Monday, October 27, 2003
Today is Saturday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2003. There are 67 days left in the year. A reminder: Daylight-Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. local time Sunday. Clocks go back one hour.
On this date in 1854, the "Charge of the Light Brigade" takes place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of 600 men, against hopeless odds, charges the Russian army and suffers heavy losses. In 1400, author Geoffrey Chaucer dies in London. In 1918, the Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" founders off the coast of Alaska; nearly 400 people perish. In 1929, former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe in connection with the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve in California. In 1962, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presents photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council. In 1962, American author John Steinbeck is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In 1971, the U.N. General Assembly votes to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan. In 1983, a U.S.-led force invades Grenada at the order of President Reagan, who says the action is needed to protect U.S. citizens there. In 1999, golfer Payne Stewart and five others are killed when their Learjet flies uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota; Stewart was 42.
October 25, 1978: The Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley asks Gov. James A. Rhodes to demonstrate his stated support for the plan to reopen the Campbell Works of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. by providing $10 million in economic development money.
Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley makes the first appointments to the police force in three years, naming three new patrolmen from the minority eligibility list and two from the list for whites. The highest scoring candidate, a West Federal Street woman, was declared ineligible when a warrant for her arrest on charges of damaging and endangering was uncovered.
Laura Belle Honberger, retired church choir director, organist and co-founder of the Youngstown Chapter of the American Guild of Organists in 1932, is honored at Westminster United Presbyterian Church in Boardman.
October 25, 1963: Youngstown's first United Appeal campaign did not go over the top, but organizers were satisfied with raising $1.4 million, about 92 percent of the goal.
The Defense Department is consider a plan under which all youths will be given physical and mental tests at the age of 18 to determine if they are eligible for the draft.
Billy Lieder, a 16-year-old Salem High School junior, shoots and kills his father, William F. Lieder, 36, and then takes his own life. Authorities say they don't know what caused the shootings at the family home on West Liberty Street just west of the city line.
October 25, 1953: Community Chest volunteers are exploring every possible avenue for raising enough extra cash to make up the $23,636 campaign shortage.
Jackson Township residents protest bitterly against a Lipkey Road brothel that has continued to operate despite repeated pleas that Sheriff Paul J. Langley, his deputies and township police close the place.
Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, speaking in Brussels, rebukes European critics of "McCarthyism," saying Americans would not be dissuaded from their determination to root out Communist subversion.
October 25, 1928: Alliance sends part of its police force to Sebring to help preserve order during the annual Alliance-Sebring football game. There were near riots in each town the night before the game as students of the rival schools gave vent to their enthusiasm.
Youngstown Assistant Law Director Ralph Thomas files suit in municipal court to collect $580 in back rent from Orville McCrillis, who has offices in City Hall. A state examiner issued a finding against McCrillis for seven months of unpaid rent dating to 1927.