December 5

2000: Mayor George McKelvey says he plans to keep in contact with officials of Community Corrections of America to ensure that the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center will remain in business on the city's East Side. 

Father John Trimbur of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church says he has more than 500 signed cards from supporters of a campaign to bring a grocery store to Campbell. 

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns to politics with his typical timing and flair, saying he will soon decide whether to challenge the nation's current leader, Ehud Barak, who trounced Netanyahu in elections in 1998.

 

1985: Bentley Lenhoff, executive director of the Youngstown Playhouse for 20 years, tenders his resignation, saying the board had begun intruding on the executive's duties, despite the financial and artistic success the playhouse was enjoying. 

A threat by Tamarkin Co. to close four stores played a big role in ending a strike by meatcutters and delicatessen workers, union officials say. 

Warren police charge a 35-year-old Champion Township man with raping a comatose woman at the Warren nursing home where he worked as an orderly.

 

1975: Chaney High School and Hillman Junior High win the coveted Superintendent's Sportsmanship Awards, which recognize good sportsmanship in City Series competitions. 

Valjean Woolf, 23, of Alliance, suffers a fatal gunshot wound while hunting on a farm in Center Township near Lisbon. It is the area's first fatal hunting accident of the season. 

Joe Stephenson, Lowellville High School's 6-foot, 5-inch, 230-pound tackle, is named to the first team of the Associated Press Ohio Class-A high school football all-star team. 

 

1950: Youngstown City Council approves a 1951 budget of $7.1 million, an increase of $148,256 over the actual appropriations for 1950.

A new salary schedule for Youngstown Board of Education employees increases the starting teacher salary from $2,400 per year to $2,600. The maximum for a teacher with a bachelor's degree is $4,500, and for a master's degree,  $4,700

The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Sharon Steel Corp. announce wage increases for more than 25,000 Youngstown district steelworkers. The minimum hourly rate for a steelworker is $1.31 an hour.