Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2014. There are 91 days left in the year.

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1885: Special delivery mail service begins in the United States.

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

1932: Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees makes his supposed called shot, hitting a home run against Chicago’s Charlie Root in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the World Series, won by the New York Yankees 7-5 at Wrigley Field.

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1989: Chuck Tanner, manager of the 1979 World Series Pittsburgh Pirates, says the restaurant he co-owns in New Castle, Egidio’s, will rebuild after being destroyed by a fire, but will probably not reopen until after Christmas.

The Rev. Robert W. Harris, associate pastor of Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Columbia, S.C., is named pastor of Thiel College in Greenville, Pa., succeeding the Rev. Dr. J. Paul Balas.

Advertisement: Seiko 85,000 hand-held spell checker, $34, at home centers stores in the Boardman Plaza and in Niles just west of the Eastwood Mall.

1974: WRTA secretary-treasurer Abe Harshman says the Western Reserve Transit Authority’s financial troubles are continuing and it looks as though its money woes are going to get worse before they get better.

Blue Cross of Eastern Ohio in Youngstown is exploring a possible merger with Blue Cross of Southwest Ohio in Cincinnati in anticipation of Congress passing a national health bill.

E.M. “Pete” Estes, the new president of General Motors Corp., is a familiar figure at GM’s huge Lordstown complex, having been Chevrolet Division general manager. He attended the facility’s dedication Oct. 17, 1966.

1964: Two Youngstown men and one from Sharon receive the 33rd degree of Scottish Rite Masonry in Detroit. They are Fred B. King, Youngstown funeral director; John Smith, retired Republic Rubber Division executive, and the Rev. William Wishart of United Presbyterian Church, Sharon.

John A. Jackson of Clarksburg, W. Va., a native of Kensington in Columbiana County who graduated from Mount Union College in 1911 and died in 1961, leaves $314,000 to Mount Union. An endowment will provide 12 scholarships of $1,000 each to be presented each year to three male students from each class.

1939: Payrolls for Youngstown district steel plants in October are estimated to exceed those of October 1937, with thousands of more men working than just a month earlier.

Despite a discouraging, cold drizzle, thousands of shoppers throng downtown Youngstown stores, giving merchants one of the best business Saturdays in months. The boon is attributed to a sharp upturn in industrial output and big pay days.

To help relieve downtown traffic congestion, Traffic commissioner Clarence Coppersmith is completing plans to limit turns at traffic bottlenecks, including Spring Common and the Market-Front intersection.