YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, May 11, the 132nd day of 2016. There are 234 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.

1935: The Rural Electrification Administration is created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.

1960: Israeli agents capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1973: The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case ends as Judge William M. Byrne dismisses all charges, citing government misconduct.

1981: Legendary reggae artist Bob Marley dies in a Miami hospital at age 36.

2006: Lawmakers demand answers after a USA Today report that the National Security Agency is secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls; President George W. Bush seeks to assure Americans their civil liberties are being “fiercely protected.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: The Niles Classroom Teachers Association files a lawsuit to stop the board of education from eliminating two vocational education classes, saying the board should have waited until a grievance procedure over the loss of two teaching jobs worked itself out.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant tells the families of some Youngstown-area reservists serving in Saudi Arabia that he’s been told by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf that the 324th Military Police company will be home in July, but the 838th won’t be home until September.

Ohio Water Service Co. says it will build an emergency spillway at Burgess Lake so that the lake in Poland Township can be returned to its previous levels without posing a flooding problem.

1976: The life of a police officer is often lonely and usually not appreciated by the public, says the Rev. Carl J. Breitfeller, pastor of St. Dominic Church, at the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 28’s annual memorial service. Among police officers taking part in the service are Capt. Carmen M. Bruno and Patrolmen Anthony D’Apolito, Frank DeMain Jr., Joseph Wess and Paul Durkin. (Durkin, a Youngstown police officer, was shot to death while on duty in 1987.)

Students in public and parochial schools in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties are given paper bags in which to bring items to school for Goodwill Industries’ 15th annual School Bundle Day.

Les Loy, owner of the Boardman Chrysler-Plymouth dealership, is named foreman of the next Mahoning County grand jury.

1966: C. Lawrence Grist, principal at Lynn-Kirk School in Austintown for six years, is the new superintendent of Western Reserve Local School District in Berlin and Ellsworth townships. Thomas Moran will succeed him at Lynn-Kirk.

New construction in April adds $1.9 million to Boardman Township’s building record. Projects include an Automatic Electric Co. office and warehouse on McClurg Road; additions to Scotford Volkswagen and the Edward J. DeBartolo Co. buildings, and a service station permit to Standard Oil Co. on South Avenue.

Frank Garasic, a 53-year-old structural ironworker from Lowellville, is killed when a crane broke loose while he was welding a downspout at the Valley Mould & Iron Co. in Hubbard.

1941: Airport Superintendent John R. Elliott estimates that the city would gain about $4,000 annually by moving the all-steel hangar at the municipally owned Lansdowne Field to the new municipal airport in Vienna.

Work is progressing on the new United Engineering & Foundry Co. building, which will be 85 feet high and used to build two of the largest armor-plate forging presses ever built.

The League of Women Voters has its annual meeting at the home of Mrs. Lester Livingston, Boardman-Poland Road. Mrs. J. Cameron Argetsinger, president, reports on activities.