21 WFMJ archives / June 1, 1973, | The Youngstown State University Reserve Officers Training Corps honored its outstanding members 50 years ago at an Awards Day ceremony. Superior Cadet Awards went to, from left, Cpl. Gary Gnibus, Sgt. Earl Gillam, Lt. Thomas Giannini, and Lt. Col. Patrick Briceland. A  second photo from the event will appear tomorrow. 
 
June 2
 
1998: U.S. Rep. James Traficant is working with the owners of the Ice Zone in Boardman to bring the Columbus Chill hockey team to Youngstown. He also wants to build a facility for hockey, basketball and concerts. 
 
Warren Police Chief Albert Timko suspends a five-year veteran of the police department for three days for not writing parking tickets while assigned to downtown patrol duty. 
 
The Trumbull County African American Achievers Association kicks off the summer festival season in downtown Warren with the opening of the African American Festival in Courthouse Park.   
 
1983: Roger Luscombe, alias "Jolly Roger" on WSOM-AM radio in Salem, is a candidate for a council-at-large position, but will lose his job if three Republican candidates seek equal radio time.  
 
Two of the five housing units at the Trumbull County Nursing Home in Brookfield are being closed to cut $80,000 from the budget. 
 
The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal of the conviction of Steven Masters in the Valentine's Day 1979 murder of his wife Jodi in their Boardman home. 
 
1973: U.S. Sen. Robert Taft of Cincinnati speaks at a fund-raising dinner for Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter.
 
Harvey S. Firestone Jr., philanthropist, industrialist and son of the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., dies in Akron at the age of 75.
 
Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell hits his 15 th home run of the season to take the lead in the Major Leagues. 
 
1948: Youngstown Finance Director J. Emerson Davis says a quarter-percent income tax would not solve Youngstown's financial problems in 1948 because it would only raise $208,000 and the city already faces a $300,000 shortfall. 
 
Smoke from a Canadian forest fire is dimming the sun in the parts of the Midwest. 
 
If Congress passes a selective service law, the Army will begin drafting 30,000 men a month.