WFMJ archives / February 26,  1973 | New members of the Strouss’ 20-year club posed in the concourse of the Southern Park Mall 50 years ago. The new members included Alice McCarthy, Lloyd Pyle, Daniel Monroe, Ann Zofie, Margaret Smreck, May Workman, Cecilia Eisenman, Elizabeth Miller, Ruth Harris, Jennie DeRamo, Ruth Lanterman, Mary Coleman, Gertrude Marinelli, and Edwin Fair.   
 
February 27
 
1998: The Pontiac division of General Motors says the small car market is so soft that it expects to sell 12 percent fewer Lordstown-built Sunfires this year. 
 
Molly Graziano, director of Second Harvest Foodbank, kicks off the agency's Harvest for Hunger at the Boardman Giant Eagle. 
 
Heather Nicole Busin, the reigning Miss Pennsylvania, reads to 24-second graders in the class of Sue Mazzucco at C.H. Campbell Elementary in Canfield. 
 
1983: A feud between Warren's two municipal court judges is escalating after Judge Charles Young vetoed Judge William Jobe's choice for a visiting judge while Jobe is at a judicial seminar. 
 
Dr. Colin Campbell, the new provost of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, worries that medical schools may become an impossible dream for all but the wealthy. NEOUCOM increased its tuition by 10 percent to $1,050 per quarter for Ohio residents.    
 
General Motors is installing new, presumably safer windshields in 2,500 Chevrolet Cavaliers and Pontiac J2000s being built on the Lordstown assembly line for sale to rental companies, which will see how the windshields perform. 
 
1973: The Mahoning County Welfare Department anticipates drastic cuts in social service programs under proposed federal cutbacks. First programs to go: summer jobs and camping programs for youth. 
 
State and city health department reports list dozens of safety and sanitation violations in Youngstown public and parochial schools. 
 
1948: James Hovorka of Youngstown, the former owner of Keystone Transportation Co., does not expect to ever see the new Buick he left in Prague now that the Czech government has fallen to the Reds. He had served as a transportation adviser to the government of his friend Eduard Benes before returning to Youngstown. 
 
Mayor Charles P. Henderson says as long as Youngstown has an ordinance prohibiting marble boards and pinball machines, his police department will strictly enforce the law.