Vindicator file photo / June 10,  1958 | Nearly 1,000 people were jammed into the Idora Park ballroom 63 years ago for a tribute to entertainer Danny Thomas, who was raising money to build a $1.4 million St. Jude Hospital for leukemia-stricken children in Memphis.  "I’m so proud of Youngstown I could burst,” Thomas told the crowd, which was expected to raise $10,000 toward the hospital. Thomas, who grew up in a large, poor family in Toledo, was praised by Gov. C. William O’Neill as a Horatio Alger story come to life.
 
June 10
 
1996: A memorial fund established after the deaths of Anthony and Paula Rich in the Sept. 4, 1994, USAir crash near the Pittsburgh airport, is used to fund the Rich Center for the Study and Treatment of Autism at Youngstown State University. 
 
Family members of Douglas M. Jones, 29, of McDonald who was shot to death by a Poland Village police officer are still trying to understand the sequence of events that led to the shooting.
 
The nine-story National City bank building acquired 1n 1994 from Dollar Savings and Trust Co. in downtown Youngstown is being put up for sale. 
 
1981:  Both victims in the June 6 industrial accident at Sentco Paint Manufacturing Co. on Steel Street died in the burn unit of Akron Children's Hospital.  Dead are Bill Brewer, 15, of Lowellville and Larry Brothers, 22,  of Youngstown. Investigators believe Bothers went into an asphalt tank to retrieve a tool and Brewer went in to rescue him when he was overcome by fumes. 
 
Heavy rains in Mercer and Lawrence counties caused a break in the earthen dam at Cascade Park in New Castle and the release of raw sewage from the South Shenango Township sewer system into the Pymatuning Reservoir.
 
Frank Sferra hurls a one-hitter to spark Knights of Columbus to a 6-4 win over Gaetano Insurance in the Campbell Little League. 
 
1971: George Cheney, The Vindicator's championship speller, makes it to the 12th round of the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.,  with only 15 other spellers still in contention. 
 
Liquor will be sold at the new Trumbull County Exposition Center if the Ohio Senate follows the House in approving a bill authorizing the sale of liquor at county fairgrounds. 
 
Youngstown City Council tables a resolution directing a feasibility study of cable television in the city and authorizing the board of control to negotiate a franchise agreement. 
 
1946: Edward Mott, 25,  operator of Kinsman Welding and Fabricating Co., dies when his motorcycle hits a signpost on Route 7 near Kinsman.
 
Hiram College graduates 21 seniors. William Howard Fram, trust officer of Union Trust Savings Bank of Warren, is named to the board of trustees. 
 
Pickets patrol the Renner Brewing Co. and Youngstown beer distributors as 150 local beer truck drivers and helpers go on strike.