Today is Monday, June 14, the 166th day of 2004. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag

Today is Monday, June 14, the 166th day of 2004. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day. On this date in 1777, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopts the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.
In 1841, the first Canadian parliament opens in Kingston. In 1846, a group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaims the Republic of California. In 1928, the Republican National Convention nominates Herbert Hoover for president on the first ballot. In 1940, German troops enter Paris during World War II. In 1940, in German-occupied Poland, the Nazis open their concentration camp at Auschwitz. In 1943, the Supreme Court rules schoolchildren cannot not be compelled to salute the flag of the United States if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs. In 1954, President Eisenhower signs an order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
June 14, 1979: About 150 teenagers in Youngstown, Trumbull and Columbiana counties have been ordered not to begin their federally funded summer jobs until it can be determined whether or not they would be working at sectarian-related sites. Most of the programs in which the youths would be working are sponsored by churches or ministries.
U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill says he believes a pay raise for members of Congress and top-paid bureaucrats is dead. A raise of $3,162 had been in the works for congressmen, whose current pay is $57,500.
Two Mahoningtown men are in Lawrence County Jail, charged with slaying undercover Pennsylvania state policemen Albert Izzo, 35, who was shot during a drug raid.
June 14, 1964: The Ohio Highway Department approves Youngstown's plans for construction of the Division Street Bridge and forwards the plan to the Federal Bureau of Public Roads.
Carolton B. Lees of Boston, executive secretary of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, speaks at the dedication of the Garden Center in Mill Creek Park. Public tours will be given at the center and Fellows Riverside Gardens.
Foes of the proposed Lake Erie-Ohio River Interconnecting Waterway apparently have gotten in a few more licks against the project that may delay its consideration by Congress for two more years.
June 14, 1954: Two of nine employees burned in the $200,000 explosion of a melting furnace that ripped the Mallory-Sharon Titanium Corp. in Niles die in Trumbull Memorial Hospital. Two others remain in critical condition. Dead are Don Lee McCormick, 22, and Marvin John Hodgkinson, 23.
A group of downtown merchants submits petitions to City Council protesting the city's plan to appropriate land in W. Federal Street just east of the Belmont Avenue Bridge for a downtown fire station.
Charles Emmett McGuire has been booking bets in full view of anyone who cares to watch him in the city's busiest downtown area, Central Square, even weeks after a Vindicator reporter informed Mayor Frank X. Kryzan of the activity. A series of front page pictures shows McGuire in action.
Mrs. Clarence J. Strouss, widow of the late president of the Strouss-Hirshberg Co., dies at her Warner Road home, "The Evergreens," at the age of 63.
June 14, 1929: John Lutsky, 20, of Niles dies in Warren City Hospital of injuries suffered when he fractured his neck when he dove into a swimming hole known as "Third Farm" in Mosquito Creek and strikes his head on the bottom.
Among 12 buildings condemned by Fire Chief Callan is one at 429 W. Commerce St., Youngstown, the historic mansion of Gov. David Tod, wartime governor of Ohio. Gov. Tod built the house in 1867 and its burning later that year was the cause of forming the city's first fire department.
The wave length of Youngstown's radio station, WKBN, will not be changed in the shakeup of Ohio frequencies that will be announced soon. WKBN will remain at 570 kilocycles.