Vindicator file photo / April 9, 1970 | An American flag and an Ohio state flag that will be displayed in City Hall’s main lobby were presented to Mayor Jack C. Hunter 52 years ago by Atty. Jack Lipari. From left, Frank DeCiccio, council sergeant at arms; Councilmen Pete Starks and William Bryant; Alex Yankush, council clerk; Councilman William Shranko; Hunter; Lipari; John Hudzik, council president; Fred DeLuca, airport manager; Councilmen Emanuel Catsoules and William Wade, and David A. O’Neill, water commissioner.
 
April 11
 
1997: The budget battle between county commissioners and coroner Dr. David Kennedy ends when Kennedy agrees to lay off a secretary so that he can balance his budget. Interns from Youngstown State University will do the secretary's work at no cost. 
 
Ted Kennedy Jr., a member of the research faculty of Yale University School of Medicine, is the featured speaker at Western Reserve Health Care's Cancer Symposium. Kennedy, whose leg was amputated because of cancer, spoke about the value of cancer support groups.
 
The state commission overseeing Youngstown City Schools votes unanimously to close Adams Junior High School next year to save money. 
 
1982: Liberty Township residents who unsuccessfully opposed a zone change to allow construction of a McDonald's restaurant on Belmont Avenue say county commissioners added insult to injury by issuing $600,000 in federal revenue bonds for the construction of the building.
 
Warren police Chief Richard Galgozy says placing resource officers in city schools is paying unexpected dividends. Juvenile Detective Carl Blevins arrested a young robbery suspect after recognizing him from a description given by the robbery victim. 
 
Suspensions, expulsions, and dropouts in the Youngstown Public Schools during 1981-82's first semester were below those of the same period a year earlier. 
 
1972: Campbell Police Lt. Albert Masi finds his brother and sister-in-law,  Angelo G. Masi, 61, and Beatrice, 63, dead in their Chambers St. home, victims of exhaust fumes from a furnace. 
 
The Rev. Donald L. Steffy, minister of First Christian Church since 1967, resigns to take a position with the Ohio Society of Christian Churches overseeing the development of new congregations.
 
The Ohio University College of Education is awarded a $7,500 contract to conduct an educational survey of the Leetonia School District. 
 
1947: Miss Ruth Fouke, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hugh B. Fouke, leaves Youngstown to take the post of executive secretary of Campfire Girls of Columbus and Franklin County. 
 
Well water serving the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanatorium is rusty, smelly, and unsanitary, hospital trustees are told. 
 
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