Today is Saturday, Oct. 30, the 304th day of 2004. There are 62 days left in the year. On this date in 1938, the radio play "The War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, airs on CBS. (The live

Today is Saturday, Oct. 30, the 304th day of 2004. There are 62 days left in the year. On this date in 1938, the radio play "The War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, airs on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake news reports, panicked some listeners who thought its portrayal of a Martian invasion was true.)
In 1735, the second president of the United States, John Adams, is born in Braintree, Mass. In 1885, poet Ezra Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho. In 1944, the Martha Graham ballet "Appalachian Spring," with music by Aaron Copland, premieres at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in a leading role. In 1945, the U.S. government announces the end of shoe rationing. In 1953, Gen. George C. Marshall is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Albert Schweitzer received the Peace Prize for 1952. In 1961, the Soviet Union tests a hydrogen bomb with a force estimated at 58 megatons. In 1961, the Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution ordering the removal of Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb. In 1974, Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, known as the "Rumble in the Jungle" to regain his world heavyweight title. In 1979, President Carter announces his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Education Department. In 1984, police in Poland find the body of kidnapped pro-Solidarity priest Father Jerzy Popieluszko, whose death is blamed on four security officers.
October 30, 1979: Ground is broken for the $3.2 million IBM Building on Federal Plaza East. Taking part in the ceremony are Mayor J. Phillip Richley, Youngstown developer Richard Mills and Richard Squitieri, IBM branch manager.
Republic Steel Corp. breaks ground for two electric steel-making furnaces at its Warren plant, part of a $250 million improvement program.
Margaret Pallante, clerk to the board of Trumbull County Commissioners for 35 years, announces that she will retire.
October 30, 1964: Postgraduate day for the Sixth District, Ohio State Medical Association, attracts 354 doctors from a six-county area to the Hotel Pick-Ohio in Youngstown. Specialists from Yale, the University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin present sessions.
William B. McKelvey, president of the G.M. McKelvey Co., receives the Frank Purnell Award at the annual Bosses Night banquet of the Youngstown Junior Chamber of Commerce at the Voyage Motor Inn.
October 30, 1954: Frank L. Hunter Jr., a 6th grader at Austintown Fitch School, is awarded a Carnegie Hero Award for saving Steve Daviduk Jr., 19, and Paul McElwee, 11, from a Burkey Road pond in April, even through Frank is an untrained swimmer. He receives a bronze medal and $250 to be used for his education.
The third of six Mahoning County jail breakers is recaptured near his home near Calcutta in Columbiana County.
A dynamiter tries to blow up Rep. George H. Bender's 1946 Cadillac while the Republican candidate for Ohio senator was asleep in his home in Chagrin Falls. The detonator cap on a half-pound stick of dynamite ignited, but the dynamite did not explode. Bender believes the bombing is tied to his conduct of racketeering hearings in Cleveland.
October 30, 1929: The wave of hysterical selling, which clipped more than $25 billion from the quoted values of listed securities in New York markets over a week, subsides and prices rally briskly.
The Joseph G. Butler School, Youngstown's newest educational institution, is dedicated with Miss Mary Haddow, principal, presiding and introducing the speakers. Henry A. Butler expresses the appreciation of his family for the naming of the school in his father's memory.
Sheriff Adam Stone says that liquor-toters who are found with flasks of liquor in their possession during raids on roadhouse or resorts in Mahoning County will be taken to county jail.
A dream visualized by a small group of South Side businessmen years ago is realized when the new South Avenue Bridge, a span costing $665,000, is formally opened. More than 1,000 school children, all waving American flags, sing "America" at the dedication.
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