Years Ago | August 2nd

Vindicator file photo / August 2, 1951 | Mrs. Laurence McPhee, executive secretary of the Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross, and teenage volunteers watch Mayor Charles P. Henderson proclaim "Flood Relief Day" in Youngstown 71 years ago and present him with their first tag. From left, Barbara Hopper, Cynthia Myers, Virginia Palaologos, Judy, O'Hara, Phoebe Parker, Mayor Henderson, Valerie Hutchins, Mrs. McPhee, and Margaret Hall. On the first day of a campaign to raise money for flood relief in Kansas and Missouri, the Red Cross collected $1,856 toward a local goal of $16,000.
August 2
1997: Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating a train crash in Salem that caused an estimated $1 million in damages.
Cornelius Brown, 20, is found shot to death in a driveway at 19 St. Louis Ave., Youngstown's 26th homicide of the year.
Howland Township files lawsuits against 12 people who own six properties in the township that the lawsuits say are littered with articles of junk and unlicensed vehicles in violation of zoning resolutions.
1982: Striking workers at Trumbull Memorial Hospital are picketing Warren's largest hospital for the second day, with no new negotiations set.
Ernest A. Biondillo Jr., who was identified by an informant in a recently released affidavit as an associate of racketeer Joseph "Joey" Naples, is arrested on seven counts of violating federal firearms laws.
Ford Motor Co. says increased demand for larger cars will result in the recall of 1,150 workers who had been temporarily laid off from its Lorain, Ohio, assembly plant.
1972: Armed and unarmed robbers, striking virtually at will in every part of Youngstown, are averaging one robbery a day since the first of the year.
The Mahoning County Board of Health says it will defy the state and refuse to permit the dumping of sludge from Cleveland sewage treatment plants in the Central Waste Landfill in Smith Township.
Nikki Ann Marks, 17, of Greenford, is crowned Miss Youngstown Teenager, edging out 42 other entrants in a pageant held at the Holiday Inn West.
1947: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that railroad interests forced Col. Walter E. Lorence into retirement from the army corps of engineers. Lorence was an advocate for a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal.
Three armed bandits who drank beer quietly in the El Doroso Casino on Route 90 between Poland and New Middletown drew guns and herded several patrons into a rear room before escaping with $654 in cash and a quart of liquor.
Pfc. Morris Wilson, son of Mrs. Anna Wilson of Wallace Street, is reported killed in the crash of a jeep near Yokohama, Japan.