Today is Tuesday, May 15, the 135th day of 2007. There are 230 days left in the year. On this date in 1942, wartime gasoline rationing goes into effect in 17 states, limiting sales to three gallons a

Today is Tuesday, May 15, the 135th day of 2007. There are 230 days left in the year. On this date in 1942, wartime gasoline rationing goes into effect in 17 states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles.
In 1856, Lyman Frank Baum, the author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," is born in Chittenango, N.Y. In 1886, poet Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Mass. In 1911, the Supreme Court orders the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it is a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. In 1918, U.S. airmail begins service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York. In 1930, registered nurse Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, goes on duty aboard an Oakland-to-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Air Transport (a forerunner of United Airlines). In 1940, nylon stockings go on general sale for the first time in the United States. In 1963, astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasts off aboard Faith 7 on the final mission of the Project Mercury space program. In 1970, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, are killed when police open fire during student protests. In 1972, George C. Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer and left paralyzed while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination.
May 15, 1982: Precipitation in the Youngstown area, the second lowest in 40 years, is making for dusty plowing, but farmers say the dryness is not yet critical to their crops.
Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. and more than 20 deputies respond to a plea for help with youth gangs in Lake Milton. They break up a large crowd of youths who had invaded Pointview Park.
Thirty employees at the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services office on South Avenue are given notices that they will be laid off or their jobs eliminated in a week.
May 15, 1967: A 23-year-old medical student from Cleveland is injured in a fracas at Calvary Temple in Austintown and arrested on a charge of creating a disturbance. He told police that he attempted to address the congregation when five ushers dragged him into a side room and beat him.
A compressor explodes at the Airco Industrial Gases Division of Air Reduction Co. in Warren, blowing out the north and south ends of a sheet metal building. There are no injuries.
Henry A. Jagielski, senior trustee of St. Stanislaus Post 1222, Catholic War Veterans, is named chairman of the 1967 Memorial Day parade.
About 1,000 people attend the dedication of the new St. Patrick Church in Hubbard. Bishop James W. Malone celebrates a pontifical mass and gives a homily discussing the history of the parish.
May 15, 1957: Three men and women who were running an out-of-town bug bank are arrested by Youngstown vice squad officers who confiscate 3,000 lottery slips. The four give Baltimore, Md., and Farrell, Pa., addresses and police believe they were working for Pittsburgh mobsters.
Mahoning Juvenile Court Judge Henry Beckenback orders the three-week-old baby of a 12-year-old Youngstown girl to be placed in the custody of the Mahoning County Child Welfare Board. He rejects a request by family members that the baby be placed with them.
May 15, 1932: Josephine Bard, 10, of Warren is recovering in the South Side unit of the Youngstown Hospital after having a peanut removed from her lung in the bronchoscopic clinic at the hospital.
Stamp collectors from Akron, Cleveland, Sharon, Warren, Canton, Beaver Falls and New Castle will be coming to Youngstown for the Mahoning Valley Stamp Collectors Club banquet, exhibition and meeting at the YMCA.