Years Ago | May 23rd

21 WFMJ archives / May 21, 1969 | Four Youngstown policemen were cited by the Youngstown Area Crime Clinic in Girard 54 years ago for outstanding police work. Seated from left, Detective James Herdman and Patrolman John Lynch; standing, Thomas Filip, Crime Clinic president; Detective Dominic Saulino, Patrolman Ted Gillison, and Youngstown Police Chief John Terlesky.
May 23
1998: In the wake of a 15-year-old Oregon student shooting and killing two classmates and a report that a 9-year-old Campbell girl brought a gun to Penhale Elementary School, Austintown Superintendent Richard Denamen calls for the establishment of a safety committee. Metal detectors are one possibility to keep guns out of Austintown schools.
Students at Youngstown State University voted 726-603 against building an $8.4 million recreation center that would have cost students about $100 a year in additional fees.
State investigators are investigating reports that group homes at 69 Illinois Ave. and 239 Fairgreen Ave. in Youngstown had no gas, hot water, or adequate food storage.
1983: Warren General Hospital will begin work on a $9.6 million expansion project while appealing the Ohio Department of Health's denial of the hospital's application to add 63 beds to the facility.
A "Hands-On Museum" for young children opens in the Youngstown State University School of Education with money donated by the Youngstown Junior League.
The Youngstown B'nai B'rith awards its Guardian of the Menorah to Democratic state Sen. Harry Meshel of Youngstown, making him the first non-Jew to receive the award.
1973: Two Arden Blvd. teenagers who escaped from a Mahoning County deputy while one was being arrested at the Southern Park Mall for fighting are arrested at their home, but not before one pointed a shotgun at an officer.
The Keffler Construction Co. of Canfield submits the low bid of $1,549,386 for the construction of two grade separations on state Route 11 in Trumbull County, an interchange at Route 5, and an overpass at Warren Shorn Road.
Named to the Steel Valley Conference all-star golf team: Bob Pieton, Tony Collelo, John Doughton, John Babyak, and Gregg Strollo.
1948: United Engineering and Foundry Co. have more than $65 million in foreign orders for steel mill equipment for five European countries, with much of it to be produced by United's Youngstown and New Castle plants.
Youngstown, already facing a financial crisis, is told that unless it buys fire-fighting equipment for the Youngstown Municipal Airport, the airport may lose its air reserve base.
The New Castle Board of Education proposes an income tax but says the tax would be collected only from residents of the district.