Today is Friday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2003. There are 68 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2003. There are 68 days left in the year. On this date in 1952, Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declares, "I shall go to Korea" as he promises to end the conflict. (He makes the visit more than a month later.)
In 1537, Jane Seymour, the third wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI. In 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph message is sent as Justice Stephen J. Field of California transmits a telegram to President Lincoln. In 1901, Anna Edson Taylor, a 43-year-old widow, becomes the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. In 1939, nylon stockings are sold publicly for the first time, in Wilmington, Del. In 1940, the 40-hour work week goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. In 1945, the United Nations officially comes into existence as its charter takes effect.
October 24, 1978: A university study says 1,200 to 1,500 of the estimated 4,200 men laid off in September 1977 because of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s Campbell Works cutback are still unemployed and estimates that 5,000 men, women and children face severe financial strain this winter.
A group of Hubbard residents called Concerned Citizens for Responsible City Government is questioning whether the city should get out of the electric business and allow residents to buy power directly from Ohio Edison. Mayor Arthur Magee replies that he would be "really interested in seeing" what kind of offer Ohio Edison would make to the residents.
The Ohio superintendent of instruction recommends that the Boardman School District reduce its teaching and educational service personnel as part of a cost-cutting plant to keep schools open for the remainder of the year. The school district has estimated that it will run out of operating funds Dec. 11.
October 24, 1963: Two men are injured as a peaceful crowd of about 5,000 football fans waiting at Cleveland stadium to buy tickets for the Browns-New York Giants game suddenly went wild when the ticker window opened. Some 10,000 general admission and standing room tickets were sold within a few hours.
Wives and children join Youngstown policemen in demonstrating for improved wages at a meeting of Youngstown City Council. They carry placards with a variety of slogans advocating longevity pay.
Writing from Singapore, Jane Lamb, Vindicator staff writer, tells of finding Smucker's jams made in Orrville, Ohio, and dishes from Beaver Falls, Pa., during breakfast in the new, modern hotel where she and a group of Youngstown area residents are staying.
October 24, 1953: A light rain, the first in the Youngstown district in nearly three weeks, falls, bringing the area hope that the long drought is ending.
Mayor Charles P. Henderson outlines a seven-point program to attract new industries, involving cooperation of city government, private enterprise, civic agencies and individual citizens. Speaking at a series of Republican house parties throughout the city, Henderson notes that about 250 new industries have located in the area in the last seven years.
Chrysler Corp., the nation's third biggest automobile maker, is negotiating to buy Briggs Manufacturing Co.'s principal plants, including its Youngstown plant. Briggs has been the principal supplier of bodies for Plymouth, a Chrysler Division, and for the Packard Motor Car Co.
October 24, 1928: A $100,000 fire destroys two buildings at the Aetna Standard Engineering Co. foundry in Warren, throwing about 80 men out of work. The halt in production will not affect other Valley plants for which the foundry made castings because the shortfall can be made up by the company's Ellwood City, Pa., plant.
Nine pioneers of American industry whose combined wealth is estimated at $10 billion are honored at a banquet at the Hotel Astor in New York City. They are Henry Ford, autos; Orville Wright and Glenn Curtiss, aviation; Thomas A. Edison, invention; Charles M. Schwab, iron and steel; Julius Rosenwald, merchandising; George Eastman, photography; Cyrus K. Curtis, publishing, and Harvey S. Firestone, rubber.