YEARS AGO FOR JULY 15

Today is Saturday, July 15, the 196th day of 2017. There are 169 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1932: President Herbert Hoover announces he is slashing his own salary by 20 percent, from $75,000 to $60,000 a year.

1964: Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona is nominated for president by the Republican national convention in San Francisco.

1985: A visibly gaunt Rock Hudson appears at a news conference with actress Doris Day (it was later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS).

2007: Cardinal Roger Mahony, leader of the nation’s largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, apologizes to the hundreds of people set to receive a share of a $660 million settlement over allegations of clergy sex abuse.

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1992: New Castle, Pa., supporters of Ross Perot’s say they’ve reached their goal of collecting 5,000 signatures to put Perot’s name on the Nov. 3 presidential ballot.

About a dozen teens from Canton ranging in age from 13 to 16 spend two days scraping and painting Anna Sidley’s house in Youngstown as a service event of Camp Frederick, a Lutheran Church camp in Rogers.

McCullough Williams Jr., a former member of the Youngstown Board of Education, says board member Billy Tanner owes the black community an apology for calling the police to a meeting during which a group of residents were protesting the hiring of Alfred Tutela as superintendent. Calling the police was “a dirty old racist trick” to embarrass and discredit the black community, Williams says.

1977: The Health System Agency of Eastern Ohio endorses the purchase of a CAT scanner by Youngstown Hospital Association and rejects a similar request by Computerized Cerebral Scanning Inc. St. Elizabeth Hospital already has a CAT scanner and state guidelines call for only two in the Greater Youngstown area.

The Ohio House approves a bill mandating one minute of silence daily in public schools for prayer or meditation.

John Angelo blasts a pair of home runs and drives in eight runs while teammate Bob DeCioccio collects five hits in the Wedgewood Men’s Wear 13-8 victory over Little Ponderosa in the Steel Valley Slo Pitch League.

1967: Drinking water is being shipped to the Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium because of water pollution that stems from old plumbing in the 43-year-old building.

Construction of a new reservoir, nearly as large as Lake Milton, is proposed in Green township a few miles northeast of Salem.

Plumbers and ironworkers accept new contracts, ending an 11-week-old strike by building trades in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.

The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission tells permit holders for cottages on city-owned land at Lake Milton that it intends to “freeze” all permit transfers to develop public recreation areas.

1942: An article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer states that the fact Youngstown already has air-raid warden helmets indicates Cuyahoga County trails Youngstown in the development of its civilian-defense organization.

Possibilities of starting a permanent “all inclusive” salvage campaign here in which all waste material – rubber, scrap metal, grease and other items – would be collected by the same sources is considered.

The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce’s annual golf tournament at Tippecanoe Country Club has about 300 golfers competing for prizes and 400 attending the banquet.