21 WFMJ archives / January 27, 1955 | The annual luncheon of the Youngstown District Girl Scouts at the Piccadilly Room at the Tod Hotel 69 years ago provided an opportunity for adult leaders to get together. Front, from left, Mrs. Isabelle Kennedy Turner of the Kennedy Child Development Center, the speaker; Mrs. Reed Pennel, president of the Girl Scout Council; Mrs. Richard Bentley, and rear, Pat Murray, Mariner Scout, and Mrs. Harry Kerr, who received a 25-year-pin.

January 27

1999:  State Rep. Ron Hood, R-Canfield, is sponsoring a bill to make it legal for Ohio residents to carry a concealed weapon. An earlier effort died in 1996 after Gov. George Voinovich threatened to veto any bill that did not have the support of the state's major law enforcement organizations.

Stephen Yokich, president of the United Autoworkers Union, says he's opposed to spinning off Delphi Automotive Systems from General Motors Corp. The UAW represents 46,000 Delphi workers. The International Union of Electrical Workers, which supports the spinoff, represents 20,000, including 7,200 in Warren.

Mahoning County officials are exploring the closing of the minimum security lockup across from the Mahoning County Jail as a way to save $950,000 from a tight budget.

1984: Two officials of the Citizens League of Youngstown, John Weed Powers and James Callen, submit to a Senate subcommittee a report listing 13 past or present area public officials and prominent businessmen alleged to have mob connections.

Every politician contacted by Vindicator reporters to comment on the Citizen League's accusations vehemently denied any mob connections. "They're out of their minds," said Mahoning County Prosecutor Vince Gilmartin.

Teams from the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department conduct simultaneous pre-dawn raids at the headquarters of the Outlaws motorcycle club on Youngstown's South Side and the Struthers home of the club president. Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. drove a cruiser through the thick wooden gate blocking access to the clubhouse at Hiram and Caledonia streets.

1974: Youngstown police juvenile officers believe they have learned the identities of eight students who allegedly molested an East High teacher in December and have begun picking them up.

Youngstown State University has had a four percent drop in full-time enrollment, but will receive its full $10 million appropriation from the state, says President John Coffelt.

The 97-piece Detroit Symphony Orchestra, directed by the London Symphony Orchestra's Andre Previn, will present a concert March 11 at Stambaugh Auditorium.

1949: Gov. Frank Lausche and the Ohio Liquor Control Board issue a 60-day moratorium on the issuance of new liquor permits.

The Washington office of Ohio Sen. Robert A. Taft announces that he will discuss the future of the Republican Party in a major policy-making address at the annual McKinley Club banquet in Niles. 

Youngstown Board of Education employees will receive injections against the feared spread of a flu similar to that which swept the city in 1918-19.