21 WFMJ archives / April 8, 1972 | Charles B. Olds, center, chairman of the Mahoning County Chapter of the American Red Cross, presented a certificate of appreciation to representatives of the Youngstown State University ROTC 52 years ago, noting the help, assistance, and monetary support provided by the ROTC program to West Virginia flood victims.  Accepting were, from left, Maj. Lonnie P. Williams, cadet 2 nd Lt. Gary R. Gilmore, Olds, cadet 1 st Lt. Patrick J. Briceland  and cadet 2 nd Lt. James T. Forrestal.

 

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1999:  St. Dominic School, a stronghold on Youngstown's South Side for 75 years, will close at the end of the school year.

 

Columbiana County commissioner David Cranmer, who opposed privatizing the county jail, concedes that his inquiry shows that the county saved about $800,000 a year under CiviGenics' operation of the facility.

 

U.S. Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia, the speaker at the Columbiana County Republican Club's annual Lincoln Day Dinner, said Republicans errored in their attempt to impeach President Bill Clinton by waiting for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report because once the report came out, "it became all about sex." 

 

1984: A report released by the United States League of Savings Institutions says the Youngstown-Warren area had the least expensive housing in the country in 1983, with a medium home price of $39,050

 

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says it's time for the city to apply for federal transportation grants that would link the area's highway systems and connect economic development centers, like the YSU campus, with Downtown. 

 

The Hills Department Store in Niles was the top fund-raiser among the company's 116 Hills stores in its annual Special Olympics campaign. 

 

1974: U.S. EPA officials tell a group of Youngstown civic officials and steel executives during a meeting in the office of Sen. Bob Taft Jr. that the agency will not budge on its demand that the Mahoning River be cleaned up. 

 

Bud J. Fares, Mahoning County Civil Defense director of 10 years, dies of a heart attack while driving through Mill Creek Park. He was 67.

 

The Howland Local Board of Education rejects the Howland Classroom Teachers Association's offer to defer payment of two weeks' salary until later in the year to keep 22 low-seniority teachers on the payroll. 

 

1949: State liquor agents making a surprise inspection find a small but complete horse-race booking station in the fruit cellar of a private club at 44 N. Meridian Road in Youngstown. 

 

 

R.C. McBride, a private chemist hired by Youngstown City Council to investigate instances of "black rain," issues a preliminary report in which he says that hydrogen sulfide is reacting with the lead in white house paint, turning it black.