YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2015. There are 110 days left in the year.

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1814: The Battle of North Point takes place in Maryland during the War of 1812 as American forces slowed British troops advancing on Baltimore.

1914: During World War I, the First Battle of the Marne ends in an Allied victory against Germany.

1938: Adolf Hitler demands the right of self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.

1944: The Second Quebec Conference opened with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in attendance.

1953: Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.

1960: Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addresses questions about his Roman Catholic faith, telling a Southern Baptist group, “I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.”

1962: In a speech at Rice University in Houston, President John F. Kennedy reaffirms his support for the manned space program, declaring: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

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1990: The Youngstown Pride defeats Calgary 109-99 at Beeghly Center to win the World Basketball Championship for the second-straight year.

Citizens for a Better County gather enough signatures to put a proposal for a county charter form of government on the ballot in Columbiana County, and partisan forces are already organizing their opposition.

The American Lung Association of Ohio honors St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center for its efforts to establish no-smoking policies.

1975: The Child and Adult Mental Health Center stands to lose more than $500,000 in state and county funds unless the state is assured that issues raised by the National Association of Social Workers over personnel policies are resolved.

Hourly employees of the Newton Falls Bumper Division Plant of Rockwell International are told that the company is planning to close the plant in July, which is the end of the current production year. The plant has 850 hourly and 100 salaried employees.

1965: Joseph Ross, executive secretary of the Warren YMCA, says most of the work is completed on the Y’s $785,000 expansion and renovation project, including a new indoor swimming pool.

The East Palestine Chamber of Commerce has at least two more prospects in its quest to find two more doctors for the area.

Perry B. Owen, director of the Dollar Savings & Trust Co. who was in charge of the vaults for more than a half-century, celebrates his 99th birthday with a drive from his home on the “island” at 808 Wick Ave. to Diehl Lake for a luncheon in his honor.

1940: Prehistoric bones found by Wilbur Weber on the Firestone Farm in Columbiana County have been identified by Pittsburgh archaeologists as those of a mastodon.

Testifying during a hearing before Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Erskine Maiden, Gus Hall says, “The Communist Party is an open revolutionary party continuing under modern conditions the revolution of 1776.”

Mrs. Ray Droney, 55 Oak Park Drive, whose husband may be barred from WPA work because she signed a petition for a Communist candidate, says she did not know that what she signed was a Communist petition, but thought it was “something that would aid her husband to get work.”