Today is Saturday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2003. There are 81 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2003. There are 81 days left in the year. On this date in 1942, the World War II Battle of Cape Esperance begins in the Solomons, resulting in an American victory over the Japanese.
In 1779, Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski is killed while fighting for American independence during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, Ga. In 1811, the first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, is put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J. In 1932, the first American political telecast takes place as the Democratic National Committee sponsors a program from a CBS television studio in New York. In 1958, the lunar probe "Pioneer 1" is launched; it fails to go as far out as planned, falls back to Earth, and burns up in the atmosphere. In 1962, Pope John XXIII convenes the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, also known as "Vatican II." In 1968, "Apollo 7," the first manned Apollo mission, is launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
October 11, 1978: A nine-day strike by Sharon school service personnel ends when negotiators reach agreement on a tentative three-year contract.
Dr. Joyce Brothers launches Trumbull County's first Town Hall Series, telling an audience of 900 subscribers at Packard Music Hall there really isn't a sexual revolution in the nation; there hasn't been "a real sexual revolution since our grandparents' day."
A 21-year-old Struthers man who accepted responsibility for the death of a friend in an accident in December has his driver's license revoked for life and is fined $1,000 by Mahoning County Judge Charles J. Bannon.
October 11, 1963: A 20-year-old Petersburg man is recovering in St. Elizabeth Hospital from the bite of a snake in the fruit cellar of his mother's home. The snake escaped through a crack in the old stone wall, but he believes it was a copperhead.
Youngstown district steel operations climb seven points to 52 percent of rated capacity, the highest level in three months.
The Ohio Supreme Court rules that Anthony B. Flask is a valid candidate for mayor of Youngstown. Joseph Gottlieb had filed suit claiming that Flask had been illegally made the Democratic nominee by the Mahoning County Central Committee after Richard J. Barrett, who won the May primary, dropped out of the race.
October 11, 1953: Police in Pennsylvania and Ohio are searching for John Wesley Wabel, 27, a former Cleveland industrial plant guard, who has been linked to the gun used in the random shooting of two truck drivers on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and one in Lisbon.
The Ohio Highway Department says that the $1.8 million section of Route 62 between Hubbard and Sharon may open ahead of schedule despite a landslide that delayed work on the Sharon end of the superhighway.
C.W. Holmquist, executive vice president of Copperweld Steel Co., is in charge of the campaign to raise $174,000 from industries and their employees toward the $237,000 goal of the Warren Community Chest.
October 11, 1928: An architect's drawing of a 17-story skyscraper to be erected on the old Andrews-Hitchcock site at the southwest corner of the Central Square, shows a spired building with elaborate limestone and granite decoration. The Central Savings & amp; Loan Co. will cost about $1 million.
Two young girls drive into the Andy Barna filling station on the Townline Road in Warren and while one holds Barna at bay with a revolver, the other scoops up between $20 and $30 and a handful of cigars and escapes.
The first step in a new expansion program for The Strouss-Hirshberg Co. is announced, when officials of the store announce the purchase of a specialty store at Flint Mich., the Rosenthal Co. The company occupies the first floor of a five-story building and Strouss-Hirshberg plans to develop the rest of the building to carry general lines of merchandise.