Today is Wednesday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2003. There are 28 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2003. There are 28 days left in the year. On this date in 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard perform the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lives 18 days with the new heart.
In 1828, Andrew Jackson is elected president of the United States. In 1925, "Concerto in F," by George Gershwin, has its world premiere at New York's Carnegie Hall, with Gershwin himself at the piano. In 1947, the Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" opens on Broadway. In 1979, 11 people are killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing.
December 3, 1978: Youngstown State University's greatest football season ever comes to an abrupt halt as the Penguins lose an NCAA Division II semifinal playoff game to Eastern Illinois, 26-22. The game ends with YSU having time for one more play, but referees declare the game over after Eastern Illinois fans storm the field.
Some Youngstown district investors will get a sizable amount of cash before Christmas from the merged Lykes-LTV Corp., assuming that the merger of the two companies becomes final.
The 19th District's next congressman, Lyle Williams, says he intends to make lots of noise in Washington about the Mahoning Valley's economic situation and what the federal government should do about it.
December 3, 1963: Educational television is coming to Youngstown over WKBN-TV and WFMJ-TV, Youngstown schools Superintendent Dr. Harry J. Wanamaker, tells the board of education. The board authorizes the purchase of 70 TV sets for district classrooms.
Addition of $4.5 million to an appropriation bill in the Ohio Legislature to build a technical institute at Youngstown University will open the way for construction to begin in 1964.
A Youngstown University student becomes the third victim of armed robbers in 48 hours when a knife-wielding bandit enters his car at a traffic light at Himrod Avenue and Hine Street
December 3, 1953: Damage is expected to run to $300,000 from a spectacular early morning fire that roared through three stores in the Boardman Plaza. The blaze began in the Stambaugh-Thompson Co.'s appliance store, which was to have its grand opening later in the day. Four Youngstown fire companies assisted Boardman and North Lima volunteer departments fighting the blaze.
The 7th District Court of Appeals affirms a judgment of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that outlawed membership in a labor union of city police officers. Police Chief Edward Allen had issued a rule forbidding police membership in a union. City council passed an ordinance overruling the chief, but the court found that ordinance invalid.
Five lovely coeds will preside as hostesses at Youngstown College's 23rd annual Snowflake Frolic, which will be held at the Elms Ballroom. They are Virginia Brown, Barbara Brezovcek, Rosalie Centofanti, Arlene Barnes and Mary Alma Mackin.
December 3, 1928: Myers Y. Cooper, Ohio governor-elect, chooses Miss Florence M. Elliott of Warren as his secretary. Miss Elliott, formerly stenographer in the offices of the Borden Co., served in the Republican state headquarters at Columbus during the campaign.
Edward Ford, 23, dies in the operating chair of the emergency room at Youngstown police headquarters while being treated by Dr. J.J. Thomas, police surgeon. Ford was thought to have sustained a superficial wound during a free-for-all fight on Edgewood Street; an autopsy shows he had been stabbed through the eye and suffered brain damage.
A recommendation by the Rev. W. H. Hudnut, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, that every church in Youngstown use the same hymn book is unanimously approved by ministers of the city at a Ministerial Association meeting.