YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, July 30, the 212th day of 2016. There are 154 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1619: The first representative assembly in America convenes in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.

1729: Baltimore, Md., was founded.

1864: During the Civil War, Union forces try to take Petersburg, Va., by exploding a gunpowder-laden mine shaft beneath Confederate defense lines; the attack fails.

1916: German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom, an island near Jersey City, N.J. 1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill creating a women’s auxiliary agency in the Navy known as “Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service” — WAVES for short.

1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a measure making “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (Out of many, one).

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a measure creating Medicare.

1975: Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found.

1996: Actress Claudette Colbert dies in Barbados at age 92.

2006: NATO jets bomb three Libyan state TV satellite transmitters in Tripoli, targeting a propaganda tool in Moammar Gadhafi’s fight against rebels.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Columbiana County Prosecutor Robert Herron files theft charges against eight recipients of welfare payments who had undeclared income that would have made them ineligible for welfare benefits.

Donald R. Otterman, 76, owner of American Pattern Mfg. Co. on Wilson Road in Campbell, dies in a fire that caused $500,000 in damage to the business.

A community group is fighting plans by Pennsylvania to turn the former Alliance College in Cambridge Springs, Crawford County, into a 500-bed prison. The college, formerly owned by the Polish National Alliance of Chicago, closed in 1987.

1976: Ohio and Pennsylvania are “very close” on cleanup measures by cities and industries along the Mahoning River to meet 1983 standards, says William Fergus, executive director of Eastgate Development & Transportation Agency.

The John James family of Oriel-Rodgers Road, Liberty Township, manages to raise six of 15 orphaned possums to 10-weeks-old and prepares to release them. The 2-inch possums were found in the pouch of their dead mother and were fed first with milk from an eye-dropper and then with baby food in a family rescue effort.

Judge Sidney J. Rigelhaupt issues an injunction barring Warren Safety Service Director Robert Dawson from instituting a four-day work week for city employees. The injunction was sought by city police.

1966: Curious Youngstown police officers investigating the presence of well-dressed teenagers in Youngs-town’s East End discover an unlicensed seedy second-floor dance hall that they say was used for beer and sex parties by minors, some from prominent families.

East Ohio Contracting Co. plans to resume demolition of the Palace Theater building as plans move ahead for Stephen Baytos and Associates’ Plaza One project.

The Columbiana County welfare department distributes surplus food to 1,378 people so far in July. Distributions include milk, rice, potatoes, flour, beans, lard, butter, beef, peanut butter and raisins.

1941: In Warren, Madame Linda, who won a reputation for “doubling” $10 and $20 bills for some people at her palm- reading parlor, is being sought by Trumbull authorities, who say she left hurriedly after being given $1,200 to double.

A new blast furnace may be added to Republic Steel Corp.’s facilities after the Office of Production Management announces plans to boost American pig-iron capacity by 6.5 million tons for defense efforts.

Plans are made for a combined Struthers-Lowellville Day Aug. 13 during a dinner meeting of Struthers businessmen at Poland Country Club. It will be the first time the two towns combined efforts on a project.