Vindicator file photo / November 14, 1972 | Mary Fulton, director of Project Find, Mahoning County, received Red Cross and Project Find awards for outstanding volunteer work in helping elderly people access food stamps 50 years ago. Presenting the awards were Charles Olds, left,   chairman of Red Cross Mahoning County Chapter, and George Ruggles of Akron, Project Find coordinator for the Youngstown area. 
 
November 13
 
1997: Republican Gov. George Voinovich names outgoing Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro, a Democrat, to a new committee that will determine which state highway projects are funded each year. 
 
Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility, a group supporting three write-in candidates for the Wilmington Area School Board, claim that the failure of the New Castle Post Office to deliver 3,200 mailers until the day of the election or the next day cost their candidates a chance to defeat any of the four other candidates on the ballot. 
 
Warren city Treasurer Patricia Leon-Games complains that four large multi-colored Christmas decorations she donated to the city in 1991 are not being used because Mayor Hank Angelo has decreed that only white lights be used this year. 
 
1982: The first of two Mahoning County Sheriff's department substations is officially opened at the American Range, a target-shooting business at 12288 Mahoning Ave. 
 
Dr. George Kulchycky, a professor at Youngstown State University and Soviet affairs specialist, says Yuri Andropov might well have won the battle to succeed Leonid Breshnev as general secretary weeks before Breshnev died.
 
United Auto Workers vice president Owen Bieber is selected to succeed Douglas Fraser as president of the 1.2 million-member union. 
 
1972: A disgruntled Warren homeowner shoots a motorist for blocking his driveway with a car. Lanny Burton, 33, is hospitalized with serious gunshot wounds. 
 
Greg Bowser, former Austintown Fitch star, is one of three Ohio runners chosen for the All-American NCCA college cross-country championships.  He is a freshman at Case Western Reserve.  
 
East Liverpool police are looking for two men who entered the Broadway apartment of Willis Smith, 55, and shot and killed him. Some coins from Smith's collection are missing.
 
1947: Youngstown's three Municipal Court judges ask for pay increases of $1,200, which would bring their salaries to $7,500 a year. 
 
A man who took exception to the playing of "The Story of Sorrento" on the jukebox at the Deluxe Cafe, 201 Boardman St., pulled the plug on the machine. The bartender and a patron attempted to throw the man out, but he pulled a revolver, shooting Peter Polando, 26, in the stomach. Polando is hospitalized in fair condition. 
 
The pilot and a passenger of a Piper super cruiser airplane died when their plane crashed, exploded, and burned at the M.B. Kazy farm on North Benton-Calla-Stateline Road about 7 miles south of Youngstown. The Pennsylvania men in the plane were doing a low-altitude survey of a strip mine when the plane went into tailspin.