Today is Sunday, March 12, the 71st day of 2006. There are 294 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, March 12, the 71st day of 2006. There are 294 days left in the year. On this date in 1933, President Roosevelt delivers the first of his radio "fireside chats," telling Americans what is being done to address the nation's economic crisis.
In 1664, New Jersey becomes a British colony as King Charles II grants land in the New World to his brother James, the Duke of York. In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low founds the Girl Guides, which later becomes the Girl Scouts of America. In 1925, Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen dies. In 1930, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi begins a 200-mile march to protest a British tax on salt. In 1938, the Anschluss begins, as German troops enter Austria. In 1939, Pope Pius XII is formally crowned in ceremonies at the Vatican. In 1947, President Truman establishes what becomes known as the "Truman Doctrine" to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism. In 1951, "Dennis the Menace," created by cartoonist Hank Ketcham, makes its syndicated debut in 16 newspapers. In 1980, a Chicago jury finds John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. (The next day, Gacy is sentenced to death; he is executed in May 1994.) In 2004, Marcus Wesson, the domineering patriarch of a cultlike clan he'd bred through incest, kills nine of his offspring, all but one minors, at their home in Fresno, Calif. (Wesson is later convicted of murder and sentenced to death.)
March 12, 1981: The Mahoning County Republican Executive Committee recommends Atty. Henry C. Robinson for appointment by Gov. James A. Rhodes to the unexpired term of Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne.
Because Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne is retiring in 10 days, it may be some time until hearings are conducted for 22 striking teachers accused of disobeying his Feb. 20 back-to-work order.
More than 100 Youngstown State University students march on the office of university President John Coffelt to protest the loss of 800 centrally located parking spaces and the campus security situation.
Trumbull Steel Corp.'s Trumbull Cliffs blast furnace, which will produce up to 600 more tons of iron, is blown in at Warren.
March 12, 1966: Mahoning County may find it difficult to get money for a proposed county airport because it does not qualify for state aid and the Federal Aviation Agency's National Airport Program budget has been cut from $75 million to $50 million.
At least two dairy firms serving the Youngstown and Warren areas will raise prices of milk as a result of a federal milk marketing order eliminating the usual spring drop in prices paid to dairy farmers.
Mrs. Mattie May Powell of Hubbard, wife of William J. Powell, founder of Powell Pressed Steel Co., dies at age 86.
Bishop Francis E. Kearnes, bishop of the Ohio East Area of the Methodist Church, preaches at Trinity Church in Youngstown.
March 12, 1956: Several Southern senators, led by South Carolina Democrat Strom Thurmond, suggest they'll pursue a third-party movement at the Democratic convention if the party commits firmly to school integration.
Youngstown leads the Crusade for Freedom in Ohio, raising $5,802 for Radio Free Europe.
The Sharon area has one of the quietest weekends since the Westinghouse Electric Corp. strike began in October, but tension is reported high amid rumors that a back-to-work movement will be speeded up at the plant.
State and local police will stop cars in May as a follow up to a voluntary car safety check program that will be sponsored in April by the Safety Council of Greater Youngstown.
March 12, 1931: Swinging axes in Carrie Nation style, state dry agents and local police sweep down on Jim Munsene's place at 605 Pine St. in Niles, making one of the biggest liquor hauls known in the city. Thousands of bottles of liquor and beer, as well as gambling equipment, was found. An expensive wooden bar and liquor equipment of various sorts was destroyed.
Mahoning County Sheriff Adam Stone and his men stage their fourth liquor raid in two weeks in Youngstown, seizing 200 gallons of liquor in a house adjacent to the Mill Creek Lunch on Price Road.
John P. Taafe of Forest Ave. had to dodge bullets as he climbed a ladder to a porch roof to save Mrs. Florence Smith from her burning home at 463 S. Forest Ave. The bullets were fired by her son, who said he didn't know the house was on fire and thought Taafe was a burglar.
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