Vindicator file photo / August 2, 1972 | Four members of the Struthers Band demonstrate the different ways in which the new Struthers High uniforms could be worn 50 years ago. From left, Richard Gregorich, Robert Allen, Kathy Grisa, and Helen Cooper.  Band members, the Band Boosters Club, and Struthers residents raised $20,000 to purchase 130 uniforms for the band.

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1997: After announcing his retirement, Harold Bailey, known as the Friendly Trapper, auctions his New Middletown home and farm and all its tools, antiques, and some 200 traps. Bailey says he had received as many as 50 calls a day and will miss all the people he dealt with, but not the calls at 3:30 in the morning. 

A Warner Bros. studios spokesman says the company has no interest in bankrolling either of two proposals for a Warner museum, one from New Castle and one from Youngstown. 

Hiring for a new federal prison in Elkton is almost complete, and the prison is close to meeting its goal of hiring 60 percent of its employees from the Mahoning Valley. 

1982: In a suit brought by The Vindicator, Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Forrest Cavalier bars Youngstown City Council from holding any prearranged discussion of city business without first giving notice to the press. 

A regional drought ran for the full 31 days of July, with just 1.73 inches of rain falling during the month, less than half the normal rainfall for the month. 

Walter M. Pasco, vice president of the Ohio-West Virginia chapter of the Barbarians motorcycle gang, shows little emotion when a Columbiana County jury finds him guilty of the machine gun murder of Paul Bodis, 24, at a secluded farmhouse near Salineville. Judge J. Warren Bettis sentences him to life in prison.

1972: Jim Ettlinger, former Kansas University quarterback who was cut by the Baltimore Colts, joins the roster of the Youngstown Hardhats. 

The Mahoning Valley Health Planning Association agrees that the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanatorium should be closed at some date in the future. 

A plan to use land in Columbiana and Stark counties for the disposal of Cleveland area sewage, which would then be used to irrigate Columbiana County farmland, is unanimously opposed by 40 people attending a hearing in Canton. 

1947:  Youngstown will gain express highways to the west and south as part of the 37,681-mile superhighway system proposed by the Public Roads Administration in Washington. 

At the urging of the Mahoning County Bar Association, four of Mahoning County's five common pleas judges will be wearing black judicial robes in the courtroom. A number of Ohio counties have adopted similar resolutions. 

A driver and two spectators are injured when a midget race car crashes into the stands at the Canfield Fairgrounds.