Years Ago

September 25, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2010. There are 97 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1690: One of the earliest American newspapers, Publick Occurrences, publishes its first — and last — edition in Boston.

1789: The first United States Congress adopts 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)

1956: The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable goes into service.

1957: Nine black students who’d been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds are escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

1979: The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical “Evita,” starring Patti LuPone as Eva Peron, opens on Broadway.

1981: Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

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1985: Jetstream International Airlines is expected to align its services with Piedmont Airlines, which would sharply increase service between Youngstown Municipal Airport and at least one of Piedmont’s hubs.

Youngstown area gasoline prices continue to drop, selling for as little as 95.9 cents a gallon for regular fuel at some stations.

1970: The Council of Governments covering Mahoning and Trumbull counties adopts an areawide water-sewer plan, a step necessary under HUD requirements to obtain federal money.

Youngstown Police and postal inspectors arrest a 24 year-old Youngstown man in the theft of two of 252 checks sent to foster parents by the Mahoning County Children Services Board. The total value of the checks was more than $28,000.

Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis threatens to sue to force the county commissioners to provide his office with more than $98,000 to finish out the year.

Mahoning County sues the Penn Central Railroad for nonpayment of $125,000 in taxes and asks that $86,000 that the city of Youngstown owes the railroad for work on the Crab Creek flood-control project be paid to the county instead.

1960: Ohio Welfare Director Mrs. Robert Gorman says an estimated 2,000 residents of Mahoning County are medically indigent under a new federal law that will make Ohio eligible for $6 million in federal funds to provide treatment.

The slump in steel production caused by lighter demand by major customers, including the auto industry, is creating a crisis for another important industrial segment, consumers of blast furnace slag, coal chemicals and other by-products.

1935: Thousands of Youngstowners are thronging to Cleveland by automobile, bus and special trains to take part in the Seventh National Eucharistic Congress.

Merger of the Republic Steel Corp. and the Corrigan, McKinney Steel Co. becomes effective.

Several Mercer County coal miners who refused to join the nationwide strike are stoned as they leave the Coyer Mine in Pine Township.