Vindicator file photo / October 4, 1980 | Among the Youngstown Diocesan clergy attending a reunion to mark Ursuline High School’s 75th anniversary  42 years ago were, from left, Bishop James W. Malone, the Rev. Paul Gubser, the Rev. John Gubser, the Rev. Anthony Pastucci, the Rev. Conrad Gromada, the Rev. Daniel Venglarick, the Rev. Richard Murphy and the Rev. Frank Lehnerd.

October 6 

1997: Struthers police file felony child endangering charges against a 33-year-old woman who was seen driving down a Struthers street with an 11-year-old boy tied behind the car. She told police the boy, a foster child, had run away, so she told him, "You want to run? I'll let you run."

The Columbiana Ministerial Association launches Bartimaeus Partners, a program to help village residents to transition from government assistance to self-sufficiency.

The Rev. Charles Crumbley, the pastor of St. James Church in Warren, says he became a police chaplain because he has seen "police officers deal with negativity all the time." Father Crumbley wanted to be a police officer before he entered the priesthood. 

1982: Acting on a telephone tip, Youngstown police search a field near the Gerwig Avenue home of Lacey Patton, 61, and find his body. The body of his wife, Vera, had been found in their home two days earlier. Both had their throats slashed. John Alexander, 33, is charged with the murders.

Debra Bower is arraigned in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on a charge of murder in the stabbing death of her husband, Dr. Richard Bower, at their Howland home. 

U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., will appear at a fundraiser in Youngstown for George D. Tablack, Democratic candidate challenging Lyle Williams in the 17th District.

1972: Tempers flare as one member of the Youngstown Board of Education, Louis Marciella, is censured and stripped of his voting rights for the rest of the meeting after he accuses the administration of bypassing white applicants to hire black job seekers. 

Edward D. Harper, 35, of Canfield, is awarded a Carnegie Hero Fund medal for his role in saving 16-year-old George McLaughlin from drowning in a Mill Creek Park stream in March. 

Trumbull County commissioners and county engineer Bruce Weaver go on record as opposed to the opening of state Route 11 north of state Route 82 until grade separations are constructed at all intersecting roads. 

1947: The O.K. Hotel at 432 E. Federal Street is boarded up on orders of the fire chief after fire forces the evacuation of 25 men, most of them unemployed. 

Century Food Market Co., Youngstown's largest locally owned food store chain, will sell an issue of preferred and common stock to raise $225,000.

Mrs. Margaret Fox Becker, 63, wife of Fred H Becker, president of Ohio Leather Co., dies in her Catalina Avenue home after a three-year illness.