Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2009. There are 58 days left in the year. On this date in 1900, the first major U.S. automobile show opens at New York’s Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America.

In 1839, the first Opium War between China and Britain breaks out. In 1852, Japan’s Emperor Meiji is born in Kyoto. In 1909, American journalist James Reston is born in Clydebank, Scotland. In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins a landslide election victory over Republican challenger Alfred M. “Alf” Landon. In 1957, the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, the second manmade satellite, into orbit; on board is a dog named “Laika” who is sacrificed in the experiment. In 1970, Salvador Allende is inaugurated as president of Chile. In 1979, five Communist Workers Party members are killed in a clash with heavily armed Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis during an anti-Klan protest in Greensboro, N.C.

November 3, 1984: Warren police acting on a tip from a Hawaiian drug agent intercept the delivery of two packages and arrest a city man and confiscate $80,000 worth of high-grade marijuana.

The contents of the 17-room brick mansion on Oak Knoll S.E. in Warren once owned by auto magnate James Packard is being readied for sale following the death of its last inhabitant, Katherine Summers, a Packard niece.

A 92-year-old woman is brutalized in her N. Garland Avenue home by two burglars who stabbed her 13 times and left her for dead. Angeline Mosco is listed in guarded condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital.

November 3, 1969: Two former Mercer, Pa., women who moved to Arizona are killed in Phoenix as spectators refuse to help a would-be rescuer pull them from their wrecked car, which burst into flames with them inside. Dead are Frances Foderburk, 55, and her mother, Mae Rhodes, 80.

Frank W. Tear, 83, of Oberlin, retired principal of Rayen School, dies of a heart attack at his home.

FBI agents and local police are searching for a large refrigerator truck and its load of meat valued at $85,000 that was stolen from the Amoco truck stop on Market Street Ext. in North Lima.

November 3, 1959: Ray Henry, 60, of North Benton drives his restored 1903 Oldsmobile in the London-to-Brighton annual veteran car run.

Robert Williams Jr., a 15-year-old sophomore at East High School, is credited with saving five children he was babysitting when a fire broke out in the second floor of N. Forest Ave.

Ann Savder of Price Road escapes from a watery grave after her car went out of control on a curve in Price Road and plunges into Lake Glacier near the log cabin south of the Mahoning Avenue Bridge.

November 3, 1934: At least two carloads of Youngstown-made rubber garden hose from the Republic Rubber Co. will be bought by Mahoning and Shenango valley merchants as part of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce “Buy Youngstown” campaign.

The Labor Relations Board in Washington announces that the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. and the unions concerned in the labor dispute at its Cleveland stores agree to a settlement proposed by the board.

A 480-pound wedding cake with 70 pounds of frosting is distributed to guests after Scotty Allen and Betty Wilson are married at the Walkathon at Idora Park. Nearly 2,000 people witnessed the ceremony.