Today is Wednesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2003. There are 224 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2003. There are 224 days left in the year. On this date in 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh lands his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto dies while searching for gold along the Mississippi River. In 1832, the first Democratic National Convention gets under way, in Baltimore. In 1840, New Zealand is declared a British colony. In 1881, Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross. In 1892, the opera "I Pagliacci," by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, is first performed, in Milan, Italy. In 1924, 14-year-old Bobby Franks is murdered in a "thrill killing" committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two students at the University of Chicago. In 1956, the United States explodes the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
May 21, 1978: Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., a company once known for its openness and candor with the news media, clamps rigid restrictions on the dissemination of corporate information. President Jennings R. Lambeth issues instructions to supervisory personnel in a widely circulated memo.
Thirteen Humility of Mary sisters who have served in the Youngstown Diocese for 50 years are honored at a Mass of Thanksgiving at Villa Maria, Pa. Twelve other members of the religious order marked 25 years service.
Thursenia "CeDe" DeHart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. DeHart Sr. of Youngstown and an Ursuline graduate, is crowned Miss Ohio State University in a scholarship pageant in Columbus. She will compete in the Miss Ohio pageant June 12-17 in Mansfield.
May 21, 1963: Youngstown Law Director Russell G. Mock says City Council cannot legally block plans to widen Wirt St. between Belmont Ave. and West Federal St. Legislation seeking to repeal council's consent for the project has been prepared for introduction at the next council meeting.
A building code amendment limiting furnace-cleaning to licensed warm-air heating contractors and requiring a permit for every job done in the city is submitted to city council.
About 1,500 members of Youngstown's school safety patrol make the annual baseball excursion to Cleveland on a train leaving the Erie platform at 10:45 a.m. and returning at 7 p.m.
May 21, 1953: Carl V. Weygandt, chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, will speak at the annual commencement of Youngstown College at Stambaugh Auditorium.
Supplier strikes have choked off parts to U.S. automakers, and some 85,000 autoworkers have been laid off at Ford, Chrysler, Studebaker, Willys, Nash and International Harvester. If the strikes continue, as many as 150,000 autoworkers will soon be laid off.
A representative of the U.S. Engineers Corps arrives in Youngstown to study Mayor Charles P. Henderson's files on the proposed Air Force Reserve Training Center at Youngstown Municipal Airport. The Air Force had wanted to meet May 18 with city officials to "learn their attitude" on the project, but Henderson suggested that the Air Force first answer questions raised by the city about the project in October.
May 21, 1928: Emma Malarich, champion speller of Mahoning County, arrives in Washington, D.C. as a guest of The Vindicator to participate in the national spelling tournament and will be one of 23 contestants received by President Coolidge at the White House.
South Side residents are called upon by Mayor Joseph L. Heffernan to assist in a systematic search for Beatrice Rosebaum, 10, who was first thought to have been kidnapped but is now believed to have wandered away from home. Nearly 300 high school and junior high school boys set out from Central Square to conduct a search.
The Rev. Frank G. Sayers, pastor of First Baptist Church of Hamilton, is extended a unanimous call by the congregation to accept the pastorate of the First Baptist Temple of Youngstown. He is widely known in Ohio as a popular speaker.