The Monday Musical Club opens its campaign for ticket sales for its 1939-40 concert series, which will include a performance by Nelson Eddy, “the glory of the American stage,” Pianist Josef Hoffman and the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arthur Rodzinski.