Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 18, the 322nd day of 2015. There are 43 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1883: The U.S. and Canada adopt a system of Standard Time zones.
1928: Walt Disney’s first sound-synchronized animated cartoon, “Steamboat Willie” starring Mickey Mouse, premieres in New York.
1964: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover describes civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as “the most notorious liar in the country” after purportedly accusing FBI agents in Georgia of failing to act on complaints filed by blacks; King denies making such a claim.
1978: U.S. Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., and four others are killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by members of the Peoples Temple; the killings are followed by a night of mass murder and suicide by more than 900 cult members.
1985: The comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes,” created by Bill Watterson, is first published. (The strip ran for 10 years.)
VINDICATOR FILES
1990: Paul G. Flint, executive director of the Mercer County Housing Authority, says that if a tenant in one of the authority’s 1,008 units is arrested for dealing drugs, that tenant and his or her family will be evicted.
The Youngstown State University Penguins end a perfect season with their 11th win, defeating the University of Maine, 38-17, before 14,059 fans. Players carry Coach Jim Tressel off the field.
Youngstown Police Chief Randall Wellington says he believes that abortion protesters who used chains and pipes to bolt themselves together to block entrances to the Mahoning Women’s Center intended to fire-bomb the clinic.
1975: The Mahoning County grand jury subpoenas 74 former male and female inmates of the Mahoning County jail in an effort to determine how good or how bad the jail’s operation is.
John T. Smith, a staff representative of District 26, United Steelworkers of America, succeeds the late Al Shipka as president of the Greater Youngstown AFL-CIO Council.
Three days of open houses at the General Motors Lordstown complex: plant tours, see the three tough little Vega coupes that completed a 60-day, 60,000 mile endurance run through western deserts and register to win a mini-Vega, a go-cart with a replica Vega body valued at $350.
1965: Boardman police check possible leads in a burglary at the Poland Village Corset Shop in which $410,000 worth of clothing was taken.
Estimates of damage caused by a hit-skip tornado in Green and Poland townships hit $400,000.
Joseph Bucheit & Sons Co. is the apparent low bidder at $1.6 million for construction of Ward Beecher Science Hall at Youngstown University.
Dennis Chamberlain, a sophomore at Canfield High School and a member of Boy Scout Troop 25, receives his Eagle Scout award at Canfield Methodist Church.
1940: The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce says the city will get more than $1.2 million in business from about 65,000 delegates who will attend at least 11 conventions in the city during 1941.
Karl F. Mogg, pioneer meat dealer, purchases controlling interest of the Steiner Packing Co. from Mrs. Morris Steiner, widow of the founder.
Ralph Brown, star of many Rotary shows, will direct music for the annual Princeton School charity review to raise money for British War Relief.
The Area Federated Churches will sponsor a Thanksgiving morning service at the South High Field House.