Today is Monday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2005. There are 68 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2005. There are 68 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, the United Nations officially comes into existence as its charter takes effect.
In 1537, Jane Seymour, the third wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI. In 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph message is sent as Justice Stephen J. Field of California transmits a telegram to President Lincoln. In 1901, Anna Edson Taylor, a 43-year-old widow, becomes the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. In 1939, nylon stockings are sold publicly for the first time, in Wilmington, Del. In 1940, the 40-hour work week goes into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. In 1952, Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declares, "I shall go to Korea" as he promises to end the conflict. (He makes the visit over a month later.) In 1962, the U.S. blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis officially begins under a proclamation signed by President Kennedy. In 1980, the merchant freighter SS Poet departs Philadelphia bound for Port Said, Egypt, with a crew of 34 and a cargo of grain; it disappears en route. In 2002, authorities arrest Army veteran John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo in connection with the Washington-area sniper attacks.
October 24, 1980: The Packard Electric Division of General Motors ends temporary layoffs, hires additional hourly employees and recalls laid off salaried workers as a result of a 23 percent increase in automotive business.
Community Steel Corp. supporters react enthusiastically to the findings of Trundle Consultants Inc. which say the McDonald Works could be reopened and would turn a profit within three years.
The 1980 Trumbull County United Way campaign surpasses its record $1.8 million goal with pledges of $1,844,800.
October 24, 1965: A total of 140,578 Mahoning County citizens are registered to vote in the Nov. 2 election on 29 state and local issues and in races for school district, township and municipal offices.
The Greater Youngstown Area Parent-Teachers Association Council will visit 50,000 Youngstown homes in a one-day drive urging residents to support the Youngstown school district's 6.7 mill tax levy, which provides a fourth of the income collected by the public schools.
Dr. William J. Flynn of 36 Norwalk Drive, Youngstown, long active in the fight against cancer is honored by the American Cancer Society in Columbus with the society's distinguished service medal and citation.
October 24, 1955: The indefinite status of the proposed Bethlehem Steel Corp.-Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. merger is not affecting Sheet & amp; Tube's planning and building for the future, says President J.L. Mauthe, speaking at a meeting of security analysts in Boston. .
Some 1,500 workmen are idle and Republic Steel Corp.'s Truscon Steel Division is virtually shut down due to picketing at the plant by some laid-off workers.
October 24, 1930: Mrs. Leonard Flick, 22, of Poland-New Middletown Road is fatally burned while saving her six-week old daughter, Naomi, from their burning home. Though her clothes were on fire, she first got her daughter to a safe place outside before rolling on the ground, attempting to extinguish the flames.
If every family in Youngstown spends $5 on the opening day of the & quot;Confidence -- Buy It Now & quot; campaign, the $175,000 that is put into circulation will go a long way toward spurring a business comeback, says general chairman B. McManus.
The toll in the collapse of a railroad tunnel near Steubenville rises to three with the death of brakeman Luis Romando, 32, at Martins Ferry Hospital. The two other crewmen in the trapped caboose died earlier.