Today is Friday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2003. There are 40 days left in the year. On his date in

Today is Friday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2003. There are 40 days left in the year. On his date in 1973, President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 181/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
In 1789, North Carolina becomes the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1877, Thomas A. Edison announces he has invented the phonograph. In 1899, Vice President Garret A. Hobart, serving under President McKinley, dies in Paterson, N.J., at age 55. In 1942, the Alaska highway across Canada is formally opened. In 1963, President Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, begin a two-day tour of Texas. In 1964, New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens. In 1969, the Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.
November 21, 1978: The development of downtown Sharon gets a shot in the arm with an announcement that two major properties have been sold and will house new businesses. The Outdoor Army-Navy Store will take over the G.C. Murphy building, and the old Sharon Medical Clinic will be reopened as the Sharon Professional Building.
Ohio lawmakers will investigate skyrocketing health care costs through a special joint committee that will look at rates charged by hospitals, health insurance plans and other health-related organizations.
Youngstown Steel Door Co. plans to spend $2.6 million for improvements at its currently booming railroad car parts plant on Henricks Road, says S.L. Suvada, vice president-manufacturing.
November 21, 1963: The Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, bishop of Youngstown, arrives at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station from the second session of the Vatican Council. He is greeted by his sister, Miss Ernestine Walsh, and several priests and friends.
A $150,000 contract for rebuilding the Youngstown Club quarters in the Union National Bank Building is given to the Charles Shutrump & amp; Sons Co.
Speaking in San Antonio, Texas, President Kennedy depicts his administration's new frontier scientific program as a bipartisan approach to a future that will be better for all mankind.
Advertisement: Friday, November 22, Grand Opening of the incomparable Voyager Motor Inn in Downtown Youngstown. James Tassone is motel manager and Karl Weirich is the chef. Downtown Youngstown's newest convention center.
November 21, 1953: John Dobrich, 42, of New Middletown, leaps to safety from his truck loaded with 12 tons of steel before it drops down a 35-foot embankment in Lincoln Park. The rig rolled over several times before coming to rest in the ravine. Dobrich said he heard a sound from the rear of the truck and then it veered out of control.
The Youngstown and Mahoning County campaign against polio will seek more than $70,000, says John F. Cantwell, campaign chairman.
Youngstown district blast furnaces are expected to begin smelting extra-rich iron ore from the newly developed deposits of Labrador and northern Quebec some time in 1954.
More than 1,200 Youngstown city employees seem virtually assured of receiving a 10 percent increase in wages after Mayor-elect Frank X. Kryzan and Mayor Charles P. Henderson agree on that figure.
November 21, 1928: Work is to begin on construction of piers and abutments for the South Avenue Bridge, the first project in a bridge-building program by the Mahoning County commissioners.
Mrs. Ludwig Aull of Puerto Rico arrives at the Fifth Avenue home of her brother, Myron I. Arms II, saying that the steamer she was on was only 40 miles from the Vestris when it floundered in the Atlantic Ocean and could have saved every passenger had the ship sent a timely SOS. By the time the crew of the San Lorenzo learned that the Vestris was sinking, it was 160 miles away, too far to be of assistance.
A branch of the Central Store Co. in Youngstown will open on the South Side, at 2623 Market St.