Years Ago | October 6th

21 WFMJ archives / October 26, 1979 | High winds at Youngstown State University’s homecoming celebration 45 years ago kept the Budweiser balloon tethered on campus from rising very high.
October 6
1999: A San Francisco-based pharmaceutical company, KessonHBOC Inc., agrees to buy property on U.S. 422 near New Castle, where it will build a $11 million warehouse employing about 120 people.
Rick Durkin is seeking a court order to stop the Mahoning County Board of Elections from mailing out absentee ballots. He claims that the board's failure to remove the name of one candidate from the primary ballot has rendered the primary invalid. He wants the general election ballot to contain his name and the names of all other primary candidates—those who won and those who lost.
Warren City Council's finance committee discusses eliminating the city's reciprocity credit for residents who already pay an income tax where they work, but Treasurer Patricia Leon-Games warns that such a move could cause an exodus from the city.
1984: Autoworkers at the General Motors Assembly Division in Lordstown ignored their union's recommendation and emphatically rejected a tentative agreement on a new national contract. Lordstown is one of five large plants that rejected the deal in early voting.
The Rev. Bernard Schmalzried, pastor of St. Mary Church in Warren, has been elected chairman of the newly created Priests Council of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown.
First and second graders at St. Charles School in Boardman helped Edward J. DeBartolo at the grand reopening of Boardman Plaza, his company's first major development.
1974: J. Phillip Richley, director of the Ohio Department of Transportation, delivers the keynote speech at the dedication of downtown Youngstown's new Federal Plaza.
Unbeaten Youngstown State University registers its third season victory, downing Northern Michigan, 24-10, before 5,000 fans at Rayen Stadium.
The Western Reserve Transit Authority may be forced into bankruptcy and discontinue operations before the end of the year unless subsidies are forthcoming from Youngstown and surrounding communities, says Abe Harshman, WRTA secretary-treasurer.
1949: The steel strike, which is costing the Mahoning Valley about $500,000 a day in lost wages, could starve the Valley's economy if it lasted a month.
President Harry Truman calls U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan of Youngstown after a House-Senate conference committee releases an Interior Department appropriations bill to tell him, "Mike, you did a wonderful job."
The Youngstown Monday Musical Club will sponsor the opening night showing of "Hamlet" starring Laurence Olivier at the Newport and Belmont theaters. The process will augment the club's scholarship fund.