Years Ago Presented by Carmella's Cafe | January 17th
21 WFMJ archives / January 19, 1978 | Heavy snowfall clogged roads, created havoc, and closed schools, giving children ample opportunity to play in the snow through most of the second half of January 46 years ago. Here, postal vehicles parked along the downtown Youngstown Post Office wait to be cleared and put into service. A few other photos from the period will be used here before the end of the month.
1999: Mahoning and Trumbull County commissioners say they'll need more details before deciding on the feasibility of a three-county economic development district funded by a quarter-percent sales tax, but Columbiana County commissioners quickly reject the proposal.
Elected officials from Sharon, Farrell, and Hermitage will meet to map the parameters of a proposed consolidation of the three communities as part of an economic recovery plan.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, speaks at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance sponsored by the Trumbull County A. Phillip Randolph Institute. He says King's dream of racial, economic, and social equality can be achieved by working with organized labor.
1984: Financier Victor Posner, whose vast holdings include Sharon Steel Corp. in Farrell, Pa., offers to buy Royal Crown Cos. Inc., which is the parent firm of Arby's, which was founded in Youngstown.
The former A.C. Cook Chevrolet dealership in Canfield reopens as Cardinal Chevrolet under the ownership of Noreen Griffin Brown, formerly of Canfield.
The Wayne Russell Memorial Track Meet Committee has threatened to pull the popular late-July competition, believed to be one of the largest in the Midwest, from Salem if the Salem Board of Education continues to maintain that only the school-related clubs can operate concession stands.
1974: A dispute between two Youngstown brothers over a dog results in the shooting and wounding of one and the arrest of the other.
Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior, tells some 400 people at St. John Episcopal Church that the world is on the threshold of a long-term energy crisis.
The White House has spent $300,000 on President Nixon's Watergate defense, but his supporters complain that the special prosecutor has a budget of $2.8 million.
1949: Gus Hall, former Youngstown, and Warren Communist leader is among 12 Communists being tried in federal court in New York on charges of trying to overthrow the U.S. government.
Police are searching northern Ohio for three Cleveland men who escaped from the Trumbull County Jail, where they were being held on charges of robbing the Sky Club in Sharon.
