Vindicator file photo / August 5, 1984 | Linda Craig, obedience chairman at the 1984 Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club Dog Show at the Canfield Fairgrounds, presented the Highest in Trial Obedience award to Duane Wasnak of East Canton and his golden retriever, Morgan’s Flying Dutchman.
 
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1996: Trumbull County commissioners are not inclined to change representation on the Western Reserve Port Authority as requested by Congressman James A. Traficant Jr.  Traficant wants to add a representative of Vienna Township.
 
Amtrak announces it wants to resurrect the New York to Chicago Broadway Limited passenger train that was eliminated in September, with a stop in Youngstown. 
 
Austintown voters approve a levy renewal for schools in a special election but reject a new 7.3 l operating levy by 20 votes of nearly 11,000 cast. 
   
1981: Judge Paul W. Brown, a member of the Ohio Supreme Court and former Youngstown attorney, will step down Sept. 1 after serving 15 years on the state's highest court.
 
Two sons of James and Rose Melfi are serving Girard, Joseph as mayor, and his older brother, Nick, as service director. 
 
Divers from the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department and Youngstown police department are searching the bottom of McKelvey Lake for a traffic counter stolen from the Youngstown Municipal Airport parking lot. So far they have found two motorcycles, a sawed-off shotgun, and a safe. The counter is considered evidence in a fraud case over parking receipts at the airport. 
 
1971: The 1960s were good years for the Butler Institute of American Art. Acquisitions from that decade are being featured in the midyear retrospective, including a Jan de Ruth oil of two ballet students.
 
Ohio Bell seeks a rate increase that would raise the charge for Youngstown area single-line service from $6.60 to $8.70 a month; party line from $5.50 to $7.10.
 
Trumbull County Coroner Dr. Joseph Sudimack Jr. is withholding a ruling in the death of Willie Bell, 22, of Warren, who died two weeks after being beaten up at the DeLuxe Tavern on Niles Road. 
 
1946: Struthers Mayor Thomas E. Needham plans to call in a disinterested chemist to investigate why the paint was stripped from scores of houses during a freak rain. 
 
Atty. W. Edmund Peters of Salem is named a trial attorney on the War Crimes Commission in Japan and will leave shortly for Yokohama.