Years Ago | June 11th

21 WFMJ Archives / June 7 1959 | Construction on McDonald's $250,000 sewage disposal system was progressing 65 years ago at the rear of Woodland Park, on property donated by U.S. Steel Corp. The project was financed by village income tax revenue.
June 11
1999: Youngstown has hired a dozen seasonal workers, but it might be a month before a crew can respond to a complaint about uncut grass on one of the city's estimated 6,000 vacant lots.
A committee hoping to save a 120-year-old stone railroad arch on the North End of Jamestown, Pa., collected 500 signatures, but it looks like the arch will be demolished this summer. The arch's clearance of less than 11 feet restricts truck traffic on state Route 58.
The Werner Co. of Greenville, Pa., a family-owned maker of ladder products, names its first president from outside the family, Dennis Heiner, a Black & Decker Corp vice president.
1984: Concepcion Caraballa, 53, died after being trapped on the second floor of a house at 221 Ayers Street in Youngstown that was set ablaze by a firebomb thrown through a window at about 5 a.m.
Eight Youngstown public swimming pools will be open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. beginning June 19. The pools are at Bailey, Borts, Chase, North Side, South Side, Lincoln, Pemberton Parks, and Mill Creek Community Center.
USAir has 300 departures a day from its hub at Pittsburgh International Airport, the third highest in the United States. Among them are Allegheny Commuter flights between Pittsburgh and Youngstown.
1974: Herbert G. Thomas, superintendent of Champion School District, is named superintendent of Liberty Schools.
Mahoning Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne puts a halt to harboring 13 lions and four tigers at the Haunted House Pet Shop on Youngstown-Canfield Road. Twenty-two residents of the area testify to the nuisance and danger represented by the big cats.
1949: Dr. Bland L. Stradley, vice president of Ohio State University, urges 517 graduates of Youngstown College to use their talents and education to "help perpetuate the American way of life and build a better world."
Twenty-thousand people jam Idora Park as Mahoning Valley dairymen stage an outing and parade in celebration of Dairy Month.