21 WFMJ archives / June 14, 1962 | Youngstown Mayor Harry N. Savasten, left, and Police Chief William R. Golden, second from left, presented badges to two new lieutenants and two new sergeants 61 years ago.  The officers were, from left, lieutenants James McBride and Harvey Kranz and sergeants Donald Crater and Peter Kubic.

June 15

1998: Warren officials and parishioners of Christ Our King Church express shock and sadness over the stabbing of Father Thomas Spisak during an attempted robbery at the rectory on Warren's South Side. The pastor is in stable condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital. 

Burglars gained entry to L.P. Bruno Jewelers in the Hermitage Hills Plaza by breaking into a travel agent next door and then breaking through the wall. They were unable to crack the safe containing most of the stock but damaged it so that no one has been able to open the safe yet. 

1983: The Mahoning County Children Services Board is told it will receive only $443,000 in federal Title 20 funds in 1984, about $400,000 less than was received in 1983.

Richard Woofter, 24, of Niles, dies in Trumbull Memorial Hospital after being pulled from upper Girard Lake in Vienna Township. Woofter was fishing and disappeared while trying to wade across a cove at the north end of the lake. 

Youngstown's seven swimming pools are open for eight weeks of operation. Admission is 25 cents for children and 75 cents for adults. 

1973: Incoming business at Commercial Shearing continues at high levels with a backlog of $40 million in orders. 

The Trumbull County Charter Commission proposes governmental modifications that would allow the county to rule itself through a council that would enact laws and an executive who would enforce them. 

Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon's personal secretary, has been given a promotion and a pay raise, but the White House won't release her salary. Miss Woods was a graduate of Sebring McKinley High School. 

1948: Col. Walter E. Lorence, executive vice president of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association, stresses the need for a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal if the United States becomes embroiled in another war.

Charles F. Wilkens, president of Wilkens-Leonard Hardware Co. in downtown Youngstown, dies of a stroke at 81. He had been in the hardware business for 48 years. 

The United Auto Workers union wins a 13-cent-per-hour raise for workers at the Hudson Motors Co., who had been making $1.50 an hour.