Today is Saturday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2003. There are 74 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Saturday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2003. There are 74 days left in the year. On this date in 1767, the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon line, is agreed upon.
In 1867, the United States takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia. In 1892, the first long-distance telephone line between Chicago and New York is formally opened. In 1898, the American flag is raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquishes control of the island to the United States. In 1931, inventor Thomas Alva Edison dies in West Orange, N.J., at age 84. In 1962, Dr. James D. Watson of the United States and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins of Britain, are named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA. In 1968, the U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a "black power" salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City. In 1969, the federal government bans artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates because of evidence they caused cancer in laboratory rats. In 1982, former first lady Bess Truman dies at her home in Independence, Mo., at age 97.
October 18, 1978: Poland Mayor Russell L. Baker accepts the retirement of Fire Chief Dale Wegele and appoints Edwin A. Chinowth to the post. Chinowth has been assistant chief since 1967.
Fire causes an estimated $80,000 damage to the Strouss store in the Eastwood Mall.
The Youngstown Area United Appeal launches its campaign to raise $2.1 million.
About 20 patients at Woodside Receiving Hospital in Youngstown are expected to cast ballots in the Nov. 7 election under a new law that allows patients in mental hospitals to vote.
October 18, 1963: Hunting has been banned in Boardman and Canfield townships until the current drought ends. Hunters were accused of sparking a grass fire in Boardman. Residents are also being asked to refrain from burning leaves.
Dr. George C. Cobler of West Middlesex, Pa., will get a new dental cabinet to replace the one he's been using for 56 years. The wooden cabinet was the winner in a nationwide search by the Hamilton Manufacturing Co. to find the oldest dental cabinet in use. It will be used in dental displays throughout the country.
Youngstown Airways Inc., operator of a large fleet of executive aircraft, is opening a lease-maintenance air service operation at Chicago's Midway Airport, says company president Forest Beckett.
October 18, 1953: A comprehensive study of Boardman Township by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce estimates that incorporation of the village would more than double the cost of running the township. On the other hand, whether Boardman remains a township, incorporates or seeks annexation to Youngstown, the cost of government is bound to rise as township residents demand more services.
Allen Robert Faith, 13, of Leavittsburg, dies in St. Joseph Hospital of a stomach wound inflicted by a makeshift "bazooka," which exploded while he and a brother were playing near their home. The weapon was believed to hold about 10 ounces of black powder taken from 10 shotgun shells.
The new $1.5 million, five-story addition to Alliance City Hospital is dedicated, with Dr. Anthony Borowski, chief of the hospital division of the Ohio State Department of Health, giving the dedicatory address.
October 18, 1928: A little more than $25,000 is needed to start a boys opportunity farm as part of the Big Brother movement on the 275-acre William L. Swanston farm. Swanston, who died in 1919, left his farm and $100,000 for the use of dependent boys of the county.
Nine cents of every dollar paid into the coffers of the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. went to pay damage claims during the first nine months of the year, according to a check of the company's records.
The Mahoning River is being straightened from Squaw Creek to the old swimming place known as "steep hill" by the Lowensohn Construction Co. of Cleveland so that the Carnegie Steel Co. will be able to use a half-square mile of land between the old channel and the new channel for the dumping of slag.