21 WFMJ archives  / July 30, 1954 | Seventy years ago, a group of 27 Western Pennsylvania industrial leaders gathered at the Youngstown Municipal Airport to board a Capital Airlines passenger plane for an aerial tour of the proposed Beaver Valley-Erie extension route to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The 90-mile extension had the endorsement of Beaver, Lawrence, and Mercer county leaders.

July 30

1999: The state is prepared to provide Struthers and Campbell school districts as much as $52 million toward renovation and construction of school buildings if the districts provide $7.2 million in local funding.

Union workers walk off the job at the renovation of Canfield High School over the use of nonunion workers by a plumbing contractor and a sheet-metal company. Superintendent Doug Hiscox says the work is no longer on schedule to be done when classes resume Sept. 7.

Two deputies who pleaded guilty to falsification charges during former Sheriff Phil Chance's administration are placed on paid leave pending a department investigation.

1984: Walter Paulo, former president of the Isaly Dairy Co. and a three-term state representative, is chairman of  U.S. Savings Bond sales for 17 Ohio counties, including Mahoning. Paulo, who says he and his wife hold $200,000 in bonds, says they are a good investment, doubling in value over ten years, and help finance the important work of government.

Youngstown police shot and seriously wound a 28-year-old Delason Avenue man who they said slashed the hand of one officer with a straight razor while they were searching for two men who robbed a Market Street chicken restaurant.

The city of Youngstown has tapped Dr. H. Robert Dodge, dean of the School of Business Administration at Youngstown State University, to help prepare a long-range economic development plan.

1974: The decomposed body of Michael Beach, 33, of North Madison, is recovered from McKelvey Lake, where it had been reported dumped on Feb. 18 after Beach was attacked and beaten outside a Hubbard tavern.

Youngstown city officials will go to Columbus to ask for a postponement or cancellation of a state order to breach the Milton Dam on Sept. 30 unless it has been rehabilitated by that date.

Eleven women are ordained by four Episcopal bishops before 1,500 people at the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, making them the first female priests of the Episcopal Church.

1949: After 36 years as a protected songbird, the quail joins the grouse and pheasant as a game bird when the Ohio General Assembly overrides Gov. Frank J. Lausche's veto.

Due to a sharp drop in passengers, the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. announces a midsummer schedule adjustment to increase the interval between buses on most lines.

The Youngstown Board of Control awarded the Mahoning Valley Construction Co. a contract to construct a new fire station at Oak and Fruit Streets.