21 WFMJ archives / June 7, 1959 | Construction on McDonald's $250,000 sewage disposal system was progressing 64 years ago at the rear of Woodland Park, on land donated to the village by the U.S. Steel Corp. 
 
June 6
 
1998: Youngstown Municipal Court's two newest judges, Robert Douglas and Robert Milich, strip  Judge Andrew Polovischak of his role as administrative and presiding judge. Judge Douglass will assume both roles. 
 
Fierce competition from a growing number of national chain restaurants in Boardman is blamed for forcing a local restaurant, The Moonraker,  out of business after 15 years. 
 
Judge Thomas J. Townley of Niles Municipal Court reduces a bribery charge from a felony to a misdemeanor after a 31-year-old Niles motorist testifies that he was scared and confused when he offered a Niles police officer $20 not to ticket him. He's given a suspended 30-day jail term and a $500 fine. 
 
1983: The R.D. Werner Co., which builds ladders in Greenville, Pa., will expand its warehousing facilities with the aid of a $507,000 loan from the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority. 
 
The Rev. Dennis Davenport is elected pastor of First Presbyterian Church of New Castle by a unanimous vote of the congregation. 
 
Laid off Niles policemen and firemen picket the city building with signs warning residents that their homes and lives are in jeopardy. 
 
1973: Between 400 and 500 of the 1,100 teachers in the Youngstown School District authorize Youngstown Education Association negotiators to call a strike if necessary before schools reopen in the fall. 
 
A hydrogen bomb with the force of a million tons of TNT is detonated at Pehute Mesa, Nev., and causes high-rise buildings to sway in Las Vegas, 110 miles away. 
 
Jeanne Petrek, a graduate of St. Patrick School in Hubbard and Ursuline High, receives a doctor of medicine degree from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. (Dr. Petrek, who became a nationally known cancer researcher, died at the age of 57 after being struck by an ambulance in New York City in 2005.)
 
1948: A Rotogravure layout of nine pictures is printed in The Vindicator showing trash dumps, junk yards, and littered backyards that greet visitors to Youngstown arriving on the four major railroads. 
 
Thirty-seven percent of all boys between the ages of nine and 17 are enrolled in the YMCA in the Youngstown district.
 
J.L. Mauthe, vice president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube  Co., will receive a master's degree in metallurgical engineering from Penn State University on the same day that his son, Richard, will receive a bachelor's degree, also in metallurgical engineering from the university. The elder Mauthe got his bachelor's degree at Penn State in 1913.