21 WFMJ archives / May 8, 1953 | Dr. Alvin Myerovich directs the Dana School of Music Symphonic Band in a rehearsal 70 years ago at Youngstown College.
 
May 8
 
1998: Mill Creek Park releases photos that the board says show that there are 212 whitetail deer in 1,000 acres of the park in Boardman and Youngstown, about 11 times more than the area can reasonably support.
 
Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey signs an order prohibiting anyone from signing out weapons from the Police Department property room. 
 
The order follows a claim by former Municipal Court Judge Patrick Kerrigan that the department was lax in maintaining control of firearms that had been confiscated by police. 
 
To mark Arson Prevention Week, a long-vacant house at 1418 Elm Street in Youngstown is demolished. Officials say about 600 houses are on a demolition list,  and the actual number of vacant dwellings in the city may be twice that.  
 
1983: Local library officials are gearing up to oppose the proposed repeal of Ohio's intangible property tax, which provides nearly 100 percent of the income for libraries in the state. 
 
There is a market for a 148-room  deluxe hotel in downtown Youngstown, according to a feasibility report prepared for developer Richard Mills. 
James E. Lang of Canfield is the new president of the Northern Ohio Golf Association, formerly the  Cleveland District Golf Association.
 
1973: Carl Bernstein, whose coverage of the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize, is scheduled to speak on May 22 at St. John's Episcopal Church.
 
Trumbull County commissioners deny charges by the charter commission that they are attempting to block the preparation of a charter by denying funding for legal counsel. 
 
1948: Paul J. Langley noses out Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph E. Elser by 296 votes. Brinks is hired to transport ballots to the Dollar Savings & Trust Co. for safekeeping pending a recount.
 
Long-simmering resentment against rackets and vice in Niles bursts into the open as 100 members of the Christian Layman's Association demand that Mayor Ray Hubbard lead a clean-up effort.