21 WFMJ archives / April 24, 1938 | The Isaly Dairy float was one of the dozens that delighted an estimated 80,000 people 85 years ago who lined the route for Youngstown’s “Parade of Pioneers,” marking the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Northwest Territory.

April 26 

1998: Dr. Leila Christenbury, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and editor of the English Journal, says the Youngstown State University English Festival "is the best, the biggest and the best run of all these kind of festivals that I know of." The festival, in its 20th year, will attract 3,000 junior and senior high students to the campus. 

Rebecca Williams, 12, a student at Edison Junior High in Niles, wins top honors in the History Day competition at YSU for her project detailing the migration of people from Olive Hill, Ky., to Niles in the 1930s through 1950s, attracted by jobs in the mills and factories. 

Dave Blaney of Cortland is knocked out of the Busch Grand National stock car race at the Talladega Super Speedway in Alabama in the first crash of the race on the 22nd lap.

1983: The first Japanese automaker's plant to produce cars in the United States has its official dedication in Marysville.  The Ohio Honda plant has been producing Accord models since November.

Two Sewickley, Pa., brothers are presumed to have drowned in Evans Lake in Springfield Township after their small boat capsized in choppy waters. Missing are Barney Adams, 24, and Marty Adams, 23. 

Carmelo C. Foti is elected Venerable of the Lodge Italia 2359, Sons and Daughters of Italy, during the lodge's inauguration of charter members at the Calla Mar Manor Restaurant. 

1973: Frank Leseganich is re-elected to a second term as director of District 26, United Steelworkers of America. 

An arson fire destroys the old Smith-Crawford Feed & Grain Co. on Youngstown's East Side, while another arsonist caused heavy damage to the Zanzibar Tavern on Market Street. 

Youngstown Councilman Jerome McNally, D-1 st, threatens to oppose further urban renewal projects at Youngstown State University unless displaced residents are given more help in relocating. 

1948: O.J. McIntyre, a metallurgist at Copperweld Steel, his wife Gertrude, and her father, George Menold, are killed when their car is struck by a train on Route 45 in Warren. McIntyre's father, Bruce, a photographer, took pictures of the wreckage before learning his son was the driver. 

A McDonald man was arrested by Mahoning County deputies four days after a hit-skip driver struck and killed Jackie Moore, 7, on Four Mile Run Road. But Sheriff Ralph Elser told no one, including the boy's family and the state patrol, for nearly two weeks. 

Daylight Saving Time is ushered in in Youngstown and most area cities after a lapse of several years with comparatively little confusion, except in Warren, Newton Falls, and some rural parts of Trumbull County that didn't adopt "fast time."