Today is Saturday, Aug. 2, the 214th day of 2003. There are 151 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Aug. 2, the 214th day of 2003. There are 151 days left in the year. On this date in 1943, PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, sinks after being rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri off the Solomon Islands. The future president is credited with saving members of the crew; he is awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism, and also receives the Purple Heart for injuries he'd suffered.
In 1776, members of the Continental Congress begin attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence. In 1876, frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok is shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1923, the 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, dies in San Francisco. In 1934, German President Paul von Hindenburg dies, paving the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover. In 1939, Albert Einstein signs a letter to President Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program. In 1945, President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee conclude the Potsdam conference.
August 2, 1978: U.S. District Judge Leroy J. Contie Jr. orders that the number of white and black teachers and administrators in each Youngstown public school must match within 5 percent the overall white-to-minority ratio of the school district. Contie had dismissed most complaints of intentional segregation leveled against the city in a lawsuit filed against the school district.
Negotiations are to resume in the 11-week-old strike at Ajax Magnethermic Corp. in the wake of gunfire that destroyed some $10,000 worth of windows at the plant.
In a move that was a total surprise to Salem Democrats, Republican Councilman-at-large Joyce Wilson resigns. By a 3-2 vote, council appoints clerk W. Jay Hunston to fill Wilson's unexpired term.
August 2, 1963: Pointing to the loss of business by Youngstown Welding & amp; Engineering Co., U.S. Sen. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio urges President Kennedy to rescind regulations permitting Buy American Act provisions to be waived for Canadian suppliers. The Defense Department ordered several shipments of torpedo tubes from a Canadian company, putting Youngstown workers on the unemployment line.
Milk prices in Youngstown increase more than one cent per quart under automatic price increases provided farmers under a federal formula. The public is paying 37 cents for a half-gallon glass jug, which is about a three-cent increase.
Most downtown Youngstown merchants say they are pleased with the response to free parking that was instituted to stimulate business in the area. Some 3,000 spots are available to shoppers on the streets and in eight off-street lots.
August 2, 1953: Ohio Republican leaders are leery of a proposal to change state law in order to deprive Gov. Frank J. Lausche, a Democrat, of his right to appoint a successor to the late Sen. Robert A. Taft.
The Ohio Highway Patrol reports that ballistics tests show that the pistol used to wound a sleeping truck driver near Lisbon is apparently the same weapon used to kill two truckers on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The U. S. Senate belatedly approves and sends to the White House a resolution timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the time Ohio thought it got statehood. The resolution corrects an oversight, in that Congress never got around to saying in 1803 that Ohio was, indeed, a state.
August 2, 1928: Horse racing will be resumed at the fairgrounds in Ravenna as a means of stimulating local business.
The Rt. Rev. Edward A. Mooney, archbishop of Irenopolis and apostolic delegate to India, leaves for Seattle, Wash., after visiting his mother and other relatives in Youngstown.
Although the enrollment of Youngstown city schools will increase by about 3,000 pupils in the fall, conditions are likely to be less crowded than a year earlier, says Dr. J.J. Richeson, superintendent of schools, because much of the increase comes from the annexation of part of Coitsville Township, which includes school buildings, and the new Hayes and Wilson junior high schools are expected to be ready.