December 3

2000: Grievances filed by employees at Youngstown State University more than tripled in the last months of President Leslie Cochran's tenure and in the first months of  President David Sweet's administration. Sweet says better management of employee relations is vital to going forward. 

Youngstown City Council appoints three people to the board overseeing the proposed downtown civic center project, Atty. Leonard Schiavone, JoAnn Blunt, and the Rev. Kelvin Turner. 

The 1931 organ in the Harbison Chapel at Grove City College has been fully restored in an 18-month, $800,000 project, just in time for Christmas concerts and services. Organist Richard A. Konzen says it was worth every penny. 

 

1985: The Ungaro administration will trim $500,000 from budget requests submitted by department heads before sending a $53.7 million budget to city council. 

The first winter storm of the season brought one to three inches of snow, blustery winds, and icy roads to the Mahoning Valley.

An official at the Borden dairy plant on Market Street, which employs 75 production workers, says the company will no longer bargain with the Teamsters Union because workers rejected its "best and final offer."

 

1975: Disciplinary action is being taken against three attendants at Apple Creek State Institution who are accused of negligence in allowing an inmate to remove the fingernails of a 26-year-old Youngstown woman. 

In an unusual move, the Mahoning County tuberculosis clinic asks the county commissioners to reduce its levy by $100,000 for one year. 

Société Imetal, a French company that has been trying to take over Pittsburgh-based Copperweld Steel for three months, announces that it has acquired more than 60 percent of the stock. 

 

1950: More than 3,000 people pack Stambaugh Auditorium for columnist Esther Hamilton's 20th annual Alias Santa Claus Club Show. The leading candy butcher was William Bonnell, who raised $1,973 of the $13,643 that will be used to make Christmas brighter for needy area families. 

The Lake Milton Bridge on Route 18, which has been closed since September for repairs, has been reopened.

Publication of "A Journal of the McKinley Years" by former Vice President Charles Dawes contains a story of how Youngstown friends of the then-governor of Ohio saved his political future by paying off $90,000 of his personal debt. The debt arose from the financial failure of  Robert L. Walker of Poland, for whom McKinley had vouched.