Thursday, July 30, 2015
YEARS AGO
Today is Thursday, July 30, the 211th day of 2015. There are 154 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill creating a women’s auxiliary agency in the Navy known as “Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service” – WAVES for short.
1953: The Small Business Administration is founded.
1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a measure making “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (“Out of many, one”).
1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a measure creating Medicare, which would begin operating in 1966.
1975: Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains never have been found.
2005: President George W. Bush is pronounced “fit for duty” after a checkup that showed that the 59-year-old commander-in-chief, an avid mountain bike rider, had lost 8 pounds since his last physical exam in December 2004.
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1990: Two Republicans, U. S. Rep. Tom Ridge of Erie, Pa., and John Kasich of Westerville, Ohio, are leading the fight in the U.S. House against the B-2 Stealth Bomber. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney wants 75 of the planes to be built at a cost of $840 million each.
Walter Soplata of Newbury in Geauga County has 30 airplanes on about 6 acres near Punderson State Park, which he has offered to Larry Diemand, manager of the Youngstown Municipal Airport, for a proposed aviation museum at the airport.
Bob Cunningham of Canfield, a senior at Kent State University, is spending the summer as a student trainer at the NFL Buffalo Bills training camp.
1975: An early morning explosion heard for miles around destroys a duplex at 5006 and 5008 Maple Drive in Vienna owned by Jack Renfro. No one was home at the time.
Twelve Austintown, Youngstown and Canfield men are arrested by Austintown police on various drug charges in raids conducted after an undercover operation by Austintown police.
Summer Adventures in Learning (SAIL), a supplemental education course for children of normal to superior intelligence, opens for the second year at the Market Street School in Boardman, operated by the Junior League of Youngstown.
1965: A brazen thug robs George Wolford at Fifth Avenue and Wood Street, tearing at the victims trousers to steal his wallet as rush-hour traffic streams by.
The Poland Swim Club upsets Boardman-Canfield 214-162 to remain the only undefeated team in the Youngstown League.
Ohio becomes the 21st state that will provide public transportation for private-school children when a highly controversial bill passes the House 86-45.
1940: Clyde H. Hossel of the West Side Business and Community Club says West Side merchants are irked by the delay in resurfacing Mahoning Avenue and will submit an official protest if work is not begun in 10 days.
Port Clinton police believe two Youngstown men are responsible for the bombing of the Allen Clemens Candy Co. building in that city over a dispute regarding concessions at the Gem and Terrace Beaches on Lake Erie.
Dr. Herbert H. Hudnut, son of Dr. William H. Hudnut, who was pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Youngstown for 38 years, is called to pastorship of Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church in Michigan.