November 8


1999: After nine months of negotiations, state and local officials have yet to agree on how to spend the $130 million available to upgrade Youngstown school buildings. The fate of the city's three high schools, Rayen, Wilson, and Chaney, remains a sticking point. 

Lewis Speece, 74, who joined the Marines when he was 18, talks to The Vindicator about what led him to develop the War Veterans Museum at 23 E. Main St. in Canfield after he retired in 1988.

In their first match-up with Art Modell's Baltimore Ravens, the Browns fell short, losing 41-9, in front of Cleveland fans who were looking for revenge over the team's move. 
  
1984: Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro says the city's financial institutions are all expected to participate in the city's interest rate subsidy plan, which aims to encourage development. 

Sculptor George Segal unveils his latest work, The Holocaust, in San Francisco's Lincoln Park. Segal's "The Steel Makers" was installed on Federal Plaza in 1979.

A hearse carrying the body of Niles Fire Chief Edward Watkins enters Union Cemetery through an arch created by an aerial ladder truck and a snorkel truck, a modern variation of the firefighter tradition of creating an arch with ladders. Watkins, 57, died of a heart attack. 


1974: Sadistic burglars invade two Youngstown homes, sexually assaulting a 62-year-old Youngstown woman and beating a 16-year-old Brownlee Woods girl. 

Resurfacing Youngstown Municipal Airport's main 7,500-foot runway is finished, airport manager Fred DeLuca says. 

Repairs to the Lake Milton Dam are expected to be completed by May 1, allowing the lake to be restored to its average summer level. 


1949: The United Electrical Workers union, expelled from the CIO for its left-wing politics, faces the immediate loss of 107,000 members who announce their intention to reorganize under the CIO.

The National Catholic Welfare Conference says Pope Pius XII did not intend, in recent remarks, to prohibit Catholic judges from granting divorces. 

Republic Steel Corp. and the United Steelworkers CIO signed a pension and insurance agreement, ending a 38-day strike by 45,000 union employees against the nation's third-largest steelmaker.