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Years Ago | August 16th
Interesting moments in our Valley's history are revisited with this daily trip back in time.

Vindicator file photo / August 17, 1989 | During a reunion of former employees of the Strouss department store 33 years ago, some of the women paged through a scrapbook that was similar to a family album. From left, Peg Conway, 70, of Youngstown; Martha Weyer Cotiaux, 56, of East Hampton, N.Y., and Mary Jarvis Aey, 55, who hosted the event at her Canfield home.
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1997: The federal prison at Elkton has already started contributing to the area’s economy, says warden John LaManna. Already this year, the facility has made purchases totaling $990,000 in Mahoning and Columbiana counties.
Canfield Christian Church holds a homecoming to mark its 150th anniversary.
Twenty-six sixth- and seventh-graders at Howland Middle School who failed two or more subjects attend a 10-day summer school designed to allow them to advance rather than repeat a grade.
1982: Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. says during a press conference that federal agents forged a confession in which he admitted taking money for local mobsters. He suggested he might arrest the FBI agents involved.
Three sons of Mr. and Mrs. David Quinn of North Beaver Township -- Chad, 8; Michael, 11, and David, 13 -- find more than a dozen arrowheads while sifting through fill dirt brought from Edinburg.
Advertisement: The original is back, by popular demand. "Star Wars" is playing at the Southern Park Twin Cinema and Movie World at the Great East Plaza.
1972: Fire rages through the A.H. Buehrle warehouse on West Avenue, destroying 100 snowmobiles. The loss is estimated at $325,000.
An $825,000, a 10-story dormitory at Ohio State University may stand vacant this fall because of a decline in freshman enrollment. The freshman class will total 6,000 this year, compared to 8,000 five years ago when Lincoln Tower opened.
Local 28, Fraternal Order of Police, rejects Youngstown's wage offer of a 5 percent increase in 1973 and another 5 percent in 1974.
1947: Robert M. Rownd of Ripley, N.Y., 102-year-old father of Harry Rownd of Youngstown, is elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at its 81 st national encampment in Cleveland.
Youngstown jailers don't know what to do with a man sentenced to 30 days in jail for loitering after it is learned he walked away from the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanatorium and has an active case of TB.
Youngstown faces an immediate milk shortage because dairymen are shipping more milk to Cleveland where prices are higher.