Today is Monday, May 26, the 139th day of 2003. There are 219 days left in the year. This is the

Today is Monday, May 26, the 139th day of 2003. There are 219 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.
On this date in 1940, the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, begins during World War II. In 1521, Martin Luther is banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings. In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned king of Italy. In 1865, arrangements are made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi. In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal on all remaining charges. In 1913, Actors' Equity Association is organized. In 1969, the Apollo Ten astronauts return to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing. In 1977, George H. Willig scales the outside of the South Tower of New York's World Trade Center; he is arrested at the top of the 110-story building. In 1978, the first legal casino in the eastern U.S. opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1991, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes in Thailand, killing all 223 people aboard.
May 26, 1978: Ronald D. Carabbia, 49, of Poland, a longtime rackets and crime figure in the Youngstown area, is found guilty of aggravated murder in the bombing death of Daniel Greene in Cleveland. He and Pasquale Cisternino, who was also found guilty, could face the death penalty.
The dice are rolling on the Boardwalk as Resorts International Hotel kicks off the first legalized casino gambling outside Nevada.
Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. files a request with the county Board of Tax Revision for a 50 percent cut in its Mahoning County real estate taxes based on the company's deteriorated financial condition.
May 26, 1963: No boy is left out when it comes to playing organized baseball in Champion Township north of Warren. There are 425 boys in six leagues ranging from ages six to 18, and none is cut from a team once he signs up.
Reserved seats will be available for members of the faculty and former faculty at the 97th annual reunion of Rayen School alumni, which will be held June 4 in the school auditorium.
The University of Michigan may take the first steps in the next academic year to meet the enormous interest and need in continuing education for women, Mrs. Stanley Cain, tells a meeting of Youngstown area alumni. She notes that studies now show women have 35 to 40 active years ahead of them after their last child enters school.
May 26, 1953: The Ford Motor Co. goes General Motors one better, voluntarily revising its five-year contract with the United Auto Workers union to provide the best major pension plan in the industry, paying a maximum of $137.50 a month.
Contracts totaling $890,930 for the East High School addition and remodeling are awarded by the board of education. The general contract went to Adolph Johnson & amp; Son with a low bid of $621,153.
Vindicator Aviation Editor George R. Reiss gets a chance to fly briefly one of Uncle Sam's most impressive weapons, the B-36 intercontinental bomber, "capable of clobbering Moscow and her sister cities with atom bombs, if the necessity should arise." Reiss and an Associated Press writer are the first civilians, outside technicians, to fly the giant bombers, which have 10 engines (four jet and six reciprocating.)
May 26, 1928: James E. Jones, Youngstown finance director, who only recently left the federal prohibition department, believes that conditions under prohibition are immeasurably better in Youngstown than during the saloon days, "when wives and mothers could be seen barefooted in the snow while the wage earner spent his earnings in the saloon adjacent to his plant."
"Poppy Day," during which Veterans of Foreign Wars are selling 27,000 red flower symbols in honor of Mahoning heroes, begins when Mrs. Wilda Harl Hinkel drops a poppy wreath from a plane piloted by W. Edgar Leedy Jr. in front of city hall.