Vindicator file photo / May 27, 1980 | Protesters picket Youngstown City Hall during a hearing 42 years ago for 10 members of the May Day Brigade for their role in disturbances in Youngstown. Municipal Court Judge Frank X. Kryzan levied fines and costs totaling $2,300 on them and suspended sentences ranging from 10 to 60 days in jail for trespassing and disorderly conduct during protests at the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services on South Avenue in February and March of that year. 
 
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1997: Mahoning County Sheriff Phil Chance says 911 dispatchers should be working out of the justice center and under his authority, rather than answering to county commissioners. 
 
Boardman Schools Superintendent Larry Saxton and Board President Mark Huberman say the prospect of adopting school uniforms has been abandoned due to low public support for the idea.
 
A Columbiana County detective and a prosecutor's investigator leave for California to interview a 23-year-old Lisbon man who was arrested in Riverside driving a  car belonging to Martha Gayle Hill, 44,  who was killed in her Madison Township home May 17.
 
1982: An 18-year-old Guardian Angel, a member of Youngstown's crime-watch organization, is one of five youths held for a break-in at the Super X Drug building at 2527 Market St. 
 
Trumbull County records the state's highest unemployment rate in April with 21 percent of the county's workforce -- about 23,115 workers -- jobless.
 
Common Pleas Judge Henry Robinson orders that the aggravated murder trial of John Glenn be moved to Portage County. 
 
1972: Judy Simon, a 15-year-old Liberty Junior High freshman, ties for first place in a statewide algebra test administered by the Ohio Department of Education. 
 
George Reiss, Vindicator business editor, writes that if the United States and the Soviet Union reach a new trade agreement, the Youngstown district steel industry could reap a bonanza through access to high quality, low-cost raw materials such as manganese and nickel. 
 
Some 150 Girl Scouts conducting a survey for the Safety Council of Greater Youngstown find that only two out of each 100 drivers are using their safety belts while driving in the city. They conducted their survey along a route from the Southern Park Mall to Liberty Plaza. 
 
1947: Pupils at Hillman Junior High School plant flowers on the grave of Col. James Hillman, Youngstown's first settler, in Oak Hill cemetery. 
 
Although the Mosquito Reservoir is federal property, boaters are subject to state licensing and regulations, Atty. Gen.  Hugh S. Jenkins rules. 
 
Two Youngstown police officers and five bystanders suffer minor injuries when a speeding car struck the group at the scene of an investigation into a fight in the 1500 block of Poland Avenue.