21 WFMJ archives / November  1950 | The blizzard of 1950 hit Youngstown beginning on Thanksgiving Day, and digging out from 28 inches of snow took about a week. This is what Federal Street looked like on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

December 1

1998: Four young children die in a fire at a duplex on Roemer Blvd. in Farrell, Pa., where five firemen were treated for smoke inhalation and exhaustion. Dead are Brooke Hamlett, 5, and her brothers, Jaylen Eilam, 4; Ayson Eilam, 3, and Treyvon Eilam, 1. 

Marilyn Geewax, a Campbell native and syndicated columnist writing for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, tells an audience at First Unitarian Church in Youngstown that a community must have a strong sense of law and order before it can develop a strong economic base. 

Joseph Caruso, 31, former assistant director of the Mahoning County Solid Waste Management District, begins his new job as Liberty Township's first township administrator. 

1983: A U.S. Senate subcommittee will conduct three days of hearings in January investigating organized crime in northeastern Ohio. 

The RMI Co. of Niles filed an anti-dumping petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce accusing Japan and the United Kingdom of selling titanium sponges in the United States at artificially low prices.

At the fourth of five public hearings hosted by the Youngstown Board of Education, parents urge the board to keep school buildings as they are, especially South High, where the hearing was held.

1973: Four of five truck stops on the Market Street corridor are out of diesel fuel, having used their November allotments.

The Ohio Department of Transportation delays putting up new speed limit signs while the U.S. House and Senate work out whether the speed limit during the fuel shortage should be 50 or 55 mph. 

Advertisement: The Youngstown district's eight Burger Chef restaurants offer a Sunday family pack sale: One Super Shef, one Big Shef, a cheeseburger, a fun burger, and four orders of fries, $2.88.

1948: A Chicago-bound B&O flyer crashes into a westbound New York Central freight train five miles west of Niles. Five B&O trainmen are injured as the lead locomotive overturns, but the 150 passengers are only shaken. 

Youngstown Mayor Charles P. Henderson meets in Washington with FBI officials about the possibility of enrolling Youngstown policemen in the FBI National Academy. 

The Isaly Dairy Co. drops the price of milk 1 cent per quart, to 20 cents.