Today is Wednesday, June 23, the 175th day of 2004. There are 191 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, June 23, the 175th day of 2004. There are 191 days left in the year. On this date in 1969, Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief U.S. justice by the man he is succeeding, Earl Warren.
In 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for his "Type-Writer." In 1931, aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. In 1947, the Senate joins the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected president of Egypt. In 1967, President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin hold the first of two meetings in Glassboro, N.J. In 1972, President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discuss a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparks Nixon's resignation in 1974.) In 1985, all 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 are killed when the plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland, apparently because of a bomb. In 1995, Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, dies in La Jolla, Calif., at age 80.
June 23, 1979: The Pennsylvania Department of Education gives Slippery Rock College approval to build a new $4 million campus residency hall. SRSC President Lawrence Park says the dormitories are operating at more than 100 percent capacity.
The Ohio Bureau of Employment Services awards former Trumbull County Planning Commission Director Edward Kutevac $4,342 in unemployment compensation from his 1978 firing, based on a finding by a referee that Kutevac was discharged without cause.
June 23, 1964: Mahoning County Welfare Director I.L. Feuer reports that the department's caseload and expenditures are down. The general relief caseload of 947 and a payroll of $65,700 on March 15 have dropped to 535 cases and $36,040 in payments as of June 15.
A broad congressional investigation into cigarettes opens with disagreement over who, if anybody, should police smoking. The Federal Trade Commission has suggested that cigarette containers have a health warning printed on them.
Louis Samathrakis, 16, of Monessen, Pa., an employee of Morakis & amp; Sons Painting Co. of Youngstown, is killed when he falls from a light tower he was painting in Jefferson Borough, Pa. The boy, a high school junior, was on the second day of his summer job.
June 23, 1954: Dr. Henry W. Hunter of Cleveland, president of the Ohio Association of Elks, of which Youngstown Buckeye Lodge is an affiliate, accuses state liquor agents of shaking down private clubs and lodges for thousands of dollars. He will provide details and name s to Gov. Frank J. Lausche within the next few weeks.
Some 250 milk drivers plan to strike against four major milk distributors in Youngstown unless their demand for a five-day week is accepted.
The nation's basic steel producers and the United Steelworkers of America begin a last-ditch effort to reach agreement on a 1954 wage contract. Vindicator business editor George Reiss predicts the workers will be given eight or nine cents an hour in wages and fringe benefits, which will increase the cost of a ton of steel about $2.
June 23, 1929: Dr. Lee H. Ferguson, director of student health at Western Reserve University, says coeds and high school girls who smoke cigarettes and keep late hours are damaging their health in ways that will affect there future children. He also says they are unable to nourish their babies as they should because they don't eat three regular meals a day.
The great importance of freight rates to the economic health of the Mahoning Valley can be seen from the fact that the district originates more than $100 million in freight charges annually on iron and steel products it ships. It must have competitive freight costs to compete with other industrial centers.
Flames destroy the beautiful colonial style residence of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Sampson on Logan Ave. Extension, with a loss estimated at $100,000. Three firemen are injured.
Every person attending the annual "Girls Night of Roses" program at Epworth M.E. Church will receive a beautiful rose, perpetuating a tradition started several years ago by the Rev. D.W. Merrell. The program will include whistling solos by Martha Roth, harp selections by Helen Hipple and soprano solos by Martha Gillam.