Years Ago | May 13th
21 WFMJ archives / May 13, 1973 | Spellers await their turn to take the state during the annual Vindicator Spelling Bee at South High Fieldhouse 50 years ago. The winning speller was Mary Kay Pelini.
May 13
1998: Responding to input from residents at a neighborhood meeting, the Warren Planning and Platting Commission approves several potential uses of the old St. Joseph Riverside Hospital building and rejects others. Approved are nursing homes, senior citizen centers, and corporate or professional offices. Rejected were storage, commercial laundry, computer sales or repairs, or vending machine businesses.
Two deer, running through the North Side, one at Youngstown State and one at St. Elizabeth Hospital, elude police for almost a half hour before being injured, one by a car and one through their panic behavior. Both are eventually shot by police.
Austintown trustees take a hardline against the construction of 82 condominiums on 16 acres across from Fitch High School because they say there are too many units, not enough of a buffer zone, and inadequate drainage.
1983: In a tape recording played at the bribery and tax evasion trial of Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr., the then-candidate for sheriff is heard telling mobsters Charles and Orland Carabbia that they were "just like family to me."
Four 1983 Crestview students will receive $750 scholarships from a fund created by school board members who have donated their board salaries for many years to the scholarship program.
New Castle City Council approves the sale of the old Public Library to developers Joseph Jackman and Thomas Swihart, who plan to convert the 80-year-old landmark into corporate headquarters for Reactive Metals & Alloys Corp., with a restaurant on the ground floor.
1973: Mary Kay Pelini, an eighth grader at St. Luke School in Boardman, wins the 40th annual Vindicator Spelling Bee.
Lowering the water level at Lake Milton because of the potential instability of the dam has provided Jackson Milton students with an unusual opportunity to clean up the lake bed and shoreline.
1948: Frank Savage, manager of the Warner Theater, representing Youngstown theater managers, warns City Council that plans to increase the entertainment tax will boomerang because theaters will lose patrons and the city will lose revenue.
Ohio Sen. Robert A. Taft, chairman of the Senate Republican policy committee, renews his opposition to drafting 18-year-olds into the military. He says the draft should be limited to 19- to 25-year-olds.
