YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, May 7, the 128th day of 2016. There are 238 days left in the year.

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1942: U.S. Army Gen. Jonathan Wainwright goes on a Manila radio station to announce the Allied surrender of the Philippines to Japanese forces during World War II.

1945: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, ending its role in World War II.

1975: President Gerald R. Ford formally declares an end to the “Vietnam era.” In Ho Chi Minh City – formerly Saigon – the Viet Cong celebrates its takeover.

2015: A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rules that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ phone records is illegal.

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1991: Newton Falls City Manager Richard Clark suggests that the city have a Minnesota firm do an $8,500 feasibility study on his proposal that the city take over cable television service from TCI Cablevision Inc., which recently raised rates by 31 percent.

Mahoning County Prosecutor James A. Philomena says at a time of limited resources, when criminals victimize “God-fearing, law abiding citizens,” their cases will take priority over those in which drug dealers are shot.

Former U.S. drug czar William J. Bennett tells students at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren that an increase in violence on city streets is a sign that the nation is winning its war on drugs as a reduction in drug supplies and customers has spurred turf wars.

1976: Gov. James A. Rhodes vetoes a bill to establish statewide, four-year voter registration contending “this proposal opens to abuse and fraud Ohio’s exemplary voting system.”

Cleveland-based Wright Airlines, which is considering adding Youngstown Municipal Airport to its network of service, has acquired a fleet of five Convair 600 jet-prop airliners to speed up its service.

Boardman High School’s marching band will perform at the Blossom Festival at Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

1966: Two Youngstown University students, John Wertman and George Petrilla, both 20 and both members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, are in satisfactory condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital with injuries suffered when they were beaten outside the fraternity house on Bryson Street.

Laura Phillips of Youngstown, mother of 15 children, and an active member of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, is honored as Mother of the Year by the Mothers Council of the Federal YMCA.

U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan announces a federal grant of $39,379 to the Youngstown Community Action Council and Youngstown University for “Upward Bound,” an anti-poverty program for 30 high-school boys with low grades but high potential.

1941: The Warren Board of Education sets a salary schedule for its 272 teachers for the next academic year. Pay will range for the starting salary of $1,156 to a high of $2,692.

Joseph G. Butler III announces that Buechner Hall for business women and girl students at Youngstown College will be open for public inspection the first week of June.

Chaney High School takes on Louisville High School in the southern section of the Northeastern Baseball Tournament in Canton.