21 WFMJ archives  / September 29, 1983 | Officers and directors of Tippecanoe Country Club broke ground 41 years ago for a two-story English Tudor clubhouse to replace the one destroyed by fire in March 1983.  From left, Joseph Vannuki, Dick Wilson, Stan Barnosky, Daniel J. Hughes, president; Dick McVey, president-elect, Brian Schultz, club manager; Dr. Anthony Billett, architect Raymond J. Jaminet, David Wolfe, and William Bochert.

September 28

1999: Columbiana County Sheriff's detectives have no solid leads a week after the apparent murder of Richard Altomare, 59, owner of Altomare's Welding in Leetonia, whose body was found in a vacant former school building he owned in Fairfield Township.

The former associate superintendent of Warren City Schools, Betty English, is hired as superintendent, effective Nov. 1, on a three-year contract with a starting salary of $86,688.

A 21-year-old Mesopotamia Township man is sentenced to 60 days in jail for buying beer for a 17-year-old Amish boy who fell asleep while driving his buggy, allowing the horse to run free for two miles before it crashed. The boy will spend five days in juvenile detention. 

1984: U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams presents a check for $9.3 million to Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro to be used as a low-interest loan for the construction of a proposed brewery at Youngstown Commerce Park. 

New Castle City Council passes a resolution in support of a proposed Pennsylvania law mandating the use of seatbelts. The bill's sponsor, state Sen. Edward Early, D-Allegheny, says the law could save 400 to 600 lives and millions of dollars. 

Sally A. Savage of Girard, a former McDonald teacher and president of the Ohio Education Association, is named assistant registrar of the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. She is believed to be the first woman named to the second highest position in the bureau. 

1974: Plans for a $3.5 million Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center are being submitted to the National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Planning and Architecture for final approval, a necessary step for federal funding. 

Oscar Boyer, 67, of Tampa, Fla., stops in Salem on his never-ending journey around the United States on a three-wheel bicycle. 

Georgia Ault, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Mineral Ridge High School senior, is crowned homecoming queen by the 1973 queen, Kim Hofius. 

1949: Calvin Mathews Bolster of Avondale Avenue, Youngstown, presently serving as assistant chief for research and development in the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, is promoted to rear admiral. 

Ernest R. Breech, a Ford Motor Co. executive vice president, tells a meeting of the Industrial Information Institute at the Youngstown Country Club that Americans were lulled into a false sense of security by the illusion that they alone possessed the atomic bomb. 

Youngstown vice squad men continue their campaign against football lotteries, raiding a Gibson Avenue dairy and confiscating 97 football pool slips.