Years Ago | October 24th

21 WFMJ archives / October 25, 1958 | About 150 people attended the second report meeting of the Greater Youngstown Area Community Chest drive for $1.2 million at the Youngstown YMCA 66 years ago. The workers were encouraged by the progress but knew there was work to do during the campaign’s final week.
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1999: General Electric's Ohio Lamp Plant in Warren has grown from 450 employees to 600. It makes candelabra bulbs that were made in South Korea until two years ago. GE also employs 200 workers at a Niles plant and another 250 in Austintown.
Youngstown native Bob Stoops, 38, is in his first season as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma. He comes from a family of coaches. His father, Ron Sr., was a defensive coordinator under Don Bucci at Cardinal Mooney, and his three brothers are all coaches.
Marie Barrett Marsh, a Youngstown College graduate and aviation pioneer as a pilot with the Women's Air Force Service Pilot Program during World War II, will be inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. The Howland woman died in 1997 and was Youngstown College's first Homecoming queen in 1938.
1984: Former Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes says Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale's pledge to work with a committee of the Mahoning Valley on economic development is nothing more than a vote-getting gimmick.
Saul Drive residents tell Hubbard City Council that they are still awaiting the city's good faith action to extend a sanitary sewer line to alleviate a serious rat problem in the neighborhood.
Flora S. Colwes, a nurse for 16 years at South Side Hospital, wins $100,000 on an instant lottery ticket bought at Newport News on Hillman News.
1974: Councilman William R. Shranko, R-4 th, appeals to the Youngstown Board of Education and the Western Reserve Transit Authority to discontinue their joint operation of school transportation.
Some 1,000 members of Local 627, Service Employees International Union, will receive a 30-cent-per-hour increase under a new three-year contract with the Youngstown Hospital Association.
A bikini-clad "Kitten" Natividad, Miss Nude Universe, draws a traffic-stopping crowd on a stroll down W. Federal Street.
1949: The "Shenango Inn," Sharon, Pa.'s, new $750,000 community hotel is rising quickly on a site donated by the F.H. Buhl estate.
The United Nations celebrates its fourth birthday with the laying of the cornerstone at its headquarters being built at 42 nd Street and the East River in New York.
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