Years Ago

Today is Friday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2009. There are 83 days left in the year. On this date in 1919, the Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, 5-3, defeating the Chicago White Sox 10-5 at Comiskey Park. (The victory turns hollow amid charges eight of the White Sox had thrown the Series in what becomes known as the “Black Sox” scandal.)

In 1446, the Korean alphabet, created under the aegis of King Sejong, is first published. In 1701, the Collegiate School of Connecticut — later Yale University — is chartered. In 1776, a group of Spanish missionaries settles in present-day San Francisco. In 1859, French army officer Alfred Dreyfus, the focal point of the Dreyfus Affair, is born in Mulhouse. In 1888, the public is first admitted to the Washington Monument. In 1930, Laura Ingalls becomes the first woman to fly across the United States as she completes a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, on New York’s Long Island, to Glendale, Calif. In 1946, the Eugene O’Neill drama “The Iceman Cometh” opens at the Martin Beck Theater in New York. In 1958, Pope Pius XII dies at age 82, ending a 19-year papacy. (He is succeeded by Pope John XXIII.) In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara is executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia.

October 9, 1984: Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin, seeking re-election to a fifth term, is in a dog fight with Republican challenger Atty. Gary L. Van Brocklin, a poll commissioned by The Vindicator shows.

The Trumbull County Board of Education approves an agreement that will allow an election to determine whether nonadministrative staff at the board will be represented by a union.

Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. wants a traffic light at Woodhurst Drive and Nantucket Boulevard in Austintown, but the township’s trustees don’t think one is necessary.

October 9, 1969: A federal grant of $873,000 for regional sewers in Youngstown and Mahoning County will expire in a matter of months if county and city officials fail to come up with matching funds.

Mayor Anthony B. Flask makes a pitch to city council for the Youngstown Board of Education to provide financial support for the city’s adult school patrol program. The city is paying 62 crossing guards more than $84,000.

The search for the body of Mrs. Linda Peugeot, who was kidnapped with her two-year-old daughter from a Cumberland, Md., shopping plaza, shifts to Franklin, Pa., after authorities learn that the kidnapper, Stanley Hoss, checked into the Idlewood Motel on route 8 on Sept. 22.

October 9, 1959: A plan to provide a sewage treatment plant for Mineral Ridge residents is proposed by Trumbull County commissioners at a two-hour conference with Mahoning County commissioners.

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority agrees to revise its development plans for 350 new public housing units in accordance with recommendations from the City Committee on Human Relations.

Twelve steel companies, including the Youngstown Sheet & Tube co. and Republic Steel Corp., take out full page newspaper ads, including one in The Vindicator, outlining the latest contract offer that was turned down by officials of the striking United Steelworkers of America.

October 9, 1934: Operators of 11 Youngstown district liquor places, including the Hollyhock Gardens of Warren, the Jungle Inn, Milano Gardens and the notorious Campbell Inn, are preparing for hearings before the state liquor commission after the licenses under which they operated were suspended.

Forty-two city employees are jobless and 82 others must accept additional 10 percent pay cuts after city council passes its five-day-a-week economy measure over the objections of Mayor Mark Moore.

Youngstown College announces an expansion of the department of music under the direction of Dr. Henry V. Stearns. The faculty includes Alvin Myerovich, professor of violin; George A. Bretz, professor of piano; Frank E. Fuller, professor of voice, and Kathryn Guarnieri, professor of voice.