Years Ago | October 31st
21 WFMJ archives / October 1998 | Tony Zuppo, 5, hung Halloween decorations on a tree in the front yard of his grandparents, Anthony and Janet Zuppo, on Wilson Avenue in Girard 25 years ago.
October 31
1998: Six pioneer singing groups are inducted into the first class of the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in Sharon. Among those attending were Bill Pinkney of the Drifters, Al Jardine of the Beach Boys, Tim Hauser of Manhattan Transfer, and Ed Ames of the Ames Brothers.
U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. announces that $15 million in federal funding has been secured to pay for expansion at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport.
The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation in Cleveland will provide more than $8 million in grants over five years to five Ohio universities to provide resources to urban school districts, but Youngstown State University isn't among them.
1983: Three young people are killed and a fourth injured when the sports car they were in struck a tree along Rt. 224 in Berlin Township and split in two. Dead are Linda Chester, 18, of Boardman; Anthony J. Crisafi II, 20, of Austintown; and Michael J. Costello, 18, of Boardman.
John and Mildred Sliwinski are notified that their son, Lance Cpl. Stanley Sliwinski was killed in a terrorist bombing in Beirut.
Local historian Grace Allison writes the history of Howland Springs, known now for its bottled spring water but once a hotel, restaurant, and resort.
1973: Two alert Campbell detectives halt the hijacking of a large quantity of pharmaceutical supplies, firing several shots at a thief who had taken a truck from in front of the Campbell Pharmacy on 12th Street.
Bruce D. Mansfield, president of Ohio Edison Co., says the company is being forced by environmentalists to spend millions of dollars on unproven pollution controls at its power-generating plants.
A pipe bomb thrown through the front window damaged the MC Club at 3429 South Avenue.
1948: Fifteen persons die in the western Pennsylvania town of Donora after smothering smog engulfed the city of 15,000.
The Vindicator poll predicts that President Truman will carry Mahoning County by 15,000 votes and Trumbull County by 1,000.
A would-be assassin fires a shot into Mahoning Sheriff Ralph Elser's car on Sharrott Road in Beaver Township. Elser said two cards were involved in the ambush.
