YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 30

Today is Thursday, March 30, the 89th day of 2017. There are 276 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits denying citizens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, takes effect.

1964: John Glenn withdraws from the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall.

The original “Jeopardy!” game show, hosted by Art Fleming, premieres on NBC.

1985: James Ruppert, 41, kills 11 members of his family at his mother’s home in Hamilton, Ohio, on Easter.

1981: President Ronald Reagan is shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley, Jr.

2002: Britain’s Queen Mother Elizabeth dies at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London; she was 101 years old.

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1992: Mahoning Valley hospitals say they won’t stop treating welfare patients when the state of Ohio cuts general assistance and medical benefits April 1. Western Reserve Health Care System estimates it will lose $ 2 million to $2.5 million in the last six months of the year because of state cuts.

Neshannock Township Police Supt. Robert Shaffer says no charges will be filed in the death of Jeremy McDougal, 12, of New Castle who accidentally shot himself with a pistol found at the home of a friend while the two boys were lifting weights.

An 8-year-old Warren Township boy is wounded when three shots from a passing car penetrate the walls of his Bellecrest Avenue home. He is in fair condition at St. Joseph Riverside Hospital.

1977: An attorney for the Ohio Industrial Commission says state investigators have found no widespread fraud in workmen’s compensation claims filed in the Youngstown district.

A suggestion by Lordstown Village Council President Carl Underwood that an income tax may be necessary evokes immediate and stern opposition.

The Warren Engineering Co. submits the apparent low bid of $999.750 for general contracting to repair the terminal at Youngstown Municipal Airport.

1967: Ralph J. Down of Sharon, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, will present Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos with a document of brotherhood offered by Pennsylvania Gov. Raymond P. Shaffer. Down is among 14 Pennsylvanians and 31 Ohioans who are going to Manila to mark the 25th anniversary of the march.

House Bill 134 to make Youngstown University a state university is unanimously approved by the House Education Committee.

Republic Steel Corp. will spend $8 million to modernize its Youngstown mill.

Youngstown’s income tax produced $4.9 million in 1966, the most in the 19-year history of the income tax.

1942: Five bus loads of draftees from Youngstown’s 4th Ward get a rousing sendoff by a crowd of 1,000 friends and relatives and the Chaney High band.

Ralph Pabst, commander of the United Veterans Defense Council, says, “It is the duty of the public to report any instances where there have been illegal, improper or unjust deferments under selective service.”

If church-going people refuse to play the “bug,” it wouldn’t take long to clean up gambling in Youngstown, says the Rev. Ralph H. Richardson, pastor of Hillman Street Christian Church.

The former Boots Dance Palace on Hopkins Road is destroyed by a fire sparked by a short circuit in a brooder housing 500 chicks.