21 WFMJ archives / November 11, 1983 | Austintown schools welcomed guest teachers 40 years ago from elementary schools through high school. At Frank Ohl Middle School, Realtor Gerri D’Amico (center) spent part of the day in the eighth-grade sewing class of Cindy Perry (left). The students were Lisa Scola, Marci DePascale, Lynn Bott, Jill Roberts, Lisa Hofmeister, and Susan Lindsay.

 

November 10

1998: The National Packard Museum in Warren has received its largest donation yet, $100,000, from Delphi Packard Electric Systems, a company with roots reaching back to the Packard brothers, who built the first car bearing their name in Warren. 

 

The seven-member state commission overseeing Youngstown city schools has called two meetings over the last seven weeks, and neither was attended by at least four members, which is required for a quorum. Chairman Jeff Hundt says he is concerned. 

 

Kristen L. O'Horo, 25, of Canfield Township, is sworn in as an attorney at the Mahoning County Courthouse after scoring in the 100th percentile on the state bar exam. A score of 405 is needed to pass the test; she scored 530.5.



1983: Henry E. Perdue, 26, the man charged with killing Poland Patrolman Richard E. Becker, dies in Winchester Memorial Hospital in Virginia of a self-inflicted gunshot wound of the head. 

 

More than 200 law enforcement officers from Ohio and Pennsylvania salute as the body of slain Poland Patrolman Richard E. Becker is carried into Christ Presbyterian Church on Canfield Road. 

 

The Youngstown Area United Way exceeds its goal of $2.2 million by $2,000, only the fifth time in 30 years that the goal was exceeded.  It's seen as a sign that the area is in economic recovery, 



1973: Amy Atkinson of Warren is the voice of Muskingum College football games broadcast over radio station WMCO-FM.

 

Ohltown United Methodist Church celebrates its 150th anniversary with a homecoming.

 

The fuel crisis sparks a wave of selling on Wall Street, and the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials tumbles 24 points to 908.



1948: Two children, Carol Ann Nance, 4, and Ralph Nance, 3, die in a fire at 1001 Rayen Avenue. It is believed the children were playing with matches. 

 

Harold S. Cherry, a New York consulting economist, tells 50 Youngstown business and industrial leaders that the re-election of President Harry Truman will not change the downward trend of the economy, but there will not be a severe depression.

 

President Truman and his family moved to Blair House while the White House underwent extensive renovation. The building is in such bad shape that a piano leg went through the floor.