YEARS AGO FOR DEC. 10

Today is Monday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2018. There are 21 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1817: Mississippi is admitted as the 20th state of the Union.

1869: Women are granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory.

1898: A treaty is signed in Paris officially ending the Spanish-American War.

1931: Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1967: Singer Otis Redding, 26, and six others die when their plane crashes into Wisconsin’s Lake Monona.

1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin receive the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.

2005: Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy dies in Washington, D.C., at age 89; actor-comedian Richard Pryor died in Encino, Calif., at age 65.

2007: Suspended NFL star Michael Vick is sentenced by a federal judge in Richmond, Virginia, to 23 months in prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation and killing dogs that underperformed.

VINDICATOR FILES

1993: Former Columbiana County Treasurer Ardel Strabala pleads guilty to having an unlicensed interest in a public contract. The charge alleged that Strabala had been investing funds through his son. About $10 million was lost through those investments.

Edan Corp. of Lorain offers to buy Taylor Winfield Corp.’s facilities at 1052 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren.

Don Booth takes the helm of the Canfield Fair Board, succeeding Lee Kohler.

1978: The Trumbull County Welfare Department will end the year $264,000 in the red, primarily in unpaid medical bills for welfare clients. The department will be able to make year-end payrolls.

Anthony W. Joseph of Youngstown Steel Door Co., R.J. McCallister, president of McCallister Advertising and George E. McNab Jr. of George McNab Insurance are named to the board of the Youngstown Metropolitan YMCA.

Maria and Michelle Pelleschi, 8- and 7-year-old sisters, had given up hope of ever seeing their German Shepherd puppy who disappeared 10 weeks earlier, until a North Side woman responded to a story about “Heidi” in The Vindicator. She had seen a dog matching the description in her neighborhood and caught it, holding it until the girls and their father, Max, came to take “Heidi” home.

1968: Two bandits escape with money and cigarettes, dodging three shots fired at them by the attendant Ronald Gullick as they fled the Rocket service station on Oak Hill Avenue.

A 31-year-old South Side woman is charged with fraudulently obtaining $11,271 in welfare payments between 1962 and 1968.

The investigation team of educators headed by Harold Sebold, executive director of the Ohio Association of School Administrators, continues its probe of dissension within the faculty of East Liverpool school district.

1943: A suit filed by Arthur Williams, Republican, contesting the election of Ralph O’Neill, Democrat, as Youngstown mayor by eight votes in the November election, is thrown out of court by Judge Erskine Maiden.

In the mud and mangrove swamps of New Georgia Island, Ohio’s own 37th (Buckeye) Division has gathered new laurels and battle streamers to fly along with those recognizing service in World War I.

A Christmas letter to be sent to the 200 young men from Poland who are in the service is read by Mrs. Osborne Mitchell at a meeting of the Village Club at the home of Mrs. Aubrey Truesdale.