Vindicator file photo / October  9, 1986 | Among the successful fund-raisers gathered at the Jewish Community Center for a Youngstown Area United Way report meeting 35 years ago were, from left, William Dorman and Lloyd Murray of Local 555,  Service Employees Union; Bobbi Navarra of the Joseph Horne Co. and Paul Herold of East Ohio Gas,  the United Way campaign’s commercial division leader.
 
October 8
 
1996: A Youngstown School District facilities panel is studying a proposal to close Harding, Jackson, King, Lincoln, and Harrison schools and move vocational education from Choffin Career Center to the Mahoning County Joint Vocational school. 
 
The League of Women Voters of Greater Youngstown has reached a consensus opposing legalized riverboat gambling in Mahoning County.
 
Following Campbell's lead, the Youngstown Board of Education is moving toward a mandatory uniform policy for all students in the next school year. 
 
1981: A contractor on the Westview housing development denies a charge by 4th Ward Councilman Leonard Yurcho that city construction codes are being violated during the construction of the federally funded West Side project.
 
Youngstown State University students competing for homecoming king and queen are  Laura Morris of Middlefield, Tammy Mapes of Hubbard, Judy Kuhn of Austintown, Ed Salada of Youngstown, Paul Brubaker of Austintown, and Nick Jannone of Youngstown. 
 
Atty. Victor Sperling, president of the City of Hope's Youngstown Executive Council, is among 1,200 delegates from 511 supporting auxiliaries at the biennial convention of the City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles.
 
1971: Salem will receive a $456,000 federal-state grant for improvements to the city's sewage treatment plant.
 
Seventy-six Youngstown public school administrators notify the board of education that they have formed a professional association that is not a part of the Youngstown Education Association. 
 
Craig Cotton, the former Youngstown State University athlete, is playing his third season with the Detroit Lions. 
 
1946: Warren P. Williamson Sr. of 18 Warren Ave., known as the "grand old man of the South Side," dies in his sleep three days after his 88th birthday. He was a real estate developer, a long-time member of the Board of Education, and the first treasurer of WKBN radio, of which his son was president.
 
Samuel D. Isaly, president of the Isaly Dairy Co., is reported covering in Hermosillo, Mexico, after suffering a heart attack.