Today is Monday, June 16, the 167th day of 2003. There are 198 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, June 16, the 167th day of 2003. There are 198 days left in the year. On this date in 1903, Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
In 1858, in a speech in Springfield, Ill., Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln says the slavery issue has to be resolved, declaring, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." In 1883, baseball's first "Ladies' Day" takes place as the New York Gothams offer women free admission to a game against the Cleveland Spiders. (New York wins, 5-2.) In 1932, President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis are renominated at the Republican national convention in Chicago. In 1933, the National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law. (It is later struck down by the Supreme Court.).
June 16, 1978: Twenty-four men and women who were hired in December for the Youngstown Police Department's Neighborhood Assistance Patrol Unit are receiving three Pinto automobiles and proper uniforms with which to conduct patrols and aid the police department.
Structural damage to the Oakland Avenue Viaduct in Sharon, Pa., is much more extensive than had been first thought and the repair bill is approaching $300,000, according to Mercer County Commissioner Peter J. Joyce.
Atty. Don L. Hanni wins election as Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman over county Auditor Stephen R. Olenick. Ross Conn of Canfield is elected Republican Party chairman.
June 16, 1963: The Youngstown district's army of "white collar" men -- the executives, junior management men and office personnel of industrial companies -- have generally fared better than hourly employees in salaries and fringe benefits, but that is changing. Tight economics have brought cutbacks and the possibility that white collar employees will not receive the same raises won by union workers.
Former President Herbert Hoover remains seriously ill in a New York hospital, suffering from "anemia, secondary to bleeding from the gastro-intestinal tract."
Howland High School junior Jack Myers, who piloted his first plane when he was 12, finally gets his pilot's license after a solo flight on Mother's Day. He earned all the money for the 40 lessons he had to take by working odd jobs, but still had to wait until he was 16 to get his license.
June 16, 1953: A 61-year-old Warren Ave. woman who served three years in Marysville Reformatory for performing an illegal operation on an East Side girl who died of an infection in 1947, is being held on an open charge after admitting performing an abortion on a 23-year-old girl from Michigan. The girl, her boyfriend and her sister were arrested and are being held as material witnesses.
Strike-harassed Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. plants are threatened with a complete shutdown idling 10,000 employees in an on-again, off-again battle over incentive pay. Company officials says that if a blooming mill walkout continues, all plants will be shut down.
During a hearing in Cleveland, Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen Jr. defends his right to ban lewd and obscene literature from sale in Youngstown and says if that if his censorship power is upheld by the court, there are 335 more pocketbook titles he intends to ban.
June 16, 1928: The Mahoning County Bar Association votes to set up machinery to eliminate "ambulance chasing" and other unethical practices. Excessive lawsuits are blamed for Youngstown's high automobile liability insurance rates.
Wick Park -- once the refuge of black bears -- is inhabited by a terrible screech owl. The owl, said to have terrified women of the neighborhood with its weird hooting, is sentenced to death by police. Two sharpshooters were detailed to shoot the bird, but the wise old owl preferred flitting to flopping.
Appropriations suits for lands needed in the construction of Meander Dam are filed by the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District in common pleas court. Suit is filed against nine owners of parcels of various sizes.