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Years Ago | June 4th
Interesting moments in our Valley's history are revisited with this daily trip back in time.
Sunday, June 4th 2023, 12:00 AM EDT
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21 WFMJ archives / June 5, 1963 | Alumni of the Rayen School attended the 97th-anniversary reunion at the school 60 years ago. Barbara Drabkin, from the Class of 1963, pinned a carnation on Charles Henderson, former Youngstown mayor.
June 4
1998: The Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cavalier had its best sales month in 11 years, with 31,800 cars sold, the most since the model sold 33,500 in March 1987.
Youngstown City Council is faced with a pleasant chore, deciding how to spend a $4.3 million windfall, which the city will receive as part of $2 billion in rebates the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation is distributing throughout the state.
Sharon Tube Co. is seeking a 75 percent abatement in real and personal property taxes for an $8 million expansion and improvement project at its Hunter Street facility in Niles.
1983: Republic Steel Corp. receives praise from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for building an acid recycling plant at its Warren Works.
The 150-year-old Beardsley-Walter-Dehn House adjacent to Boardman Township Park is being restored.
Boardman's Dave Dravecky, 27, becomes the first Major League pitcher of 1983 to win eight games.
1973: A violent storm rakes the Youngstown area, dropping marble-sized hail on some areas.
Two men who threatened to blow up two large dams in West Virginia unless they were given huge sums of money are arrested by state police and FBI agents.
1948: A four-man gang of South Side youths who broke into 150 to 200 Youngstown and Boardman Township homes over two years is rounded up by Mahoning County Deputy Sheriff Robert "Whitey" Bertolette.
Youngstown Traffic Commissioner Clarence Coppersmith warns motorists of their responsibility to yield to pedestrians in marked crosswalks.
A stray dog enters St. Dominic School and bites student James B. Kicher, 12.