Today is Monday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2005. There are 89 days left in the year. Rosh Hashanah,

Today is Monday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2005. There are 89 days left in the year. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset. On this date in 1863, President Lincoln declares the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
In 1226, St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, dies; he is canonized in 1228. In 1929, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changes its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1941, Adolf Hitler declares in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again." In 1944, during World War II, U.S. troops crack the Siegfried Line north of Aachen, Germany. In 1951, the New York Giants capture the National League pennant in game three by a score of 5-4 as third baseman Bobby Thomson hits a three-run homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Branca in the "shot heard 'round the world." In 1955, "Captain Kangaroo" and "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiere on CBS and ABC, respectively. In 1981, Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, end seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives. In 1990, West Germany and East Germany end 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.
October 3, 1980: Dominic P. "Junior" Senzarino Jr., 47, is shot and killed gangland style in the garage of his home at 3022 Saginaw Drive, Poland Township. Police speculate that the gunman, armed with a 12-gauge shotgun, hid in the bushes and followed Senzarino's car into the garage after he used an automatic opener to raise the door.
The first-half Vindicator straw poll of Mahoning County outside of the city of Youngstown shows Ronald Reagan, the Republican nominee, outpolling President Carter by as many as 10,000 votes. The same area gave Carter a 6,000 vote victory over Gerald Ford in 1976.
St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center increases its room rates. A semi-private room that had been $115 under rates established in March will increase to $125.50; a private room that had been $127 will be $130.
October 3, 1965: Youngstown Mayor Anthony B. Flask and other city officials meet with officials of St. Elizabeth Hospital to discuss the possibility of redeveloping the area around the hospital using urban renewal funds.
Chad Rudzik's 31-yard field goal with only one second left in the first half proved to be the deciding points in Youngstown University's 9-7 victory over a burly crew from Southern Illinois. An outstanding defensive effort by the Penguins, especially Ray Rohan and Ray Repasky, held the Illinois squad to one touchdown. Rohan, Repasky and Dick Addipotti combined for five interceptions in the second half.
October 3, 1955: One of Warren's scholastic landmarks will disappear with the razing of Central Junior High School on the site proposed for a new administration building. The school was built in 1881 as a senior high school and was used as a junior high for 30 years, until construction of H.B. Tuner Junior High.
Youngstown Health commissioner D. Roy Mellon receives a shipment of 6,500 doses of Salk vaccine that will be used to immunize Youngstown school children against polio.
Irvin S. Markel, president of American Fidelity Casualty Co., tells a luncheon meeting of the traffic safety committee of the Safety Council of Youngstown that the best way to reduce accidents is to keep unsafe drivers and vehicles off the road.
October 3, 1930: More than 6,000 people storm the Rayen-Wood Auditorium for the Jessie Marie DeBoth-Vindicator cooking school. The streets were teeming with people before the doors opened, and an estimated 1,000 had to be turned away.
Speaking to the American Bankers Association in Cleveland, President Herbert Hoover says the recession is but temporary and blasts the association for suggesting that the American standard of living had increased too fast and too far and had to be decreased. Critics of his administration, he says, dwell on the "unhappy features" of the business depression.
Some 250,000 fish are moved by the Ohio Water Service from Liberty Dam near Girard to McKelvey Lake in Youngstown so that repairs can be made to the Liberty Dam. Taylor Evans of the Ohio Water Service Co. says most of the suckers in the lake were given to neighbors and only the "good" fish were moved.