Today is Sunday, May 15, the 135th day of 2005. There are 230 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, May 15, the 135th day of 2005. There are 230 days left in the year. On this date in 1930, Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, goes on duty aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo.
In 1602, Cape Cod, Mass., is discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold. In 1886, poet Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Mass. In 1905, actor Joseph Cotten is born in Petersburg, Va. In 1911, the Supreme Court orders the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it is in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. In 1918, U.S. airmail begins service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York. In 1940, nylon stockings go on general sale for the first time in the United States. In 1942, gasoline rationing goes into effect in 17 states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles. In 1963, astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasts off aboard Faith 7 on the final mission of the Project Mercury space program. In 1970, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, are killed when police open fire during student protests. In 1972, George C. Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer and left paralyzed while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination.
May 15, 1980: A summer youth program sponsored by CETA that would have put 279 young people to work in Lawrence County goes down the drain when the county salary board refuses to pay four people to supervise it.
Five Youngstown State University students receive YSU Pins in recognition of academic excellence and participation in extra-curricular activities: Melinda Ropar, Anthony E. Jimenez, William Perry Cooper III, George Cheney and Pauline Thomas.
U.S. Treasury Department agents arrest five Youngstown area men but charge only two of them in connection with a counterfeit money selling operation reported to have been flourishing in the Wick Park and Southern Park Mall areas.
Youngstown voters will go the polls Aug. 1 to decide in a special election whether the city's income tax of 1.5 percent should be raised to 1.75 percent.
Sharon City Council moves the 11 p.m. juvenile curfew up one hour to 10 p.m., despite objections from the chief of police.
Luther Gutknecht, superintendent of the Hubbard School District, resigns to take a position with the Burlington, Vt., school system.
May 15, 1965: A 1931 Model A Ford owned by C.F. Gabrielson of 112 W. Boston Ave. is found to be in perfect safety condition during a recent auto check by the Mahoning County Sheriff's department.
Debby Mitovich, Chaney High School junior, is crowned the first "Miss Junior Achievement of the Youngstown Area" at JA's 11th annual banquet. Ben Lariccia is honored as best manager of a JA company. Kris Kreiler and Steve Fakner are runners-up.
Philip J. "Fleagle" Mainer of Youngstown is sentenced to five years in a federal prison for possession of $200,000 in counterfeit $20 bills.
Paratroops, a Civil War battle re-enactment, ground force exhibitions, tank parades, helicopters and a jet flyby will highlight Armed Forces Day.
A 21-year-old Girard man is in satisfactory condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital after surgeons fought more than seven hours to save his mangled left arm and hand. Daniel Parker caught his arm and hand between two Youngstown & amp; Northern Railroad cars in the McDonald Works yards.
Modern day police officers must bring more education, training, patience and perception to their tasks because of increasing complexities in modern living, declares Atty. Nathaniel Jones at the Police Memorial Day ceremony on Central Square.
The Rev. Samuel C. Sharp, executive secretary of the Youngstown Council of Churches, is appointed executive director of the Youngstown District's anti-poverty program by the Youngstown Area Community Action Program Council.
May 15, 1955: Bonesville School, only a memory now to thousands of Fairfield Township area residents will have its fifth reunion on Memorial Day at Midway Grange on Route 164. Mrs. Myrtle Wilhelm Holt of Leetonia has sent invitations to 150 former students and teachers in 16 states.
Howard W. Simon, president of the Home Builders Association of the Mahoning Valley, says wage increases among the building trades are driving the cost of homes out of the reach of the average working man, adding $450 to the cost of a $15,000 house.
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May 15, 1930: Seating at the 12th annual Community Chest drive at the YMCA will be limited to 1,000 persons, says Leonard T. Skeggs, general chairman.
Despondent over the impending divorce from his middle-aged wife, a 21-year-old W. Liberty Avenue man leaps from the Market Street Bridge and dies on the railroad tracks below.
The 18th annual convention of the Ohio Federated Humane Societies gets underway at the Hotel Ohio with a welcoming address by Acting Mayor Carl Armstrong.
An elaborate water ride that is said to have cost $50,000, the Old Mill, is added to the midway of Idora Park.
An Ohio River-Lake Erie canal via the Mahoning and Beaver rivers would quickly become the world's busiest waterway, says Capt. Calvin J. Blazier, master of the Carnegie Steel Co. towboat, City of Pittsburgh.