Today is Wednesday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2004. There are 233 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2004. There are 233 days left in the year. On this date in 1937, Britain's King George VI is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
In 1820, the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, is born in Florence, Italy. In 1870, Manitoba enters Confederation as a Canadian province. In 1932, the body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J. In 1933, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration are established to provide help for the needy and farmers. In 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrenders.
May 12, 1979: John J. Augenstein, superintendent of Youngstown Diocesan Schools, announces an increase of $75 in the annual tuition for students at Ursuline and Mooney high schools. The fee will be $675 for the first and second children in any family; half that amount for all other children in the family.
Youngstown City Council and CDA appropriate $25,000 to make curb cuts around Wick Park and the Wick Pavilion so that the area will be accessible to the handicapped. A total of 34 curb cuts will be made.
A robin has built a nest, and hatched three eggs atop the rear tire of a $9,000 Super Cab truck at the L.F. Donnell Ford agency in Boardman. John C. Kinlock, truck sales manager, says that until the babies fly the coop, the truck is not for sale.
May 12, 1964: Atty. Robert A. Manchester II, one of the Youngstown area's busiest civic leaders, is honored as 1964 Protestant Man of the Year. He receives an engraved plaque from his minister, the Rev. W. Frederic Miller of First Presbyterian Church.
Youngstown Civil Defense Director Bud Fares says the FBI believes that a powerful radio valued at more than $800, which was stolen from the CD radio control center on Route 46 near the Ohio Turnpike may have ended up in Cuba.
Two New Castle boys narrowly escape death after a ball they picked up from a gutter and played catch with exploded after they threw it away. Randy Rogan, 9, and Louis Fornataro, 8, are treated for burns. Police are attempting to determine what the ball was and where it came from.
May 12, 1954: With the city facing possibly its greatest traffic emergency with the closing of the Market Street Bridge for repairs, city council again fails to take action toward clearing the streets of parked cars during rush hours.
City council votes to put a $1 million bond issue on the November ballot to finance slum clearance in Youngstown.
Walter L. Brush, manager of the Western Auto Store in the Mahoning Shopping Plaza, is elected president of the Westside Merchants & amp; Civic Association.
May 12, 1929: "Tyranny and ruthless murder" by prohibition enforcement agents is criticized by Raleigh, N.C., Bishop William J. Haffey in an address at a banquet of the Catholic Daughters of America in the Hotel Warner in Warren. A sense of responsibility to God and his laws is a more potent influence on the nation's morality than enforcement officers, the bishop said.
Members of the Wickliffe Improvement Club and residents of Wickliffe will attend a meeting at the community house to discuss the possibility of annexing the area to the city of Youngstown.
The National Slovak Catholic Sokols closes at Rayen Stadium. Seven young male gymnasts and seven female track performers are selected to compete at the International Catholic gymnastics union at Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, in July. Among the gymnasts is Joseph Palkovic of Youngstown.