YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2014. There are 62 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1735: The second president of the United States, John Adams, is born in Braintree, Mass.

1864: Helena, Mont., is founded.

1921: The silent film classic “The Sheik,” starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres in Los Angeles.

1938: The radio play “The War of the Worlds,” starring Orson Welles, airs on CBS.

1944: The Martha Graham ballet “Appalachian Spring,” with music by Aaron Copland, premieres at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role.

1945: The U.S. government announces the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight.

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1989: Guerino “Greenie” Abruzzi, 77, and his son, Bob, 49, are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Caf 422. Among Warren eateries, only the Saratoga restaurant downtown, founded by the Economos family in 1935, is older.

Warren dance instructor Glorian Rossi will take a group of 20 area dancers, singers, magicians and instrumentalists to perform in the Soviet Union.

Quarterback Bernie Kosar runs for a 5-yard touchdown in the third quarter to lead the Cleveland Browns to a 28-17 win over the Houston Oilers in Cleveland.

1974: Twenty-two young girls are evacuated from the Judy Conti dance studio at 5230 Market St. after a fire breaks out in the adjacent Karstetter’s Television World.

The Youngstown Board of Education gives the Western Reserve Transit Authority a check for $42,935 to pay for busing 9,577 students during September.

Youngstown Area United Appeal reports it has reached $1.4 million or 77 percent of its $1.9 million goal, with two days remaining in the campaign.

1964: Ruth Yozwiak, S. Schenley Avenue, will be honored as “Engineers’ Sweetheart” at Youngstown University’s 6th annual Engineers’ Ball at the Voyager Inn.

1939: In her syndicated newspaper column, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt describes her visit to Youngstown, which she describes as a city that “seems to exist primarily for the production of steel.”

Jack Green, 20, of 204 E. Rayen Ave., an East High graduate and star football player on the Youngstown College team, dies of streptococcic throat in South Side hospital. The YC game with Davis- Elkins College is cancelled.

Addressing a rally at Our Lady of Hungary Church, Municipal Judge Peter Mulholland proudly says he has “suspended more fines and costs than any combination of individuals who ever served in municipal court.” He says he doesn’t believe in penalizing wives and families “at times like these, when they need money at home for food and clothing.”