21 WFMJ archives / October 3, 1983 | Thousands of area residents were at the Boardman Rotary Club's sixth annual Octoberfest at Boardman Park 40 years ago. 

October 3

1998: More than 300,000 doses of anti-rabies vaccine will be dropped from the air in the four Ohio counties along the Pennsylvania border after more than 25 cases of rabies are reported in the area, most of them raccoons, but a few involving cats, bats, and a skunk. 

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Peter Kontos denies a request by RMI Titanium Co. for a temporary restraining order limiting the number of striking pickets at the Niles plant. 

Huffy Bicycle Co., which ended production at its Celina, Ohio, plant after 44 years, will build a new plant in Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. 

1983: Thousands of area residents spend a sunny Sunday at the Boardman Rotary Club's sixth annual Octoberfest at Boardman Park. 

The Youngstown Peace Council's five-mile Peace Walk that started at First Christian Church on Youngstown's North Side raised $800 toward a campaign promoting a freeze on nuclear weapons. 

The Supreme Court left intact lower court rulings that there is no constitutional right to have a handgun in your home, upholding a Morton Grove, Ill., law prohibiting the possession of handguns. 

1973: A 15-year-old Youngstown girl undergoes anti-rabies shots after being bitten by a bat while sleeping at her Maryland Avenue home. 

Bishop John H. Burt, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, is among five bishops nominated for presiding bishop of the National Episcopal Church. 

More than 90 area pharmacists opened the Al Kurtzweig Memorial Day program with more than 16,400 signatures on a petition calling for the courts and law enforcement to do more to protect pharmacists from armed robbers. 

1948: Without Berlin and Mosquito reservoirs, the Mahoning Valley would be in a serious water shortage that would endanger steel production, says Kenneth Lloyd, secretary of the Mahoning Valley Industrial Council 

A new paper mill costing more than $600,000 will be built in Hubbard to "deink" used paper and produce "secondhand" paper. 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Merwin of East Palestine and their 5-year-old son, Grier, arrive in Paris, where Charles Merwin is chief of the financial operations section of the Economic Cooperation Administration’s special mission to France.