21 WFMJ archives / April 3, 1958 | Girl Scouts paid tribute to their "birthday baby" 67 years ago by presenting Catherine Lonette Davis with a certificate making her an honorary member for having been the first baby born in Youngstown on March 12, the birthday for the Girl Scouts. Visiting Mrs. James Davis and the baby at their Florist Street home were members of Troop 202 at Harding School, from left, Stephanie Mark, Marjorie Chaberd, Sally Bennett, and Signe Larson.

2000: John Weed Powers, chairman of the Southside Community Development Corp, says tenants have been found to fill about 30 percent of the former Southside Medical Center, now Oakhill Renaissance Place. About 65 percent occupancy is needed to break even and keep the building from disrepair. 

Clay Campfield, sales manager at Bob Eddy Chrysler-Jeep in Austintown, says the buzz around the new Chrysler PT Cruiser has people doing something he hasn't seen before in the business: ordering a car without driving or even seeing one. 

At least one barn in Ohio's 88 counties is being painted with the Ohio Bicentennial Logo in a run-up to the 2003 event. The Stewart barn on state Route 45 north of Lisbon is the latest to be painted by Scott Hagan of Belmont County. 

 

1985: A Canfield accountant, Richard Garchar, 27, of 6321 St. Andrews Court, dies after being found severely beaten in the parking lot of his Canfield Township apartment complex.   

Mahoning County commissioners approve $950,000 in industrial bonds to finance remodeling a former Sambo's restaurant on Mahoning Avenue near state Route 11 into an office building. 

Bill Davis, a Rayen School graduate who is the Cleveland Browns' vice president of personnel, is working on a deal with Houston that would allow the Browns to draft Miami quarterback Bernie Kosar, a Boardman graduate. 

 

1975: Youngstown City Council amends the city's zoning map to allow the construction of a 144-unit apartment complex on Canfield Road near S. Schenley Avenue. 

Sister M. Consolata Kline, H.M., executive director of St. Elizabeth Hospital, is named chairman of the council of Chief Executive Officers of the Associated Community Hospitals of the Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine. 

Sales of new and used cars and trucks dropped in Mahoning and Trumbull counties in March, with 1,734 new cars, 1,759 used cars, and 258 new trucks registered in the two-county area. 

 

1950: Youngstown's badminton team wins the Ohio-West Virginia YMCA championship. Team members are Tom Lavern, Herb LaTuchie, Ed Lewis, and Jack Smith. 

Two men hold up the night dispatcher at the Yellow Cab Co. office at 200 W. Commerce St., escaping with a cash box holding an undisclosed amount from the night's receipts. 

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