21 WFMJ archives  / August 16, 1984, | Jack Balko of W. Park Avenue, Niles, adjusted his derby after being named the Harry Stevens look-alike contest winner at the Niles Sesquicentennial celebration 40 years ago. More than 3,000 people were at Waddell Park to celebrate the accomplishments of Stevens, a Niles native who was known as the “Hot Dog King.”

August 16

1999: MCI Worldcom is close to opening a telemarketing center in the former Kmart building on Youngstown Warren Road that will create 1,000 jobs.

A review of the Mahoning County Sheriff's Office telephone bills shows that hundreds of dollars worth of private cell phone calls were routed through the center.

Howland Township trustees are studying how best to implement the new Homer Rule system for the governance of more populous townships.

1984: Irving Stillerman, who was driving his steel-laden tractor-trailer over the Lincoln Park Bridge when it collapsed in February, is suing Mahoning County for $1.2 million, claiming the county was negligent in maintaining the span. The truck weighed twice the posted load limit of 10 tons.  

Neighbors of the old Jefferson School in Niles complain that it is a gutted eyesore and hazard eight months after work began to convert the building into senior citizen apartments. 

General Motors Corp. hopes to cut $220 million from its annual health care costs of $2.2 billion by offering its 350,000 hourly employees three health coverage options.

1974: A ruling body of the Episcopal Church rules that 11 women ordained in Philadelphia are not priests and may not perform priestly duties. 

Common Pleas Judge Sidney J. Rigelhaupt lashes out at Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis for not assuring that prisoners in the county jail are safe and properly cared for. He says he will convene a grand jury to investigate reports of sexual activity in the jail.

C. Robert Buchanan and Associates are hired to design a $6 million Arts and Sciences Building at Youngstown State University.

1949: Gov. Frank J. Lausche suspends Mayor Charles Sedore of Halls Corners in Liberty Township and orders the padlocking of the Jungle Inn gambling den. Halls Corners had only nine residents when it was incorporated to get around Liberty Township's alcohol prohibition. 

Comedian and filmmaker Harold Lloyd arrives in Youngstown for two days of festivities staged by Al Koran Shriners. One of the first things he does is tour the area's largest steel mill, the Carnegie-Illinois Ohio Works in McDonald.