Friday, July 17, 2015
YEARS AGO
Today is Friday, July 17, the 198th day of 2015. There are 167 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1945: After Nazi Germany’s surrender, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill begin meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II.
1821: Spain cedes Florida to the United States.
1917: During World War I, the British royal family adopts the name “Windsor,” replacing the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
1918: Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks.
1935: The entertainment trade publication Variety runs its legendary headline “Sticks Nix Hick Pix” (which might be translated as “Rural audiences reject rural-themed movies”).
1936: The Spanish Civil War begins as right-wing army generals launch a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.
1944: During World War II, 320 men, two-thirds of them African-Americans, are killed when two ammunition ships explode at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.
1955: Disneyland has its opening day in Anaheim, Calif.
1965: The Righteous Brothers single “Unchained Melody” by Alex North and Hy Zaret is released on the Phillies label.
1975: An Apollo spaceship docks with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.
1981: One hundred fourteen people are killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapses during a tea dance.
1996: TWA Flight 800, a Europe-bound Boeing 747, explodes and crashes off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people aboard.
2005: The Iraqi Special Tribunal files its first criminal case against Saddam Hussein for a 1982 massacre of Shiites.
2014: Eric Garner, an unarmed black man accused of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, dies shortly after being wrestled to the ground by New York City police officers; a video of the takedown shows Garner repeatedly saying, “I can’t breathe.”
VINDICATOR FILES
1990: Atty. James Petro, a Republican running for state auditor, says Ohio Auditor Thomas Ferguson’s staff should have uncovered questionable fee collections by Youngstown Municipal Court bailiffs that had been going on for years.
A manpower shortage in the Poland Village Police Department is reducing the city’s cash flow, with only 200 tickets issued in June, down from 368 in May and the March high of 581.
Renco Group, the parent company of Warren Consolidated Industries, is considering making a bid to buy part of the bankrupt Sharon Steel Corp.
1975: The Youngstown Hospital Association says that unless the Ohio General Assembly reforms medical-malpractice law, room rates will increase $3 per day to cover increasing insurance costs.
The widening of Fifth Avenue south of the Madison Avenue Expressway is being held up by a strike by members of Local 8 of the Bricklayers, Terrazzo and Tile Setters union against the Builders Association of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.
Thomas P. Bartle Jr. is elected president of the Youngstown Symphony Society. Elected vice presidents are John H. Yerian, Jr., Jay Tims, Jack Walter and Mrs. Clinton Cooper.
1965: A crowd of 3,500 sees Sintra, owned by Dr. and Mrs. William Lurie of Hubbard, win a blue ribbon in the Arabian Western Show Class on opening day of the 22nd annual Charity Horse Show at the Canfield Fairgrounds.
Chuck Saulino gets four hits, scoring twice and knocking in three other runs, to lead Rondinelli Tuxedo to an 8-7 victory over Lowellvillle at Oakland Field.
As the second-half 1964 real-estate tax deadline passes, Mahoning County’s collection stands at $13.5 million, about 83 percent of the charge, but Treasurer Joseph P. Gorman says he expects the final figure to reach 97 percent after all the mail is opened.
1940: Park Superintendent Thomas Pemberton says Youngstown’s six swimming pools are $1,652 “in the red” for the first 21 days of the swimming season. Three of the pools are new.
The Youngstown Civil Service Commission is considering whether to appeal a court order restoring Florence H. Ashbaugh as chief clerk and assistant secretary of the commission.
Some 18,000 children enjoy free milk and ice cream and reduced prices on all rides at Sanitary Milk Co.’s 17th annual Kiddies Day at Idora Park.