21 WFMJ archives / November  1950 | Getting a bus was a challenge as young and old Youngstowners tried to get out of downtown as the city dug out of the historic Thanksgiving blizzard of 1950.  

 
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1998: A tentative agreement has been reached, but striking registered nurses at Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital will spend Thanksgiving on the picket line, refusing to take a break until a contract is signed.
 
Lt. Christopher Minter, commander of the Lisbon Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, says residents donated a ton of potatoes and more than 200 turkeys to a food drive for needy families. 
 
Pupils in Bonnie Williams' second-grade class at McGuffey School in Warren cut the ribbon to reopen the Summit Street Bridge. The class won a contest in which they named the span "Warren's Bridge to the Future."
 
1983: Pennsylvania hunters recorded a record kill of 1,5427 bears during a two-day season. Game officials had hoped for at least 1,000 bears to be culled from a population that is causing increasing problems. 
 
Mahoning County Clerk of Courts Anthony Vivo tells commissioners he will need five additional part-time employees to handle auto title work, and Prosecutor Vincent Gilmartin says he will need one additional assistant prosecutor. 
 
Youngstown's Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini dispatches Johnny Torres at the 2:58 mark in the first round of a 10-round junior welterweight bout at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. The fight was on the undercard of heavyweight Larry Holmes's bout. 
 
1973: President Nixon bans Sunday sales of gasoline and orders rationing of heating oil to stave off a severe fuel shortage that could cripple the country's economy.
 
Vandals broke into Harrison Elementary School in Youngstown, splattering paint over one room and flooding the boiler room. 
 
Campbell public schools, scheduled to close on Dec. 3 for lack of funds, may get a reprieve after an Ohio Tax Commission audit finds that Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. underpaid its taxes by $409,000 between 1969 and 1971.
 
1948: A record-breaking crowd of 25,000 to 30,000 kids of all ages greets Santa Claus as he arrives at Youngstown Municipal Airport and takes a car into downtown Youngstown. 
 
A mysterious stranger enters four Campbell newsstands and pool rooms and shatters 11 slot machines. The police chief and sheriff deny any knowledge of the impromptu raids. 
 
The So0uth All-Stars whip their North Side Rivals, 19-7, in the fourth annual Thanksgiving classic at South Field with 12,000 in attendance.