Years Ago | August 24th
21 WFMJ archives / August 24, 1983 | Terry Martin spoke to a crowd in front of the Trumbull County Courthouse 40 years ago, where he was being honored for completing a cross-country road trip in a 1903 Packard. The trip from San Francisco to New York duplicated one made 80 years earlier. Looking on are his son, John, and Tom Fetch, who also made the trip.
August 24
1998: A looming strike by workers at Lear Seating Corp. threatens production of Chevrolet Cavaliers and Pontiac Sunfires at the Lordstown General Motors plant.
Tavis Smiley, author and host of "BET Tonight," is the keynote speaker at the Warren City Schools convocation attended by nearly 1,000 district employees to open the school year.
U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine suggests the Senate Judiciary Committee should conduct hearings on the classification of federal prisoners being sent to a private prison in Youngstown.
1983: The entire morning shift of the Niles police department calls off with the Blue Flu, leaving Chief John Ross as the only man on duty.
A Niles Municipal Court jury finds a clerk at Niles Book & News guilty of pandering obscenity after she sold two sex aids to undercover detective Thomas Tedesco. Judge Charles Zubyk fined her $1,000.
Employees at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren voted 5,301 to 2,084 against accepting a contract proposal that would have allowed up to 300 new employees to be hired at a reduced pay rate of $6 per hour.
1973: Millie Dunbar of Warren opens an all-girl service station, a Sohio station at Chestnut and Market. Her husband, Ken, operates a conventional Sohio station at North River Road and Rt. 46.
Delinquency charges are filed against three 17-year-old Youngstown youths in a robbery at the Corner Foodland Market in which a grocer was wounded.
1948: A 20-year-old Salem man dies when he falls from one of the high points of the Wildcat rollercoaster at Idora Park. Royal Dinkleman was pronounced dead at South Side Hospital.
Construction begins on Republic Steel Corp.'s new coke by-products plant. Plants of the Akron Soap Co. and the Youngstown Hide and Tallow Co. were moved to make way for the Republic plant.
