Today is Monday, Aug. 25, the 237th day of 2003. There are 128 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Monday, Aug. 25, the 237th day of 2003. There are 128 days left in the year. On this date in 1944, during World War II, Paris is liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
In 1875, Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, getting from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours. In 1916, the National Park Service is established within the Department of the Interior.x In 1950, President Truman orders the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike. In 1981, the U.S. spacecraft Voyager II comes within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet. In 1984, author Truman Capote is found dead in a Los Angeles mansion; he is 59. In 1985, Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union, dies with her father in an airliner crash in Maine.
August 25, 1978: Salem residents will be facing water rate increases of 92 to 97 percent if the city's Utilities Commission accepts a proposed rate projection.
Only 29 teachers had to be involuntarily transferred by the Youngstown school administration to comply with a U.S. District Court order to desegregate the faculty.
The new federally funded Mauthe Swimming Pool opens to the public for the first time. The pool in Struthers will remain open through Labor Day, with weekend hours through September, weather permitting.
August 25, 1963: The orchid packaging plant of Riverside Orchids Inc. in East Liverpool, one of the largest orchid suppliers in the eastern United States, is destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $150,000 to $200,000.
Youngstown University hopes to acquire land in the spring for the first of three expansion projects under the federally aided urban redevelopment program. Three new buildings and a student parking lot for 1,000 cars are planned at an estimated cost of $3 million.
August 25, 1953: Edwin H. Gott, 45, general superintendent of U.S. Steel Corp.'s Youngstown plants for over two years, is promoted to one of the corporation's highest executive positions and will move to Pittsburgh. Gott will become general manager of operations-steel for the corporation.
Youngstown's proposed $6 million capital improvements program receives the unanimous endorsement of the special taxation committee of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce. The program includes $4 million in street improvements and $750,000 for two new fire stations.
Ohio is rapidly running out of water supplies that it needs to retain its supremacy as one of the nation's top industrial and agricultural states, warns A.A. Stambaugh, chairman of the board of Standard Oil Co. of Ohio.
August 25, 1928: The 58 candidates for various Mahoning County offices spent $15,956 on the campaign, according to statements filed with the Board of Elections. It is the largest sum on record for any primary election in the county.
Youngstown Atty. William A. Mason, elected secretary of the Republican state campaign committee during a meeting in Columbus, says he will not take the job if it interferes with his management of the party's local campaign.
St. Elizabeth Hospital spends $100,000 a year in the care of poor men, women and children, reports the "Hospital News," a periodical issued by the hospital for its patrons and friends. That figure was exclusive of the services of the doctors, sisters and nurses. Forty-five of every 100 patients were unable to pay the total cost of their treatment.