Years Ago Presented by Carmella's Cafe | January 16th
21WFMJ archives / January 15, 1990 | With a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the background, the combined choirs of Springfield Local and East High schools lift up their voices in song in the Stambaugh Auditorium lobby 34 years ago. The choirs performed at the Martin Luther King Day observance at the auditorium.
January 16
1999: Travel bans are put into effect in the Mahoning Valley as the area digs out from the latest snowfall of more than 4 inches. Since Jan. 1, the area has registered 31 inches of snow.
Niles McKinley High School adds advanced placement English to calculus and Latin among its A.P. classes. French, Spanish, and social studies may be next.
U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Poland, is among a small group of steel-area legislators calling on Congress to impose swift and severe penalties on countries that violate trade laws, especially by dumping cheap steel on U.S. markets.
1984: Two teenagers are killed, and three others in the same car are injured in a two-car crash on the Center Street Bridge. Pronounced dead at South Side Hospital were James Gajdos, 17, of Campbell, and Susan Robinson, 16, of Boardman.
The renovated Sears building in downtown Warren, renamed One Park Place, gets its first tenants, the CPA firm of Anderson, Beach, and Vogt and the law firm of Letson, Griffith, Woodall, and Lavelle.
During a Martin Luther King Day program, The Rev. Lonnie Simon says progress for blacks in the Youngstown area has hit racial barriers and "stalled." The Rev. David Kaminsky, First Presbyterian pastor, agrees.
1974: The Youngstown Catholic Diocese Board of Education adopts a policy on student pregnancy and abortion that asks the school community to accept unmarried students who have become pregnant and to oppose abortion for married or unmarried persons.
Republic Steel Corp. announces construction of a multi-million-dollar 48-inch mill at its Youngstown plant.
Technical experts find impossible the theory that an 18-minute gap on a subpoenaed Watergate tape was erased in a single accidental act.
1949: Two unmasked bandits take more than $4,000 in cash in a holdup at the crowded Cekuta Brothers Food Market, 909 N. State St., Girard.
"June in January" continues in the Youngstown area with reports of chirping robins and sprouting dandelions in backyards.
Michelangelo's famous statue "David" arrives in Washington, D.C., on loan by the Italian government and Bargello Museum in Florence for display at the National Gallery of Art.
