21 WFMJ archives  / February  21, 1984 | The Mahoning County Joint Vocational School's aircraft mechanics area was filled instead by farm equipment 41 years ago as nearly 500 farmers gathered for the fifth annual northeast Ohio corn and soybean day. Exhibits and speakers highlighted the all-day event sponsored by the Corn and Soybean Committee, of which Loran Brooks was chairman.  

February 20

2000: After three dogs were killed by a pit bull and Rottweiler in Warren, Trumbull County Animal Welfare League humane officer Debbie Serbati says pit bulls are considered vicious and should be kept in a closed shelter, not allowed to run loose.

Soaring diesel prices have Mahoning Valley trucking companies  thinking about curtailing the jobs they take until prices stabilize. Since last March, diesel has gone from 96 cents a gallon to $1.46.

Dr. Jacqueline Rowser, a professor of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University, says Salem was a major stop on the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s and a hotbed of abolitionist politics, partly due to its Quaker roots. The city was also a pioneer in the women's rights movement. 

 

1985: Mahoning County commissioners Thomas J. Carney and Leonard Yurcho ask Gov. Richard Celeste to build a new state prison in Mahoning County, saying it could create up to 1,000 jobs.

Trumbull County sheriff's deputies ask county commissioners to immediately enact a piggyback sales tax. They say looming cuts due to the county's budgetary crisis could endanger public safety.

Advertisement:  15 donuts for $1.99 at Dunkin Donuts' four area shops, with a coupon, for a limited time. Open 24 hours, 7 days a week. 

 

1975: The Youngstown City Council authorizes the exchange of land from Youngstown Municipal Airport to provide space for the city's new terminal facility.

A four-hour polygraph test has apparently cleared a 46-year-old Pennsylvania parolee of any involvement in the murders of the Benjamin Marsh family.

Ohio Edison's Youngstown area customers living in townships and villages will immediately pay 12 percent more for electricity. 

 

1950: A Youngstown Civil Air Patrol light plane crashes just off Lansdowne Boulevard, shearing off a wing and injuring its pilot, Conway Bird, a CAP officer and owner of Bird Airport.

A cold, shivering Youngstown district, already plagued with coal shortages, is hit by a severe natural gas shortage as the winter's coldest weather arrives.

Mahoning Sheriff Paul J. Langley and the Cleveland office of the FBI are organizing a police training school that will operate at the county jail.