21 WFMJ archives  / March  25, 1952 | Youngstown Mayor Charles P. Henderson and Mrs. Robert Goerke, "Mrs. Stark County," cut the ribbon for the Mahoning Valley Home Show 73 years ago at the Idora Park Ballroom.  Holding the ribbon were Chris Bode Jr., chairman of the show, left, and Miller Foulk, president of the Youngstown Board of Realtors. 

March 26 

2000: During a two-hour interview with Vindicator reporters Mark Niquette and Patricia Meade in his Washington office, U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. accuses the Department of Justice of leaking information about a criminal investigation of him in an unsuccessful attempt to help his primary election opponents.

Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey says the police department's present condition is deplorable, 60 years after it was added to City Hall as a WPA project. 

Mahoning County Sheriff Randall Wellington says the Justice Center is at capacity, and he favors reopening the minimum security jail on Commerce Street. The jail was closed in 1999 before voters approved a half-percent sales tax. 

1985: Mahoning County prosecutors blame a shoddy investigation by the Youngstown Police Department for the acquittal of a 20-year-old Youngstown man charged with aggravated murder in the fire-bombing at a Pearl Street home that killed Concepcion Caraballo. 

The Lordstown Board of Education is cutting 13 non-teaching personnel to eliminate a $430,000 budget deficit. 

Sister Susan Schorsten says St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center will expand its efforts to provide home health care but will not duplicate services being provided by other community agencies. 

1975: Four Youngstown men are arrested by FBI agents in connection with an interstate ring that allegedly passed altered money orders valued at $40,000.

The Youngstown Board of Trade endorses the proposed $8 million Market Street Bridge, but questions whether other spans into downtown can support increased traffic during construction. 

Pittsburgh police say two small boys playfully poking a stick into a gas heater in the cellar of a narrow row house on the city's South Side started a flash fire that killed a pregnant woman, five children, and a man. The boys were rescued. 

1950: Rayen School's famous capella choir, in its 20th year and with 167 members, is rehearsing under the direction of Prof. Waldemar A. Nischwitz for its May concerts. 

According to FBI reports, Youngstown reduced its crime rate in 1949 despite a trend toward more crime in the nation. The city had 12 murders, 101 robberies, 24 assaults, 607 burglaries and 213 auto thefts. 

Atty. Clyde W. Osborne (Jr.) has resigned as secretary to Mayor Charles Henderson and will join his uncle, Clyde W. Osborne, in law practice. Ray T. Davis, a World War II veteran who lost his hand in a training accident, will take the job.