August 22

1998: Service stations along Interstate 80 in the Mahoning Valley are posting some of the lowest gasoline prices in the nation, with regular selling for 83 cents a gallon at the Sheetz station on Salt Springs Road. 

The Mahoning River Basin Research Center at Youngstown State University is seeking local sponsors for the $300,000 to $400,000 in local funds that would be needed to get millions in federal funds for cleaning up the Mahoning River between Leavittsburg and Lowellville. 

Thirteen inmates at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown earn their high school GED certificates.

1983: Ozell Jones, 25, formerly of Youngstown, is reported drowned in the Houston Ship Channel during Hurricane Alicia. 

The 138th Columbiana County Fair opens in Lisbon. 

Dr. Chaplain Morrison, who taught history at Youngstown State University from 1966 through 1969, is serving as legislative coordinator for the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Coalition in Washington, D.C. During his time at YSU, he was a vocal opponent of the war in Vietnam and remembers the first time he was arrested, at a demonstration at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.

1973: Two 17-year-old boys are in custody, and two others are being sought for questioning in recent robberies in Youngstown, including one in which Jerry Jadallah, manager of the Corner Foodland, was shot in the shoulder.

The Weathersfield Board of Education adopts a dress code that includes hair length for boys (neatly groomed, styled off the ear, above the eyebrows, and not touching the shirt collar) and for girls, no excessive make-up and dresses of an appropriate length. Dress slacks are permitted, but no jeans or shorts in school or at basketball games. 

The Vindicator announces that it will begin running The Mini Page on Saturdays, a page of news and puzzles aimed at young readers.

1948: In true Doughboy style, members of Co. D, 145th Infantry, Ohio National Guard, march from the Youngstown Armory to a troop train waiting at the Pennsylvania Station to take them to Camp Atterbury, Ind., for two weeks of maneuvers. 

Two robbers hold five employees and two guests at gunpoint at the Youngstown Hotel for nearly a half hour before escaping with $660 from cash drawers and the safe. 

Samuel F. Keener, president of Salem Engineering Co., has taken to wearing a fancy uniform of his own design as he flies his DC-3 between European cities doing business. The uniform opens doors, he says, especially at airports.