Vindicator files / July 22, 1984 | Rascal, the pet canine of the David Blower family in Poland 38 years ago, appeared less than delighted to have a fledgling robin on her back, but she was tolerant. Lisa Blower, 11, found the featherless bird, along with four dead nestmates, after a July 2 storm and hand-raised it. 

July 22

1997: Visiting Judge Harry Hanna fires special prosecutor Jonathan Rosenbaum because Rosenbaum refused to abide by a local rule requiring the pretrial disclosure of evidence to defense lawyers. Paul Colby Jr. takes over as president of Spirex Corp., succeeding his father, who was the founder of the company, which produced a wide variety of products for the plastics industry.

For the second year in a row, Beth Kobly of Youngstown and Jill Harmon of Boardman are on the winning team in the Eastwood Mall Pro-am at the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic Golf Tournament at Avalon Lakes Golf Course.

1982: George Bell, 52, of Weathersfield Township, is killed when his homebuilt helicopter crashed into a wooded area near his Ruppell Road home. 

Citing a downturn in business, Hydril Corp. will close its facility at the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.  Campbell Works, spelling the end for a company founded in 1936.

The former Bailey Park on Miltonia Street in Youngstown is dedicated to Nick Johnson Park in honor of the former athletic director of the Parks and Recreation Commission. 

1972: An air pollution crisis over the Ohio Valley has appeared to move on, settling over Pittsburgh. Readings over Steubenville, which had reached 900 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter of air, have dropped to 700. The recommended healthful reading is 60.

Columbiana County Common Pleas Judge J. Warren Bettis refuses to issue a restraining order against 57 companies sought by the Ohio Air Pollution Control Board until the companies are served and have an opportunity to defend themselves against a charge that their operations "present an imminent and substantial danger to human health" during the time of an air inversion. 

The Warren Interfaith Action Committee receives a $750 check from St. James Parish.  The gift will be used to get a federal grant of $2,000 for operating expenses at the Brian Job Swimming Pool in Interfaith Park on Niles Road.             `

1947: A 6-year-old boy who was staying in Massillon City Hospital with a broken arm on June 6 when two babies died of crushed skulls in the nursery demonstrates to police how he accidentally dropped the babies while "playing nurse." His mother says he doesn't realize the babies were hurt. 

A group of engineers from the Pittsburgh District and from the War Department is touring the proposed Lake Erie-Ohio River canal route. 

John R. Squire, 84, widely known in the sheet metal and roofing business, dies after suffering a heart attack at Oak Hill Cemetery, where he was visiting the grave of his wife, who died in 1936.