Today is Tuesday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2004. There are 87 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2004. There are 87 days left in the year. On this date in 1947, President Truman delivers the first televised White House address.
In 1830, the 21st president of the United States, Chester Arthur, is born in Fairfield, Vt. In 1892, the Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, is practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kan. In 1921, the World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time. In 1931, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon complete the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state some 41 hours after leaving Japan. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt calls for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations. In 1941, former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the nation's highest court, dies in Washington, D.C., at age 84. In 1953, Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
October 5, 1979: The fledgling Youngstown Steel Corp. -- the first tenant in the CASTLO Industrial Park -- hopes eventually to supply its bar mill and spike plant with steel it makes itself in new electric furnaces.
President Carter brings a delegation of influential Ohioans to the White House in hope of stimulating popular support for his embattled SALT II nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Among those attending was Don E. Tucker, vice president of Commercial Shearing Inc., who says he's still up in the air on the treaty proposal.
Deteriorating bridges and the increasing cost of running county government have Mahoning County commissioners again thinking of an emergency measure to institute a piggyback sales tax.
October 5, 1964: Charles B. Schaff, president of the Youngstown Symphony Society, and William Watrous, business manager, open the society's fall ticket campaign.
Youngstown city officials meet with public school administrators to discuss the possibility of creating a Community Action Program that would be funded under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and provide education and job opportunities for youths between the ages of 17 and 21.
October 5, 1954: Youngstown Municipal Judge Frank R. Franko says selective police enforcement of gambling laws is creating a monopoly on city bug operations, without naming who holds the monopoly.
Six additional boys are admitted with polio to Youngstown hospitals, including four from Columbiana County.
The relocation of West Federal Street from Worthington Street to Robinwood Avenue, including the new Division Street Bridge interchange, will cost $1.8 million, or more than $500,000 over capital improvements program estimates.
The Mahoning County Board of Elections approves the employment of 158 extra workers for Election Day, in addition to those already employed for assignment at various precincts.
October 5, 1929: In part of a continuing Vindicator series, "What Youngstown needs most," Rabbi I.E. Philo writes that the city needs a greater number of intelligent citizens who will work in the spirit of "each for all and all for each."
Ted Rosequist, 21-year-old John Carroll University football star and the center of a collegiate athletic controversy, is a star without a college. Bland L. Stradley, Ohio State University examiner, refuses him admittance to OSU on the grounds that his classroom record at Carroll was unsatisfactory. Carroll Coach Ralph Vince has accused OSU alumni of recruiting Rosequist.
Affairs of the municipal court are not of interest to the public, Youngstown Judge Peter B. Mulholland declares, making it clear that reporters are persona non grata in his court.
Judge Mark Moore and Mrs. Moore win the mixed pair bridge contest at Hotel Ohio with a score of 115.