YEARS AGO FOR OCT. 5

Today is Friday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2018. There are 87 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1947: President Harry S. Truman delivers the first televised White House address as he speaks on the world food crisis.

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

1983: Solidarity founder Lech Walesa is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1989: A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicts former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers.

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

2017: Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein announced he is taking a leave of absence from his company after a New York Times article details decades of alleged sexual harassment against women including actress Ashley Judd.

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1993: Marathon weekend talks between striking teachers and the Youngstown Board of Education, mediated by U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., bring an end to a 28-day teachers strike. The district’s 1,000 teachers will return to the classroom after being promised a pay freeze for one year and 5 percent increases in each of the next two years.

Four months after competition for Pentagon finance centers was scuttled, the General Services Administration is studying lease rates in Youngstown and 120 other cities. The GSA looked at the former Higbee building downtown.

Actor Ben Vereen, back in action after sustaining a severe head injury in a traffic accident, will be the guest speaker for Hillside Hospital’s Triumph of the Human Spirit Awards banquet at Packard Music Hall.

1978: “Focus on Canfield,” a newly formed group of citizens with concerns about the future of Canfield, will meet at Canfield Middle School. James W. Butcher is president of the group.

New car auto sales in Mahoning and Trumbull Counties dropped in September to 632 against 839 a year earlier, the Automobile Dealers of Eastern Ohio report. Sales for the year are 6.3 percent below 1977.

A swimming program for blind and visually impaired students in Youngstown schools is sponsored by the Downtown Lions Club at the YWCA.

1968: General Motors will spend millions to build a huge stamping plant adjacent to the Fisher Body-Chevrolet assembly plant at Lordstown.

Former Gov. George Wallace of Alabama runs second, behind Hubert Humphrey and ahead of Richard Nixon, in a presidential straw poll of voters in the Campbell- Coitsville area.

Mahoning Juvenile Court Judge Harold Rickert blames much of Youngstown’s juvenile problems on the Youngstown Police Department, the city administration and Mayor Anthony B. Flask who have made “intemperate statements against juveniles.”

St. George Lodge 66 of the Croatian Fraternal Union, one of the Mahoning Valley’s oldest fraternal groups, plans ribbon-cutting ceremonies to open its new quarters on Vestal Road.

1943: The Third War Loan total in Mahoning County has now reached $27,872,187 or 172 percent of the quota. Charles Livingston and Sons employees more than tripled the goal set for the store’s bond salesmen.

Lucas Gingard, 47, of Cleveland is killed when a barn he and two other men were razing collapsed on the Jones farm just east of state Route 45 in northern Trumbull County.

Donald B. “Moosey” Caputo, 41, and Frank Cassano, 32, alleged slot-machine racket leaders in the Youngstown district, are sentenced to 90 days in jail by Judge Adrian Newcomb, a Cuyahoga County judge assigned to the state investigation of rackets in Mahoning County.