21 WFMJ archives / January 22, 1961 | The Mahoning County Medical Society installed officers at the Mural Room 65 years ago. Dr. Fred G. Schlecht, retiring president, handed the gavel to his successor, Dr. A.K. Phillips. In the center, Dr. C.W. Stertzbach, president-elect.

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1999: Less than half of the 49 homicides in Youngstown in 1998 have been solved, although most have resulted in arrest. The typical victim was a 25-year-old black man shot to death on the South Side arising from an argument. McKinley Memorial Library officials, who are thinking about building a replica of the Niles birthplace of President William McKinley, are looking for people who remember what the building on S. Main Street looked like before it burned in 1937.

Six young women, members of Girl Scout Troop 781 in Austintown, receive Girl Scouting's Gold Award: Carrie Zitkovic, Sara Gleydura, Elizabeth Thorndike, Allison Machel, Kelly Donnan, and Sara Pendzick. 

1984: Bethlehem Steel Corp. and the United Steelworkers of America join forces to file a sweeping complaint against imports of carbon and allow steel from Third World nations and other foreign sources. 

Berkely's Restaurant, a downtown New Castle restaurant popular with lawyers, business people and judges, is destroyed by an early morning fire. Damage is estimated at $106,000 to the N. Mercer Street business. 

The National Organization of Women, People Concerned for the Unborn Child and the American Civil Liberties Union put aside their ideological differences to file suit in support of a 17-year-old Indiana County, Pa., girl who was expelled from the Marion Center High School National Honor Society after telling school authorities she was pregnant and intended to have a child out of wedlock.

1974: Youngstown City Council appears ready to approve a half-percent increase in income tax for capital improvements. 

Eleven knockouts, nine of them technical, spark the action-filled opening of the 46 th annual Golden Gloves Tournament before 2,979 fans. 

The Ford Foundation, which has pumped $250 million into public television since 1951, says it will make a final grant of about $40 million. Foundation trustees say public TV is coming into its own. 

1949: Youngstown College is the first college in Ohio and the 25th in the nation to possess a microcard reader, one of the most important developments in the history of books and libraries. 

Burglars loot the Dusi Music Co. at 706 Market St. of an estimated $10,000 worth of musical instruments, including 19 expensive accordions. 

Fruit and other crops are threatened with severe damages because of unseasonably warm weather, L.W. Sherman, superintendent of the Mahoning County Experimental Farm in Canfield, warns.