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Years Ago | October 7th
Interesting moments in our Valley's history are revisited with this daily trip back in time.
Friday, October 7th 2022, 12:01 AM EDT
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Vindicator file photo / October 7, 1956 | The Trumbull County Chapter of the American Red Cross acquired another building in Mahoning Avenue NW in Warren 66 years ago to give the chapter much-needed extra space for volunteer activities. The building on the right at 428 Mahoning was the latest acquisition. The building on the left was the existing headquarters.
October 7
1997: The Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. is expanding the Holiday Inn in Boardman and tearing down Paonessa's Ristorante to make way for a larger conference and banquet center.
The Cleveland Indians defeat the New York Yankees, 4-3, at Jacobs Field in a best-of-five series that sets up a seven-game showdown with the Baltimore Orioles for the American League championship.
Warren's new Riverside Walkway in Perkins Park is dedicated.
1982: Don Hanni, chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, says he is spending more than $800 to give away copies of the FBI transcript of Sheriff James A. Traficant's meeting with mobsters Charles and Orland Carabbia in which they discuss giving Traficant $63,000. Hanni has given away 150 copies of the 201-page transcript and has requested another 100.
The Youngstown Diocesan Board of Education says each school should have a transportation committee that would meet with the local board of education to coordinate transportation for students attending parochial schools.
Three Community Hospital School of Radiologic Technology in Salem sweep top honors for scientific papers at the 42nd annual meeting of the Ohio Society of Radiologic Technology in Cincinnati. They are Christy Pugh, Susan Barnes, and Brenda Ann Myers.
1972: Anthony Phillips, 60, is found innocent by reason of temporary insanity in the Lawrence County Courthouse shooting death of Gary Counch, 19, who had been sentenced to six to 12 years in prison for killing Phillips' brother.
The Rev. Lonnie Simon and Willie Oliver, chairman of the Youngstown Model Cities Program, are arrested at the South-Wilson football game on charges of creating a disturbance or interfering with police after Oliver berated a Youngstown policeman for alleged rough treatment of a teenager who was misbehaving.
Liberty police arrest a 25-year-old township man for allegedly firing six gunshots into an empty police cruiser parked at the township building.
1947: Youngstown area housewives and restaurants are planning to cooperate with President Truman's call for meatless Tuesdays to help save food for shipment to Europe.
A 9-year-old Canfield girl is Mahoning County's latest case of polio, bringing to 12 the number of patients in Youngstown hospitals. In September, the caseload reached a high of 19.
The Ohio Federation of Labor passes a resolution supporting the construction of a Lake Erie to Ohio River canal.