Vindicator file photo /  Undated Early 1980s | U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-19th, Lordstown,  held a plaque designating him as an honorary member of the Lake-to-River Girl Scout Council as Kristen Glosser, left, a junior Scout, and Amy Gilbert, a Brownie,  presented him with a selection of cookies.  Watching them open the annual Girl Scout cookie sale at council headquarters in Niles were Abby Talcott, left, executive director, and Mary Claire Stringer, council president.
 
January 13
 
1997: More than 300 people apply during the first hour that applications were taken at the Youngstown Ohio Bureau of Employment Services office for jobs at the private prison being built in Youngstown. 
 
A prisoner housing proposal calls for Columbiana County to pay Mahoning County $1.2 million a year to house inmates in the Mahoning County Justice Center in Youngstown. 
 
The rate of Caesarean section births in Mahoning Valley hospitals is declining, but the area still ranks above the state average, Ohio Department of Health officials say. 
 
1982: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. will spend $60 million to modernize its seamless pipe mills in Campbell, which should increase the output of high-quality pipe by 50 percent.
 
Fire destroys a 16-unit apartment building under construction at Pine Tree Village Apartments in Shenango Township, Pa.  The complex of low- and moderate-income units generated controversy when it was announced last summer.  
 
A 19-year-old man and 17-year-old boy are arrested while they were cutting up 200-feet of copper cable valued at thousands of dollars on the scrap market. Severing the cable disrupted Ohio Bell service between Salem and Youngstown. The company said a replacement will cost $15,000.
 
1972: John Z. DeLorean, general manager of the Chevrolet Division of General Motors, announces that a Canadian plant is being readied for additional production of Vegas. Body panels for the cars will be produced at the Fisher Body plant in Lordstown, meaning an increase in employment there. 
 
Youngstown City Council will begin redistricting the city to equalize the population in the wards. 
 
The Lake-to-River Girl Scout Council receives a gift of 17 acres in Niles, the site of the Stanley Works, which ceased operation in 1962.
 
1947: More than 100 Mahoning Valley Republicans are in Columbus to attend the inauguration of Gov. Herbert J. Thomas.
 
The Ohio Bureau of Employment Services found jobs for 15,307 area people in 1946; 10,726 men and 4,581 women. 
 
S.R. Bradford, owner of restaurants in Columbus, Bellefontaine, and Springfield files a $106,340 lawsuit against Youngstown Brewery Inc. alleging that 4,000 cases of beer he purchased "contained foreign substances and ingredients injurious to health." He said patrons complained that the beer "was distasteful and made them sick."