Vindicator file photo / December 21, 1958 | The stacks and stoves of the Youngstown Works of U.S. Steel Corp provided a backdrop for this manger scene on Christmas 64 years ago.
 
December 25
 
1997: Youngstown's longest-service police chief, Randall Wellington, and its first Hispanic fire chief, Hector Colon, are both retiring at the end of the year.
 
A ticket bearing the name of the Ross-Maiorca Partnership wins the $97,425 prize in the Girard Alumni Association raffle. Joseph Rossi of Cortland says his wife bought the ticket to benefit the education of their 11 grandchildren. 
 
James and Donna Winner plan to open an inn at the old Buhl Mansion in 1998.
 
1982: Vindicator Business Editor George Reiss writes that the Youngstown area's 50,000 or so unemployed workers struggling through the holidays can take some comfort in signs that the economy will improve in 1983. 
 
Youngstown city officials join others from throughout the state in fear of an Ohio State Supreme Court ruling that weakened the protection sovereign immunity gave them against lawsuits.
 
Youngstown State University's Wanda Grant is notified by the U.S. Olympic Committee that she can apply to try out for the U.S. Women's Olympic Basketball Team. 
 
1972: The afternoon before Christmas found downtown Youngstown sidewalks and stores filled with last-minute shoppers.
 
The Krakusy Society installs Joseph M. Magielski as its president. 
 
Miss Julia Tyrrell, dean of the New Castle, Pa., school crossing guards, hasn't missed a day since being appointed in 1947 -- that is more than 15,000 unbroken appearances. 
 
1947: Benedetto Tamburro, 51, of Youngstown, is killed in a Christmas Eve tragedy, crushed by a coal car at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. 
 
Akron car dealer Ray Smith credits Princeton Junior High Principal H.K. Rayen with keeping him on the straight and narrow as he grew up in Youngstown. To show his appreciation, he presents Rayen with a new Buick Eight Sedan.  
 
Ohio Leather Co. in Girard gave each of its 600 employees $25 Christmas bonuses. DuPage Manufacturing gave each of its 43 employees a week's pay and a large fruit cake.