Today is Saturday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2005. There are 84 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2005. There are 84 days left in the year. On this date in 1871, the Great Chicago Fire erupts while another deadly blaze breaks out in Peshtigo, Wis.
In 1869, the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, dies in Concord, N.H. In 1890, American aviation hero Eddie Rickenbacker is born in Columbus, Ohio. In 1918, Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder in the death of the son of Charles A. Lindbergh. In 1944, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" makes its debut on CBS Radio. In 1945, President Truman announces that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
October 8, 1980: Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan tours Jones & amp; Laughlin Steel Corp.'s Campbell Works in an appeal for support, receiving a mixed reception from steel workers.
Youngstown has saved about $180,000 in wages since adopting a temporary 32-hour work week, leading some city officials to predict that a 40-hour week could be resumed by month's end.
Free supplies of measles vaccine dispensed by the Mahoning County Board of Health to private physicians will be cut 25 percent in order to ensure that the county health clinic will have enough to last out the year.
October 8, 1965: Jackie Jane Fynes of Girard, a Youngstown University junior majoring in music, is selected homecoming queen at Youngstown University.
Ten-year-old Michael Duva of 563 Palmer Ave. is a hero in his neighborhood after he saved an 8-year-old playmate whose clothing caught on fire. Michael Patton, whose clothes were ignited by a trash fire, is in satisfactory condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital.
The Youngstown district's steel operating rate drops about five more points to 45 percent of capacity, the lowest level in more than a year.
October 8, 1955: A 17-day strike against the Pennsylvania Power Co. at New Castle, Pa., ends when 320 employees return to work at four plants and an eight-day strike at the Columbiana plant of the F.C. Russell Co. is ended as employees agree to return to work.
Daniel K. Byler, 67, and his daughter, Sloama, 36, of New Wilmington , Pa., are injured when their horse-drawn buggy is struck by a car driven by a 17-year-old New Castle youth.
Congressman Michael J. Kirwan, chairman of the Democratic National Congressional Campaign Committee, has been billed for two important speeches as the opening shots of the 1955 election campaign are fired.
October 8, 1930: Nine persons, including an 81-year-old woman, are injured and a score or more shaken up when a Crescent bus en route to Buffalo crashes into a Sharon Line trolley at Madison and Andrews avenues.
The convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at Mt. Olivet Reformed Church in North Lima passes resolutions condemning billboard advertising and motion pictures in which women are shown smoking.
The Cleveland News, published by descendants of Marcus A. Hanna, famous Republican leader, gives its editorial support to Robert J. Bulkley, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Ohio.