Today is Friday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2003. There are 152 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2003. There are 152 days left in the year. On this date in 1790, the first United States census is completed, showing a population of nearly 4 million people.
In 1873, inventor Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tests a cable car he has designed for the city of San Francisco. In 1936, the Olympic games open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. In 1943, race-related rioting erupts in New York's Harlem section, resulting in several deaths. In 1944, an uprising breaks out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation, a revolt that lasts two months before collapsing.
August 1, 1978: A move by angry Sharon taxpayers to start a recall movement against several city councilmen is an exercise in futility, according to the Pennsylvania Elections Bureau. There is no provision of recall of a third class city's elected officials.
Girard City Council offers to meet with the Liberty Board of Education to discuss a "trade-off" to settle a school boundary question in the Squaw Creek area. Students in the area will have to enroll in Liberty schools unless the question is settled.
Strikers at Ohio Edison facilities in Mahoning County are ordered to allow all vehicular and pedestrian traffic in and out of the company's facilities at any time. Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne issues the temporary restraining order on a motion filed by Atty. Jay Tims of Harrington, Huxley & amp; Smith.
August 1, 1963: E.S. Preston & amp; Associates are selected to prepare a prospectus for a metropolitan area transportation study by a committee of city and county officials in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
Ralph Larue, a Pennsylvania Railroad fireman, rescues 11/2-year-old Shirley Ward from being run over by his train near Greenville, Pa., by climbing onto the footboard of the locomotive and pushing the child to the side of the roadbed as engineer W.E. Hanning vainly tried to bring the train to a stop.
A rain of .38 inches gets August off to a good start for Mahoning Valley farmers but the area is still attempting to recover from substandard rainfall. Precipitation in July was 2.07 inches, well below the norm of 4.32 inches and the cumulative figure for the first seven months of the year is 14.79 inches, nearly 10 inches below normal.
August 1, 1953: A 24-hour guard has been posted at the Salem City Hospital bedside of a 34-year-old West Alexander, Pa., truck driver who was shot in the head while sleeping in his parked tractor-trailer near Lisbon. Meanwhile the reward for information leading to the capture of a phantom assailant who has killed two truck drivers on the Pennsylvania turnpike has reached $110,000.
Youngstown Mayor Charles P. Henderson, in mourning the loss of U.S. Sen. Robert A. Taft, asks Youngstown residents to pray tat "God may give us other public officials who, like him, will fight for the right as they see it and who, like him, will steadfastly exemplify the highest ideals of honesty, integrity and devotion to duty."
Youngstown employees of East Ohio Gas Co. vote to accept the AFL as their bargaining agent in wage discussions with the company. The workers had been represented by the Independent Natural Gas Workers Union.
August 1, 1928: Postmaster B.E. Westwood; H.R. Stilson, an assistant postmaster; Congressman John Cooper and S.R. Creps, director of Youngstown schools, are the first foursome to play 18 holes on the Mill Creek golf course. Westwood shot a 99; Stilson, 106; Cooper, 97, and Creps, 92.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Campbell receive a cablegram announcing the birth of their grandchild, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Frederigo G. Ravelli of London, England. Mrs. Ravelli is the former Marie Campbell; Mr. Ravelli is one of the better known younger artists of London.
All political posters on Mahoning County highways will be torn down within a week, county Surveyor George Montgomery announces after receiving a communication from Harry J. Kirk, superintendent of state highways. All signs erected within the right of way of a dedicated road violate state law.