YEARS AGO FOR NOV. 23
Today is Friday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2018. There are 38 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1765: Frederick County, Md., becomes the first colonial American entity to repudiate the British Stamp Act.
1889: The first jukebox debuts in San Francisco at the Palais Royale Saloon.
1963: President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims Nov. 25 a day of national mourning after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
2004: Dan Rather announces he will step down as principal anchorman of “The CBS Evening News” in March 2005.
2013: President Barack Obama says a nuclear deal reached with Iran during talks in Geneva is an “important first step” toward addressing the world’s concerns over the Islamic republic’s disputed nuclear program.
2017: The holiday shopping season kicks off with some major retailers opening on Thanksgiving afternoon or evening, hoping for a lift from a better economy.
VINDICATOR FILES
1993: The public stock offering of 31.6 million shares of DeBartolo Realty Corp. is set for December.
The Lordstown Board of Education is the second adjoining the Warren City School District to announce that it has no interest in consolidating.
Ohio State Treasurer Mary Ellen Withrow is President Bill Clinton’s pick for treasurer of the United States.
1978: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lynch, 439 Crandall Ave., are waiting for word of Mrs. Lynch’s 87-year-old mother, Virginia Taylor, who they fear was among the hundreds of dead in the People’s Temple settlement in Guyana. She had been living in cult leader Jim Jones’ settlement for a year.
On Thanksgiving, Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley says, “We in the Mahoning Valley have a lot for which to be thankful. In spite of all those doomsayers, including the national media who a year ago foresaw the Valley on the brink of disaster, all our economic indicators look good.”
Poland Seminary High School Football Coach Dave Pavlansky, 41, loses a 26-month battle against brain cancer. His teams won the Mahoning Valley Conference football title in 1978 and were co-champs in 1976 and 1977.
1968: Santa arrives in downtown Youngstown in a parade sponsored by Strouss and McKelvey department stores, greeted by children who lined both sides of West Federal Street.
The Youngstown Federation of Teachers, which withdrew from a recognition election among city school teachers and administrators, is demanding a meeting with the board of education before Jan. 2 on what it says is near chaos in schools.
U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan, D-19th, receives a letter from President Lyndon Johnson, who wrote that he shares the confidence of Youngstown area voters who returned Kirwan to Congress.
1943: Dominic Mallamo, one of the confessed leaders of the South Side “bug” syndicate who began serving a 90-day jail sentence, is released to probation officer George Hadnett by Judge Adrian Newcomb so that Mallamo can find war-industry work.
A turkey that escaped from Oles Market found its freedom short-lived. It roosted on the fourth floor window of Judge John Ford, who had a Courthouse custodian capture it by inching open the window and grabbing the bird’s legs.
Coach Mearl Atkins is rebuilding the Columbiana High basketball team hard hit by graduation and calls to the armed forces. Don Patchen and Bob Firestone, who won All-Tri-County League honors, are missing from the team.