Years Ago | January 29th

21 WFMJ archives / January 29, 1980 | Hundreds of angry steelworkers took over the U.S. Steel office building on Salt Spring Road for six hours 45 years ago. The steelworkers demanded that U.S. Steel negotiate to either keep local mills open or agree to sell them to be run as worker-owned companies. Outside, hundreds more of steelworkers, their families, and supporters picketed. Note the one man on the top of the four-story building holding a sign.
January 29
2000: After a week, when the five finalists for the presidency of Youngstown State University visited campus, the nine-member board of trustees unanimously appointed Dr. David Sweet to succeed Dr. Leslie Cochran as YSU president.
Most members of the Cuban-Americans living in the Youngstown area say 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, who has been living with relatives in Miami since his mother died, should be returned to Cuba to live with his father.
Federal authorities have subpoenaed payroll records and other documents from the office of U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr.
1985: Strouss, the Youngstown Area's largest retailer, unveils two major renovations of its downtown Youngstown store and is working on improvements to be made at its Southern Park store.
Girard City Council and the Girard Fraternal Order of Police agreed on a two-year contract providing 3 percent raises for 14 patrolmen and four dispatchers.
George H. Kelley, 80, a Vindicator reporter and editor for 63 years, died in St. Elizabeth Hospital. Kelley was a student of history, especially Roman Catholicism and the Youngstown area. In recent years, he authored a Vindicator column, "The Way We Were."
1975: The Mahoning County Legal Assistance Association files a class action suit in the U.S. District Court against the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services to recover unemployment benefits not paid to laid-off steelworkers during the recent coal strike.
The North Central Association Commission on Secondary Schools rates Salem High School as "a fine secondary school of which the community can be proud."
Robin Colbrunn presides over Columbiana High School's annual homecoming weekend.
1950: About 500 Youngstown Rotarians, Lions, and Elks take an old-fashioned railroad excursion to Cleveland to attend the Ice Follies at the Arena.
Mrs. Amanda Butler, almost 101, and Mrs. Fidelia Mattison, who will be 100 in July, say they like the telephone and radio best of all the inventions they've seen in their lifetimes, which would also include the automobile, airplane,e and electric light.
Gov. Frank J. Lausche appointed Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge David Griffith to the 7th District Court of Appeals.