Today is Saturday, April 3, the 94th day of 2004. There are 272 days left in the year. A reminder:

Today is Saturday, April 3, the 94th day of 2004. There are 272 days left in the year. A reminder: Daylight-saving time begins at Sunday at 2 a.m. local times. Clocks go forward an hour. On this date in 1860, the legendary Pony Express begins service between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif.
In 1882, outlaw Jesse James is shot to death in St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert Ford, a member of James' gang. In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann is electrocuted in Trenton, N.J., for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh child. In 1946, Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, is executed outside Manila. In 1948, President Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which allocates more than $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries. In 1968, the day before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous "mountaintop" speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers. In 1968, North Vietnam agrees to meet with U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks. In 1974, deadly tornadoes strike wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping across the border into Canada; more than 300 fatalities result.
April 3, 1979: The Packard Electric plant in Warren lays off 2,000 workers because of a shortage of parts caused by a Teamsters strike. The General Motors Assembly plant at Lordstown cuts its first shift at both the car and van plants at four hours but will restart the line with the second shift.
Conneaut Mayor Paul Williams, once an ardent supporter of a proposed U.S. Steel plant in his town, says he and many others have joined the opposition. The multibillion-dollar plant would employ 8,500 workers, but Williams says that if it's built, "it's going to be a bed of thorns."
Sharon Steel Corp. rings up its best sales in history in 1978 and earnings were second only to the record set in 1974. The company earned $36.9 million, or $4.94 a share, on sales of $488 million.
April 3, 1964: Two Boardman police officers testify in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that Charles Carabbia, on trial on charges of pistol-whipping a 21-year-old Boardman divorcee, threatened to "blow the roof off the county" if he had to take the rap because he had paid a politician $25,000 to settle the issue.
Youngstown notifies 11 city workers that their employment will end June 30 under a state law requiring retirement at age 70.
A group of Ford Motor Co. men in Youngstown says it is visiting the city to study the effects of salt and slag on automobiles, not to scout sites for a possible auto plant.
April 3, 1954: Salem Industrialist Sam Keener, 66, whose career spanned many fields, from cowpunching to worldwide salesmanship, dies in West Palm Beach, Fla.. He sold Salem Engineering Co. in 1951.
The Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. will reduce service at certain hours on 17 bus lines in reaction to a 16 percent drop in ridership.
George Whitlock, president of Mullins Manufacturing Corp. since 1937, is elected to the newly created post of vice chairman of the board, and Harry M. Heckathorn is elected president at the firm's annual meeting of the board.
April 3, 1929: Youngstown is making plans to begin work on $300,000 in street improvements as soon as the weather allows.
Edith Quier of Reading, Pa., wins her way to the semifinals of the North and South Women's Golf Tournament at Penhurst, N.C., by defeating Louise Fordyce, of Youngstown, former holder of the title.
The Ohio Supreme Court upholds a Toledo law requiring trains that operate over grade crossings to maintain a speed of 6 mph or less.