21 WFMJ archives / February 4, 1986, | Anthony A.J. Bryan, chairman, and CEO of Copperweld Corp., parent of Warren's Copperweld Steel Co., came to Warren 48 years ago to appeal for help from the community and concessions from Copperweld's employees. He said Copperweld lost $20 million in 1985 and sought reductions in utility costs, taxes, and operating expenses.

 
February 3

 

1999: Ohio Gov. Bob Taft meets with top General Motors officials in Detroit to press the case for keeping a GM plant in Lordstown.

 

Warren restauranteur Patrick Padula says he is abandoning his efforts to return the Kenley Players to the Packard Music Hall after efforts to raise $300,000 in financing fell short. 

 

The 11th District Court of Appeals in Warren rules that Ohio's Megan's Law, which requires convicted sex offenders to tell local police where they live, is unconstitutional. Judge Donald Ford dissented from the ruling of Judges Robert Nader and William O'Neill. An appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court is expected.  

 

1984: Federal agents hope their raids in the Youngstown area that resulted in the confiscation of $6 million worth of cocaine and the arrest of six people will lead to higher-level mobsters.

 

The Youngstown-based Arthur Treachers Fish & Chips restaurant chain emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy under the ownership and control of Arthur Treachers Inc., a Utah corporation. At its high point, the chain had 800 outlets.

  

A tree that was planted too late in Fowler Center, Trumbull County, to be decorated for Christmas has been decorated by volunteers for Valentine's Day.

 

1974: Joe Chovan, a 17-year-old senior at LaBrae High School, paints a 30-foot mural on the gymnasium wall featuring images of student-athletes in action.

 

Rita Trickett's poster, "Be Bright and Brush Right," won the top prize in the Corydon Palmer Dental Society Auxiliary's poster contest. Karen Brunner and Karen Yavorsky are runners-up. 

 

Norman Rockwell celebrates his 80th birthday at the easel, doing what he has been doing since age 17. He describes himself as a "hack illustrator."

 

1949: The Federal Bureau of the Budget announced the enlargement of the Youngstown Metropolitan Statistical Area to include all of Mahoning, Trumbull, and Mercer counties, giving it a population of 500,000 and an area of 1,770 square miles. 

 

Nine-year-old Ronald Smith, who moved from Miami to Niles nine months ago, has a harrowing experience on his first sled ride. He misses a turn on the "Devil's Highway" sled run and flies into the icy Mahoning River off Third Street. Paul Hutchins and Elmer Saylor, summoned by Ronald's friends, pull him to safety. 

 

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