Vindicator file photo / August 30,  1974 | Sixth Ward Councilman Robert Spencer joins Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter as the mayor swears in 10 of 11 new city police officers 47 years ago.   From left, front, Tony Velazquez, Lang Riley, Jim Spellman, Dennis Dickson, Franklin Palmer, Don Skowron, and George Kovic;  back row,  John Terlesky, Larry Kovac, and Robert Wayland.  Not present; Herbert Campbell Jr.
 
 
August 27
 
1996: Whether gas works quickly in destroying stray and unwanted animals at the Columbiana County Dog Pound is debated during a hearing before Judge David Tobin. Two animal rights activists filed suit to halt the use of gas at the pound. 
 
Jonathan Varner, 18, of Austintown is attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as an intern with the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars.
 
After 24 years of operating on Youngstown's South Side, the Fireplace restaurant is moving to the suburbs, taking over the former Hurdy Gurdy country-western bar on E. Western Reserve Road. 
 
1981: Youngstown Area United Way and United Way of Trumbull County have been asked to take the lead in former a two-county coalition that would lobby in Columbus for an increase in this area's share of federal block grants for human services. 
 
Trumbull County Commissioners Ted Vannelli and Margaret Dennison want the offices of the county's Private Industry Council to move from Youngstown Road in Niles to the Stone Building in downtown Warren, but PIC member Frank DeJute says he'll fight to stay in Niles. 
 
Niles police arrest seven young Youngstown men who were attempting to steal a fiberglass bell from the Taco Bell restaurant on U.S. Route 422. Three of the bells taken from other Taco Bells are recovered. 
 
1971: Some 300 Youngstown parochial school students have already registered for Youngstown junior and senior high schools and some public school principals are beginning to worry about overcrowding as tuition increases go into effect for parochial schools. 
 
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will blow in its Campbell Works blast furnace and start up its Brier Hill open hearths, the harbinger of a fall increase in demand for steel. 
 
Back-to-school sale at Clarkins: 30 #2 lead pencils, 47 cents; Golden Rod tablet, 22 cents;  Crayola crayons, 64 pack, 49 cents; school scissors, 19 cents. 
 
1946: Two Youngstown men attempting to save a woman who had fallen into the water drown in Georgian Bay, Canada. Dead are Rudolph R. Sprong, 43, and Carl Hedin, 31. The woman managed to struggle to shore.
 
Attendance during the first day and a half at the Centennial Canfield Fair stands at more than 25,000, and the fair is just hitting its stride. 
 
The Ravenna Ordnance plant will begin producing fertilizer to step up food production in American-occupied areas of Europe and Japan.