YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2015. There are 78 days left in the year.

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2014: A second nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas comes down with Ebola after contracting it from a dying patient. (The nurse, Amber Joy Vinson, was later declared free of the disease.)

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1990: Opinions differ on whether the McDonough Museum being built by Youngstown State University with a $1 million gift from Dr. John D. McDonough will complement or compete with the Butler Museum of American Art directly across Wick Avenue.

The Westminster Presbyterian Church and First United Presbyterian Church buildings in downtown Steubenville are both on the real-estate market. If one sells, the other will house the congregation of the new First Westminster Presbyterian congregation.

The Penn State University Shenango Campus is marking 25 years in Sharon, Pa., during which it has grown from having classes at Kennedy Christian High School to a 14-acre downtown campus with nine buildings.

1975: The Ohio Board of Education approves the use of $949,000 in state federal revenue sharing funds for construction of an agricultural center additions to the Mahoning County Joint Vocational School.

Ernie Holmes, Pittsburgh Steelers star defensive tackle, will pay a slightly reduced judgment of $22,500 to an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper wounded by Holmes in two installments that have been guaranteed by the Steelers front office.

Warren Municipal Court Judge Donald Ford tells 2,000 people at a Columbus Day banquet at Caf 422 that Columbus was a visionary who paid a heavy price for his discovery of the New World.

1965: “The U.S. government accounts for 18.5 percent of the entire American economy,” Martin R. Gainsbrugh, chief economist of the National Industrial Conference Board, tells the annual economic workshop sponsored by the Economic and Business Foundation at the Voyager Motor Inn downtown.

Joseph J. Baldine, former Trumbull county commissioner, files a $6.1 million libel suit – the largest in Trumbull County history – against the Warren Tribune Chronicle and the Niles Daily Times.

Herman Brandmiller Jr., Tippecanoe Road, a practicing attorney for 60 years and municipal judge from 1910 to 1922, dies of a heart attack at his residence.

Mrs. Edward J. DeBartolo is hostess for the October meeting of the Junior Vivace Club at her home on Southwoods Drive. Dr. Anthony Billett showed slides and told of his experiences while serving on the USS Hope.

1940: A 30-year-old woman is being held at city jail in connection with the fatal shooting of Leonard Jones, 35, a boarder at her home on Murdock Street. The woman told police she shot Jones because he was acting strangely and threatened her with a butcher knife.

Lexington Settlement, a $50,000 structure built in connection with the Westlake low-cost housing project, will be dedicated with a ceremony and address by Judge Erskine Maiden Jr.

The co-captains of the 1940 Salem football team are twins Marvin and Melvin Wukotich. Teachers, friends, coaches and even sports writers have a hard time distinguishing between them. Marvin wears 99 on his jersey; Melvin, 66.

Lowellville High School spoils Newton Falls’ homecoming with a 13-12 victory.