Vindicator file photo / June  13, 1981 | Among the Mahoning Valley students participating in the Children's Summer International Village program 41  years ago, were these students who would spend a month in Germany. First row, from left, John Stanier, Liberty;  Steve Schuster and Paul Topiek, both of Girard;  standing, Leader  Barbara Kutsko, Liberty; Erika Hanzely, Poland; Beth Skelton, Canfield; Michele George, Poland, and Jeff Burrows, Youngstown. 
 
June 13
 
1997: Ohio is postponing the release of proficiency test results for fourth and sixth graders across Ohio after uncovering errors in some results, including some for the Warren City School District. 
 
Youngstown's Downtown Lions Club has donated funds to install a new control board for the Youngstown Radio Reading Service, a network of 125 volunteers who read stories for area newspapers to blind residents of the Mahoning Valley. 
 
Over objections by safety advocates, an Ohio Senate committee rewrites a fireworks safety bill to include bottle rockets and Roman candles among fireworks that would be legal in the state. 
 
1982: As Mahoning County Democratic and Republican precinct leaders prepare to vote on leadership, Democrat Don Hanni  Jr. and Republican  Bill Binning are favored to retain their chairmanships. 
 
With recent and impending industrial cuts by Werner Inc., Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, Greenville Steel Car, and Hodge Foundry, the unemployment rate is projected to reach Depression-era rates nearing 30 percent. 
 
Pamela H. Rigas, 21, of Canfield, representing Mahoning/Trumbull, is third runner-up in the Miss Ohio Scholarship Pageant in Columbus. Debra Gombert, 22, of Bexley is crowned Miss Ohio. 
 
1972: Gary Couch, 24, is shot dead as he is being taken from the Lawrence County Courthouse after being sentenced to six to 12 years on a manslaughter conviction. 
 
The Youngstown  Community Action  Council has funding for 797  Youth Corps jobs, but not enough applicants to fill all the spaces.
 
Abe Harshman, accountant for the Western Reserve Transit Authority says it has until mid-July to borrow the money it will need to keep the WRTA buses rolling. 
 
1947: Friday the 13th proves lucky and unlucky for Steve Sefcik, 19, of Youngstown whose car stalled on the railroad tracks on Struthers-Lowellville Road. He managed to escape as a train approached, but the car was destroyed. 
 
The Ohio House votes to take the quail off the "songbird" list where it has been protected since 1912.
 
The cost of hamburger is increasing in Youngstown, along with other beef, rising by one cent to 19 cents a pound. But butchers warn that the price could go up another nickel and restaurants are responding by raising their prices and altering their menus.