Today is Friday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2005. There are 36 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, the body of President Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

Today is Friday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2005. There are 36 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, the body of President Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
In 1783, the British evacuate New York, their last military position in the U.S. during the Revolutionary War. In 1881, Pope John XXIII is born Angelo Roncalli near Bergamo, Italy. In 1944, baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis dies at age 78. In 1957, President Eisenhower suffers a slight stroke. In 1973, Greek President George Papadopoulos is ousted in a bloodless military coup. In 1974, former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant dies in New York at age 65. In 1985, Ronald W. Pelton, a former employee of the National Security Agency, is arrested on espionage charges. (Pelton is later convicted of selling secrets to Soviet agents.) In 1999, 5-year-old Elian Gonzalez is rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off Florida, setting off an international custody battle between relatives in Miami and Elian's father in Cuba.
November 25, 1980: Forty-eight city employees are expected to be laid off in Warren on Jan. 1 to offset a mounting general fund deficit.
Girard City Councilman Fred Simeone urges city council to consider the purchase of Girard and Liberty lakes to provide the city its own water supply and eliminate threats of water shutoff by suppliers. Ohio Water Service Co. announced a year ago that it was considering selling the lakes and surrounding property.
A Boardman tour agent who set up a Las Vegas trip that left about 140 paid travelers stranded at Youngstown Municipal Airport in August is indicted by the Mahoning County grand jury on 14 counts of theft.
November 25, 1965: The true significance of Thanksgiving is stressed by clergymen of three faiths for Youngstown University students preparing to leave for home and vacation during a service in St. Columba Cathedral.
Youngstown City Council delays action for at least a week on a proposal to increase the salary of Mayor Anthony B. Flask from $17,500 to $20,000 and that of Law Director Patrick J. Melilo and Finance Director Thomas J. Lavern from $12,650 to $15,000.
Robert E. Williams, new president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., presents a Steelmark plaque for the science section of the Youngstown Public library's main building.
November 25, 1955: Water pressure in many Girard homes falls off to a trickle and homes in the Church Hill area are without water after the water level in the old mines that are the source of the city's water supply drops dramatically.
Downtown stores surge with crowds of shoppers as Christmas buying gains momentum.
William Murray, 28, is burned after going back in the family's burning Rose Street home to save his 17-month-old son, Vincent. His wife, Blanche, and two other sons, Gaylord, 3, and Audie, two months, safely escaped after Gaylord awoke them announcing that the house was on fire.
November 25, 1930: Mahoning County detective W.J. "Chick" Harrison conducts a single-handed raid of the Golden Pheasant Caf & eacute;, W. Federal St., arresting two men and seizing a quantity of beer and liquor.
D.E. Lehman, chief attendance officer for Youngstown public schools, says a charity survey will soon be completed, showing the extent of need among the students at various schools. Some children, he said, are getting only one meal a day.
A survey of the Mahoning, Shenango and Beaver rivers by the Army Corps. of Engineers is virtually assured after the resolutions committee of the Mississippi Valley Water Way Association meeting in St. Louis adopts a resolution in favor of a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal survey.
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