Today is Saturday, June 7, the 158th day of 2003. There are 207 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, June 7, the 158th day of 2003. There are 207 days left in the year. On this date in 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposes to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.
In 1654, Louis XIV is crowned King of France in Rheims. In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first begins to explore the present-day Bluegrass State. In 1848, French postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin is born in Paris. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln is nominated for another term as president at his party's convention in Baltimore. In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City comes into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty are exchanged in Rome. In 1939, King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrive at Niagara Falls, N.Y., from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch. In 1948, the Communists complete their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Eduard Benes. In 1967, author-critic Dorothy Parker, famed for her caustic wit, dies in New York. In 1972, the musical "Grease" opens on Broadway. In 1981, Israeli military planes destroy a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charge could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
June 7, 1978: The Youngstown Board of Education announces the appointment of Chaney High School Principal Emanuel Catsoules as superintendent of schools.
Voters in two Beaver Township and two Boardman Township precincts defeat local option votes that would have permitted the sale of alcoholic beverages.
U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney wins the Democratic nomination for the 19th District congressman in his quest for a fifth full term by a slim margin of 671 votes over George D. Tablack, who carried Mahoning County by 2,951 votes. Carney will face Trumbull County Commissioner Lyle Williams in November.
June 7, 1963: Ann L. Olsavsky, dismissed as an assistant secretary in the city prosecutor's office on the orders of Mayor Harry N. Savasten, is hired as a secretary in municipal court by Judge Don L. Hanni.
Two men are killed near Leetonia when their car is demolished by a Chicago-bound Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at the Chestnut St. crossing. Dead are George Ranson, 66, and Russell Crumbacher, 57, of Columbiana.
Lightning strikes a 50-foot chimney on the Salem junior high school building on N. Lincoln Ave. during a severe electrical storm. Damage is estimated at $5,000.
June 7, 1953: Youngstown automobile "cowboys," reckless drivers who have piled up bad records, will find it harder and harder to get insurance, says Ralph M. Wilkoff, president of the Youngstown Association of Insurance Agents.
Sheriff's deputies are searching for two Mahoning County women who were with 28-year-old Michael A. Krautner shortly before the farmer-steelworker died of a gunshot wound in a hayloft on his farm in McGuffey Road Extension.
A crowd estimated at 30,000 turns out in Warren for the greatest parade ever held in the city, which was staged to mark the state's sesquicentennial.
June 7, 1928: The First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown inaugurates a campaign for a new church building that will serve the congregation for 50 years. The goal is to raise $400,000.
The roadway of the bridge over Meander Creek will be widened from 24 feet to 36 feet, increasing the cost of the span by $17,000 to $66,000. Most of the cost will be paid by the state, but Mahoning County has agreed to pay the cost of the widening.
The mines of the old Quaker Valley Coal Co. at Rogers, which have been closed for six months, will be reopened and operated on a cooperative basis, employing 50 men.