Vindicator file photo / January 25, 1973 | Three Youngstown State University ROTC cadets were honored 50 years ago, from left, Cadet 2 nd Lt. Alan Krezeczowski of Niles, cadet Cap. James Forestal of Boardman and cadet Major Robert Fitzgerald of Warren. Presenting the awards was Major Lonnie Williams, ROTC executive officer.

January 25 

1998: Labor agreements reached between Forum Health, the Trumbull County commissioners, and unions representing nurses and service workers at Hillside Hospital in Howland Township clear the way for the sale of the hospital by the county to Forum. 

Coach Ed DiGregorio's Youngstown State women's basketball team falls to Valparaiso 78-67, ending the team's winning streak at 16 games, a tie for the school record. 

Campaigns by the Youngstown and Mahoning County health departments encouraging childhood vaccinations are paying off, with the city having the highest vaccination rate for 2-year-olds among eight major Ohio cities and the county having the second highest rate in the state.

1983: FBI Agent Robert Kroner testifies that Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. was surprised when agents played a tape recording of Traficant meeting with mobsters Orland and Charles Carabbia because he had earlier told agents that he did not know the Carabbias. Traficant is charged with bribery and tax evasion. 

The Westminster Honors Band will feature 111 Western Pennsylvania high school musicians when it performs in concert on Feb. 12 at Westminster College in New Wilmington. 

Weston Johnstone, president of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce, says he has no idea who suggested to Gov. Richard Celeste that the state's eight largest chambers chip in and pay the $100,000 salary of Celeste's chief development official, Alfred Deitzel, president of the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce. 

1973: Directors of the Niles and Warren YMCAs approve the consolidation of the organizations into the Trumbull County YMCA. 

Youngstown City Council allocates $156,000 for the establishment of a new computer division in the finance department. 

The U.S. trade deficit totaled $6.4 billion in 1972, three times the 1971 figure and the worst in history. 

1948: The largest and most modern library on wheels in the United States is put into service by the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, taking 3,500 books to eight townships where there are no branch libraries.

Atty. T. Lamar Jackson and Charles R. Cushwa Jr. are co-chairman of the $150,000 Mahoning County Red Cross drive.

The Youngstown district is digging out from a 17-inch snow, the deepest since 1901.