Today is Friday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2002. There are 32 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2002. There are 32 days left in the year. On this date in 1952, President-elect Eisenhower keeps his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the ongoing conflict.
In 1864, a Colorado militia kills at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in the Sand Creek Massacre. In 1924, Italian composer Giacomo Puccini dies in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot." (It is finished by Franco Alfano.) In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radios that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole. In 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews. In 1961, "Enos" the chimp is launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbits earth twice before returning. In 1963, President Lyndon Johnson names a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. In 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announces he is leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
November 29, 1977: The Rev. Edward Stanton, spokesman for the Youngstown Religious Coalition that is seeking to get the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Campbell Works started again, agrees to work with the Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corp. and the Battelle Memorial Institute on a plan for the Valley's future.
The Youngstown Board of Control lets contracts totaling $1,095,000 for the westward extension of Federal Plaza in a redesigned form that eliminates some of the more costly elements.
Nearly 80 Youngstown district residents of the Hungarian community leave for Washington, D.C., to join thousands of others in a march protesting the return of the crown of St. Stephen of Hungary to Hungary.
November 29, 1962: The Ohio Supreme Court upholds a 7th District Court of Appeals order requiring Mahoning County commissioners to make $426,451 available to the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Commission for 1962. Commissioners had appropriated only $205,800.
Youngstown City Council authorizes leases for a motel and gasoline service station to accompany a new restaurant and paid parking lot on property owned by the Youngstown Municipal Airport. Bids will be opened in January.
Youngstown Postmaster Chester Bailey says that no more than 350 extra workers will be hired to help handle the anticipated record volume of mail during the Christmas rush, about 250 fewer than were hired in 1961.
November 29, 1952: Crowds of shoppers flood the downtown area as the Christmas shopping season officially gets underway with the first night of extra business hours being observed by most downtown stores. Several businessmen said trade was much better than a year before.
"Blood Marathon Day" is being observed in Youngstown to get donors for the next blood collection for the armed forces by the Mahoning Chapter, American Red Cross.
Dr. Russell J. Humbert, president of DePauw University and former pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, downtown, will be the main speaker and conference leader at the North East Ohio Hi-Y, Tri-Hi-Y conference being held in Youngstown.
November 29, 1927: William George "Billy" Evans of Youngstown, former sports writer of The Vindicator and dean of American League umpires, is named general manager of the Cleveland Indians.
Jennie Kurcenski, 5, is killed and her brothers, John, 9, and Henry, 11, are seriously burned when an oil lamp explodes at the family's home on Pittsburgh Ave., McDonald.
Lawyers for Fred Palm, convicted in Lansing of possessing a pint of gin and sentenced to life imprisonment under Michigan's new criminal code providing a life sentence for a person convicted a fourth time, will appeal the sentence to the U.S. District Court of Appeals at Cincinnati.