YEARS AGO
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 23, the 328th day of 2016. There are 38 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1889: The first jukebox debuts in San Francisco at the Palais Royale Saloon. (The coin-operated device consisted of four listening tubes attached to an Edison phonograph.)
1945: Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, is set to expire by day’s end.
1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims Nov. 25 a day of national mourning after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1971: The People’s Republic of China is seated in the U.N. Security Council.
2006:Car bombs and mortar rounds strike a Shiite slum in Baghdad, killing 215 people.
2015: The White House urges its allies to step up contributions to the campaign against the Islamic State, as President Barack Obama faces pressure to show the U.S.-led coalition will intensify efforts even without a major shift in strategy.
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1991: The Youngstown Developmental Center, which has 117 residents in Mineral Ridge, and Woodside Receiving Hospital in Youngstown are among the state institutions being considered for closure by a state task force studying ways of cutting the budget.
Chrysler announces plans to call back 850 laid-off workers at its Toledo Jeep plant. The company also announces plans to build right-hand drive Jeep Cherokees at the plant.
Seven school districts in the tri-county area spend more per pupil than the state average of $4,024. Lordstown is highest at $5,040, followed by Youngstown, $4,323; Howland, $4,266; Mathews, $4,237; Warren, $4,145; Columbiana, $4,086, and Weathersfield, $4,077.
1976: State crews erect a sign at the Ohio line announcing the Ohio Turnpike’s new name, the James W. Shocknessy Ohio Turnpike.
Aides to President-elect Jimmy Carter are conducting a background investigation on Youngstown’s J. Phillip Richley, who is being considered for U.S. secretary of transportation.
Warren City Council rejects the use of a 4-acre downtown site for a senior citizen high-rise. The Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority wanted to build at Main Avenue and South Street, on land owned by Second National Bank.
1966: Miss Louise Wick, “Miss Red Cross” to thousands of Valley people, dies at North Side Hospital. She was the last of the chapter staff who had worked for the Red Cross during World War I.
General Fireproofing will enter an agreement to provide apprenticeship training for 132 unemployed or underemployed people seeking skills for full-time employment.
In a break from past policy, Youngstown University will hire an inspector to check on off-campus housing for students.
Striking members of the Hubbard Federation of Teachers label members of the Ohio Education Association who have crossed picket lines at Hubbard schools are strikebreakers. The federation of teachers’ strike is in its third day.
1941: Young America Wants to Help is a junior division of the British War Relief Society headed locally by Mrs. John W. Ford.
Dr. Schuyler E. Garth, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, announces a contest to name the religious chapel being built that will be open to people of all creeds and races. An anonymous donor has provided the $25 prize.
The Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.’s Youngstown district blast furnaces that were forced to suspend production by the coal strike, will resume operations after settlement of the strike.
Jamestown, Pa., businessmen take their fight for guards to protect Pymatuning Dam from saboteurs to state Sen J. Fred Thomas of Salem.