Today is Sunday, June 27, the 179th day of 2004. There are 187 days left in the year. On this date in 1950, President Truman orders the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict following a call

Today is Sunday, June 27, the 179th day of 2004. There are 187 days left in the year. On this date in 1950, President Truman orders the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict following a call from the U.N. Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, are killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill. In 1847, New York and Boston are linked by telegraph wires. In 1893, the New York stock market crashes. In 1942, the FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island. In 1957, more than 500 people are killed when Hurricane Audrey slams through coastal Louisiana and Texas. In 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, clash with police in an incident considered the birth of the gay rights movement. In 1973, former White House counsel John W. Dean tells the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House. In 1977, the Supreme Court strikes down state laws and bar association rules that had prohibit lawyers from advertising their fees for routine services.
June 27, 1979: A proposal to close three elementary schools and revise other school boundaries is presented by Concerned Citizens Committee to the Warren Board of Education as an alternative to other desegregation proposals under consideration.
More than $1,000 is taken during a bank robbery at the W. Market Street branch of the Union Savings and Trust Co. in Warren.
About 900 striking workers, members of the Communication Workers of America Local 4300, end a walk out against Ohio Bell Telephone Co. in Youngstown. The company and unions will work out the union's grievances through normal procedures.
June 27, 1964: The venerable white frame Methodist Church in North Jackson, which has fewer than 30 members on its rolls, is getting its first full-time pastor in recent history because of expected growth in the area from the coming General Motors plant in Lordstown.
Mrs. Maude Cozart of Ft. Worth, Texas, an energetic woman who "adopted" 41 servicemen during World War II and the Korean War, comes to Youngstown for a reunion with 10 of the soldiers and their families.
A new brick comfort station is being built at the Fosterville Playground, says Edward Finamore, park superintendent. The $10,000 structure will be built in the colonial style.
June 27, 1954: Two men are killed by lightning while working as parking lot attendants at the Waterford Park race track in Newell, W. Va. Dead are Kenneth Z. Davis, 45, an off duty East Liverpool police patrolman, and his nephew, Thomas J. Lewis, also of East Liverpool.
Youngstown groups have been invited to join Cleveland and Akron in pushing for construction of a huge new military airport on a site near the Ravenna Arsenal, midway between Cleveland, Akron and Youngstown.
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's smashing victory in the Maine Republican primary election has some in her party talking about her being a vice presidential candidate in 1956, when President Eisenhower would likely be seeking a second term.
June 27, 1929: Mahoning County Coroner M.E. Hayes says acute alcoholism has caused the death of 14 persons in Mahoning County since June 1, in most instances as a result of drinking bay rum. The number is the highest for any month since Dr. Hayes became coroner eight years ago.
Atty. W.J. Williams, state central committeeman from Youngstown and prominent in progressive Republican politics, is endorsed for supervisor of the federal census in Mahoning County. Mrs. G.E. Gardiner is endorsed for assistant supervisor at the Republican county executive committee meeting.
Masons of the Mahoning Valley gather at Idora Park for their annual picnic and frolic.
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