Years Ago

Today is Monday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2014. There are 93 days left in the year.

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1789: The U.S. War Department establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1829: London’s reorganized police force, which becomes known as Scotland Yard, goes on duty.

1862: Prussia’s newly appointed minister-president, Otto von Bismarck, declares the issue of German unification would be decided “not through speeches and majority decisions” but by “iron and blood (Eisen und Blut).”

1910: The National Urban League, which has its beginnings as The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is established in New York.

1938: British, French, German and Italian leaders conclude the Munich Agreement, which is aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.

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1989: The Mahoning County Board of Health receives a $35,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Health to screen pregnant women for lead poisoning and to lessen their exposure to lead in their homes.

A group monitoring the Trumbull County Domestic Relations Court says it will file a complaint with the Disciplinary Counsel of the Ohio Supreme Court over the hiring of Judge Peter Panagis’ daughter as a court clerk.

1974: The Giant Canada Goose, which until 1962 had been thought to be extinct, is making a comeback, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources estimates that between 1,500 and 2,500 are at the Mosquito Creek wildlife preserve in Trumbull County.

Atty. Kenneth Lloyd, general counsel of the Mahoning Valley Industrial Council, estimates that the Employment Retirement Income Security Act signed by President Gerald Ford will add $350 in costs for Youngstown District employers within a decade.

Howard Jones, president emeritus of Youngstown State University, speaking at the dedication of the new Kilcawley Student Center, says “it is the biggest asset the school could have.”

1964: Barring the unforeseen, Lordstown’s $40 million Chevrolet-Fisher Body plant will begin operations several months ahead of schedule, Simon E. Knudsen, general manager of Chevrolet, tells about 3,500 people at the groundbreaking.

Romeo Montane, 60, tavern owner, is sentenced to 1 to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentiary after pleading guilty to second- degree manslaughter in the slaying of his wife, Victoria.

The Ohio Bar Association favors incumbent Supreme Court Justices Lynn B. Griffith, Rankin M. Gibson, Charles B. Zimmerman and C. William O’Neill over their election challengers.

1939: Thousands of Mahoning County residents have failed to get their new auto license certificates and face the prospects of either leaving their cars in the garage or facing arrest, says Traffic Commissioner Clarence Coppersmith.

The Bigelow proposal for a constitutional amendment to guarantee all nonworking Ohioans more than 60 years old a state pension of $60 for single persons and $80 for married couples qualifies for a spot on the November ballot.

Sixteen Youngstown district men enlist in the Army, Navy or Army Air Corps under a new enlistment program designed to add 112,500 men to the nation’s defense forces.