Today is Tuesday, Sept. 23, the 266th day of 2003. There are 99 days left in the year. Autumn
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 23, the 266th day of 2003. There are 99 days left in the year. Autumn arrived at 6:47 a.m. EDT. On this date in 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon goes on television to deliver what comes to be known as the "Checkers" speech as he refutes allegations of improper campaign financing.
In 1642, Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., holds its first commencement. In 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition returns to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest. In 1846, the planet Neptune is discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. In 1939, Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, dies in London. In 1953, the 20th-Century Fox production "The Robe," the first movie filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen process, has its Hollywood premiere, a week after opening in New York. In 1957, nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas are forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside. In 1962, New York's Philharmonic Hall, since renamed Avery Fisher Hall, formally opens as the first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
September 23, 1978: U.S. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall says he will take the Mahoning Valley's appeal for economic opportunity to a White House task force that has assigned top priority to the issue. Members of the Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley were spurned when they attempted to meet with President Carter during a campaign trip to Columbus.
Mahoning County Sheriff Michael Yarosh fires Dominic DelSignore from his process server's job after DelSignore is arrested on federal extortion charges, but Mahoning Court Judge Jack Lipari says DelSignore will remain as his political campaign manager.
J. Campbell Bryce says he is "very certain" that ICX Aviation Inc. will build a $150 million aircraft assembly plant at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
September 23, 1963: "You cannot have a public school with religion in neutral," the Rev. Paul R. Coleman, Ph.D., tells members of Christ U.P. Church as he proposes a return to religious education in the schools. He suggests that, starting from first grade, children be taught religion in public schools as an elective, with ministers, priests, rabbis or qualified laymen paid by their denominations.
Many Youngstown district steelmen can feel a sense of pride at the dedication of the "Chapel of the Future for an Air Force of the Future" at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Republic Steel Corp. in Youngstown made 318 tons of electric-weld steel pipe that was used to fabricate 100 tetrahedral-shaped supports for the 17-spire chapel, where Protestant, Catholic and Jewish services can be held simultaneously.
September 23, 1953: Lt. Cmdr. Fred C. Hill, whose wife, Margaret, lives at 2320 Hillman Ave., is the new commanding officer of the USS Joyce, a destroyer escort attached to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
A resolution thanking President Eisenhower for honoring Youngstown by appointing Mayor Charles P. Henderson to the presidential Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, is blocked by 1st Ward Councilman Michael J. McCullion. McCullion was accused of bad manners by some fellow councilmen.
A frosty morning ushers fall into Youngstown as temperature reach as low as 30 degrees. Cars had a light coating of frost on them in the morning, but this was not a killing frost.
September 23, 1928: Pilot Leo Sherrick, veteran Canton aviator, wins the 27-mile feature race at Sharon, Pa.'s, big aerial race. Nearly 10,000 spectators attended the event at the American Eagle Airport two miles east of Sharon. Sherrick won the race in an American Eagle biplane that reached 100 mph.
Verne L. Reynolds, candidate for president of the United States on the Socialist Labor Party ticket, will address an open air meeting at Champion and Commerce Sts. in Youngstown. Reynolds, a student of Karl Marx, gave up his work on a Detroit newspaper to campaign coast-to-coast.
A barber is arrested by Youngstown police at his shop at 115 N. Hazel St. on a charge of violating the liquor law. Officers find 33 pints of liquor buried in the yard behind the building.