Thursday, October 27, 2011
Today is Thursday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2011. There are 65 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1787: The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, is published.
1811: Inventor Isaac Merritt Singer, founder of the sewing machine company that bears his name, is born in Pittstown, N.Y.
1886: The musical fantasy “A Night on Bald Mountain,” written by Modest Mussorgsky and revised after his death by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, is performed in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1922: The first annual celebration of Navy Day takes place.
1938: Du Pont announces a name for its new synthetic yarn: “nylon.”
1947: “You Bet Your Life,” starring Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC Radio. (It later becomes a television show on NBC.)
1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward a Middle East accord.
VINDICATOR FILES
1986: Forty-four cars of a 133-car eastbound CSX freight train derail along a half-mile stretch of track just west of the CSX-Anchor Motor Freight terminal in Lordstown. Many of the cars were loaded with new Ford or General Motors vehicles.
Cmdr. Terrence L. Anderson, a Youngstown native and former Canfield resident, assumes command of Naval Training Squadron 24 at Chase Field, Beeville, Texas.
1971: Police are seeking four men who opened fire on a car on the North Side in a gangland style attack, wounding two Girard men. They drove the bullet-riddled car to the police station, from which they were taken to the hospital.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends that Youngstown “participate in the development of a regional sewage treatment system and provide a minimum, conventional secondary treatment.”
1961: The Ohio Valley Improvement Association gives an all-out endorsement to the proposed waterway connecting Lake Erie with the Ohio River and urges the Bureau of the Budget to allot funds for continuation of a survey of the route.
Scores of political signs are destroyed by hoodlums in virtually every section of the city.
The Iron Ore Co. of Canada, in which Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Republic Steel Corp. have an interest, plans to build a $60 million plant to produce ore pellets for, among others, Youngstown district mills.
1936: A running gun battle between police and bandits who held up an alleged numbers headquarters ends in the capture of one of the gunmen. The robbers got $700 from the alleged “Big House” at 759 W. Federal St.
On the eve of a vote on a local option that would make the Fifth and Sixth wards of Youngstown dry, Nick Tecau, proprietor of the Little Casino at 3431 Market St., says he is moving his operation to the former Poland Country Club.
Paul Page Jr., assistant solicitor of the post office, says Warren’s new quarter-million dollar post office building, which was built in 13 months, is “typical of the administration’s program for the prosperity and welfare of the average man.”