YEARS AGO FOR MAY 18

Today is Thursday, May 18, the 138th day of 2017. There are 227 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1897: A public reading of Bram Stoker’s new horror novel, “Dracula,” is staged in London.

1927: In America’s deadliest school attack, part of a schoolhouse in Bath Township, Mich., is blown up with explosives planted by local farmer Andrew Kehoe, who then set off a bomb in his truck. The attacks killed 38 children and six adults, including Kehoe, who’d earlier killed his wife. (Authorities said Kehoe, who suffered financial difficulties, was seeking revenge for losing a township clerk election.)

1973: Harvard law professor Archibald Cox is appointed Watergate special prosecutor by U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson.

1980: The Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state explodes, leaving 57 people dead or missing.

2007: The Olympic flame arrives in Britain, the country hosting the 2012 Olympics.

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1992: Mahoning County Sheriff Edward Nemeth, who hired 19 employees in 1991 before seeing his 1992 budget of $2.1 million, is in danger of being $400,000 over budget, which would require substantial layoffs in his department unless commissioners provide additional money.

Galaxy Cheese Co., which relocated to Florida from its site near New Castle, Pa., after a fire at its factory, is threatening former employees with lawsuits if they go to work for another cheesemaker in Pennsylvania in violation of a noncompete clause.

Bob Dolby of Boardman and Jeff Sager of New Castle cross the finish line in a tie for first in the Lowellville Challenge bike race.

1977: Youngstown is losing about $500 a day because it allowed itself to run out of tickets for illegally parked cars.

Top students are honored at the 18th annual honors convocation at Youngstown State University. Among the honorees are James Senary, Mary Kay Jacobs, Vernon Volpe, Frank Santelli and Jane Denton.

Briget Lavin is named “American Model of the Year, Miss Youngstown,” after a pageant at the Holiday Inn in Niles. Runners-up are Jayne Eicher, Lisa Labozan, Sharlene Surowiec, Karen Zubyk and Kathy Dalessandro.

1967: State Rep. Walter Paulo, R-Canfield, is the author of a school bill that would provide additional funds for Youngstown City School District and others.

A number of owners of summer cottages on city property at Lake Milton are warned that if the structures are not repaired within the next year, they will be demolished.

Herbert Murray of 1009 Bentley Ave. in Youngstown has written a song, “Wonderful Ohio,” which is being considered as the official song of Ohio.

Hill’s appliance sale has a 12-cubic-foot refrigerator-freezer for $156, an air conditioner for $98, a portable TV for $104 and gas or electric ranges for $137.

1942: The charge by the Mahoning County grand jury that local law enforcement has completely broken down is “the most serious charge you can make against a city in a democracy,” says Dr. Howard Talbott at First Presbyterian Church.

The government will begin rationing bicycles in about three weeks, announces the Office of Price Administration. Children’s bicycles will not be rationed.

Mary Fitzgibbon and Joe Budak aggregated 1,128 to take first honors in the third-annual mixed-doubles handicap tenpin tournament at the Champion Recreation Center. Fitzgibbon netted 519 and Budak 609.