Today is Wednesday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2003. There are 98 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2003. There are 98 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, Congress passes the First Judiciary Act, which provides for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.
In 1869, thousands of businessmen are ruined in a Wall Street panic after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market. In 1896, author F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minn. In 1929, Lt. James H. Doolittle guides a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight. In 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers play their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0. In 1960, the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched at Newport News, Va. In 1963, the U.S. Senate ratifies a treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union limiting nuclear testing. In 1968, the CBS television news magazine "60 Minutes" premieres. In 1968, "The Mod Squad" premieres on ABC television. In 1996, the United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world's other major nuclear powers sign a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
September 24, 1978: During a speech before 1,500 Ohio Democrats in Columbus, President Carter acknowledges that Youngstown's economic problems require a special kind of cooperation between state, local and federal governments, but gives no indication of what response he has in mind. Government, he says, "can't order the free enterprise system to accommodate change."
County Judge Jack Lipari removes Dominic DelSignore as his political campaign manager a day after he vowed to keep him, despite DelSignore's indictment on charges that he took money to fix cases in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
September 24, 1963: David H. Zirwas of Lake Milton is captured in Las Vegas, five hours after shooting a young hitchhiker near there. Zirwas was being sought in Ohio for a killing and kidnaping in Niles.
A Pan American World Airways passenger jet plane carrying 90 people from Singapore to Saigon is clipped by a bullet fired by Communist guerrillas as it approaches Saigon's Tan San Nhut Airport. It landed safely, although one engine was rapidly losing power.
Liberty police swoop down on a suspected one-man horsebooking operation that was being operated out of a car at the Liberty Bowling Lanes parking lot. Police had been staking out the operation for a week.
September 24, 1953: Two Youngstown officers, both released on the final day of the Korean prisoner exchange, arrive in San Francisco with almost incredible tales of physical and mental torture at the hands of the Communists. Capt. William McClain and Lt. Kenneth L. Enoch are expected to arrive home within a day or two.
Careful consideration of constructing a new Mahoning County Home, perhaps in a new location, is recommended by a committee of the Coordinating Council of the Community Corp. The present home is 56 years old. The committee also recommends establishing an independent board to administer the home's affairs.
Neva Jane Langley, who just completed her reign as Miss America 1953, will ride in Youngstown's big Ohio Sesquicentennial parade.
Some 400 delegates and priests attend the convention banquet of the National Slovak Catholic Federation at the Pick-Ohio Hotel.
September 24, 1928: Niles is putting on its best bib and tucker for the first real homecoming day in its annals. Every merchant and home is decorating for the six-day event, which will open with a parade, include a pageant, "The Spirit of Niles," and conclude with a Gymanfa Ganu.
About 200 persons are temporarily thrown out of work and merchandise valued at up to $400,000 is destroyed when fire breaks out at the George L. Fordyce Co. store, Federal and Phelps streets. Fordyce arrives at the store an hour after the fire was discovered in the early morning, but declines to make a comment.
Seven hundred pastors and laymen in session at the Northeast Ohio Methodist conference in Lorain go on record favoring the candidacy of Herbert Hoover for president. Only two votes were cast against the motion.