April 30
 
1995: The Jackson-Milton Board of Education sets the Senior Lock-in for May 12, when students will spend from 6:30 p.m. Friday to 9 a.m. Saturday, with students and teachers spending the night in educational activities and discussions of life skills. 

The Mahoning Valley's top campaign contributors to the Ohio Republican Party and to individual statewide GOP candidates are Clarence R. Smith of Boardman, $47,990; Arnold Collins, Girard, $38,750; the Columbiana County Republican Party, $35,275; Thomas Fok, Youngstown, $34,200; Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., $25,000, and David Johnson, Salem, $12,850.

Coming to Powers Auditorium, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"  starring Maureen Collins, Jim McClellan, Juliann Cortese, Todd Hancock, Anita Lin O'Donnell and the Ballet Western Reserve.
 
1980: Seven crammed buses carry Christians of all denominations from Youngstown to a Washington-for-Jesus rally. Among them is Carl Beck, who burned his draft card 13 years ago, and said he, got misty-eyed singing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" at the Lincoln Memorial. 

State Auditor Thomas Ferguson reports findings for recovery of $30,408 against a former clerk in the Niles utilities department who had been indicted in October on 18 counts of theft in office.

Students from Struthers High School "take over" operations of the city on Civics Day. Student officers are Richard Parker, Jackie Beachy, Rick Grow, Brian Sabol, Mike O'Connell, Jan Zoldak and Vince Colarossi.
 
1970: Kenneth T. Clark, 13, a student at Cleveland School, is in South Side Hospital with a bullet wound of the chest received at his home. He told police he was shot by the grandmother of a girl with whom he had argued.

Eight Trumbull County students are named National Merit Scholars: Mary Cipriano, Gary Baker, David Hyde, Bruce Belleville, Stephen Thompson, Jonathan McCrone, Edgar Wagner and Jon Katz. 

The parents of Air Force Capt. James C. Cross of Warren are notified that their son is missing in action over Laos.
 
1945: The story of how Joseph Washington Frazier ran a $500 investment in Warren City Tank and Boiler Co. into $1 million is told in the current issue of Time Magazine.  The plant makes landing barges for the Navy. 

Mahoning Sheriff Ralph E. Elser and his deputies sledge-hammered their way into the notorious "Speed Queen" and "Speedway" disorderly houses on Wilson Avenue. Elser said two madams and two inmates were arrested. 

A Vindicator editorial on the death of Italy's Benito Mussolini: "[Italians] delivered themselves into Mussolini's hands shouting 'Duce! Duce! Duce!' For this mistake they have paid bitterly and will go on paying."