Vindicator file photo/ October 4, 1957 | Tow truck driver Tony Parich and Youngstown patrolmen Anthony Ross, left, and Angelo Kissos haul a rusty safe over the guardrail at Lake McKelvey on Oct. 4, 1957. The safe, office equipment and vending machines that had been tossed into the lake over the years by burglars were located by police skin diver Anthony Gaglione. 
 
 
October 4
 
1995: The biggest crowd in the two seasons Jacobs Field has been opened, 44,218, turns out for the first Cleveland Indians playoff game in 41 years. The Tribe beats the Boston Red Sox, 5-4 in the bottom of the 13th inning. It was 2 a.m. by then and about half the crowd had left.
 
Warren Councilman Daniel Polivka complains that Mayor Daniel Sferra is not complying with an ordinance passed in June requiring the city's seal to be placed on all city-owned or leased vehicles, except some used by safety forces.
 
The father of Susan Clemente says it is enough that Stephen Vrable was convicted of murdering Clemente and her 3-year-old daughter, Lisa. He is not advocating for the death penalty for the murderer of his daughter and granddaughter. 
 
1980: The Johnson Bronze Co. could be back in limited business in New Castle, Pa., with 100 employees on the payroll following a hearing in federal bankruptcy court.
 
Ann Brody will preside over Grove City College's homecoming festivities. Members of the queen's court are Ann Golden, Peggy Piatt, Kim Hanna, and Nancy Wilson.  
 
Ali Baba's Night Club and Lounge on Mahoning Avenue in Lake Milton, once home to belly dancing and drinking, is now home to Trinity Full Gospel Church. 
 
1970: The unemployment rate in the Mahoning Valley soars to near 20 percent, due almost entirely to the ongoing strike by the United Auto Workers against General Motors. Some 8,000 workers at the Lordstown assembly plant and 7,400 at the Packard Electric Division of GM  are off the job.
 
Four Youngstown district youngsters, Paul Guju, David Jenkins, Kelley Flynn, and John Melnick, prepare for their trip to India as Children's International Village delegates.
 
The Salem Fruit Growers Cooperative opens its new fruit storage and packing facility, built to replace one destroyed in a $500,000 fire over the winter. 
 
1945: A heavy frost, the first of the season, spells the end of Youngstown's victory gardens. A record low for the date of 31 degrees was set at the airport.
 
Carmen A. Renaldi and Robert W. Witt, the first boy graduates of the music department of Ursuline High School, present a graduation recital and received their diplomas from the Rev. Joseph M. Gallagher. 
 
Police Chief John Thomas swears in seven cadet patrolmen: Andrew Kulic, Mizell Stewart, George Trikilis, John J. Simerlink, John C. Mild, Edward Schultz Jr., and Guy Rossi.