Years Ago

October 1, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2010. There are 91 days left in the year.

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1810: America’s first agricultural fair, the Berkshire Cattle Show, takes place in Pittsfield, Mass.

1908: Henry Ford introduces his Model T automobile to the market.

1910: In the early hours, the offices of the Los Angeles Times are destroyed when a bomb explodes, igniting a natural gas fire; 21 Times employees are killed. (The paper had been targeted because of its fiercely anti-union publisher, Harrison Gray Otis; iron worker James B. McNamara later pleaded guilty to planting the bomb and was sentenced to life in prison.)

1940: The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, 160 miles in length, is opened to the public.

1949: A 42-day strike by the United Steelworkers of America begins over retirement benefits.

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1985: Developers for a proposed $33 million brewery project in North Jackson fail to persuade a federal official to reverse his decision cancelling a $33 million federal loan-grant for the project.

Strouss announces that it will be closing its Salem store effective Nov. 2. Larry Mickley, president and CEO for the local chain, says the store is no longer “cost effective.”

1970: Public Utilities Commission of Ohio seeks an injunction to keep the Penn Central railroad from discontinuing eight trains in Ohio.

Trumbull County Commissioner Gary Thompson fails to appear for a meeting with fellow Commissioner Lamar Young at which time they were to name a successor to Commissioner Robert E. Hagan, who resigned.

1960: Youngstown funeral director Andrew J. Diehl is appointed foreman of the September term of the grand jury by Common Pleas Judge Frank J. Battisti.

The Youngstown Council of Churches will conduct a $100,000 campaign to purchase and refurbish the Lombard Corp. property at 631 Wick Ave.

1935: Aviatrix Amelia Earhart arrives in Youngstown to give an address at Stambaugh Auditorium and visits with a cousin, Mrs. William Pollock, 129 Mill Creek Drive.

Five political subdivisions in the Youngstown district share in $931,615 in PWA projects.