Today is Tuesday, Aug. 5, the 217th day of 2003. There are 148 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 5, the 217th day of 2003. There are 148 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union sign a treaty in Moscow banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in space and underwater.
In 1861, the federal government levies an income tax for the first time. In 1884, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. In 1914, the first electric traffic lights are installed, in Cleveland. In 1924, the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, makes its debut. In 1953, Operation "Big Switch" is under way as prisoners taken during the Korean conflict are exchanged at Panmunjom. In 1957, "American Bandstand," hosted by Dick Clark, makes its television network debut on ABC. In 1962, actress Marilyn Monroe, 36, is found dead in her Los Angeles home; her death is ruled a probable suicide from an overdose of sleeping pills. In 1981, the federal government begins firing air traffic controllers who had gone out on strike. In 1984, actor Richard Burton dies at a hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, at the age of 58. In 2000, actor Sir Alec Guinness dies at a southern England hospital at age 86.
August 5, 1978: The Youngstown Police Department rounds up 25 "small fry" drug dealers in raids on 21 locations. Bottles of pills are seized, along with televisions, tape players and radios believed to have been stolen.
Boardman wins its first State Senior Little League Tournament championship, coming out of the loser's bracket to upset favored Eastlake in two straight games, 6-0 and 8-3, at Portsmouth.
Two Columbiana County men agree to pick up debris and trash in Mill Creek Park for 10 days to work off $250 in fines and five-day jail terms for discarding trash in the park.
John J. Augenstein, superintendent of schools for the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, is elected president of the board of trustees of Junior Achievement of the Youngstown Area Inc.
August 5, 1963: A 71-year-old Glenwood Ave. man is fined $200 and costs and put on probation for six months on a charge of assault and battery arising out of his planting boards with protruding carpet tacks in his lawn to keep youngsters off the grass. He had originally been charged with a felony after a 21/2-year-old boy walking in his bare feet with his father stepped on the tack, which were camouflaged and buried in the right-of-way.
Mahoning County's 1963 food fund of $28,000 is all gone, leaving county commissioners and Sheriff Ray T. Davis with a big problem in finding the money to feed the county's prisoners for the rest of the year. Davis says he has been averaging 100 prisoners a day, compared to 60 a year earlier.
After more than nine hours of bargaining at City Hall, agreement is reached to hire two Negro plumbers to work on the downtown mall construction site. Mayor Ralph S. Locker is praised by the U.S. Department of Labor for hammering out the agreement with the Cleveland plumbers union.
August 5, 1953: Cleveland is the bull's eye for the $800 million Ohio Turnpike that will run from the Pennsylvania to Indiana state lines. Meanwhile a second, $475 million turnpike is being proposed to run diagonally from Cincinnati to Ashtabula. Turnpike Commissioner Sam O. Linzell says the second pike is feasible.
Trouble in an Ohio Bell Telephone Co. cable along Market Street seriously curtails phone service between downtown and the South Side, with many phone calls being put on an "emergency only" basis.
Arthur R. Lloyd, 65, vice president of Union National Bank, dies in North Side Hospital after suffering a heart attack while having lunch at the Youngstown Club with Howard A. Welch, chairman of the board of the bank.
August 5, 1928: One Youngstown man is dead and another is overcome while the death toll throughout Ohio and the eastern states continues to mount as a result of the intense heat wave. John Dzulik is overcome by heat and collapses while collecting his pay at the Commercial Shearing & amp; Stamping Co. He had been feeling ill for several days.
Days of yesteryear are vividly recalled at the 17th annual Vienna Homecoming Day, which drew more than 1,000 visitors from far and near. The village's biggest civic celebration took place on the lawn of the First Presbyterian Church and attracted folks from many states to recount scenes of their childhood in the busy Trumbull County hamlet.
Mrs. Emma Catherine Hartenstein of 38 W. LaClede Ave., wife of ex-Mayor Fred A. Hartenstein, dies in Youngstown hospital following an illness of one week. She was 69 years old.