Today is Sunday, May 11, the 131st day of 2003. There are 234 days left in the year. This is

Today is Sunday, May 11, the 131st day of 2003. There are 234 days left in the year. This is Mother's Day. On this date in 1946, the first CARE packages arrive in Europe, at Le Havre, France.
In 1858, Minnesota becomes the 32nd state of the Union. In 1888, songwriter Irving Berlin is born Israel Baline in Temun, Russia. In 1910, Glacier National Park in Montana is established. In 1943, during World War II, U.S. forces land on the Aleutian island of Attu, which is held by the Japanese; the Americans take the island 19 days later. In 1949, Israel is admitted to the United Nations as the world body's 59th member. In 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case are dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cites government misconduct. In 1981, reggae artist Bob Marley, 36, dies in a Miami hospital. In 1985, more than 50 people die when a flash fire sweeps a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England. In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 catches fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashes into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board. In 1997, the Deep Blue IBM computer demolishes an overwhelmed Garry Kasparov and wins the six-game chess match between man and machine in New York.
May 11, 1978: Tuition for Cardinal Mooney and Ursuline high schools will increase by $60 as the result of action by the Diocese of Youngstown Board of Education. Tuition at the two Youngstown high schools will be $600 per student.
The chairman of Youngstown City Council's finance committee says council will not ratify a wage agreement that ended a 17-hour strike by 1,900 city employees unless there is assurance that federal funds can be used to pay general fund salaries.
Agents of the Mercer County Narcotics Unit end a six-month drugs sales investigation with the arrest of seven men for possession and sales of cocaine, PCP and marijuana.
May 11, 1963: Milton Township needs water lines and sewage facilities to attract new industry and population, members of the Milton-Jackson Republican Club are told by James Bisciglia, Mahoning County's assistant sanitary engineer.
State liquor agents and Youngstown police arrest four persons in three moonshine raids. One man attempted to destroy a gallon jug of white lightning by kicking it off a 15-foot high porch.
The Renner Co. accepts $82,000 as full settlement for land used and buildings razed or damaged by the Ohio Department of Highways in the construction of Youngstown's arterial highway system.
May 11, 1953: Dr. Will W. Orr, president of Westminster College, gives the sermon at Pennsylvania State College's annual Mother's Day service, which was attended by President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The president was visiting his brother, Milton, president of the college.
Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge John W. Ford is mentioned as a possible nominee for federal judge in northern Ohio if Congress creates two new federal district judgeships.
Highways, parks and byways throughout Youngstown are jammed with automobiles on a beautiful Mother's Day as temperatures reach 87 degrees.
May 11, 1928: The Bolotin-Drabkin Furniture Co. has begun constructing a four-story building at the southeast corner of E. Federal and Walnut streets at a cost of $100,000. Antonio Mastromtonio is contractor-in-charge.
Youngstown will begin its battle for lower freight rates in preliminary hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission on the application of the Montour Railroad of Pittsburgh to build a line from Smith's Ferry on the Ohio River to Youngstown.
The fate of James Munsene, alleged Warren bootlegger accused of trying to bribe the sheriff of Trumbull County, rests with a jury of 10 men and two women in Jefferson, Ashtabula County.