Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2017. There are 320 days left in the year. This is Valentine’s Day.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1849: President James K. Polk becomes the first U.S. chief executive to be photographed while in office as he poses for Matthew Brady.
1903: The U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor is established. (It was divided into separate departments in 1913.)
1929: The “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” takes place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone’s gang were gunned down.
1967: Aretha Franklin records her cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” at Atlantic Records in New York. The Turtles’ single “Happy Together” is released on the White Whale label.
2007: ConAgra recalls all Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter made at a Georgia plant because of a salmonella outbreak.
2016: Pope Francis condemns the drug trade’s “dealers of death” and urges Mexicans to shun the devil’s lust for money as he leads a huge open-air Mass for more than 300,000 people in the poverty-stricken Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: Mahoning Valley Sanitary District directors Edward Flask and Frank DeJute say they have no intention of resigning as suggested by Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro after accusations of nepotism and extravagant spending.
Wean Inc. reports earnings of $1.2 million for the fourth quarter of 1991, and $4.4 million for the year on sales of $75.7 million.
A Franklin County Common Pleas judge overturns former Gov. Dick Celeste’s commutation of seven death sentences, including that of Rosalie Grant, a Youngstown woman convicted of killing her two children.
1977: Three men rob the Penn-Ohio office of the First National Bank on Irvine Street in Sharon, Pa.
Two Ohio men, Wesley Schalamon, 43; and Daniel Greene, 24, walk 30 miles in 10 hours across frozen Lake Erie from Sandusky to Colchester, Ont., Canada. Two other men who attempted the walk from Erie, Pa., gave up after getting 8 miles from shore.
Mrs. Romaine Miller, 63, a cook at the Twentieth Century Restaurant, 1760 Belmont Ave., suffers a superficial shotgun wound after struggling with a robber who accosted her when she arrived for work at 5:30 a.m.
1967: Francis J. Loop, father of three, is crushed to death when a pile of steel topples in the grinding yard at Sharon Steel Corp.’s Roemer Works.
The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department calls off a search for a phantom aircraft believed to have crashed near the Pennsylvania border. Capt. John Masi says it was a hoax.
A two-year associate degree in nursing being offered by Youngstown University is criticized as “instant” nursing education by Dr. Harold Reese, president of the Mahoning County Medical Society.
Mahoning County Prosecutor Clyde Osborne tells Poland Township trustees that the proposed operation of a beauty shop in a Heatherbrae Circle house under construction is illegal.
1942: Fred Orr, chairman of the Mahoning County Red Cross war fund drive, says the effort stands at $272,762, which is $102,762 over the goal set for the area by the national Red Cross.
The War Production Board freezes all supplies of tin and tin-bearing materials, spelling an end to the production of costume jewelry for the duration of the war. The industry has a stock of about 1 million pounds.
The Palace Theater has the famous comic team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy doing five stage shows Sunday. The team, which has been together for 17 years, say they have remained friends by going their separate ways after work.
Boardman High School cagers hand Minerva a 36-29 defeat. Bob Marshal scored 14 points for Boardman.