21 WFMJ archives / April 7, 1983 | Youngstown Municipal Judge Frank X. Kryzan was ruled off the June primary ballot 40 years ago by the Mahoning County Board of Elections, which found he would be too old to serve by the time he took office Jan. 2, 1984. Claire Cerepak, the deputy registrar of vital statistics for the Youngstown Board of Health, provided a copy of Kryzan’s birth certificate to one of Kryzan’s lawyers, E. Winther McCroom, sitting across from county Prosecutor Vincent Gilmartin. Seated in the background are Kryzan and another of his lawyers, James Philomena.

April 10 

1998: A former top financial official for General Motors tells the Dayton Daily News that the company changed its accounting methods to make it appear that two brake part plants in Dayton lost more money than they actually did. He said GM is not making a good faith effort to save the two plants from shutdown or sale. 

Prisoners at the state's supermax prison on Youngstown's East Side will spend  23 of every 24-hour day isolated in an 8-by-10-foot cell.

Trumbull County Sheriff Thomas Altiere says a sergeant with 21 years of service will be suspended for 60 days without pay after it was found he was working security at the Dillard department store while on the clock at sheriff's department.

1983: Youngstown Municipal Airport Manager Fred DeLuca says airline passenger service is perking up and he expects to see important improvements in service in Youngstown.

The New Castle Area Transit Authority is selling its old fleet of 13 buses after replacing them with a brand new $1.8 million, 12-bus fleet.

Airport officials in northeast Ohio are skeptical of a proposal by a Hudson millionaire to build a $2 billion international airport and trade center at the Ravenna Arsenal. 

1973: About 1,000 employees at GE's Ohio Lamp Plant in Warren are striking over what a union officials described as "local issues."

Dr. Myron Malkin, a 1942 graduate of the Rayen School, is named director of the Space Shuttle Program, Office of Manned Space Flight, at NASA.

1948: Alert neighbors witness the kidnapping of a 7-year-old Beaver Township girl and summon deputies, who rescued the girl from her kidnapper's car within a half hour. A 28-year-old Youngstown man was arrested.

The Mahoning Valley Historical Society expands its board of trustees from nine members to 24. Atty. Donald Lynn is elected president.