YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 5

Today is Thursday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2017. There are 87 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1892: The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, is practically wiped out while attempting to rob a pair of banks in Coffeyville, Kan.

1931: Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completes the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state 41 hours after leaving Japan.

1941: Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the nation’s highest court, dies in Washington at age 84.

1953: Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.

1988: Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambastes Republican Dan Quayle during their vice presidential debate, telling Quayle, “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

1990: A jury in Cincinnati acquits an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe.

2011: Apple founder Steve Jobs, 56, dies in Palo Alto, Calif.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: A 17-year-old Weathersfield Township youth is being charged as an adult in the killing of Douglas Lash, 9, during a burglary in February at Lash’s Newton Township home.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Poland, who has battled the Internal Revenue Service in court and lost, inserts into a spending bill a provision that requires the IRS to train employees in taxpayer rights and in how to deal with the public courteously.

Goodwill Industries is opening a new thrift store in Boardman near Southern Park Mall.

1977: Four representatives of the Economic Development Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce spend two days in the Mahoning Valley in a preliminary effort to bolster the economy.

A state hearing officer determines that Sheriff Michael Yarosh acted improperly in dismissing 14 deputy sheriffs before taking office in January.

Six United Steelworkers union locals at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board seeking an injunction to block the layoff of 5,000 employees at the Campbell Works.

1967: Spector Terminals Inc., a Chicago trucking company, plans to locate a dispatching center and truck-servicing garage on a 22-acre site on Route 18, a half-mile east of North Jackson Center.

White-helmeted police with nightsticks scatter 1,500 Ohio State University students who were showing their support for striking nonteaching employees after the students start throwing water balloons and firecrackers and setting bonfires.

John Ezzo, owner of the Mahoning Country Club, which was ravaged by fire, says he will rebuild and the new facility will be “bigger and better.”

1942: Gov. John Bricker orders Geauga County Sheriff Stuart Harland to shut down the Arrow Club, a notorious gambling den, or the state will step in.

Since the start of Youngstown’s concentrated drive for scrap, air-raid wardens in four zones have turned in a total of 253 tons. Chamber of Commerce members have turned in 30 tons in a six-night drive.

Reminding the public that buildings destroyed by fire cannot be replaced until after the war, Youngstown Fire Chief Michael Mellilo declares “home defense is at least 50 percent of fire defense.”