YEARS AGO
Today is Monday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2014. There are 44 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1889: The Union Pacific Railroad Co. begins direct, daily railroad service between Chicago and Portland, Ore., as well as Chicago and San Francisco.
1558: Elizabeth I accedes to the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary.
1800: Congress holds its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.
1868: The Suez Canal opens in Egypt.
1917: French sculptor Auguste Rodin dies in Meudon at age 77.
1934: Lyndon Baines Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as Lady Bird, in San Antonio, Texas.
1947: President Harry S. Truman, in an address to a special session of Congress, calls for emergency aid to Austria, Italy and France. (The aid was approved the following month.)
VINDICATOR FILES
1989: The Mahoning County Solid Waste Policy Committee approves an assessment on each ton of waste disposed of in the county that will raise more than $4.7 million a year. The fees will be $1 a ton for waste from within the county, $2 for each ton from other Ohio counties and $3 for out-of-state refuse.
About 65 parents show up for parent night at Youngstown South High School, which has 853 students. Rayen School Principal Alex Murphy wouldn’t say how many parents showed up there, but a reporter walking through the school encountered few parents.
1974: James E. Roberts, a 1964 graduate of South High School who taught social studies at North High School for four years after graduating from Youngstown State University, is admitted to the practice of law. He received his law degree from Akron University and will join the office of his father, Atty. Edward Roberts, in the Union National Bank Building.
1964: Youngstown University announces plans to build a $1.5 million science center. President Howard Jones says a federal grant matched by other funds will underwrite the project.
Paul Beil, Neosha Drive, president of Beil and Rempes Drugs and the Cornersburg Pharmacy, dies. He was a prominent sportsman, secretary of the Youngstown Civil Service Commission and a life-long active Democrat.
Advertisement: Stambaugh Thompson’s has mud and snow tires for $8.88, anti-freeze at $1.38 a gallon and gasoline anti-freeze for 12 cents a can.
1939: Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of General Electric, and Gerald Swope, president — two of the nation’s leading industrialists — announce their retirement, having reached the company’s mandatory retirement age of 65, which they established.
Charles H. Elliott of 2206 Fifth Ave., Youngstown, assistant vice president for Republic Steel Corp., dies, apparently of a heart attack, in his room at the Hotel Statler in Buffalo. He was 61.
Youngstown’s 12 downtown “bookie joints” are continuing to operate, using a makeshift long-distance telephone arrangement after losing their race-results wire service.