Today is Saturday, March 7, the 66th day of 2009. There are 299 days left in the year. A reminder:

Today is Saturday, March 7, the 66th day of 2009. There are 299 days left in the year. A reminder: Daylight-saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday. Clocks move forward one hour. On this date in 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators is broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse.

In 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorses the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union. In 1875, composer Maurice Ravel is born in Ciboure, France. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his telephone. In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations take place, between New York and London. In 1936, Adolf Hitler orders his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

March 7, 1984: The Youngstown Board of Education discusses hiring a professional management consultant to recommend ways of streamlining school administration.

Patrolman Dennis Tyler, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, threatens a strike by Youngstown police officers unless six laid off patrolmen are recalled and the city abandons any attempt to reduce fringe benefits.

March 7, 1969: The Mahoning County Joint Vocational School Board votes to accept an offer by the Standard Slag Co. to sell the northern portion of its farm a mile west of Canfield for $125,000 for the site of a vocational school.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan announces a federal grant of $131,226 for a Head Start summer program to prepare youngsters from throughout Mahoning County who will be entering first grade.

March 7, 1959: A comparison of clergymen listed in the telephone director with Mahoning County Board of Elections records by politics writer Clingan Jackson shows that about 62 percent of clergy voted in the 1958 general and only 38 percent in the primary.

The trail of fugitive bank robber Frank Sprenz of Akron leads to Youngstown, where his 1951 Nash Rambler is found abandoned in front of 911 Granite Street. He is believed to have bought another car in New Castle.

Mahoning County’s new “juvenile jury” for traffic offenders is upheld in its first appeal to a higher court. Four high school juniors or seniors serve on the panel, which is overseen by Probation Officer Don Roberts.

March 7, 1934: Isaac Wilkoff, 48, of Selma Avenue and Tod Lane, prominent businessman and treasurer of the Wilkoff Co., falls dead in Washington, D.C., where he was attending conferences of the NRA scrap metal industry code authority.

Marjorie Halton, 18, of Canfield is selected the most beautiful girl in the freshman class at Hiram College by a vote of her classmates.