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Today In History

  • In 1915, a call system at the Jamestown Police Department was unusable, leading questions from a Mr. Garrity about what the Jamestown Common Council’s police committee was doing about the system. Garrity said the system was useless during a storm because officers were shocked when they tried to answer a call. Mr. Carlson said a conference call had been held with the Bell company and the company promised to resolve the problem as soon as possible. Mr. Peterson said the company should fix the system immediately or it should be taken out. Council members also discussed parking of automobiles during Samuels Opera House performances on Second Street. Mr. Olson said if there were a fire the city’s fire trucks could not get through. He made a motion the police department inform drivers that in the future they must park on Pine Street.
  • In answer to the challenge of Manager Swanson of the Alco Athletic Club’s football team for a game with the Jamestown Athletic Club team, Manager Len Carlson of the Jamestown A.C. team said the teams would not play because the Alcos are not heavy enough to line up against his team and the game might result in serious injury to some of the Alco players. He further said the Alcos had not earned the right to play the Jamestown A.C. team, though the Alco team was strengthened recently by the arrival of several All-Jamestown players.
  • Parking meter use was to begin Monday, according to Jamestown Police Department officials. Having given motorists almost a full week to get used to parking meters, strict enforcement was to begin and, according to Chief G. Harry Nelson, there would be no fixing of tickets. A ticket to appear in City Court would bring a $1 fine. The meters would be policed from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. except for Sundays and legal holidays.
  • The dawn of a new era for the Jamestown wood furniture industry was seen by the Jamestown Furniture Market association. Commenting on the eight-day market, which was to close Sunday, Alldor M. Nord said, “We can now be more certain that we have reached a basis of real stability and are more of a factor than ever in the national field. Discounting the exuberance of optimists, and looking at the situation soberly, we think that Jamestown continues in a sound position in the medium priced field.” Approximately 825 buyers had registered for the fall market, and the figure was expected to reach 1,000 by the weekend.
  • Vandalism involving large scale destruction of street signs in many areas in Jamestown was described as an increasingly serious problem. Christ Dimas, City Council Highway Commission chairman, said that on nearly every visit to police headquarters he had seen between eight and 12 broken signs brought in by officers. He condemned the damage and blamed the youth of the community for the needless waste of taxpayers’ money. The city had spent $6,800 on signs in 1964 and might have to increase spending to $10,000 in 1966.
  • Jamestown Mayor Fred H. Dunn favored a payroll tax to broaden the city’s revenues and inter-municipal mergers to aid development during a Jamestown Rotary Club question and answer period that also included his opponent, Alpine W. Johnson. Dunn said he wanted a 1 percent payroll tax and suggested their was considerable support statewide for such a plan. Dunn had also claimed there was no land in the city for new industrial plants, saying he had “tramped the Erie Railroad tracks from Lakewood to Kennedy” and found the number of possible locations extremely limited. “The only solution is an area development, a joining of forces with outlying areas,” Dunn said. He suggested it would be fine if there could be a merging of Lakewood, Falconer and Jamestown.
  • Ted A. Henry of Jamestown and Michale A. Gudeman of Hoag Road in Jamestown were taken to the Chautauqua County Jail after several robberies in the area since July. They were accused of robbing Lakewood’s Video Mart on Aug. 27. Also arrested was Dewey Lee Charles Varner of Sinclairville, who was charged with possession of stolen property. Henry and Gudeman were also implicated in two robberies of a Hoag Road residence, the Kwik Fill on Third Street, Jamestown; Jamestown’s Hobby House on Jones and Gifford Avenue; the Boron station on Fairmount Avenue in July and August; the Hampshire Mills in the Fairmount Plaza; Anderson Cleaners; an Orchard Street home in Jamestown; Lakewood’s Pearl City Paint and Glass; Suburban Liquor in Lakewood; a Hunt Road, Lakewood, home; and a home on Winch Road, Lakewood.

Unemployment in Chautauqua County of 4.6 percent was lower than the state average of 5.5 percent, according to the state Labor Department. The county’s decline from the September 1989 unemployment rate of 6 percent was cause for concern, however, because fewer people were in the labor force. “There are just fewer people in the labor market,” said Ronald Scrace, senior economist/labor analyst at the state Labor Department’s Buffalo office. The employment rate also fell and that, he maintained, was due to cutbacks in the manufacturing area. “It’s good and bad news,” he said. “Unemployment is lower, but the number of people with jobs also fell.”

Today In History

In 1985, U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the gunmen were taken into custody. Actor-director Orson Welles died in Los Angeles at age 70; actor Yul Brynner died in New York at age 65.

In 1997, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its coordinator, Jody Williams, were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ten years ago: Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal that made her the first woman and politician from the ex-communist east to serve as Germany’s chancellor. President George W. Bush dined in the French Quarter and stayed in a luxury hotel to showcase progress in hurricane-battered New Orleans. Israeli-American Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling of the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on game theory. Milton Obote (oh-BOH’-tay), the first prime minister of an independent Uganda, died in Johannesburg, South Africa, at age 79.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama delivered one of his most stinging criticisms yet of the GOP record to several thousand people in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood as he urged voters not to sit out the midterm elections. Kim Jong Il’s heir apparent, Kim Jong Un, joined his father at a massive military parade in his most public appearance since being unveiled as North Korea’s next leader. Opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland, 83, died at her home in Switzerland.

One year ago: Malala Yousafzai, a 17-year-old Pakistani girl, and Kailash Satyarthi, a 60-year-old Indian man, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for risking their lives for the right of children to receive an education and to live free from abuse. The Kansas City Royals defeated the Baltimore Orioles 8-6 at Camden Yards in the opener of the AL Championship Series.

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