YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, June 9, the 160th day of 2015. There are 205 days left in the year.

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1870: Author Charles Dickens dies in Gad’s Hill Place, England.

1940: During World War II, Norway decides to surrender to the Nazis.

1973: Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

2014: The Veterans Affairs Department says more than 57,000 U.S. military veterans had been waiting 90 days or more for their first VA medical appointments, and an additional 64,000 never got appointments after enrolling and requesting them.

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1990: Rain has drenched Mahoning County farm fields and, combined with an infestation of slugs, is destroying as much as 60 percent of young corn plants.

Friends of American Art, a volunteer organization that has served the Butler Institute of American Art for nearly half a century, votes to disband over a disagreement with the museum’s board of control.

The Rev. Steve Beall, minister of First Unitarian Church at Elm Street and Illinois Avenue for seven years, is named minister for the Unitarian Universalist Society of Howard County, Md.

1975: Trains begin moving on the Penn Central tracks through Leetonia after a two-day cleanup of a $1 million derailment.

Arsenio Cercone, 52, of Baden, Pa., foreman of the cleanup crew, dies of a heart attack about three hours before work was completed.

Chester H. McPhee, 78, Cheney High School’s first football coach, who served for 28 years, dies in South Side Hospital. He was a standout athlete at South High School and one of the best basketball players of his era.

Coach Dom Rosselli’s Youngstown State University baseball team finishes the season with a 20-15 record, the second year in a row that the Penguins won 20 games, bringing Rosselli’s record during 22 years of coaching to 411-158.

1965: U.S. Rep. Robert J. Corbett, chairman of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation, says he will ask the group to go on record against any appropriation for a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal. U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, D-Youngstown, is seeking $2.5 million for an Army Corps of Engineers study of the canal.

Dr. J.H. Wanamaker says that in the first month of Neighborhood Youth Corps, 291 pupils are paid $11,995 for their services, including teaching, counseling, library work, laboratory and stock aides.

The Rev. Ralph Friedrich is elected president of the Youngstown Interracial Committee.

1940: Three marbles kings are crowned from 10,000 boys who entered the third annual Vindicator marbles tournament: Harry Dickinson of Wellsville, Joe Mihaly of Coitsville and George Kovacicek of McDonald. Ruth Davis of Youngstown is the girls’ champion.

Sue Meyer, a senior at Kent State University and qualified Red Cross instructor, will be the swimming teacher at Camp Y-Ota, the Youngstown YWCA summer camp on Lake Erie near Conneaut.

Charles E. Wilson, a Minerva, Ohio, native who graduated from high school at 15 and from Carnegie Tech at 18, is the new president of General Motors, succeeding William S. Knudsen.