YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2016. There are 233 days left in the year.

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1780: During the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, S.C., surrenders to British forces.

2011: A German court convicts retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk of being an accessory to the murder of tens of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death-camp guard. (Demjanjuk, who maintained his innocence, died in March 2012 at age 91.)

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1991: Audrey Schinkel of Warren plays the square grand piano in the Cortland Opera House for a tour group visiting from Cleveland. The Opera House began as a Methodist church.

The drug trade and the violence associated with it are driving tenants from public housing projects in Warren and Youngstown. Seventy-one of the 304 apartments in the sprawling Kimmel Brook projects are vacant.

Warning that personnel cuts in the police and fire departments are becoming inevitable, Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro is trying to reach a compromise with city council, suggesting that he could work with a $3.50 monthly garbage fee for every residence in the city, down from the $7.50 he had wanted.

1976: Youngstown Realtor Dan Lewis announces plans for a $3 million, 10-story high-rise apartment building on the south side of Gypsy Lane, next to Gypsy Lane Manor.

Ted Celeste, manager of Jimmy Carter’s Ohio campaign, says the Mahoning Valley’s 19th Congressional District is one of 11 districts Carter will be concentrating on in his effort to win Ohio’s June 8 Democratic presidential primary.

Shareholders of Lykes-Youngstown Corp., parent of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Corp., approve changing the company’s name to Lykes Corp. Joseph T. Lykes Jr., chairman, reviewed 1975’s earnings of $56.8 million on sales of $1.5 billion.

1966: Youngstown 1st Ward Councilman John Franken requests a study of the possibility of installing mercury-vapor lamps on all city streets.

Top awards for outstanding metallurgy projects went to four Volney Rogers students from the American Society for Metal, Mahoning Valley Chapter. Winning $25 savings bonds were Patty Rogan, Judy Senzik, Karen Birath and David Bolha.

Youngstown Rotary Club members set the stage for their participation in the annual horse show when Chairman Reed Pennel rides into the Hotel Pick Ohio ballroom astride “Prince Charming,” a chestnut stallion.

1941: After a spirited contest with Cincinnati, Youngstown is selected as the 1942 convention city by the Ohio State Junior Chamber of Commerce at the 13th annual convention in Canton.

Several men are voted honorary memberships in the International Association of Firefighters, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Those honored are: Fire Chief Michael Melillo, Atty. William Barnum, Lucius B. McKelvey, state Sens. Maurice Lipscher and William Glass, state Rep. John Cantwell, John Buckley, Thomas Barrett and Fred Friedman of The Vindicator.