Today is Thursday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2003. There are 62 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2003. There are 62 days left in the year. On this date in 1938, the radio play "The War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, airs on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake news reports, panicked some listeners who thought its portrayal of a Martian invasion was true.)
In 1735, the second president of the United States, John Adams, is born in Braintree, Mass. In 1885, poet Ezra Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho. In 1944, the Martha Graham ballet "Appalachian Spring," with music by Aaron Copland, premieres at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role. In 1945, the U.S. government announces the end of shoe rationing. In 1952, Dr. Albert Schweitzer receives the Nobel Peace Prize. (Gen. George C. Marshall is awarded the Peace Prize on this date a year later.) In 1961, the Soviet Union tests a hydrogen bomb with a force estimated at 58 megatons. In 1961, the Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb. In 1972, 45 people are killed when an Illinois Central Gulf commuter train collides with another train in Chicago's South Side. In 1979, President Carter announces his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education. In 1995, by a vote of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent, federalists prevail over separatists in Quebec in a secession referendum.
October 30, 1978: Fire destroys the old Joseph Supermarket building on New Castle's South Side. Damage to the 60-year-old building and its contents is estimated at $300,000.
Proxy statements distributed in the process of merging Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. and Lykes-LTV confirm that the Brier Hill Works steelmaking plant will be closed.
The Rev. Leon W. Dobosiewicz, pastor of St. Joseph the Provider Church in Campbell, returns home from Rome excited about the future of Catholicism under the leaders of a Polish pope, John Paul II. He said a fellow priest described the new pope as having "a good head" and a "beautiful heart."
October 30, 1963: WFMJ-TV's cameras bring Youngstown's mayoral candidates into area homes so voters could hear Mayor Harry Savasten and council President Anthony Flask express their views on running the city.
Adolphe Menjou, an elegant dresser who mourned the fading popularity of spats and knickers, dies of chronic hepatitis at his Beverly Hills Home. His acting career spanned more than 50 years, during which he made 200 movies.
U.S. Steel Corp.'s Ohio Works is blowing in a second blast furnace, reflecting an upturn in steel demand from its Youngstown Works.
October 30, 1953: Mayor Charles P. Henderson, "looking to the future," promises to ask council to earmark at least half the parking meter revenue for development of off-street parking.
The Norwegian Nobel Institute announces former U.S. Secretary of State Gen. George C. Marshall has won the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize. The institute also announces a 1952 Peace Prize winner, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, humanist and medical missionary.
The Youngstown Community Chest drive ends with a record in Red Feather giving in Youngstown, with $793,124 raised. The total was $53,000 more than was raised in 1952.
October 30, 1928: "The teachers of Mahoning County will vote for Hoover for president and for Martin L. Davey for governor," county schools Superintendent Jerome Hull assures state Republican officials in a letter. Hull said the letter was "purely personal" and was in response to a request that he circulate Republican campaign material among county teachers. He declined to distribute political literature.
Since the Scienceville district has been annexed to Youngstown, street car fare will begin covering the distance to Stop 28 instead of Stop 14.