21 WFMJ archives  / November 3, 1972 | U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts came to the Mahoning Valley 52 years ago to campaign for local officials, including U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney, who was running for re-election to his second term in 1972.

November 1 

1999: The Ohio Supreme Court refuses to reinstate a murder charge against a 28-year-old Youngstown man who had been charged with killing Jeff DeLisio, 34, in 1991. The city prosecutor allowed the charge to go unprosecuted for five years while the defendant was imprisoned on an unrelated charge.

Jerry Carter, executive director of the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic in Youngstown, says the clinic was founded in 1946 by its namesake just 10 years after Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, and was originally called the Alcohol Clinic of Youngstown.

While a court fight erupted over a Cleveland MetroParks deer hunt in which 200 deer were killed, there were about 40 other private hunts approved by the state in northeast Ohio in which more than 200 deer were culled. In the same area, there were about 2,700 reports of deer-car accidents. 

1984: Nine doctors who were denied a zoning change for four acres behind their offices at 1995 E. State St. in Salem file suit claiming the city's zoning code is unconstitutional.

The Pennsylvania Democratic Party focuses on two congressional districts in the November election held by Republicans, including that held by U.S. Rep. Tom Ridge of Erie. He is being challenged by Democratic labor historian James Young, who teaches at Edinboro. Democrats hold 13 of Pennsylvania's seats in Congress, while Republicans have 10.

Youngstown Hospital Association doctors react to the implantation of a baboon heart into an infant in California, saying such operations can only realistically buy time until a human transplant can be arranged.

1974: Former Gov. James A. Rhodes says that if he is re-elected governor, a feasibility study on financing a stadium for YSU and a convention center in Youngstown will be conducted. 

Youngstown Area United Appeal tops its goal for the first time in 19 years with pledges totaling $1,935,000, about $5,000 above the target. 

The National Park Service places the old Rayen School, now Rayen Hall at Youngstown State University, on the national register of historic places. 

1949: A power failure disrupts service throughout a 6,000-square-mile area that includes Dayton and parts of 24 southwestern Ohio counties for an hour and a half. 

Relief funds in the Mahoning County Soldiers and Sailors Relief Commission have been exhausted, helping striking steelworkers. 

Three thousand people take part in Struthers' Halloween parade and street dance.