21 WFMJ archives / April 30, 1987 | More than 1,750  students and teachers joined hands around Hubbard High School and Reed Middle School 35 years ago to show support for passage of a 5-year, 9.9-mill emergency levy that was on the May primary ballot.

April 29 

1998: Youngstown Police Chief Richard Lewis announces a contest. The police officer who writes the most citations for violation of the city's noise ordinance by drivers blaring their car stereos will win two weeks of use of a Camaro that was confiscated by the department and turned into a cruiser.

Jim Graham, president of the United Auto Workers Local 1112, and Herman Maass, manager of GM's Lordstown plant, tell 300 students at Lordstown High School that the auto plant of the near future will require a more highly educated workforce. 

Dr. Jose Santiago, an adult and adolescent psychiatrist, tells a seminar for school nurses at Belmont Pines Hospital that troubled students often first express their depression through somatic symptoms such as stomach ailments that bring them to the nurse's office. 

1983: Calling himself "the most feared sheriff in Mahoning County history," Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. tells the jury in his bribery and tax evasion charge in Cleveland that he could have rid the Mahoning Valley of organized crime had the FBI not interfered. 

Liberty Township trustees, police, and a fire inspector say they interrupted a tanker truck that was releasing well brine down a hillside leading to Church Hill Creek at the rear of the Universal Energy Services property on Belmont Avenue. 

Youngstown Mayor George Vukovich says he will not sign legislation reducing the supervisory ranks in the Police Department because of possible legal challenges. 

1973: The Youngstown City Planning Commission rejects a zone change request for the construction of a $2.5 million condominium complex adjacent to Mill Creek Park off Canfield Road.   

Ronald Franks, 39, an off-duty Campbell fireman, collapsed and died while fighting a fire at a three-story apartment building on Tenth Street. 

Archie Moore, former light heavyweight champion, will headline an all-star card at the Curbstone Coaches luncheon at the Voyager Inn. 

1948: Ellis Gibbs Arnall, former governor of Georgia, tells the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce annual Spring Forum that the best weapon against worldwide Communism is a strong democracy at home.

Charges of murder are filed against two men and four juveniles in the beating death of Cyril Runk during a robbery near his North Side home. 

Florist Ralph Bloom is taken to South Side Hospital with injuries suffered when a furnace in the basement of his shop at 35 Phelps Street exploded.