Today is Sunday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2003. There are 87 days left in the year. The Jewish Day

Today is Sunday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2003. There are 87 days left in the year. The Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, begins at sunset. On this date in 1953, Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
In 1830, the 21st president of the United States, Chester Arthur, is born in Fairfield, Vt. In 1892, the Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, is practically wiped out while attempting to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kan. In 1921, the World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time. In 1931, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon complete the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Washington state about 41 hours after leaving Japan. In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt calls for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations. In 1941, former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis -- the first Jewish member of the nation's highest court -- dies in Washington, D.C., at age 84. In 1947, President Truman delivers the first televised White House address. In 1962, the Beatles' first hit, "Love Me Do," is first released in the United Kingdom. In 1978, author Isaac Bashevis Singer is named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. In 1983, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa is named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 5, 1978: Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes and Lyle Williams, Republican candidate for the 19th District Congress, appear to have heavier than usual support in the Campbell-Struthers area, which was hardest hit by the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s curtailment of operations a year ago, a Vindicator straw poll shows.
K mart Corp. is seeking an option on 16 acres of land in Sharon's West State Street urban renewal area. If it exercises the option, it would pay $25,000 an acre for the land. The company will conduct a market study during the length of the six month option to determine if building a store in Sharon is feasible.
Country music singer Tammy Wynette is abducted at gunpoint from a Nashville shopping center and driven about 80 miles in her yellow Cadillac before being released in a suburban area, bruised, beaten and choking from pantyhose tied tightly around her neck.
October 5, 1963: Five locked doors are keeping poker-faced David H. Zirwas of Lake Milton in Trumbull County Jail until his arraignment for first-degree murder. He was arrested near Las Vegas and was returned to Trumbull County by Trumbull Prosecutor Lynn B. Griffith Jr., Sheriff Robert W. Barnett and Niles Police chief John Ross. Though he was described as docile, no chances are being taken with his confinement is the aged jail.
The Silver Jubilee of Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church on Stewart Ave., Youngstown, is being observed with church services and a banquet. The Most Rev. Thaddeus Zielinski, Bishop of the Buffalo-Pittsburgh Diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church, will officiate, assisted by pastor Anthony R. Wisniewski.
Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York, opposes the proposed establishment of a permanent order of deacons, who would not be bound by celibacy, on the grounds that it would endanger the priesthood. Deacons may give communion and perform baptisms, but cannot say Mass or administer other sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
October 5, 1953: Twenty-seven part-time instructors are added to the Youngstown College faculty for the semester, Dr. Howard W. Jones, president, announces. Among them are Atty. Homer E. Carlyle, who will teach a class in trusts in the School of Law, and Atty. Don Hanni, who will teach in the School of Business Administration.
Small private schools say the Korean War GI Bill favors tax-supported colleges by providing a war veteran with a month stipend, but not paying his tuition as well. World War II veterans had their tuition paid and received a $90 monthly allowance.
Homer Spickler, 59, a watchman at the Youngstown Manufacturing Inc. plant on S. Prospect St. is beaten and shot in the leg during a scuffle with three burlgars. Three masked men jumped him in the anodizing room on the East Side of the plant about 1:30 a.m.
Fred Pierson, 30, of Youngstown dies in South Side Hospital after being beaten by a gang of thugs at a Deforest Road brothel in Warren. Two companions said Pierson was beaten after the three attempted to gain admittance to the vice nest after closing hours.
The New York Yankees win their fifth consecutive World Series, defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers in the sixth game at Yankee Stadium. Bill Martin hits a single to drive in the winning run.
October 5, 1928: Voter registration in Youngstown breaks all existing records and exceeds even the most optimistic predictions, with 19,854 voters registered on the first day. The previous one-day high had been 12,000. The numbers indicate high local interest in the presidential race between Herbert Hoover and Al Smith.
An .8-mill increase in Youngstown's property tax rate means city residents will pay about $7.8 million in 1929, an increase of $510,000 over what was paid in 1928.
Youngstown Fire Chief Harry Callan and 10 city firemen will begin a systematic investigation of fire hazards in the business district as part of national Fire Prevention Week. School children will receive 40,000 fire inspection sheets that contain 30 questions about fire safety in the home that the children will be required to answer.
More than 5,000 Youngstown baseball fans gather in Central Square to watch on The Vindicator's gigantic scoreboard as each play in the World Series game between the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals is re-enacted. Lew Humphrey, veteran Associated Press-Vindicator telegrapher, is connected to Yankee stadium by direct wire and relays each play to three men, who move the figures on the scoreboard to show the plays as they happened.