Years Ago

Today is Friday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2009. There are 34 days left in the year. On this date in 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad begins regularly serving New York’s Pennsylvania Station.

In 1901, the U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C. In 1942, during World War II, the French navy at Toulon scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of the hands of German troops. In 1953, playwright Eugene O’Neill dies in Boston at age 65. In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, is slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest. In 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. In 1989, a bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroys a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.

November 27, 1984: The Copperweld Steel Co. in Warren does not plan to seek more monetary concessions from its employees in the wake of a discouraging third quarter loss report by its parent company.

The Warren Board of Education adopts a policy requiring parents who intend to home-school their children to file a detailed plan of what subje3cts they will teach and how they will teach it. Board member John J. Pavlic Jr. opposes the policy as an infringement on parental rights.

November 27, 1969: Dr. Walter Greissinger is hired as Youngstown’s health commissioner by the Board of Health.

Two 19-year-old Mahoning County 4-H Club members, Phyllis Mauch and Joel Kellner, win expense-paid trips to the National 4-H Convention in Chicago.

The arrests of four adults and five juveniles by city police are believed to have solved 12 recent armed robberies and 19 burglaries in the city.

November 27, 1959: Youngstown police continue a crackdown on drunken drivers with three arrests over the Thanksgiving holiday, including one man who said he has been driving without a license for 30 years.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. lights its No. 2 blast furnace at its Campbell Works, putting all seven of its blast furnaces in operation and bringing iron making to the highest level in three years.

Shoppers trickle into downtown in the morning hours, but by noon the streets are crowded for the first day of the Christmas shopping season.

November 27, 1934: Fifteen people, including two attorneys and two doctors, in Youngstown, Niles, Warren and Hubbard are being taken into custody for arraignment after a federal grand jury returns indictments alleging they used the mails to collect fraudulent insurance claims.

Atty. C. Kenneth Clark, counsel for the Youngstown Hospital Association, files suit to recover $72,000 owed to the hospital by the city, since the city has made no payments.