YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 7

YEARS AGO FOR AUGUST 7

Today is Monday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2017. There are 146 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1782: Gen. George Washington creates the Order of the Purple Heart to recognize merit in enlisted men and noncommissioned officers.

1789: The U.S. Department of War is established by Congress.

1882: The famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky erupts into full-scale violence.

1927: The Peace Bridge connecting Buffalo, N.Y., and Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, is dedicated.

1942: U.S. and other allied forces land at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II. (Japanese forces abandoned the island the following February.)

1957: Oliver Hardy (the heavier half of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team) dies in North Hollywood, Calif., at age 65.

1964: Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.

2010: Elena Kagan is sworn in as the 112th justice and fourth woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Vice President Dan Quayle, campaigning for the Bush-Quayle ticket, tells a crowd at a GOP rally and fundraiser in Hanoverton that he hopes voters send some new faces to Washington in November and send some familiar ones packing.

Mahoning County Prosecutor James A. Philomena cannot compel Vindicator reporters Bertram de Souza and Tim Yovich to testify before a grand jury about their investigation into organized crime.

Kristen Uelinger, a 1989 graduate of Austintown Fitch, will play the role of Ducky Downs, a new mascot for the All-American Soap Box Derby. She has mascot experience, as the alternate Zippy for the University of Akron.

1977: The Warren City School District’s enrollment, which peaked at 14,400 in 1969, has dropped by 16 percent in the last five years and could fall below 10,000 by 1980 at the current rate of decline.

A 16-year-old Utah Boy Scout, Carl D. Armstrong, is in critical condition at Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle, Pa., after being struck by lightning at the National Boy Scout Jamboree in Moraine State Park.

Daniel Lewis, nationally known industrial realtor, says the Youngstown district urgently needs – and could get – many more small, diversified industrial firms to create hundreds of new jobs to replace those being lost at the area’s aging steel plants.

1967: Hugh Frost, vice president of the Youngstown Board of Education, joins school board presidents from other big-city Ohio schools in calling for more educational opportunities to help curb racial disorders.

George Hamilton stars in “The Philadelphia Story” at the Kenley Players in Warren.

A piggyback trailer containing 92 color TVs worth about $30,000 is stolen from the B&O property at 530 Mahoning Ave.

East Palestine health commissioner James Vocature appoints aides for free community chest X-rays at the American Legion homecoming: Ruth Smith, Rhea Alexander, Lois Macklin, Ann Harvey, Grace Neeld, Ethel Ulmer, Kay Bruno and Jane Kraus.

1942: Youngstown police have nabbed 21 bug writers in a crackdown on the numbers game.

In a last effort to meet Mahoning County’s quota of 17,250 old phonograph records by Aug. 10, the American Legion will make a house-to-house canvass.

Youngstowners take up the “Hit Hitler with Scrap” challenge with the first-week collection amounting to 150 pounds of scrap.