Today is Saturday, September 27, the 270th day of 2003. There are 95 days left in the year. On this

Today is Saturday, September 27, the 270th day of 2003. There are 95 days left in the year. On this date in 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrenders after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.
In 1779, John Adams is named to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain. In 1854, the first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean liner occurs when the steamship Arctic sinks with 300 people aboard. In 1928, the United States says it is recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government. In 1943, Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters and the Vic Schoen Orchestra record "Pistol Packin' Mama" and "Jingle Bells" for Decca Records. In 1954, "Tonight!" hosted by Steve Allen, makes its debut on NBC television. In 1959, a typhoon batters the main Japanese island of Honshu, killing nearly 5,000 people. In 1964, the Warren Commission issues a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy. In 1979, Congress gives final approval to forming the Department of Education, the 13th Cabinet agency in U.S. history.
September 27, 1978: Sale of the old Mahoning County TB Sanatorium is a shock to the Nursing Division of the Mahoning County Health Department, which is housed at the sanatorium and conducts five health clinics there. The Garea group purchased the hospital, outbuildings and 37 acres on a high bid of $100,000.
Most of the Pittsburgh & amp; Lake Erie Railroad operations are shut down in a nationwide strike by rail clerks. A long strike would seriously cripple automaking and other industry in the Mahoning Valley.
A political boycott of CASTLO communities mars the meeting on Mahoning Valley economics between local officials and ranking members of the Carter administration. The mayors of Campbell, Struthers and Lowellville agree to boycott because CASTLO's project director, George Wilson, was purposely excluded.
September 27, 1963: Eleven prominent Ohioans, headed by Kenneth M. Lloyd of Oak Knoll Drive, Youngstown, are appointed members of the new Ohio Manpower Advisory Committee by Gov. James A. Rhodes.
The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission orders Atty. Harold Yost to remove gasoline tanks and docks in a commercial service area he has operated on the Lake Milton shore.
Joseph Valachi, who broke an underworld blood oath of silence to put the finger on his former bosses, tells publicly for the first time how he became a soldier in the lawless legions of the Cosa Nostra crime empire.
September 27, 1953: A new post office costing nearly $2 million is planned for Youngstown by the General Services Administration. The present post office will be remodeled at a cost of $320,000 to make it available for a federal courthouse and office building.
A 10-year-old Newton Falls boy is seriously injured and three others hurt in a boat collision on Lake Milton. Frank Morsch was thrown overboard when the boat in which he was riding was struck by a boat in which three Trumbull County youths were riding.
"Be Neighborly -- Give Gladly," is the theme of the Community Chest drive that will seek to raise $785,000.
September 27, 1928: The September term of the Mahoning County grand jury declines to indict John Presto for the murder of Tony Caputo on Holmes St.
The Mahoning County grand jury recommends that Youngstown and the county erect a workhouse and that until that can be done, two ranges of the county jail be designated for workhouse inmates. The county, the report says, would profit from the inmates working on county roads and elsewhere.
The planning of a new Cedar Street bridge raises a question: who owns the old bridge, known as the Elephant Bridge, the city or the county? Cedar Street has become a county highway, but commissioners say they never accepted responsibility for the bridge.