April 11

 

1999: Girard has received a $200,000 federal grant to clean up the former Ohio Leather Works but the company that bought the site in 1997 says it has its own vision for redeveloping it.

 

The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in Sharon invites 1,500 students, from kindergarten through seniors in a 10-county area, to a music workshop. Among the artists participating will be Sharon native Tony Butala of The Lettermen. 

 

The Butler Institute of American Art will exhibit works by America's master artist, Robert Rauschenberg, and his long-time collaborator, Darryl Pottorf, a Cincinnati native. 

 

1984: Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, a Skeggs lecturer, tells an audience of 1,200 at Youngstown State University that Republican economic policy will inevitably lead to a surge in inflation and interest rates after the presidential election. 

 

Columbiana County Treasurer Ardel Strabala is making another attempt to sell a $193,000 computer system that never properly handled records. The county hopes to get $75,000.

 

Walter Mondale won 135 delegates in Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary, while Gary Hart got 17 and Jesse Jackson one.

 

1974: The Youngstown Diocesan Board of Education discusses the possible consolidation of three parochial schools in Ashtabula, Mother of Sorrows, Mount Carmel, and St. Joseph schools. 

 

By a 5-1 vote, the Youngstown Board of Education agrees to meet with representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The lone "no" vote was Louis Marciella. 

 

1949: The Lake Erie-Ohio River canal is the direct concern of 100 million people, Fenton B. Turck, a New York consulting engineer, tells the Ohio Valley Improvement Association in Pittsburgh. 

 

Ira G. Wood, 76, of Hubbard, dies when his clothes catch fire while trying to extinguish a grass fire near Warner Road.