21 WFMJ archives  / August 9, 1984 | Candidates for queen of the 10th annual Bavarian Fun Fest in Sharon 40 years ago were, from left, Judi Salamon, 1983 queen; Jim Lawson, master of ceremonies; Gail Cairy, Holly Herster, Carol Routman, Saundra Patton, Kim Adler, Joellen Chiodo, HollyThur, Toni Trontel and Dawn Sampson.

August 9


1999: Youngstown's 1998 report on the effectiveness of tax abatements shows that 46 companies that received tax breaks created about 80 percent of the 1,600 jobs promised.

An Akron man who wants to open an instant bingo parlor in Boardman to benefit the North American Indian Cultural Center has run into a snag with the zoning department.

Bill Metzenroth, owner of the new Warren Harley Davidson store on Elm Road in Bazetta Township, says he wanted to keep his store in downtown Warren, but the cost of renovating an available building was more than building a new showroom. Metzenroth said he used to sell 10 motorcycles or so a year and now sells between 150 and 180.


1984: Lines begin forming outside Ohio financial institutions, including Home Savings in Youngstown, three days before state-subsidized, fixed-rate mortgages of 11.75 percent will become available.

In an austerity move, Sharspville officials discuss turning off a third of the borough's street lights.

An Ashtabula deputy sheriff is placed on probation for five years by a federal judge for the deputy's role in having his Geneva Township bar burned in 1979.


1974: The Ohio Board of Regents approves two new computer programs at Youngstown State University, one in computer technology leading to B.S. degrees in applied science or computer science.

Youngstown's Dr. Richard Murray, a student of the medieval astrologer Nostradamus, predicted President Nixon's resignation, telling the Women’s Republican Club in May that it would come by September.

Mrs.  Harry J. Anderson of Salem remembers the new president, Gerald Ford, as "one of those men that everyone likes." Her first husband, William W. Renner, became friends with Ford while they were students at the University of Michigan.

1949: Sam Keener, Salem's flying industrialist, takes off from the Akron-Canton Airport in his recently purchased DC-4 on the first leg of an around-the-world business trip.

A man who objected to being pushed around is dragged out of the Jungle Inn and beaten up by two of the Inn's plug-uglies while the man's gray-haired wife looks on helplessly.

Public gatherings in Darke County, Ohio, are banned by the health commissioner after Darke registers its 24th case of polio, six of which have been fatal.