21 WFMJ archives / March 10, 1983 | Caught between winter and Easter, Ryan Tekac, 3, and his mother, Marilyn, recognized both with their snowman and snow bunny in the front yard of their Wampum Drive home 41 years ago. Just a week before, area temperatures were in the 70s. 

March 10

1999: Mahoning County common pleas judges name Atty. David Chuparkoff to assist special Prosecutor David Betras in completing several pending Mahoning County fraud probe cases. 

In his first State of the State address, Ohio Gov. Bob Taft urged the Legislature to take all of the money in a fund created for income tax relief and spend it instead on education. House conservatives immediately voice their opposition. 

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Peter Kontos fines the United Steelworkers $3,000 for contempt of court in violating his restrictions on picketing at strike-bound RMI Titanium in Niles. 

1984: One of every 87 cars in Youngstown was stolen in 1983, the Ohio Insurance Institute says. The theft of 816 vehicles represented a loss of $2.5 million.

Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich says the Justice Department's attempt to block the merger of Republic Steel and LTV Corp. will hamper the U.S. steel industry's ability to compete internationally.

Dr. John R. White, professor of anthropology at Youngstown State University, is one of 36 nationally recognized scientific experts who will serve as lecturers for Sigma Xi, the international scientific research society. 

1974: Tony Caliern, who operated Caliern's Self-Service Market in New Castle since 1919, is closing his doors, the latest casualty of chain supermarket encroachment.

Bob Powell of Warren has converted a 1969 Fiat into an electric vehicle powered by a 1.5 horsepower electric motor that will propel the car at up to 25 mph for 25 miles on its batteries. The whole project cost less than $1,000.

Named to the Coaches' 1974 All-Steel Valley Team are Tim Joyce of Ursuline, Fred Davis and Don Filip of Boardman, Robert Carber of Cardinal Mooney, and Bob Naples of Austintown Fitch. 

1949: Two Youngstown men are captured after a wild gun battle a few blocks from the White House and are being held for the robbery of a B&O train near Martinsburg, W. Va.

The Youngstown Board of Education rejected bids for the construction of the proposed Elm Street School because they were $750,000 higher than the estimate. 

Advertisement: Tony Fortunato, Ohio's foremost baton teacher, supervises lessons at Strouss-Hirshberg's Music Center. A fine chromium-plated baton is $1.49; ten lessons at 50 cents each.