21 WFMJ Archives / July 6, 1984 | Country singer Jerry Reed brought out a crowd on the last day of the Trumbull County Fair 40 years ago. Reed was not only a singer but also appeared at the time in the Burt Reynolds film "Cannonball Run II." 

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1999: Gov. Bob Taft appoints Canfield Mayor Scott D. Hunter to the Mahoning County Court judgeship made vacant when Fred Bailey resigned in May.


Charges are dropped against six lawmen who had been members of a special squad named by former Mahoning County Sheriff Edward Nemeth. The charges had been brought by former special prosecutor Robert Ruggieri of Cleveland, but defense lawyers argued that the only evidence was provided by known drug dealers. 


Two years after opening a $1.3 million call center on Interstate Boulevard in Austintown, InfoCision of Akron announces it is expanding and adding 150 employees to its 500-person workforce.


1984: A 100-acre site between North River Road and Mahoning Avenue will be developed as an industrial park, Warren Commerce Park. 


Atty. Don L. Hanni Jr. bows out of attending the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco after the presumptive nominee, Walter Mondale, announces his choice for vice president, Geraldine Ferraro. Hanni says there's nothing left to battle over, so he'll stay home while his son, Don L. Hanni III, goes to the convention. 


The nation's shortage of Latin teachers is so acute that Dr. J. Hilton Turner at Westminster College says he received 80 applications for the 20 openings for six-week courses in the language that lead to certification. 


1974: Nearly 100 members of the Ohio National Guard 838th Military Police Co. in Youngstown are ordered to take over security at the Lucasville prison after security guards began walking off the job. 


Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter is passing out cigars after his wife, Polly, gives birth to their first child, a boy named Jonathan David. 
Sister M. Germaine Hawkins, 79, former administrator of St. Elizabeth Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital, dies at Villa Maria Convent. 


1949: The Youngstown Parks Commission reports the heaviest Japanese beetle infestation on record. 


A threatened steel strike appears to have been averted with all major steelmakers, including Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., agreeing to appear before President Truman's fact-finding board. 


Eight men and women are charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor by buying groceries that they knew a 17-year-old was stealing from boxcars at the A&P warehouse.