Friday, December 21, 2018
Today is Friday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2018. There are 10 days left in the year. Winter arrives at 5:23 p.m.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1864: During the Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman conclude their “March to the Sea” as they capture Savannah, Ga.
1913: The first newspaper crossword puzzle, billed as a “Word-Cross Puzzle,” was published in the New York World.
1937: Walt Disney’s first animated feature, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” has its world premiere at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles.
1945: U.S. Army Gen. George S. Patton, 60, dies in Heidelberg, Germany, 12 days after being seriously injured in a car accident.
1967: Louis Washkansky, the first human heart transplant recipient, dies at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, 18 days after receiving the donor organ.
1968: Apollo 8 is launched on a mission to orbit the moon.
1991: Eleven of the 12 former Soviet republics proclaim the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the death of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
VINDICATOR FILES
1993: Youngstown State University trustees applaud the Penguins’ national Division 1-AA football championship and give Coach Jim Tressel a $5,000 bonus to his annual salary of $86,658. His six assistant coaches who receive $25,000 to $48,000 will each get $1,500 bonuses.
Youngstown and Mahoning County officials seem to agree that merging 911 dispatch services would save money, but they aren’t sure how the merger would look.
Packard Electric will hire 300 new hourly workers at a lower wage tier allowed under a new contract. It is the first time in 20 years that Packard will be adding new workers, not just hiring replacements.
1978: Youngstown City Council votes 5-2 to permit the Board of Control to negotiate a lease for the newest hangar at Youngstown Municipal Airport rather than find a tenant through competitive bidding. Councilmen Robert Spencer, D-6th, and Patrick Ungaro, D-3rd, cast the opposing ballots.
Frederick Koehler, 64, of Mineral Ridge, is killed when his car, traveling at about 45 mph, smashes into the rear of a semitrailer loaded with 26 tons of steel cylinders that was traveling at 25 mph on the Madison Avenue Expressway.
The Peoples Republic of China will buy seven oil-drilling rigs for $40 million from LTV Corp.’s Continental-Emsco Division, which expected to procure substantial steel from the Jones & Laughlin’s Youngstown district facilities.
1968: Joseph Morrison, 58, one of three men injured in an electrical explosion at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Campbell Works, dies in South Side Hospital. One man has been released and the other remains hospitalized.
A Warren couple has graduated from a VISTA training program at the University of Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. William Gates will spend a year working with Cottonwood Job Corps Conservation Center in Cottonwood, Idaho.
Advertisement: Friday special at Burger Chef’s seven Mahoning Valley locations, a fish sandwich and french fries, 39 cents.
1943: Juvenile Judge Henry Beckenbach sends two Youngstown 15-year-olds to the Boys Industrial Home for stealing three cars. He says their delinquency is the result of a broken home and the absence of a working mother.
Leon A Beeghly, prominent Youngstown industrialist and civic leader, is re-elected president of the Chamber of Commerce.
Seven election workers indicted on misdemeanor charges in Youngstown’s mayor election plead not guilty before Judge David Jenkins.