Vindicator file photo / April  4,  1957 | Sidney Moyer, right, president of the Youngstown Rotary Club, was presented the governor’s cup during a meeting 65 years ago at the Hotel Pick-Ohio. Dr. Fred J. Essig, left, representing the governor, made the presentation. Sam Eckert, center, received a governor’s citation.
 
April 2
 
1997: George L. Mankowski, 52, of Negley, Ohio, dies when the plane he was piloting crashed on a golf course in Washington County, Pa.  A passenger, Colleen Courter of Rogers, an aerial photographer, who said she blacked out when the plane reached 20,000 feet and didn't remember the crash, was injured. 
 
Investigators are seeking the cause of a fire that destroyed J's Shafer House restaurant and office building on East Taggart Street in East Palestine. 
 
The Sharon City Board of Education says junior Veronica Porterfield will be allowed to wear a bare midriff gown to the prom because she bought it before the district announced a ban on such gowns.
 
1982: Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 141, which represents deputies at the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department, calls on Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. to either resign or take a leave of absence after Traficant admitted taking $55,000 from mob boss Jimmy Prato. 
 
A group of about 60 citizens crowds into New Middletown Village Council chambers to stress their opposition to the village leasing its financially troubled water system to an outside operator.
 
Republic Steel Corp. announces that it will permanently close its storage rack and coil coating division on Albert Street by July, affecting 300 jobs. 
 
1972: A new type of highway sign goes up on Pennsylvania highways showing the silhouette of an Amish buggy to warn motorists to be careful. One of the first signs in the state was erected near New Wilmington. 
 
Dr. James LaPolla and two other members of the Howland Board of Education go to Romeoville, Ill., to study the year-round school schedule there. An extended school year is being studied as a solution to Howland's overcrowding.
 
Carmen Ross, president of the Golden Eagle Club for 35 years, is honored at a banquet at the Catechetical Center at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. 
 
1947: Kenneth Clark Jr., a senior at Rayen School, places first among Mahoning County students who took the state department of education's general scholarship tests. 
 
The expansion program of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation will cost several million dollars and will bring the total investment in that institution to $9 million.
 
Five coeds at Youngstown College are candidates for Junior Prom Queen: Margaret Uray, Betty Jane Houser, Nancy Cooperrider, Cathleen Naughton, and Leona Ehrhart