Today is Monday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2006. There are 349 days left in the year. This is the

Today is Monday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2006. There are 349 days left in the year. This is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. On this date in 1906, Chicago department store founder Marshall Field dies in New York City at age 71.
In 1883, the U.S. Civil Service Commission is established. In 1919, Nebraska, Wyoming and Missouri become the 36th, 37th and 38th states to ratify Prohibition, which goes into effect a year later. In 1920, Prohibition begins in the United States as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution takes effect. (It is later repealed by the 21st Amendment.) In 1944, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower takes command of the Allied Invasion Force in London. In 1964, the musical "Hello, Dolly!" opens on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances. In 1967, Alan S. Boyd is sworn in as the first secretary of transportation. In 1979, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi departs Iran for Egypt; he never returns. In 1981, in Northern Ireland, Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Irish nationalist leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband. In 1991, the White House announces the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia blasts off with Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. (The mission ends in tragedy Feb. 1, when the shuttle burns up during its return, killing all seven crew members.)
January 16, 1981: Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin is threatening the virtual shutdown of his department if the county commissioners do not adequately fund his office.
Fourteen people are arrested for gambling offenses by raiding teams of plainclothes state police officers in New Castle. The squads hit the Elks, Moose and Eagles clubs, four restaurants or barbershops and several homes.
Bank executives say that Commuter Aircraft Corp. should have little trouble getting a $10 million mortgage loan from local and area financial institutions, now that Dollar Savings & amp; Trust Co. has agreed to handle up to $1.5 million.
January 16, 1966: Youngstown district steel mills have become large importers of steel made in rival steel areas - notably Cleveland, Lorain and Chicago.
White House officials announce that special costs of the Vietnam war will be $10.5 billion in 1966, about twice the expenditures of 1965.
Fifty-three Austintown Township homes will be razed or moved from the right-of-way of Interstate 80 and state Route 11, the Lake Erie-Ohio River Highway.
January 16, 1956: A sobbing 11-year-old South Side boy explained to police that he shot his 37-year-old father in the back because the father was beating the boy's mother. The father is in serious condition in South Side Hospital.
Three Youngstown men are certified to the Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission for the $9,000 a year post as city park superintendent. They are Atty. Avetis G. Darvanan, John M. Hudzik and Edward E. Finamore.
Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan announces an immediate police drive against jaywalkers and plans for a house-to-house fire inspection program.
January 16, 1931: Contracts will be let within the week for construction of a new 34-room YMCA College building at Wick and Lincoln avenues. The three-story building will cost $200,000 and provide employment for hundreds of men.
Gov. George White begins wielding the ax on public jobs, abolishing six positions in the commerce and welfare departments. Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren, one of the foremost Republican women in the state, lost her position in the welfare department, which paid $3,000 a year.