21 WFMJ archives  / October 1949 | As a five-week national strike by the United Steelworkers of America dragged on through October and early November, steelworkers lined up in downtown Youngstown to sign up for strike benefits. 

November 9


1999: The state Controlling Board releases $700,000 from the Ohio Department of Development for MCI WorldCom Inc. to help open a call center in the former Kmart building in Niles. 

The Columbiana County Port Authority believes the Youngstown and Southern Railway line should not be converted into a hiking and biking path and authorizes an offer of $419,000 to buy and preserve the 36-mile rail line.

Mafia defector Lenny Strollo is sentenced to two- to 10 years in prison on state racketeering charges. The sentence will run concurrently with the 12 years he's facing in federal prison. 


1984: The Packard Electric Division of General Motors improved quality in nine of 15 measurement areas in 1984, says Joseph Trevis, superintendent of quality control. 

The contents of the Liberty-Paramount Theater downtown, including its 66-year-old pipe organ, will be auctioned if theater owners cannot find a buyer after attempts to restore the building fail due to a lack of funds.

William M. Cafaro, chairman of the Cafaro Co., assures Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro that the shopping center development firm is not moving its headquarters from its Belmont Avenue offices. 


1974: Eight former Ohio National Guardsmen are acquitted in U.S. District Court on federal charges in connection with the shooting deaths of four Kent State University students in 1970.

Martin Haber, vice president of Haber Furniture Co., is elected president of the Youngstown Board of Trade during a meeting at the Ohio Hotel.

Playing at the Wedgewood Cinema, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," at the Uptown, "Airport 1975."


1949: Republican Mayor Charles P. Henderson is re-elected Youngstown mayor by a record margin of 11,850 votes. Democrat Frank X. Kryzan is elected president of council. 

A statewide referendum approves the sale of yellow-colored oleo in Ohio by a vote of 1,251,559 to 782,722. 

Albert Carter, a graduate of Youngstown College, is named head of the music department at St. Joseph Academy for Boys in Brownsville, Texas.