Today is Sunday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2005. 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,

Today is Sunday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2005. 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 Sch-weitzer receives 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 1975, the New York Daily News runs the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" a day after President Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City. In 1979, President Carter announces his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education. In 1985, the launch of the space shuttle Challenger is witnessed by schoolteacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe, who dies when the spacecraft exploded after liftoff the following January.
October 30, 1980: Trumbull County commissioners will not meet a deadline for a decision on the annexation of 305 acres of Howland and Bazetta township land to Warren. The prosecutor's office has not yet answered procedural questions raised by the commissioners.
Second half returns of Vindicator straw polls show Trumbull County would give Republican Ronald Reagan a plurality of 7,200 over President Carter if the election were held today.
Youngstown Fire Chief Charles O'Nesti tells city council that the city has 100 school buildings, five hospital, 15 nursing homes and four high-rise buildings for the elderly that demand replacement of the city's snorkel truck, which was damaged when a wall collapsed at a fire. A new truck would cost $200,000.
Held over at the Southern Park and Eastwood cinemas: "Ordinary People" Starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton.
October 30, 1965: James Swisher, a 21-year-old Youngstown University student who lost control of his car on a curve and hit a pole in Struthers, owes his life to the fact that he was wearing a seat belt, says Traffic Investigator Leo Dunn.
A 22-year-old Youngstown University coed who disappeared after attending a Friday night class, is found beaten and locked in the trunk of the family car at E. Wood and N. Watt streets. She is in good condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital.
Chaney High beats South, 16-6, for its seventh consecutive win and clinches at least a tie in City Series honors before 13,000 fans at South Stadium.
Playing at the Lincoln Knolls Theater, Sean Connery as James Bond in "Dr. No" and "From Russia with Love."
October 30, 1955: Television programs carried by WFMJ-TV and WKBN-TV in Youngstown return to their regular time slots as New York switches to Eastern Standard Time. The schedules had been out of sync since Youngstown went on DST Sept. 25.
The Youngstown metropolitan district has gained more than 45,000 persons since the 1950 census, new population figures for Mahoning, Columbiana, Trumbull and Ashtabula counties in Ohio and Lawrence and Mercer counties in Pennsylvania show.
A deer apparently frightened by shotgun blasts as Pennsylvania opens its small-game season, dashes into a business district, sending shoppers at A & amp;M Furniture scrambling after it ran through the front door. The deer eventually collapsed, exhausted, and was captured by men for transport back to the woods. The deer suffered only some small cuts.
Playing at the Warner Theater, James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause." Admission: 50 cents before 2 p.m.
October 30, 1930: About 110 extra men, 10 more than usual, will be put to work to handle Christmas mail in Youngstown, says Postmaster B.E. Westwood.
Frederick Wood, counsel for Bethlehem Steel Corp., after five solid days of argument consuming in excess of 24 hours of actual talking, concludes his summary in the suit over the merger of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp. before Judge David G. Jenkins.
"Ohio is the battleground for the presidency in 1932," Atty. Gen. Gilbert Bettman tells 400 Republicans in Youngstown. "If Democrats can capture Ohio in 1930, it will be of the greatest help in capturing the presidency in 1930," he says.
Playing at the RKO Keith Palace, Amos 'n' Andy in their first talking picture. Due to anticipated crowds, there are four shows, starting daily at 12:30.
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