Years Ago | August 19th

21 WFMJ archives / August 20, 1985 | Ron Kangarise of the McDonald High School Marching Band held his tuba aloft in a final tribute to the audience during a band night performance 38 years ago.
August 19
1998: While most Ohio lawmakers are reserving judgment on the consequences of President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Poland, says he would support impeachment proceedings if wrongdoing is shown.
Judge Thomas A. Swift, Trumbull County probate judge, rules that the Packard Music Hall and Packard Band will be able to draw additional money from W.D. Packard's $5 million trust.
Poland Township Trustees increase the fee for a permit for a planned unit development from $200 to $1,500, citing the higher cost of the zone permit process for PUDs.
1983: A reserve Mahoning County sheriff's deputy investigating a burglary with another deputy and two Youngstown police officers shot and wounded a 17-year-old Wilson High student after he jumped from the roof of the Bargain Port Department Store on McCartney Road.
The Columbiana County Welfare Department will receive $117,000 to provide jobs and retraining to as many as 100 people.
Patrick J. Sullivan, 63, of Niles, Trumbull County auditor for 12 years, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital of complications following open heart surgery.
1973: Developer Richard E. Mills reports that the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. is going to move into the bottom three floors of Youngstown's newest downtown building, the 10-story City Centre One.
Director Norman Downing and teacher Helen Gottfried prepare the 40-acre Lordstown Land Laboratory for visits by more than 1,800 Trumbull County students a year.
A street sign is installed designating a section of Summit Street in Youngstown as Via Mount Carmel as part of a three-day celebration of the installation of Father Joseph Iati as Mount Carmel pastor.
1948: Youngstown Patrolman Martin Krohn nabs two 19-year-olds as they are counting their loot in a car parked on Market Street. They had taken $1,204 from a safe at the Century Market on Glenwood.
The Youngstown district is assured it will be near the route of the lengthened Pennsylvania Turnpike, which will put it within a seven or eight-hour drive to New York City.