Years Ago

Today is Friday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2010. There are 28 days left in the year.

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1833: Oberlin College in Ohio — the first truly coeducational school of higher learning in the United States — begins holding classes.

1910: Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, dies in Chestnut Hill, Mass. at age 89.

1960: The musical “Camelot,” starring Julie Andrews as Guenevere, Richard Burton as King Arthur and Robert Goulet as Lancelot, opens on Broadway.

1967: The 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completes its final run from New York to Chicago.

1979: Eleven people are killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing.

1984: Thousands of people die after a cloud of gas escapes from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.

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1985: Bazetta Towsnhip trustees approve preliminary plans for developing 99 acres of township land on Elm Road near the Route 5 bypass into a commercial park.

The Ungaro administration will cut $500,000 from the 1986 budget requests submitted by department heads.

1970: Judge Sidney J. Rigelhaupt gives the jury a tongue lashing after it acquitted a Canfield Road man of carrying a concealed weapon. Telling jurors that there was no doubt of the defendant’s guilt, he said: “When people read in the newspapers about the court’s being too lenient ... remember it is not the court so much as it is you people.”

Farrell city councilman Francis N. Petrillo is named by council to fill the unexpired term of Mayor John E. Giroski, who resigned citing ill health.

1960: Dr. Murray S. Stedman Jr., a Youngstown native and Rayen School graduate, is appointed general director of interpretations for the National Council of Churches.

Seven Austintown Township firemen who were fired by trustees file suit in common pleas court appealing their dismissals.

1935: The 1936 Youngs-town Automobile Show opens at Stambaugh Auditorium. A large door was cut into the west wall of the building to accommodate the automobiles.

I.L. Feuer, Youngstown relief director, says failure of the WPA to provide jobs in 3,000 cases will force those people directly on relief rolls and will require a new relief budget to be submitted to county commissioners.