Years Ago | October 6th
21 WFMJ archives / October 6, 1979 | Jim d’Andrea of Warren, a worker in the pipe shop at Copperweld Steel Corp. in Warren, watched a mold being cleaned after use 44 years ago. At the time, employees were expressing satisfaction with investments being made by Imetal, the French firm that bought Copperweld in 1975.
October 6
1998: Hubbard auditor Michael Villano says nearly half the water the city buys for distribution is disappearing, and officials have been unable to determine where the water is being lost. In one month, the city paid $55,698 for 41 million gallons of water from Consumers Pennsylvania Water Co. but was only able to bill customers for 22 million gallons.
U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Poland, introduces legislation that would create a toll-free phone number that consumers could call to determine if items valued at more than $250 are made in the United States.
General Motors edges out Ford as the top auto seller in the United States. GM's Lordstown-built Cavalier, with 18,880 sales in September, slips to second behind the Malibu in Chevrolet sales.
1983: Wean United Inc. has reached an agreement to sell the Vaughn Division product line at its Austintown plant for an undisclosed amount to Morgan Construction Co. of Worchester, Mass.
The mother of Joseph M. DeRose Jr., a reputed hired killer who disappeared during mob warfare in 1981, asks the probate court to declare him dead.
The Rev. William "Pop" Simon, retired associate pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church and father of the church's pastor, the Rev. Lonnie Simon, dies at the age of 90 in St. Elizabeth Hospital.
1973: The three Bowers brothers -- John, 17, Ricky, 16, and Charles, 14 -- are on Coach Dick Canacci's East High Golden Bears football team, the first family threesome he has ever coached.
A masked bandit wearing a frosted wig and makeup robbed the Farmers Bank Cornersburg office and fled into a wooded area.
David Jackson, 26, of Warren, is shot to death at the Tiki Lounge on Market Street in Youngstown by a man who pulled out a pistol and opened fire during a quarrel.
1948: Slot machines are smashed, and beer and whiskey are seized when state agents and city police raid the Poland Country Club.
Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians and Johnny Sain of the Boston Braves have a pitching duel in the first game of the World Series. Boston wins, 1-0.
Mrs. George Bigley of Struthers and her mother, Mrs. Stephen Anderson of Campbell, escape death by seconds when they scramble from their car that stalled on the tracks of a speeding B&O passenger train on the Bridge Street crossing.
