YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, September 24, the 267th day of 2015. There are 98 days left in the year.

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1890: The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Wilford Woodruff, writes a manifesto renouncing the practice of plural marriage, or polygamy.

1789: President George Washington signs a Judiciary Act establishing America’s federal court system and creating the post of attorney general.

1869: Thousands of businessmen are ruined in a Wall Street panic known as “Black Friday” after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.

1929: Lt. James H. Doolittle guides a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight.

1934: Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox. (The Sox won, 5-0.)

1955: President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.

1960: “The Howdy Doody Show” ends a nearly 13-year run with its final telecast on NBC.

1991:Children’s author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as “Dr. Seuss,” dies in La Jolla, California, at age 87.

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1990: Youngstown State University Penguins defeat Eastern Michigan University 24-14 before 13,349 fans at a night game at Stambaugh Stadium.

Squaw Creek Country Club President Barry Schecht says the club anticipates no problem complying with a new LPGA rule prohibiting discriminatory policies at clubs that host tournaments, despite the Vienna Township club having no black members. Squaw Creek has hosted the Phar-Mor LPGA tournament.

A bipartisan delegation of seven Ohio state representatives and three senators take a fact-finding trip to Toronto to study the Canadian system of universal health insurance. State Rep. Robert F. Hagan of Youngstown is sponsoring House bill 425, which would enact a tax-supported law in Ohio based on the Canadian model.

1975: Columbiana’s 1862 log house is moved a half mile from its Railroad Street site to the village square.

Rockwell International confirms its intention to close its auto bumper plant in Newton Falls in 1976, idling more than 1,000.

The 821-vote defeat of a proposed 5.9-mill levy by Campbell voters in a special election will “unavoidably” force the closing of city schools by Thanksgiving, says Superintendent Robert A. Hedrick.

1965: Canfield Speedway’s closest championship race standings since auto racing began will be decided between Bill Forney, of Austintown and Jim Bickerstaff of Mineral Ridge.

The Youngstown Club honors six members, including four past presidents, for service rendered when the club was burned out in February 1963. Replicas of old-fashioned fire buckets are presented to Carl Dennison, David Carroll, Ernest Wilson, Atty. Earl Cailor, J.H. Collier and J.A. Oakley Jr.

Thirty-five dealers display antiques at the W.D. Packard Music Hall in Warren, with some items valued at $250,000.

1940: Joseph J. Smith, area WPA projects coordinator, hopes to get a large appropriation of funds for eh Youngstown Municipal Airport, from the $80 million appropriation being sought by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for aviation facilities. .

The McGuffey Society of Youngstown elects its first officers and adopts a constitution. H.K. Rayen is elected president.

James M. McKay, president of Home Savings & Loan Co., marks his 81st birthday and continues to be at his desk most days.

Three minority parties – Communist, Socialist and Socialist-Labor – fail to qualify for the November ballots, says Secretary of State George Neffner.