YEARS AGO FOR SEPT. 29

Today is Friday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2017. There are 93 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

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

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

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

1978: Pope John Paul I is found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.

1982: Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide claim the first of seven victims in the Chicago area. (To date, the case remains unsolved.)

1987: Henry Ford II, longtime chairman of Ford Motor Co., dies in Detroit at age 70.

2012: Omar Khadr, the last Western detainee held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, returns to Canada after a decade in custody.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: John O’Neill, president of the Youngstown firefighters union, says the rank and file will defeat a proposed new contract with the city if it requires them to pay $70 a month toward their health insurance.

Mahoning County commissioners may abandon plans to install sewers on the west side of Lake Milton because residents are objecting to a charge of $70 a foot as too high. Commissioners say they’ll find another use for the $344,000 state grant if the sewers aren’t built in Lake Milton.

Some Liberty Township residents say they don’t want 911 emergency phone service if it means that the township would lose its local dispatch center.

1977: Vindicator Sports Editor Chuck Perazich is in New York to cover the title bout between Muhammad Ali and Newton Falls native Earnie Shavers.

The Seventh District Court of Appeals orders that a half-percent Mahoning County piggyback sales tax be placed on the November ballot, finding that Auditor Stephen Olenick erred in not certifying citizen petitions to the Mahoning County Board of Elections.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judges John DePietro and Peter Panagis order county commissioners to honor pay raises for eight court employees, even though their offices are already $22,000 over budget.

1967: “I don’t remember a time when the future of the steel industry has looked as bright as now,” declares Robert Williams, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

Royalty from Thailand tours the General Motors Lordstown plant as part of a State Department program. The visitors are Gov. and Mme. Thongkamplaew Thongayai, a prince and princess.

Room rate increases from $1.20 per day for a bed in a ward to $3.60 for a private room are announced for North Side and South Side hospitals, bringing the ward rate to $35 a day and the private room rate to $46.

1942: Youngstown City Council authorizes the expenditure of $19,200 for the purchase and installation of four large air-raid sirens under direction of the civil defense office.

Salesmen of the four large steel companies in the Mahoning Valley seek to sell the salvage campaign of the War Production Board to 175 large steel consumers in the district.

Youngstowners prove they like the wartime Monday-night shopping plan by crowding into downtown stores, overloading buses and filling the sidewalks.