Friday, February 22, 2019
Today is Thursday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2019. There are 313 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1958: The USS Gudgeon (SS-567) becomes the first American submarine to complete a round-the-world cruise, eight months after departing from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
1965: Black Muslim leader and civil rights activist Malcolm X, 39, is shot to death inside Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom in New York by assassins identified as members of the Nation of Islam.
1972: President Richard M. Nixon begins his historic visit to China as he and his wife, Pat, arrive in Beijing.
1975: Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman are sentenced to 21⁄2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up (each ended up serving a year and a-half).
2018: The Rev. Billy Graham, a confidant of presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, dies at his North Carolina home; he was 99.
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: Sheriffs and police chiefs complain that the new Brady Law will require them to do background checks on gun buyers unless the General Assembly designates a state agency for the task.
Lordstown Deputy Marshals, deputy sheriffs and police chiefs complain that the new Brady Law will require them to do background checks on gun buyers unless the General Assembly designates a state agency for the task.
Lordstown Deputy Marshall James Thompson was struck by the number of cars that were reported stolen from the General Motors plant parking lot. His investigation led to uncovering an insurance scam that has resulted in the indictment of 14 men.
Canfield city officials are considering how to regulate gas wells that start in the township but hit gas under the city, but in the meantime, Everflow Eastern of Canfield is going full steam ahead drilling slant wells.
1979: About 75 people opposed to expanded busing attend a meeting of the Warren Board of Education demanding answers to their questions about the district’s desegregation plans. The board says it is not prepared to answer questions until a March 13 meeting.
Lamar A. Young, 80, former Trumbull County commissioner and Fair Board president dies of a heart attack at his Mineral Ridge home.
A federal grand jury in Cleveland subpoenas records of former Mahoning County Sheriff Ray Davis and current Sheriff Michael Yarosh as part of an FBI probe into possible corruption.
1969: Youngstown police arrest four young men from Canada, Arizona, Michigan and Illinois on charges of improper peddling after complaints that the men were attempting to sell magazines door-to-door after dark.
The Boardman School District, East High School, a Struthers radio station and nine individuals are honored by the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge. Receiving medals were Josephine Medovich, Sister Mary Catherine Doran, Joseph Sacchini, Robert Campbell, Robert McEwen, Benjamin Barrett, William Tucciarone, Herbert Seelbach and Kay Sittig.
Rep. Michael Kirwan announces the award of $873,000 in federal funds to build sewer facilities for sections of Youngstown that are unserved. The funds are part of a continuing program that will cost $4 million.
1944: Jack Elmer Terry, 29, of E. Judson Ave. is killed and Forest Beckett, 32, of Wilson Avenue, was injured when a bi-motored airplane owned by Sam Keener, Salem industrialist, crashed near Bellefonte, Pa.
Mrs. George Clark may have looked like “easy pickins” for two armed bandits who walked into a dairy store at 1323 South Ave., but when Mrs. Clark pulled out her own pistol, the desperadoes fled.
Only 21 income tax-paying days remain before the March 15 deadline and the Youngstown internal revenue office will be open on Washington’s Birthday from 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.