Vindicator file photo / May 14, 2004 | Mahoning County Sheriff Major Mike Budd salutes as a procession carries a  for placement at St.  Maron Church during Police Memorial Week ceremonies 18 years ago.
 
 
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1997: Visiting Judge Harry A. Hanna stops short of ordering the press not to publish the names of witnesses to a special grand jury investigating corruption in Mahoning County but allows prosecutors to convene the grand jury anywhere in the county. 
 
An Ohio State Highway Patrol report says Matthew Davis was a witchcraft devotee who was convinced that he sold his soul to a demon and would die by his 21 st birthday. Davis killed himself a few months before his 21 st birthday, but not before he committed random acts of homicide and rape at Beaver Creek State Park. 
 
Arthur Bland of Columbus tells a group of students at Lordstown High School about his journey 50 years ago as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. 
 
1982: Youngstown Mayor George Vukovich tells a group of 75 business leaders that the revitalization of downtown Youngstown depends on the extent to which businesses are willing to cooperate with the government.
 
Roger D. Hearn, a member of the White House staff for 15 months has joined the Commuter Aircraft Corp., which is developing a 50-passenger jet to be built at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, as vice president for administration. 
 
Nearly all of the 250-day-turn tool and die makers do not report for work at Packard Electric in apparent protest of a new job contract policy. 
 
1972: Students at Hickory Senior High school present $3,100 to the Mahoning Valley Chapter of the Ohio Kidney Foundation for an artificial kidney machine. 
 
GM's Packard Electric Division will build a new plant at Jackson, Miss. Employment is expected to be about 700 and full utilization of the Warren plant will continue, GM president Edward N. Cole says. 
 
Christine H. Quartini of Masury, who has a perfect 4.0 average at Youngstown State University, is the recipient of the Women's Outstanding Scholar Award at the 13th annual Honor and Awards Day program.
 
1947: The Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanatorium is filled to capacity at 167 beds, with several people on a waiting list.
 
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's Lockheed Constellation smashes a West-East cross-country flight record taking 6 hours and 55 minutes from Burbank, Calif., to Miami, Fla. 
 
Margaret Nicewaner of Masury, a 21-year-old senior at Youngstown College, is crowned May Queen at the annual ceremonies.