WFMJ archives / March 7, 1948 | Some 300 electric passenger train fans filled five cars on the final run of the Youngstown & Southern Railway Co. to Columbiana and back. Operators of the last cars were, from left, Harry Davis of Washingtonville, E.C. Haas of North Lima, M.S. Gleckler of Columbiana, Joseph Candle of Youngstown, and Sam Beatty of Enon Valley. This photo and others appeared in the Vindicator's March 7 Rotogravure 75 years ago. 
 
 
March 7
 
1998: Mental Health Options of Warren files suit seeking $7 million from boxer Mike Tyson for psychological services provided to Tyson as part of his parole from an Indiana state prison in 1995. The contract Tyson signed called for him to pay 2.5 percent of his annual salary.
 
Youngstown Superintendent Ben Magee reverses a plan to transfer about 200 junior students from Rayen School to Woodrow Wilson High in the next school year, allowing the students to stay at Rayen for their senior year and be awarded Rayen diplomas. 
 
Francis J. "Spike" McLaughlin, 71, mayor of Canfield for 26 years, dies of cancer the same week that the city officially renamed its city hall the Francis J. McLaughlin Municipal Building. 
 
1983: Currie Elementary School in Fowler, Trumbull County, is closed because of damage done over the weekend by vandals who ransacked the office and ten classrooms. 
 
Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Peter Economus dismisses a suit brought by Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr., seeing a court-ordered moratorium on foreclosures and sheriff's sales.
 
About 50 applicants line up in the early morning outside Youngstown Pipe & Supply Co. to apply for a single truck-driving job advertised by the company. 
 
1973: Foster Shattuck of Lisbon launches a one-man campaign to save on film the history and legend of the Lisbon area. 
 
Mercer County Judge John Q. Stranahan overturns a decision by Hickory Township commissioners to block the construction of an 84-unit housing project proposed by the Shenango Valley Urban League on Mercer Avenue. 
 
The Ohio Selective Service System is closing 71 of 90 draft boards in the state. Youngstown is one of the 19 surviving. 
 
1948: Mahoning County deputies smash a crap table found at the All-American Club, 3308 Wilson Ave., Campbell. Deputies believe the table was moved there from the Jungle Inn. 
 
Former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts accused Sen Robert A. Taft, R-Ohio, of "twisting" news of the day to make a case for universal military training. 
 
Students at Youngstown College meet their goal in the campaign for funds for the college library and turn over $1,006 to university president Howard Jones.