Today is Wednesday, July 30, the 211th day of 2003. There are 154 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, July 30, the 211th day of 2003. There are 154 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, during World War II, the USS Indianapolis is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 316 out of 1,196 men survive the sinking and shark-infested waters.
In 1729, the city of Baltimore is founded. In 1792, the French national anthem "La Marseillaise," by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, is first sung in Paris. In 1844, the New York Yacht Club is founded. In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces try to take Petersburg, Va., by exploding a mine under Confederate defense lines. The attack fails. In 1932, the Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles. In 1942, President Roosevelt signs a bill creating a women's auxiliary agency in the Navy known as Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES. In 1965, President Johnson signs into law the Medicare bill, which goes into effect the following year. In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit. Although presumed dead, Hoffa has never been found. In 1975, representatives of 35 countries convene in Finland for a conference on security and human rights that results in the Helsinki accords. In 1980, the Israeli Knesset passes a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
July 30, 1978: Motorcyclists not wearing safety helmets while riding in Youngstown still face legal consequences, despite repeal of the state's mandatory helmet law. City Ordinance 77.01 that mandates helmets within the city limits remains on the books.
Youngstown has received a six-month verbal option to purchase about 40 acres from the Republic Steel Corp. for development of an industrial park under the South Ave. Bridge, between the Cedar Street and Market Street bridge, says Mayor J. Phillip Richley.
A federal government decision not to supply funds to Trumbull County's Hillside Hospital reflects an evolving, unwritten national strategy to try to control rising health care casts. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development rejected the hospital's request for $38,000 to refurbish parts of the facility.
July 30, 1963: Mahoning County commissioners ask for court permission to transfer $66,274 from the Mahoning County Nursing Home tax levy to the general fund. The money would be used to relieve a financial problem at the Board of Elections that could seriously impair conduct of the November elections.
Three Ellwood City teenagers are killed when their car veers out of control in Cherry Hill Road and plows into a pile of lumber. Dead are Ronnie Hogue, 19; Ralph Redmond, 17, and Patty Oliastro, 18.
General Motors Corp. made $5 million a day in April, May and June, Saturdays and Sundays included, setting eight sales and earning records in the second quarter of the year. It is unlikely that any other business concern has ever made so much money as quickly as GM., which is the No. 1 automaker and world's largest corporation.
A steady rainfall of nearly one inch in much of the Mahoning Valley brought much needed relief to parched crops, says Robert Groves of the Mahoning Agricultural Extension Office.
July 30, 1953: "All over the world people are complaining about their taxes, but maybe that's the price for a semblance of peace," Charles G. Nichols, president of the G.M. McKelvey Co., tells a meeting of the Rotary Club at Hotel Pick-Ohio. Nichols recently returned from a salesmanship seminar in Gmunden, Austria, that was organized to help restore the Austrian economy.
The Girard Board of Control awards the contract for interceptor lines to the city's sewage disposal plant to Silvestry Bros. Construction Co. of Youngstown on a bid of $42,000. The general construction bid went to Mosser Construction of Freemont for $375,000.
The Soldier's Relief Commission turns down Mahoning County's offer of $27,000 in additional revenue or 1953 and will seek court action to force $186,000 out of the county treasury.
July 30, 1928: A Vindicator survey of Youngstown beef wholesalers show beef prices are as high as they were during war years, with tenderloin selling at 75 to 80 cents a pound and sirloin at 65 to 70 cents. Customers are buying more smoked meats and chickens because of the high cost of beef.
Safe blowers, evidently professionals, blow the safe in the Community Market, 237 W. Federal St., escaping with $2,800, according to a report filed with police by Peter Christoff, manager of the market.
With the weather for flying the best of any day this year, airplane pilots at all Youngstown area fields report doing a land-office business, taking passengers for sightseeing flights over Youngstown.