Today is Wednesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2003. There are 231 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2003. There are 231 days left in the year. On this date in 1948, the independent state of Israel is proclaimed in Tel Aviv.
In 1643, Louis XIV becomes king of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory leaves St. Louis. In 1904, the first Olympic games to be held in the United States open in St. Louis. In 1942, Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait is first performed, by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In 1942, the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps is established. In 1955, representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign the Warsaw Pact in Poland. In 1973, the United States launches Skylab, its first manned space station. In 1975, U.S. forces raid the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recapture the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members are released safely by Cambodia, but some 40 U.S. servicemen are killed in the military operation. In 1980, President Carter inaugurates the Department of Health and Human Services.
May 14, 1978: A seven-member fact-finding committee named by Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley to examine the city's financial position in the heat of a strike by six city employee unions had been scheduled to report its findings within a week, but will take a bit more time since the strike has been settled.
Seven past and present members of the Trumbull County Planning Commission swear that the commission acted improperly in firing Edward L. Kutevac as planning commissioner. Their affidavits say Kutevac has civil service protection; one man swears otherwise.
Youngstown area steel executives remain skeptical of President Carter's trigger pricing system which is supposed to curb the avalanche of cheap foreign steel imports.
The renovation of a former grad school building on Depot Street in Jamestown, Pa., is generating goodwill among townspeople, who had feared that the vacant structure might just sit there and deteriorate until it collapsed.
May 14, 1963: There is a growing awareness of the need for community clinics as a first line of defense against mental illness, Dr. Robert Hamlisch, director of the Adult Guidance Center, tells the guidance board.
The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District approves an increase in the wholesale rate it charges Youngstown and Niles for water, but Youngstown officials say it will take a study of several months to determine whether the Water Department can absorb the increase or will have to raise the rates for commercial and residential customers.
The Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation abolishes six district administrative offices, including the one in Youngstown. A.E. McCulley, manager of the Youngstown office, is awaiting reassignment and four members of his staff have been given new duties.
May 14, 1953: Rain that has been drenching the Youngstown district since the beginning of May has thrown a monkey wrench into planting on many district farms. There has been rain 10 of the first 14 days of the month.
A Chicago area steelworker has filed suit against the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. and the United Steelworkers of America claiming that the union shop called for in the USW contract is illegal.
Emil A. Vierow, superintendent of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. Youngstown district fuel and power department, is elected chairman of the city's newly organized smoke control advisory board.
May 14, 1928: Attorneys representing four Eastern railroads file their opposition to the granting of a certificate of necessity and convenience to the Pittsburgh, Lisbon & amp; Western and Montour railroads for construction of a new line from Youngstown to Smith's Ferry.
Youngstown Mayor Joseph Heffernan vetoes an ordinance passed by city council abolishing the vice squad.
Wick Avenue business people are organizing in strong opposition to a city council proposal to ban parking in Wick Ave. between Scott and Madison streets.
Netti Tarasuk, 15, is acclaimed Rayen School's most nearly perfect student in 15 years of scholastic records. In four years at Rayen, she has earned 100 Es and one G. The E represents 90 to 100 percent perfection, while the G is the second best mark.