21 WFMJ archives  / August 3, 1984 | Five of the 10 children of Fred A. and Katherine Houser of Boardman had 253 years of life in religious orders when this photo was taken during a reunion 40 years ago. From left, the Rev. Joseph Houser, Brother Anthony Houser, the Rev. Charles Houser, Sister Rita, and Sister Rose Anita, all members of the Holy Cross Order.

August 7


1999: Youngstown State University trustees will not renew a contract to house the Mahoning Valley Labor Management Council or to act as a conduit for state grants awarded to the council. Executive director Greg Sherlock says the council will find new quarters within a month. 


For the first time in three decades, WYTV will not conduct a muscular dystrophy telethon in Youngstown in cooperation with the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association. 


Dr. Joseph Rottenborn, superintendent of Columbiana Schools, says that Columbiana High School seniors and juniors can take college-level classes from the Kent State University Salem branch without leaving the high school.


1984: Canfield City Council votes to separate from Canfield Township, coincidentally, the same day that Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Elwyn Jenkins orders the Mahoning County commissioners to approve the annexation of the old County Home property on Herbert Road to the city. 


The Sharon Steel Corp. places its 65,000-foot modern office building on state Route 62 in Hubbard Township up for sale. The decision to move administrative and office personnel out of the building is attributed to Victor Posner, owner of Sharon Steel and LTV.


As many as 1,000 members of the American Sunbathing Association are expected at White Thorn Lodge, a 100-acre nudists' camp near Darlington, Pa., for the group's annual convention.


1974: A Mahoning County sheriff's deputy resigns in the wake of an investigation by Sheriff Ray T. Davis into possible coercive sexual activity and parties among inmates in the county jail. 


A poll of Mahoning Valley residents in public life and out by Vindicator Politics Editor Clingan Jackson shows an almost unanimous sentiment for President Richard Nixon's resignation. 


More than a half dozen area school administrators say that the cost of inflation is forcing them to consider cutting back or shutting down early. 


1949: Sixty Youngstown and Warren men return home after two weeks on a Navy gunboat on Lake Erie as part of the U.S. Naval Reserve training program. Lt. Robert W. Wailing of Youngstown was the commanding officer. 


Robert W. Campbell of Pulaski, the pilot of a private plane, is killed, and his passenger, the amateur photographer Robert Lenhart, is injured when their plane crashes in new West Middlesex. Lenhart was trying to get a picture of Campbell's new home. 


The Woodworth Novelty Co., an innocent-looking wholesale house on Springfield Road, is identified as the source of slot machines that are being distributed in Mahoning County.