Years Ago | January 28th

21 WFMJ archives / January 29, 1957 | Youngstown's 23 Junior Achievement companies held their third annual JA Trade Fair at the State Theater in downtown Youngstown 68 years ago. Here a group looks over some of the displays of the JA products.
January 28
2000: Robert Vargo will assume the new post of managing director of the Youngstown Playhouse.
Lawrence County, Pa., commissioners authorize spending $20,000 to upgrade software, printers, and scanner drives on the county's voting machine.
Speaking at the McKinley Memorial in Niles to mark President William McKinley's birthday, John Latcham, a retired Kent State professor and McKinley expert, said that while historians rate Teddy Roosevelt as great, McKinley should be considered in the second tier of near-great presidents.
1985: Elmer Reese, general manager of General Motors' Packard Electric Division, says Packard is working to stay ahead of competitors in technology and has already produced a prototype modular wiring system for GM's new Saturn.
The Youngstown and Warren area boards of Realtors have joined the effort to collect 500,000 letters to be sent to General Motors urging the location of the Saturn plant in the Mahoning Valley.
Mahoning Valley legislators are conflicted about a bill that would require the state to comply with a federal mandate that states require motorists and passengers to fasten their seatbelts.
1975: Ohio Edison will brave customer revolt over high energy prices if necessary to get the rates it needs to meet customer demand, says D. Bruce Mansfield, company president.
An angry bandit returns to the Martin Service Station at 307 W. Indianola Avenue to shoot the attendant for calling the police a day earlier and then rob him of an undetermined amount of cash.
St. Elizabeth Hospital cancels all general visits until further notice because of flu-like upper respiratory infections.
1950: Two men and a woman, identified as members of Youngstown's Communist Party, are jailed when police catch them soliciting money from steelworkers for striking coal miners.
Undefeated Duquesne University trims the Youngstown College Penguins, 69-49, at South Fieldhouse.
Five of Peter Wellman's Youngstown area theaters—the Belmont and Newport and the North, South, and West Side drive-ins—will begin operating under new management, Associated Theaters of Cleveland.