21 WFMJ archives / October 28, 1983 | Alice Lev, Dr. Ernest Perry, and Abe Harshman were honored at the Youngstown NAACP Freedom Banquet 40 years ago.  Mrs.  Perry accepted the award for her husband. Others, from left, were J. Ronald Pitman, Georgia State Sen. Julian Bond (the speaker), and Roland Alexander. Not pictured is Dr. James R. Hovell, who also won a community service award.

October 29

1998: The Assumption Village Nursing Home agrees to create 15 new positions as part of a settlement that ended a one-week strike by workers. 

The Mercer County Chapter of Parents of Murdered Children objects to the Mercer Chamber of Commerce's dinner theater performance of a murder mystery.  Murder is not entertainment, says Jack McGhee, chapter leader. 

Clarence Boles, president of the Sheridan Block Watch, says City Council should conduct a swift and thorough investigation into alleged racially insensitive remarks made by a city police officer to a city official during a "ride-along."


1983: The board of directors of GATX Corp. approves a management plan that will almost certainly mean the closing of its Masury rail car plant. About 700 jobs will be lost at the plant, which once employed nearly twice that many.

A fourth Mahoning Valley pharmacist is arrested on charges of processing obviously illegal prescriptions for narcotics in a crackdown on drugs that are being resold on the street. 

Christopher A. Shaker, a son of Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge and Mrs. Mitchell F. Shaker, has passed the Ohio Bar examination. He will maintain the same office as his father in the Niles Bank Building. 

1973: Several hundred Jewish young people march from the Jewish Community Center on Gypsy Lane to Central Square to mark the anniversary of the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Munich Olympics. 

Parents turned out in record numbers at the Girard Schools open house, with some 1,100 attending. 

The United States is on track to register a $2 billion trade surplus with Communist nations, most of it in grain exports to the Soviet Union.

1948: A thick, acrid, lung-choking mixture of fog, smoke, and soot envelopes eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Donald Elser of the Youngstown College faculty tells members of the Friendly Writing Club that the keynote of all playwriting is basic plotting and characterization.