Vindicator file photo / August  11,  1970 | More than 1,000 people crowd the Grand Ballroom of Youngstown’s Hotel Ohio 52 years ago to hear Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes address the Prince Hall Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio and the Amaranth Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Star of Ohio at their 13 h annual banquet. 
 
August 11
 
1997: William Lawson, director of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society, takes possession of 120 years of photographs and other histories of the Youngstown Hospital Association. The treasure trove was donated by Western Reserve Healthcare, the new owners of what had been the YHA. 
 
Austintown schools will spend $200,000 to replace outdated textbooks in every grade level. 
 
Victor W. Shine Jr., 57, of Greenville, the pilot of a private plane that developed engine trouble, landed the plane on I-80 a few miles west of state Route 19.
 
1982: One day after his indictment by a federal grand jury for allegedly taking $163,000 from area mobsters, Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. was back at work, refusing to say whether he would resign. 
 
Mahoning County Welfare Director Ezell Armour, Carmen Franklin, administrator of the Mahoning County Nursing Home, and Kenneth E. Lewis, president of the SEIU local union representing workers, tell Mahoning County commissioners that the nursing home could be made self-sufficient and kept open. 
 
Thirty-five rhododendrons nurtured by the late Paul J. Schmidt Jr., longtime nurseryman, are planted in Fellows Riverside Gardens, a gift from Schmidt's widow. 
 
1972: Ground is broken for the $2.75 million Hoyt Science Resources Center at Westminster College in New Wilmington. 
 
The number of people on welfare in Mahoning County drops in July from 19,980 to 19,937, the first decrease registered in 1972.
 
1947: Employment is booming in Youngstown, with one-third more people finding employment than in the pre-war year of 1940, census figures show. There are 160,000 civilians over the age of 14 employed. 
 
Cleveland Indians pitching ace Bob Feller will pitch in the Cuban winter league from Oct. 21 to Nov. 8.