21 WFMJ archives / February 22, 1985 | Members of the San Francisco 49ers joined team owner Edward DeBartolo Jr. in Youngstown 40 years ago for a fundraiser for the Youngstown Symphony Society and the Mahoning County Heart Association.  From left, Dwight Hicks, John Frank, DeBartolo, Dwight Clark, and Russ Francis. 

February 22

2000: A new study shows that the Ohio steel industry generates $8.8 billion for the state's economy and supports 110,000 jobs. Ohio ranks first in the nation on the value of the steel it produces.

Lordstown Village Council passes legislation requiring Police Chief William Catlin to drive a marked police cruiser over the objections of Catlin and Mayor Arno Hill.

Guy Fragle,  president of Penn-Ohio Recycling of Youngstown, says the company's construction and demolition debris landfill on a 90-acre site north of Negley will be a safely operated good neighbor. The company expects about 25 truckloads and six railroad cars of debris daily. 

 

1985: Harold "Red" Stanton and Vivian J. Stanton, owners of the Sharpsville Inn at 34 N. Sixth St., are killed in an early morning explosion that leveled the building and blew out windows in the nearby Sharpsville Steel Fabricators plant.

Beaver Township trustees appoint Atty. Alan Wenger will serve on the township zoning board of appeals, filling the seat vacated by J. Paul Good after 18 years.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio assails as unconstitutional a proposal by state Rep. John Galbraith, R-Maumee, that would give welfare mothers under the age of 30 a one-time $3,000 payment to be sterilized. 

  

1975: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is returning its Campbell Works to normal, gradually returning about 5,800 workmen to their jobs after USW Local 2163 approves an agreement to end a strike by 300 workers at the blooming mill.

Lorraine Polinsky, a 1972 graduate of Youngstown State University, is appointed assistant aquatic director of the Hubbard Community Pool. 

 

1950: Three of five people in a car struck by a steam-driven freight train on the Youngstown & Southern Railroad are injured. The car was struck at Southern Boulevard and Route 224 at dusk during a drizzling rain.

Mrs. Lawrence D. McPhee is named acting executive secretary of the Mahoning County Chapter of the Red Cross, replacing Miss Elizabeth Crawford, who resigned.