21 WFMJ archives / October 11, 1983 | Nearly a dozen businesses were honored by the United Way 40 years ago for exceeding quotas. Seated, from left, James S. Lewis, Valley Mould Co.; Tilly Tatar, Buick Youngstown; Ruth Cruikshank, WKBN;  William Boyer, Dollar Savings & Trust; standing, Jack Dorrance, Dorrance Supply Co.; Robert Kloss, Home Savings & Loan; H.S. Thompson, Mahoning National Bank; Edward F. Trgovac, The Vindicator; Albert A. Matasy, Bank One of Eastern Ohio.

October 8

1998: John Russo, professor of management and labor at Youngstown State University, says striking workers at RMI Titanium Co. in Niles gave up much during the company's lean years and are now looking to make up lost ground while the company is thriving. 

Youngstown State University, which showed decreasing enrollment for seven years, sees a modest turn-around with an increase of 207 students to an enrollment of 12,533.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. says any impeachment of President Bill Clinton should be limited to issues surrounding the president's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, not the broad-ranging inquiry favored by Republicans that could go back to before Clinton was president. 

1983:  FBI agents arrest Orland Carabbia on federal charges of conspiring to distribute a ton of marijuana and Joseph "Little Joey" Naples on firearms charges.

Pickands Mather & Co. enters an agreement to sell assets of its Carbon Limestone Division near Lowellville to SME Limestone Co. of Uniontown, Pa. 

Minister Eleanor Felder, a former member of the World Fellowship Interdenominational Church, is ordained as pastor of Holy Bible Church of God on St. Louis Avenue in Youngstown.

1973: The Youngstown Area United Appeal, Community Chest, and Red Cross opened their 1973-74 campaign to raise $1.9 million for 31 agencies. 

Two veteran Youngstown police officers are suspended without pay for 14 days for labeling a man who was brought in as drunk and disorderly and putting him in a cell. He died of multiple gunshot wounds. 

The Vindicator's straw poll shows Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter with a two-to-one majority over his Democratic challenger, former mayor Anthony B. Flask. 

1948: A Jungle Inn card dealer admits to owning one of the guns used to kill Sam Jerry Monachino in Cleveland, but he refuses to name the man to whom he gave the gun out of fear for his own life. 

Youngstown City Council President William D. Holt is named chairman of a 12-member commission that will screen all comic books distributed to Youngstown stores and decide which ones are objectionable. 

The Cleveland Indians beat the Boston Braves, 3-2, in the third game of the World Series, giving the tribe a 2-1 advantage.