21 WFMJ archives  / July 22, 1956 | This house near Canfield was the Civil Defense control center for a Mahoning County Civil Defense drill 68 years ago.

July 29 

1999: A fire in the basement of an apartment building at 601 Mason Street in Niles leaves four families homeless. Eighteen people, including nine children, escaped when the fire broke out.

Columbiana County Sheriff Richard Koffel tells commissioners that his department will run out of money on August 8, and he will be the only employee on duty unless his budget is supplemented.

Mahoning County Commissioner David Engler, who announced his resignation effective July 31, makes a surprise appearance at a commissioners' meeting to join Vicki Sherlock in voting to put a 0.5 percent sales tax on the fall ballot over the opposition of Commissioner David Ludt.

1984: Trumbull County's first brine injection well is put into operation in Fowler Township by Eastern Petroleum Inc.

Peer Services, a two-year-old support group, is seeking to organize area homosexuals but has found members of the Youngstown-Warren gay community are only taking tentative steps out of the closet.

Valerie Fites, 13, of Canfield, and Missy Moore, 16, of Canfield, both members of Mahoning Valley Equestrians, have been notified that they have accumulated enough points to qualify as the two Ohioans competing at the American Junior Quarter Horse Association World Championship at Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 

1974: About 8,000 striking autoworkers at Lordstown receive their first strike benefit checks as the 17-day strike against General Motors continues with no settlement in sight.

RMI Inc. in Niles, beset by lengthy and costly strikes in 1968 and 1971, signs new contracts with two United Steelworkers of America Locals. The contracts provide increases of 28 cents an hour retroactive to July 21.

 

1949: Thomas Steel Co. will spend $1.2 million to install a new tandem cold reduction mill in Warren. Sharon Steel Corp. says it will start its Farrell Works as the Youngstown district snaps out of its July slump.

Gov. Frank J. Lausche vetoes a bill that would have taken the quail off Ohio's songbird list, making them game birds.

McDonald Mayor Milton F. Wilkens and Patrolman Peter J. Romish demand a retraction from Police Chief Harold W. Walls, who accused them of receiving $50 monthly to permit bug and marble board operations in the village.