Years Ago | January 13th

Vindicator file photo / January 9, 1978 | Youngstown motorists driving down Market Street through a snowstorm 35 years ago could be forgiven for not believing the temperature displayed on Amoco’s billboard.
January 13
1998: Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey says overtime is out of control, with one mechanic earning $22,000 in overtime in a year and employees clearly in management positions still being paid overtime. Christy Zetts, a 5-foot-10 senior guard for the Struthers High girls' basketball team, scores a school-record nine 3-point shots in a 74-49 victory over Chaney.
State lawmakers send to Gov. George Voinovich a bill expanding the board of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District from two members to four, a move that state Sen. Robert Hagan says will strike a blow against corruption.
1983: William Binning, chairman of the Mahoning County Republican Party, and Don L. Hanni Jr., chairman of the Democratic Party, agree that a Blue Ribbon Commission's recommendation for a charter form of government for the county is doomed to failure if it eliminates most elected offices.
Members of USW Local 1197 at Sharon Steel Corp.'s Farrell operations approve a concession package that reduces pay by about $1 an hour and fringe benefits valued at another dollar.
FBI statistics show that serious crime in Youngstown was down by 12 percent in 1982, but Police Chief John E. Lynch III says manpower problems in 1983 may cut short any downward trend.
1973: The United Auto Workers local at the Fisher Body Fabricating Division at General Motors Lordstown threatens a strike unless grievances are settled.
After deliberating nine hours, a Mahoning County jury finds a special duty policeman not guilty of second-degree murder and four counts of assault in a shoot-out at Reed's Arena that left a sailor home on leave dead.
A fire races from the cellar to the attic, destroying the landmark Taggart Home in East Palestine. The house was built by Capt. Robert Taggart, a century ago, and turned into apartments some time ago. Two families escaped injury.
1948: Congress approves $204,300 to complete work on the Berlin Reservoir that started during World War II.
More than 4,000 parcels of Columbiana County real estate on which taxes are delinquent have been ordered forfeited by Common Pleas Judge Joel H. Sharp.
Mrs. John W. Ford is re-elected president of the Youngstown Society for the Blind during its annual meeting at the Youngstown Club.