Vindicator file photo / May 24, 1984 | Atty. William A. Weimer, chairman of the United Way Planning Council, goes over some of the goals  covered in a United Way pilot leadership  seminar in 1984 at Youngstown State University. Center is  Scot A. Moore,  a Strouss recruiter, and, right,  Kenton A. Thompson, loan officer at Dollar Bank.
 
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1995: Sgt. William Frease, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 141, disputes claims made by a spokesman for the Corrections Corp. of America, who made a proposal to Mahoning County commissioners offering the private company services to operate the county jail.   

The Larry Wilkins Trio played jitterbug music and men in WWII-era uniforms twirled their dance partners around the floor at the "Memories of World War II" dance attended by 250 at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Astronaut Ronald Parise returns to Youngstown State University to receive Phi Kappa Phi's distinguished member award and to deliver a speech in the planetarium where he had lectured in the early 1970s while a student of Dr. Warren Young.
 
1980: George Reiss, the Vindicator's business editor, writes that U.S. Steel Corp.'s impending departure from the Youngstown district writes a finish to an intriguing chapter of industrial history lasting about eight decades, during which Big Steel was the eastern Ohio-western Pennsylvania region's job-giving colossus.

Friedkin Industries of Niles wants to open a new aluminum plant in one of the Youngstown area's abandoned steel mills, but its president, Monte Friedkin, says the federal government has denied aid that would help him create 600 jobs.

A reporter's poll of steelworkers at the Local 1307 USW hall in McDonald shows that most won't vote for President Jimmy Carter in the June Democratic presidential primary, accusing him of inaction as mills in the Mahoning Valley closed during his first term. 

1970: Despite a court injunction, the Piper Rock Festival goes on, drawing 10,000 enthusiastic music fans to a farm near Newton Falls. Heavy rain made for a muddy event, but the young crowd didn't seem to mind. 
 
Classes are cancelled for 1,261 students at South High School after a fire in the boiler room destroyed electrical circuits. 

Leonard Kirtz of Youngstown, president of the Anchor Cigar Co., is elected senior vice president of the Ohio Association for Retarded Children at the annual convention in Dayton.
 
1945: Representatives of Youngstown business, industry and churches meet at the Hotel Pick Ohio to discuss how the community can best adapt in postwar years. 

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.'s Brier Hill Works is closed by a wildcat strike when 3,000 workers walk off in a dispute of cuts in overtime.

Penn Ohio Coach Lines gets six new diesel-powered buses with automatic transmissions for the Warren-Youngstown route.