Today is Sunday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2008. There are 87 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2008. There are 87 days left in the year. On this date in 1947, President Truman delivers the first televised White House address. Speaking on the world food crisis, Truman calls on Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry as well as eggs on Thursdays.

In 1829, the 21st president of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur, is born in Fairfield, Vt. (Some sources list 1830.) 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 1908, stage and film director Joshua Logan (“Picnic,” “Bus Stop,” “South Pacific”) is born in Texarkana, Texas. In 1921, the World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time. (The New York Giants wind up beating the New York Yankees 5 games to 3 in the best-of-nine contest.) 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 1953, Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson. In 1958, racially desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tenn., is mostly leveled by an early morning bombing. In 1978, author Isaac Bashevis Singer is named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. In 1983, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1988, Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambastes Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

October 5, 1983: The National Bank of Philadelphia files suit in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to foreclose on Hunt Steel Co.

The first of 144 planned shipments of spent nuclear fuel rumbles through the Mahoning Valley on Interstate 80 and the Ohio turnpike, escorted by the Ohio Highway Patrol. The truck left a West Valley, N.Y., nuclear fuel reprocessing center on its way to Wisconsin.

Pupils at Holy Trinity School in Struthers are taping their own TV show for broadcast on their in-school television system.

October 5, 1968: Juvenile Court Judge Harold S. Rickert places much of the blame for much of Youngstown’s juvenile problems on the Youngstown Police Department and Mayor Anthony B. Flask, saying his suggestion that the police juvenile bureau be expanded was ignored.

The General Fireproofing Co. files a $125,000 federal lawsuit against the United Steelworkers Union over a wildcat strike that shutdown the Youngstown plant.

Roman Catholic bishops are reviving in the United States a centuries-old practice of ordaining laymen, married and unmarried, as permanent deacons or assistants to priests.

October 5, 1958: The long-awaited steel comeback is apparently well on the way with capacity reaching 68 percent nationwide, while the Youngstown district lags behind at 55 percent.

Eastern Michigan displays considerable power on the ground as it ruins Youngstown University’s home opener by pounding out a 21-12 win before 8,500 fans at Rayen Stadium.

U.S. Army engineers have completed a tour of inspection of the site for the multi-million dollar Shenango River dam north of Sharpsville.

October 5, 1933: William J. Edwards, 60, constable of Hillsville who is credited with breaking the grip of a “blackhand” organization on the community 20 years ago, dies of stroke in St. Elizabeth Hospital.

“We need more members and more money, if the enlarged boys work and men’s program is to be carried on in the YMCA,” says Attorney J. Eugene Bennett at the opening of the annual Y membership campaign.

The return of 7,000 of the 60,000 proposed charter amendments that were mailed to registered voters in Youngstown means that those 7,000 people will be unable to vote in the fall unless they file a change of address at the board of elections.