Years Ago

Today is Monday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2015. There are 360 days left in the year.

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1895: French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, is publicly stripped of his rank. (He was ultimately vindicated.)

1905: The National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals is incorporated in New York State.

1914: Auto industrialist Henry Ford announces he is going to pay workers $5 for an 8-hour day, as opposed to $2.34 for a 9-hour day. (Employees still worked six days a week; the 5-day work week was instituted in 1926.)

1925: Democrat Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming takes office as America’s first female governor, succeeding her late husband, William, following a special election.

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1990: Mahoning County officials are forced to delay construction of a new county jail because six proposed sites have environmental contamination or other problems.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., who ran for Congress in 1984 attacking the voting attendance record of the incumbent, Lyle Williams, scored a 100 percent on 368 House votes taken in 1989, the only member of the Ohio delegation to do so.

Environmental investigators are in Niles searching for clues as to what killed hundreds of fish in a pond at the Youngstown Steel Equipment Sales industrial park off Mc-Kees Lane.

1975: Trumbull County’s new freshman commissioner, Anthony Bernard, joins Lyle Williams to give Republicans a majority on the board; the third commissioners is Democrat Walter Pestrak.

Undaunted by inflation or recession, 2,852 couples file for marriage licenses in Mahoning County in 1974, the highest number since post-World War II years. Another 1,888 couples sought divorce or dissolution of their marriages.

A total of 1,622 Youngs-town State University students are named to the Dean’s List for the fall quarter. Enrollment for the quarter was 13,917.

1965: The Rev. Joseph Feicht, pastor of St. Nicholas Church, Struthers, is stricken with a fatal heart attack while horseback riding near Ellsworth.

The Ohio Structural Steel Co., Newton Falls, receives a contract to provide structural steel for the new GM office building at Lordstown.

General Refractories Co. will build a new plant in Warren costing $1.5 million to produce lining for basic oxygen furnaces in the steel industry.

1940: Youngstown businessmen are preparing to close the books on what appears to have been one of the city’s banner business years, surpassing even the peak years of 1927-28 in unit sales and nearly tying records for dollar volume of sales.

Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is appointed to represent industry on the Ohio committee of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

Lack of city funds may prevent local participation in the food stamp program of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation.