Vindicator file photo/ Jan. 28, 1980 | Several hundred members of United Steelworkers Locals 1330 and 1462 and their supporters walked a picket line outside the U.S. Steel Corp. district headquarters on Salt Spring Road 40 years ago protesting the company’s closing of its Ohio and McDonald works.  Meanwhile, another group of steelworkers took over the building. 

January 30

1995: San Francisco Quarterback Steve Young completes 24 of 36 passes for a record six touchdowns to lead the 49ers to a 49-26 victory over San Diego in Super Bowl XXIX. Owner Edward J. DeBartolo Jr. dedicates the win to his father, who died Dec. 19.

Municipal Judge Andrew Polovischak relents and releases a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant when he ordered her jailed for 30 days on a contempt of court charge. 

Youngstown's assistant law Director Cheryl Waite defends the city's decision to enter the Ohio Municipal League Insurance Pool rather than buy insurance from individual local agents. 

1980:  Ohio Edison Co. will close the 52-year-old coal-fired generating plant in East Palestine. The company said the 12-megawatt plant would have needed $7.9 million in environmental improvements.

Steelworker activists urge the Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corp. to do what it can to keep Youngstown U.S. Steel plants open.  

Atty. E. Winther McCroom files suit in U.S. District Court in Cleveland asking that the promotions of 11 officers in the Youngstown Police Department be invalidated on the grounds that promotional exams were biased against black test takers.

1970: General Motors Corp. reports earnings in 1969 of $1.7 billion on worldwide sales of $24 billion. The company built 5.2 million cars and trucks in the United States.

With skyrocketing flames, billows of smoke and a number of explosions, a seven-alarm blaze sweeps through the Salem Fruit Growers Cooperative causing $400,000 in damage. Apples and other fruit stored there were lost.  

Isaac Tinsley, 85, of Wilson Avenue is treated at South Side Hospital for bruises suffered when he was beaten and robbed at gunpoint of $60 at his home.

1945: Contending that big surpluses in public treasuries encourage reckless spending on "crackpot schemes," the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce special taxation committee says while urging the Ohio legislature to cut state taxes. 

More funds are needed for new volumes and a new building at Youngstown College, says Mrs. Lewis Crane, president of the American Association of University Women.  Returning veterans need a wide variety of books.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. shattered all production records in 1944. Steel ingot production was up 48 percent from 1940.