21 WFMJ archives  / June 6, 1976 | Then-Georgia Gov.  Jimmy Carter made a campaign stop in Youngstown during the U.S. Bicentennial year, attracting 5,000 people to Federal Plaza, including this little boy who Carter tried to get to smile. The boy and his parents were not identified. Carter turned 100 on Tuesday, making him the first U.S. President to reach that mile mark.

October 2

1999: Warren city officials are trying to gauge the impact of a dwindling work force at Delphi Packard Electric Systems which is expected to have about 5,800 hourly and 1,900 salaried employees after the latest round of retirements.

Boardman native Bernie Kosar gave the keynote address at the 48th annual dinner of the Easter Seal Society of Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana counties. In his praise of Easter Seals and its supporters, he said, "It's easy in this society to get caught up in what you're doing and to not give of yourselves."

Two congregations in the United Church of Christ in Youngstown, Pilgrim Collegiate Church on Wick Avenue and Bethlehem United Church of Christ on Midlothian, will vote on a merger proposal that has been discussed for two years. 

 

1984: The Troutman Department Store on E. Washington Street in New Castle, Pa., will close on Feb. 2. The store, formerly the New Castle Dry Goods Co., has 55 employees.  

Trustees from Austintown, Boardman, and Liberty townships filed suit against the city of Youngstown, challenging the fairness of a 40 percent surcharge township residents pay for city water.

Tickets for Michael Jackson's concerts at Cleveland Stadium on Oct. 19 and 20 go on sale. They are available at the stadium for $30.   

1974: Two Youngstown policemen involved in the police burglary ring are sentenced to one to five years in the Ohio Penitentiary, and ten others are sentenced to 30 days to one year in the county jail. 

Youngstown gets its first taste of winter through snowflakes throughout the area. Nearly half an inch is on the ground at the airport. 

 

1949: Ralph Hartenstein announces plans for a million-dollar housing development that will include 200 new homes and a shopping center on the old Hitchcock property at the rear of Boardman School on Market Street Extension.

Boy Scout William Carney, 12, is credited with saving the life of his 13-month-old brother, Tommy, who had fallen into a septic tank under construction at the rear of the Carney home. Albert Lightner, 13, pulled the boy out of the water, and Billy applied artificial respiration.