YEARS AGO
Today is Saturday, March 21, the 80th day of 2015. There are 285 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1556: Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, is burned at the stake for heresy.
1804: The French civil code, or the “Code Napoleon” as it would be later called, is adopted.
1925: Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, which prohibits the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public schools. (Tennessee repealed the law in 1967.)
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1990: Mahoning National Bank’s shareholders vote in favor of a 3-for-1 stock split that the bank’s management believes will broaden interest in the stock, which has been trading at $76.50, or about 12.7 times Mahoning’s 1989 earning of $6.03 a share.
Boardman Township Park District is using eminent domain in an attempt to acquire 143 acres of undeveloped land from the CTW Development Corp. of Canfield and the Infant Jesus of Prague Byzantine Catholic Church.
Hubbard Township trustees Helen Dubyak and John J. Choppa react to criticism over the recent firing of Police Chief John Karlovic by announcing that discussion of the controversy will not be permitted during the public- comment segment of the trustees’ meeting.
1975: The Ohio House votes to approve tax relief on personal property but rejects suspending sales tax on new cars.
Francis H. Wright, president of East Ohio Gas Co., speaking at a breakfast meeting of the Warren Chamber of Commece, says severe natural gas shortages can be traced to action by the Supreme Court 21 years earlier whenit gave the Federal Power Commission control of wellhead prices for gas designated for interstate commerce and on Congress, which has failed to respond.
Ruth Baldwin, 71, of Poland, long-time treasurer of the Butler Institute of American Art, is killed when her car is struck broadside by a tractor-trailer at Audubon Lane and U.S. Route 422.
1965: Two student nurses, Carol Jean Barnhart of Canfield and Bonnie Marti of Canton, represent the two Youngstown nursing schools in a contest to choose “Student Nurse of Eastern Ohio.”
Youngstown Steel Tank Co., division of Hunter Corp., buys the old Ajax Magnethermic plant in Boardman, which will double its warehouse space.
An Illinois educator, Dr. Harry Manley, Monmouth College, is chosen president of Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio.
1940: Aubrey W. Williams, national youth administrator, tells 500 members and guests of the South Side Merchants & Civic Association, that “America’s greatest problem today is what to do with 4,000 young people who are out of school, seeking work and are unable to find it.”
Liquor stores and brokerage firms will be closed all day, and Mahoning County offices are closed in the afternoon for observance of Good Friday.
Vindicator Sports Editor Frank B. Ward writes that Youngstown College had no recourse but to move its football games from the South High Field because overuse for games, practices and even a circus have left the field worn, torn and cruelly uprooted.