YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2014. There are 67 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1929: Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted in Washington, D.C., of accepting a $100,000 bribe from oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny. (Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000; he ended up serving nine months.)

1939: The play “The Time of Your Life,” by William Saroyan, opens in New York.

1954: A meeting of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet is broadcast live on radio and television; during the session, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, just returned from Europe, reports on agreements signed in Paris on the future of West Germany. (To date, it’s the only presidential Cabinet meeting to be carried on radio and TV.)

1957: Mob boss Albert Anastasia of “Murder Inc.” notoriety is shot to death by masked gunmen in a barber shop inside the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York.

1962: U.N. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson II demands that Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin confirm or deny the existence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba, saying he’s prepared to wait “until hell freezes over” for an answer. Stevenson then presents photographic evidence of the bases to the Security Council.

1964: The Rolling Stones make the first of six appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

1971: The U.N. General Assembly votes to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.

1994: Susan Smith of Union, S.C., claims that a black carjacker had driven off with her two young sons (Smith later confessed to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake, and was convicted of murder).

1999: Golfer Payne Stewart and five others are killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota; Stewart was 42.

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1989: The Greater Youngstown AFL-CIO Council, representing 15,000 labor union members in Mahoning County, urges Youngstown voters to leave intact a 14.5-mill levy for Youngstown schools that faces repeal in the November election.

Tri-State Realty Co. says it will bring about 80 people to downtown Youngstown with two leases it signed for its Plaza Place building, one with Dacas Nursing Systems Inc., and one with the U.S. Census Bureau.

Michael R. Pope, who served four terms as Mahoning County treasurer, dies of a heart ailment in St. Elizabeth Hospital. He was 72.

1974: Campbell police are seeking a link between blood stains found in a maroon 1968 Cadillac found on Wilson Avenue with a missing persons report filed in Struthers on Phillip “Fleegle” Mainer, 49, a former area police character.

Betty Baldwin, a former swimming champion who competed and coached at the Olympics level, is named “Woman of the Year” by the National Recreation Association. She directs the recreation program at Hillside Hospital in Howland Township.

Five area men are inducted into the Youngstown Chapter of the Chartered Life Underwriters Association: John W. Morey, William C.E. Musselman, Marvin Feldman, Tykie Theofilos and Walter R. Strosser.

1964: Twenty-eight area volunteer reservists from the Air Force 910th Troop Carrier group under the command of Maj. Chester A. Amedia, fly from Youngstown to Washington, D.C., to be in the military honor guard for former President Herbert Hoover’s funeral.

The congregation of Bethlehem Church will have a dedication ceremony led by the Rev. Charles T. Mueller, as the cornerstone for the new church at 388 E. Midlothian Blvd. is laid.

The country’s three top college football teams — Ohio State, Notre Dame and Alabama — remain unbeaten.

1939: Martha Raye, Hollywood movie actress, is interviewed on WFMJ Radio by Charles J. Mulcahy, Vindicator movie editor.

Market Street will be widened and repaved from Indianola to Dewey Avenue under a bid of $78,919 submitted by the M. DeBartolo Construction Co.

More than 100 singers representing 19 Lutheran churches will take part in the Reformation Festival at Stambaugh Auditorium. The singers will be led by Waldemar Nischwitz.