21 WFMJ archives  / August 23, 1980 | Five YSU Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets were commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army 44 years ago. Lt. Col. Robert E. Shea Jr, professor of military science, swore in, from left, David D. Tibbits, Daniel E. Brown, Glen A. Tarr, Robert E. Lohr III, and Robert J. DeMart.

August 23

1999: Campbell Police Officer Stacy Kelty, who was fired for failure to comply with the city's residency rule, gets her job back after the FOP filed a complaint that the city did not follow disciplinary procedures.

The John Morford Farm in Kinsman is among eight honored at the Ohio State Fair as Outstanding Century Farms. Morford, who is 92, began to help run the farm when his father died in a dynamite explosion in 1917. The farm has been in the family since 1808.

Joe George, who runs the Hermitage, Pa., company founded by his father in 1918, says Joy Cone is the second-largest maker of ice cream cones in the nation but is on track to take the number one spot.

 

1984: Two Youngstown area electrical contractors from the Youngstown area and two corporate officers are indicted by a federal grand jury for price fixing involving projects at Youngstown State University and South Side Hospital.

Two leaders of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club and three others are in federal custody charged with the manufacture and distribution of drugs, including LSD, cocaine and methadone.

Fire destroys the administration building at the old Christ Mission fresh air camp on Leffingwell Road in Canfield. 

 

1974: The new Memorial Civic Center will be dedicated in Salem's Memorial Park, paying tribute to civic groups and private individuals who supported the construction of the open-air theater.

The Columbus Evening Dispatch has received a warning from the U.S. Postal Service about publishing lottery numbers or advertisements in papers that go through the mail. 

 

1949: The steel silhouette of the new 268-foot-long Spring Street Bridge arching into the sky. Ohio Auditor Joseph Ferguson declares after an examiner's report on Warren Schools that the entire board of education should resign because of the system's mismanagement.