Vindicator file photo / January 19, 1972 | Special honorees at the 28th annual McKelvey's awards dinner 50 years ago were 12 employees who had completed 25 years of service to the downtown department store.  Seated from left, Nancy Woolensack, Jo Guttridge, Rhoda Evans, and Dorothy James; second row,  Ann Baksa, Rosie Lee Harris, Ira Lawrence, Gert Bodendorfer, and John Kraysets; standing in rear, Ed Simko and Jay Kohler. John Hobbs was unable to attend.
 
 
January 21
 
1997: The Rev. Jim Ray of Lowellville Presbyterian Church, speaking at the "Building a Bridge Toward Unity" observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day that "We're always so into ourselves that ... it's hard to see that what we do affects other people."
 
Among those attending parties at the second inauguration of President Bill Clinton were state Rep. Robert Hagan of Youngstown, Mahoning County Commissioner David Engler, Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman Michael Morley, and former state Sen. Harry Meshel. "This is wonderful ... a down-to-earth, working-class. $150-a-head ball ... with $4 beers, nothing but pretzels to munch and nowhere to sit," groused Hagan.
 
Joe Hixenbaugh, a clerk at TSC Home, Farm and Auto says people are buying horse shampoo and hoof conditioner for their use because they've found it's better for their hair and nails than people products. "Youngstown beauty shops are buying some stuff by the case," he says.
 
1982: Youngstown Councilman Herman "Pete" Starks says it is a 98 percent certainty that the city will give the Lansdowne Airport to Airship Industries Ltd., a British dirigible builder.
 
USW officials are working to identify about 250 former employees of Mullins Manufacturing who are entitled to $100,000 from the bankruptcy accounts of Mullins, once one of Salem's largest employees. 
 
Brian Sankey of Niles McKinley High School and Sue Christy of Austintown Fitch High receive the Steel Valley Art Teachers Association 1982 Outstanding Student Awards at the Butler Institute of American Art. 
 
1972: Ten young men are arrested in two narcotics raids by Youngstown police. 
 
Labor trouble at General Motors Corp.'s Lordstown plant has cost production of 12,000 Vegas, 3,000 vans, and $3.3 million in wages. 
 
The Youngstown Civil Service Commission adopts a regulation requiring all city employees to be residents of the city as a condition of their employment. 
 
1947: Get tough in handling discipline and the school board will back you, Youngstown principals are telling their teachers. The order comes in the wake of the arrest of two South High juniors in the murder of an Ashtabula man. 
 
Bob Feller signs a 1947 contract with the Cleveland Indians that is the richest in baseball, somewhat over the $80,000-a-year record held by Babe Ruth. 
 
Col. L.E. Lorence of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Pittsburgh, tells a meeting in St. Louis that a Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway suitable for special canal-lake vessels would become the world's busiest waterway.