Today is Monday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2008. There are 233 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, May 12, the 133rd day of 2008. There are 233 days left in the year. On this date in 1958, the United States and Canada sign an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD for short).

In 1870, an act creating the Canadian province of Manitoba is given royal assent, to take effect in July. In 1907, actress Katharine Hepburn is born in Hartford, Conn. In 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is found in a wooded area near Hopewell, N.J. In 1937, Britain’s King George VI is crowned at Westminster Abbey. In 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrender. In 1970, the Senate votes unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice. In 1975, the White House announces the new Cambodian government has seized an American merchant ship, the Mayaguez, in international waters.

May 12, 1983: Warren city officials are seeking federal funds to either add two or three stories to the 10-year-old Municipal Justice Building on South Street or repair the facility’s roof.

Patrick J. Cline, a student at Lake-view High School, receives his Eagle Scout award at Maffit Meadows. He is a member of Troop 52 sponsored by the Cortland Lions Club.

Two mechanics in Miami whose “human error” nearly forced an Eastern Airlines jumbo jet to ditch in the Atlantic Ocean have “clean, fine records” and won’t be fired, says airline Chairman Frank Borman.

May 12, 1968: Atty. Elton W. Luckhart, longtime Republican party chairman in Mahoning County, faces stiff opposition for re-election from E. Ray Davis, Austintown Township trustee.

Rep. John Ashbrook, a Goldwater conservative, vows that the 58-member Ohio delegation to the Republican National Convention will not cast a unanimous ballot for New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. Ashbrook says he favors former Vice President Richard Nixon or California Gov. Ronald Reagan for the presidential nomination.

May 12, 1958: Former Atty. Allen J. Swaim, one of the principals in the quarter-million-dollar Tobin-Shade insurance swindle, is sentenced to three indeterminate terms in the Mansfield Reformatory.

The cost of killing sea lampreys, eel-like parasites, in the Great Lakes was $7.50 each in 1957, a House appropriations subcommittee is told. Rep. John J. Rooney, D-N.Y., questions the wisdom of the expenditure.

The federal government will pay more than 85 percent of the cost of a $267,000 improvement project on Meridian Road from Oakwood Avenue to Vestal Road.

May 12, 1933: Seventeen people from six states are injured, six seriously, when an Indian Coach Lines bus crashes on Cleveland-Warren Road, three miles west of Southington.

Dr. E.E. Lewis, chairman of the department of school administration at Ohio State University, will give the East and Chaney high school commencement addresses. Dr. J. Freeman Guy, first associate superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh, will speak at Scienceville.

Since January 1, Mahoning County residents have spent nearly $1.4 million for 5,330 automobiles and trucks, of which 676 were new and 4,654 were used. Average price was $650 for a new vehicle and $200 for used.