Today is Sunday, June 8, the 159th day of 2003. There are 206 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, June 8, the 159th day of 2003. There are 206 days left in the year. On this date in A.D. 632, the prophet Mohammed dies.
In 1845, Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, dies in Nashville, Tenn. In 1861, Tennessee secedes from the Union. In 1876, author George Sand dies in Nohant, France. In 1915, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns in a disagreement over U.S. handling of the sinking of the "Lusitania." In 1953, the Supreme Court rules that restaurants in the District of Columbia cannot refuse to serve blacks. In 1967, 34 U.S. servicemen are killed when Israeli forces raid the "Liberty," a Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean. (Israel calls the attack a tragic mistake.) In 1968, authorities announce the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1978, a jury in Clark County, Nev., rules the so-called "Mormon will," purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, is a forgery. In 1982, President Reagan becomes the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament. In 1995, U.S. Marines rescue Capt. Scott O'Grady, whose F-16 fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
June 8, 1978: Mary Ann Watson, Youngstown area spelling champion, is eliminated in the seventh round of the national bee on the word "sauger," a type of fish. After a long pause, the Canfield Middle School 8th grader spelled it "sager." She finished in 16th place.
A tornado sweeps through Mineral Ridge, crushing a warehouse, passing over a nursing home and uprooting trees and damaging buildings. Trumbull Sheriff Richard Jakmas estimates damage at $100,000.
The first service is held in the recently built Seventh-Day Adventist Church at 1645 North Road, Warren. Construction on the $200,000 building began in 1976. James S. Russell is pastor.
A new unofficial tabulation in the 19th Congressional District race shows incumbent Charles J. Carney won the Democratic nomination by only 196 votes over George Tablack.
The Youngstown Board of Education approves Superintendent Robert L. Pegues Jr.'s plan to desegregate the staff of city schools, as ordered by U.S. District Court in April.
June 8, 1963: The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission hires 282 temporary summer workers to man the city's six swimming pools and 40 playgrounds for the recreation season that opens June 17.
In a 6-1 decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upholds the use of radar to convict speeders.
Erection of a steel frame for the new $1.5 million downtown motel on Market Street across from the Mahoning County Courthouse is going ahead at full speed.
The Youngstown law department begins notifying owners of substandard or condemned properties in the city to either repair or raze the buildings or face arrest. Assistant law director Joseph Maxin says the "courtesy" notices will be sent to owners who have been under orders for two years to clean up their properties.
Paul E. Smith, superintendent of Salem schools, says a one-year experiment in ungraded instruction of pupils in the first three grades has been so successful that it is being extended to the fourth grade, and he predicts that by 1965 it will be extended throughout the system. Under the system, each child progresses in reading, spelling, writing , language and arithmetic at his or her own pace, rather than at a specific grade level.
June 8, 1953: Mahoning County Commissioner Edward J. Gilronan is rebuffed again by his Democratic colleagues in his attempt to economize. Gilronan moved to fire two men on the night shift in the photostat room, but neither Fred A. Wagner nor Thomas J. Carney would second the motion.
Economics is the most important factor that will decide the winner in the struggle between Communism and the West, Youngstown Municipal Judge Forrest J. Cavalier tells 400 persons at a convention banquet of the Independent Order of Sons of Italy, Grand Lodge of Ohio, at the Hotel Pick-Ohio.
Top academic honors are bestowed on three of Westminster College's 243 graduates. They are Sue Boyer of Picture Rock, Pa., Ruth Rickloff of Erie, Pa., and Robert Smith of Glenshaw, Pa. Smith is the second student in the 99-year history of the college to receive straight As. Glenn Reed, class of 1950, was the first.
June 8, 1928: Fourteen girls and three school boys arrested as communists in Canton, China, are executed. Raids on communist gatherings are continuing in South China, which has been the scene of violent clashes between communists and police.
Nineteen men and five women graduate from the YMCA schools during ceremonies at First Presbyterian Church.
Dr. W. Estell Lee of the University of Pennsylvania tells a gathering of 500 physicians at the Ohio Hotel in Youngstown that tannic acid has been found to be the quickest and best remedy for burns. Accordingly, burns in the home would be better treated with tea than with lard or butter. A solution of 10 percent tannic acid sprayed on the skin creates a membrane that prevents the growth of bacteria and reduces the loss of fluids, the doctors are told.