YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 26
Today is Wednesday, April 26, the 116th day of 2017. There are 249 days left in the year.
Associated Press
On this date in:
1865: John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, is surrounded by federal troops near Port Royal, Va., and killed.
1913: Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old worker at a Georgia pencil factory, is strangled; Leo Frank, the factory superintendent, is convicted of her murder and sentenced to death. (Frank’s death sentence was commuted, but he was lynched by an anti-Semitic mob in 1915.)
1945: Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France’s Vichy government during World War II, is arrested.
1986: An explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) causes radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere.
2000: Vermont Gov. Howard Dean signs the nation’s first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
2007: The Senate joins the House, 51-46, in clearing legislation calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq to begin by Oct. 1, 2007.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: The failure of the Patrick Ungaro administration to meet federal grant requirements could force Youngstown to spend more than $1 million for three development projects unless Congress approves a special waiver.
Speaking in East Liverpool, Jerry Brown, former California governor and a Democratic presidential candidate, said the United Auto Workers endorsement of Bill Clinton is another example of the union’s neglect of rank-and- file members.
The UAW files a grievance contending that its labor contract prohibits the export of Mexican-made Chevrolet Cavaliers and Pontiac Sunbirds to Canada.
1977: The State Controlling Board releases $45,000 for planning Youngstown State University’s outdoor educational athletic project, which is part of a proposed $6 million sports complex.
The Youngstown Board of Education strikes 30 teachers’ names from the roster for the coming school year. Irene Ward, director of personnel, says most are beginning teachers, and some may be rehired as veteran teachers retire or resign.
Youngstown City Council is considering hiring a Washington, D.C., lobbyist to keep the city apprised of grants and programs from which the city could receive additional funds.
1967: A 26-year-old mother of seven children, four of them illegitimate, agrees to be sterilized to avoid going to jail for scalding one of her babies for punishment. Her attorney, Don L. Hanni, tells Juvenile Court Magistrate Joseph R. Bryan that the procedure already has been done. Bryan says the sterilization was not ordered by the court.
After 32 years of successful kindergarten operation, Youngstown schools will be unable to offer classes if the 7.5-mill school levy fails.
1942: To guard against air attacks and assure steel production for the war effort, the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.’s Ohio Works and McDonald plant will set up an elaborate air-raid precaution system.
Attacking the Upper Ohio Valley Association’s fight against the Beaver-Mahoning Waterway, Boake Carter, noted news analyst, urges U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan to redouble his efforts to push through a canal.
A $250,000 heavy-machinery assembly plant will be set up by the McKay Machine Co. on Charles Street, just off West Federal Street.
New orders to permit many people to buy cars under the rationing plan are expected by the Mahoning County rationing board.