Today is Tuesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2003. There are 204 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2003. There are 204 days left in the year. On this date in 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio.
In 1922, singer-actress Judy Garland is born in Grand Rapids, Minn. In 1940, Italy declares war on France and Britain; Canada declares war on Italy. In 1942, the Gestapo massacre 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official. In 1946, Italy replaces its abolished monarchy with a republic. In 1964, the Senate votes to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states. In 1967, the Middle East War ends as Israel and Syria agree to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured June 13th. In 1978, "Affirmed" wins the Belmont Stakes and with it, horse racing's Triple Crown.
June 10, 1978: James C. Miller, president of Strouss and a chairman in the past three Youngstown Area United Appeal campaigns, will head the 1978-79 campaign, which has a goal of $2.1 million.
The prospect of Lykes Corp. defaulting on two major bank loans and declaring bankruptcy is apparently weighing heavily in the delay by the U.S. Justice Department to rule on the proposed Lykes-LTV merger.
Returning from a trip to Rome and a meeting with Pope Paul VI, Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone says the meeting every five years is largely ceremonial, but remains important because it keeps the pope abreast of local problems facing the church.
June 10, 1963: Miss Katharine H. Smith, 89, a retired member of the Rayen School faculty who taught English and Latin, dies in North Side Hospital, where she had been a patient since May 14.
Two aides from the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington arrive in Cleveland to open a grand jury investigation into income tax records of Youngstown politicians and underworld figures.
The Christiani-Wallace Bros. Circus arrives in Youngstown for two performances at the Jacobs Road circus grounds near Lincoln Knolls Plaza.
June 10, 1953: Tornado-stricken Cleveland finishes its most urgent clean-up work and estimates of the eventual loss in that city is as high as $50 million.
General Motors goes on record in favor of President Eisenhower's proposed extension of the excess profits tax, even though the company paid $300 million toward the tax in 1952, which is about 20 percent of what was collected nationwide.
The Youngstown Junior Chamber of Commerce is rated one of the best in the United States for its activities in the field of community welfare funds, it is announced at the 33rd annual convention of the U.S. Jaycees.
June 10, 1928: While en route to the Republican national convention in Kansas City, Lucius B. McKelvey, the Youngstown district delegate, is informed that he is being considered as a national committeeman from Ohio.
Rayen, East, South and Chaney high schools in Youngstown hold their separate baccalaureate services on the same day.
Henry C. Hayza, who left Youngstown in 1925 to study violin in Prague, is making a name for himself all over Europe. He sailed back to the United States on the S.S. DeGrasse and is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hayza, 1583 Wellington St.