Today is Monday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2003. There are 163 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2003. There are 163 days left in the year. On this date in 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial ends in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The conviction is later overturned.
In 1899, author Ernest Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Ill.; poet Hart Crane is born in Garrettsville, Ohio. In 1944, American forces land on Guam during World War II. In 1949, the U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty. In 1954, France surrenders North Vietnam to the communists. In 1961, Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom becomes the second American to rocket into a suborbital pattern around the Earth, flying aboard the Liberty Bell 7. In 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blast off from the moon aboard the lunar module. In 1980, draft registration begins in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men. In 1999, Navy divers find the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of Kennedy's plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard.
July 21, 1978: The nation is spared the snarl of a postal strike after marathon bargaining results in an agreement on a three-year contract that will give U.S. Postal Service employees raises of 19.5 percent.
The nation's economy grew by the largest amount in more than two years during the spring, reaching an annual rate of 7.4 percent, but it was outraced by inflation, which grew at a rate of 10 percent.
The Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce urges area legislators to pursue legislation in the General Assembly to double license plate fees in order to raise money needed for bridge and road repair. The state's license plate fee is $10 for a private auto.
July 21, 1963: Disputing assertions that the Youngstown area is "on dead center" in growth, Carl Gangloff, industrial development executive, estimates that $50 million to $60 million worth of new construction is underway, about $25 million of which is in home construction.
Intermittent showers and heavy clouds lift long enough to allow Youngstown area residents to get a clear view of most of a solar eclipse that began at 4:40 p.m. and lasted about two hours. Several area astronomers had traveled to Canada and upper Maine to witness a total blackout.
The Butler Institute of American Art opens its annual Midyear Show, which includes 300 oil and watercolor paintings and will be on view through Labor Day. Attending the preview are Mr. and Mrs. Adam Grant of Toledo (Mrs. Grant's "Figures in a Circus Setting" was a prize winner), Jan deRuth of New York City, whose painting of two dancers won second prize among oil paintings, and local artist Carol Jean Maringer Benson, whose painting, "The Bride," made the show.
July 21, 1953: Contracts for two new West Side schools, West High and Kirkmere Elementary, are approved by the Youngstown Board of Education. The high school will cost $1.3 million and Kirkmere, $473,000.
With the Public Housing Administration forced to curtail its low-cost public housing program from 62,000 to 20,000, the 320-unit project allotted to the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority may be in jeopardy.
Youngstown detectives are questioning three men in the fatal beating of Roy Jackson, 22, of Arlington St., who was abducted in a car and allegedly beaten in Applegate Road after refusing to pay off a bet to a Youngstown soldier home on leave.
July 21, 1928: Swooping down on the towns and cities of the Mahoning and Shenango valleys without warning, the summer's most violent rain and electrical storm kills two persons and injures five and inflicts thousands of dollars worth of damage. Eunice Sheldon, 10, is killed when lightning strikes a shack in which she and 22 others sought refuge in Ohltown and B.C. Hall, 32, is electrocuted while repairing a fallen power line.
Dedicatory services are scheduled for Aug. 4 for the new 18-hole golf course at Mill Creek Park. John R. Elliot, manager of the Keith-Albee Theater, will be master of ceremonies.
Youngstown Police Chief J.J. McNicholas and Traffic Commissioner Carl Olson are ordered by Mayor Joseph Heffernan to have their men crack down on private cars and trucks that are equipped with sirens similar to those used by emergency vehicles. "This noise is needless and only serves to frighten people out of a year's growth," says the mayor, and is prohibited by ordinance.