Today is Wednesday, May 24, the 144th day of 2006. There are 221 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, May 24, the 144th day of 2006. There are 221 days left in the year. On this date in 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse transmits the message, "What hath God wrought!" from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opens America's first telegraph line.
In 1819, Queen Victoria is born in London. In 1881, some 200 people die when the Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London, Ontario. In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, is opened to traffic. In 1941, the German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic. In 1958, United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service. In 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter becomes the second American to orbit the Earth as he flies aboard Aurora 7.
May 24, 1981: Nearly 54 percent of the high school graduates in a random sampling expect to move out of the Mahoning Valley to begin their careers, a poll by The Vindicator of 3 percent of the seniors in Mahoning and Trumbull counties shows.
Amerijet Aircraft Co. will open a temporary office in Youngstown within a week, a first step toward locating a $50 million plant at Youngstown Municipal Airport to assemble jet airplanes.
A team of four Youngstown State University students win honorable mention in the eighth annual Datsun Student Advertising Contest. Jim Bencin, Mark Davidson, Mark Pomaro and Brett Powell are students in copywriting classes of William S. Flad.
May 24, 1966: The Western Reserve Cat Club announces that it will landscape the Mahoning County Dog Pound as a civic project.
Boardman Township trustees pass a resolution requesting the permanent revocation of a public dance permit for the Old Barn on South Avenue, scene of a number of disturbances and juvenile fights.
The city of Youngstown rests its case to oust Dr. H.T. D'Amato from the partially wrecked Palace Theater building while the doctor's lawyers are claiming that the remnant of the building in which the doctor's office is located is safe and could be preserved.
May 24, 1956: The McKay Machine Co. purchases 22 acres in Wickliffe and plans to eventually move its entire operations into an industrial park being developed by local Realtor Ralph Hartenstein.
Roger M. Blough, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp., and J.L. Mauthe, president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., tell newsmen at the 64th annual meeting of the American Iron & amp; Steel Institute that the nation's steel output in 1956 will be close to the record of 177 tons produced in 1955.
Mahoning County Prosecutor William A. Ambrose rules that a wing of the Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium can legally be used for hospitalization of the county's indigent patients.
May 24, 1931: Findings in the federal survey of Youngstown schools may not be forthcoming this year, if the experience of Buffalo, N.Y., can be taken as a criterion. Dr. Ernest Hartwell, superintendent of Buffalo schools, speaking to the High School Schoolmasters Club at the Youngstown Club, said that federal educators spent a semester in his schools and issued their report seven months later.
John Newell Garfield, 39, grandson of the late James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States, dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his home in Mentor, a suburb of Cleveland.
Thousands of men, women and children will plant trees, flowers and shrubs along the 100-mile stretch of the Road of Remembrance that extends from Kingsville on Lake Erie to East Liverpool on the Ohio River in October. Warren H. Manning, Cambridge, Mass., landscape architect for Mill Creek Park, has conferred with a committee in Youngstown on plans for the road.