Today is Saturday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2005. There are 112 days left in the year. On this

Today is Saturday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2005. There are 112 days left in the year. On this date in 1955, the long-running TV Western series "Gunsmoke," starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon, premieres on CBS television.
In 1608, John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia. In 1813, an American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. In 1919, New York City welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the U.S. First Division during World War I. In 1939, Canada declares war on Nazi Germany. In 1945, Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis (he is executed by firing squad in October 1945).
September 10, 1980: Howland Schools Superintendent Nick Macris says the reshuffling of students and closing of school buildings are justified by decreasing enrollment, which stands at 4,679, a decrease of 218 from 1979.
The Warren Board of Education issues a call for volunteers from the community to bolster the city's thin complement of school crossing guards.
Lawyers for Youngstown city and its unions clash over the administration's right to lay off employees or reduce their working hours in a hearing that places on trial the collective bargaining agreements a municipality signs with its employees.
September 10, 1965: The former clerk of the Board of Public Affairs of the Village of Lowellville failed to bank $27,391 in village funds, a state audit reveals.
Youngstown University is preparing to open for the fall semester with a record enrollment of more than 10,000 students.
Municipal Court judges in Youngstown, Campbell and Struthers are commended for their stricter handling of traffic violators at a meeting of Mayor Anthony B. Flask's Traffic Safety Conference.
September 10, 1955: Detective Frederick T. "Ted" O'Connor, chief of the Youngstown Police Department's juvenile division since 1946 and an ardent supporter of activities to keep boys and girls out of trouble, dies after being stricken with a heart attack. He was 54.
Sixty square feet of putting green sod is stripped from the No. 7 hole at Stambuagh Golf Course. Tire tracks from a truck showed that the sod thief had to make two trips to haul away the sod.
Youngstown Municipal Judge Frank R. Franko fines a Mercer St. woman $2 on her second arrest on numbers charges in two months. Franko says the police vice squad is composed of men who use "sinister reasoning" in conducting their business and challenges them to make hundreds of arrests now that he has adopted a policy of light fines for bug offenders.
September 10, 1930: Indications that business is improving are seen in August payroll figures for Youngstown, that showed a gain of $596,000 over the same month in 1929. At $6.6 million, total payroll was the highest since May.
The Youngstown Hospital Association reports incurred indebtedness of about $29,000 in 1929 for treatment of persons injured in automobile accidents from whom the association was unable to collect.
Two armed bandits hold up the Shwartz Department Store in Struthers, escaping with about $3,000.