Vindicator file photo / March 3,  1961 | Four hundred community leaders and volunteers attended a Red Cross “Round-up” 60 years ago at the YMCA  to launch the Mahoning Chapter’s 1961 drive for $236,487. Among the volunteers were, seated from left, Mrs. Helen Gedra, Mrs. Hurd Tuttle, Mrs. Rose Drabkin, and Mrs. Florence Griffiths; standing,  Mrs. Robert D. Rowland, Mrs. Clifford Gander, Mrs. J.H. Peterson, and Mrs. Harry A. Goodrich.
 
March 4
 
1996: Thanks to a bullish stock market, Youngstown State University's endowment grew a whopping 20 percent in 1995, growing from $60 million to $72 million. The fund, operated by the YSU Foundation, ranks 221 out of 460 nationwide on a per-student basis. 
 
Youngstown-based Commercial Intertech, which is trying to break 1995's record earnings, lies off 12 people at a new plant that was supposed to employ 30 and reduces the work week for 165 union workers at one plant from 40 to 32 hours. 
 
Youngstown Bishop Thomas J. Tobin accepts a recommendation that St. Anthony School in Youngstown be closed at the end of the school year. 
 
1981: Local car dealers say manufacturers' rebates have been a boon to sales, with Chrysler dealer Bob Eddy saying sales have more than doubled and Robert Sweeney, president of Buick Youngstown, saying rebates have been a significant factor in increased sales.
 
Niles Municipal Court Judge Charles Zubyk, 56, has been upgraded to fair condition at Warren General Hospital with gunshot wounds and has been interviewed by police about the shooting at his home, but the police report no progress in their investigation. 
 
The Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency holds a meeting at the Holiday Inn in Austintown to discuss the merits of ride-sharing and car-pooling.
 
1971: Chevrolet and state officials are meeting to determine how to dispose of 6,000 gallons of primer paint spilled into a drainage ditch at the Lordstown General Motors plant. 
 
Three Youngstown State University students escape from the second floor of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house at 20 Indiana Ave and a fourth was rescued by firemen from the third floor.
 
 Atty. Richard P. McLaughlin Youngstown's counsel on environmental affairs resigns because of the press of his private law practice.
 
1946: Irish Prime Minister Eamon DeValera is on hand at the Limerick Airport to great Cardinal Edward Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit, and two other American cardinals who stopped in Ireland en route home from Rome. 
 
Cpl. Danny Burlon, 27, of 524 Fithian St., who lost his legs with Patton's Army, is home after being fitted with two artificial legs that allow him to walk with canes. 
 
On hand at Youngstown Motors Inc. is Graham Paige's new scientific farm implement, the Rototiller.