21 WFMJ archives / April 18, 1984 | President Ronald Reagan walked outside the White House 40 years ago on the way to lunch with a group of Catholic bishops. Sharing a laugh with the president was Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone, president of the  Conference of Bishops.

April 18 

1999:  The Vindicator announced its first price increase since 1987. A weekly subscription will go from $2 to $2.25, while the newsstand price will go from 25 cents to 35 cents Monday through Saturday and from 75 cents to $1 on Sunday.

Convinced that Tim Couch can lead Cleveland Brown for the next decade, Brown's president, Carmen Policy, negotiates a deal with the No. 1 pick from the University of Kentucky.

Responding to comments by former assistant U.S. attorney Steven J. Katzman, Judge Jack Durkin, president of the Mahoning County Bar Association, says that the few lawyers and judges caught up in a corruption investigation represent less than 2 percent of the bar. Katzman told a Vindicator reporter that he found most of the lawyers he came up against in Mahoning County incompetent or unethical.

1984: Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman Don Hanni Jr. applies to become a delegate-at-large for Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart.  

Brian McMurray, 22, responds to the screams of a woman in the front yard of a house at 555 Joan St. in Girard and rushes into the burning home to save the woman's husband, Andrew Noufer, and Noufer's mother-in-law, Ruth Hinchcliff, 71.

Republic Hose Manufacturing Corp. celebrates its fifth anniversary as an employee-owned successor to the Republic Rubber Division of Aeroquip. The company has increased employment to 140.

1974: Two neighbors rescue Eva Yorkovich, 87, from a fire at her Alexander  Street home after hearing her cries for help. She was sitting in her newly remodeled basement when she heard crackling and smelled smoke, but could not see the fire because she was nearly blind. 

A controversial proposal to have Youngstown take over Mill Creek Park is rejected by City Council by a 5-2 vote. Council also rejects repeal of the city's $5 license plate tax.

U.S. Senate candidate John Glenn accepts a challenge by U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, to debate.

1949: Frank Tierney of Youngstown, a nationally known song and danceman of the 1900s, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital.  In his prime, he sold out houses in London and New York. 

Mayor Charles Henderson asks  City Council  to authorize an independent audit of the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co."s operations

Councilman John Palermo, D-2nd Ward, proposes raising the mayor's salary from $7,200 to $9,000.