21 WFMJ archives / April  8, 1987 | The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra dazzled a full house at one of two Young People's Concerts at the Edward W. Powers Auditorium 38 years ago. 

April 6

2000: Youngstown City Council is told that it and the city administration have not done enough to address the violent deaths of black women in the city.  Between 1988 and 1997, 70 black women were victims of homicide, the highest per capita death rate for black women in the nation.

Two employees at the Martin Joyce Juvenile Justice Center are on administrative leave after disciplining a 12-year-old Struthers boy by locking him in a room with a 16-year-old who struck him in the eye and chest. A supervisor said the idea was to scare the younger boy, who has been a disciplinary problem. 

A building housing the former Hasti House restaurant and a law office across from Youngstown City Hall is being razed to make way for a parking lot. 

1985: Severe winds downed trees and utility lines in the Youngstown area. In Boardman, a two-story, six-unit apartment building that had been framed and was under roof collapsed on Eisenhower Drive. 

Copperweld Corp., parent of Copperweld Steel in Warren, reported net earnings of $4.5 million in 1984, compared to a loss of $24.3 million in 1983. 

The Rev. Francis Haidet, 59,  pastor of St. Charles Church in Boardman for eight years, dies of a heart attack after being stricken while playing racketball. 

1975: Detroit's big four automakers, Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, and American, are spending millions of dollars on developing new cars in response to the energy crisis. The more-efficient models are set to hit the road by 1977  or 78.

Guy Lombardo and his band will be at the Idora Park Ballroom on Mother's Day. 

President Chiang Kai-shek, the last of the original Big Four allied leaders of World War II, dies of a heart attack in Taipae at the age of 87.

1950: Mrs. Marie Whitman, a 16-year-old mother, dies of a bullet wound inflicted by her husband, Albert, after a quarrel in their West Federal Street apartment. Six children witnessed the shooting.

The Oles Market bakery will close on orders from the Food and Dairy Department of the Ohio Department of Agriculture. Baked goods will be brought in from another provider. 

Chief Petty Officer James M. Tingler, 29,  of Youngstown, is one of seven who escaped death when the Navy flying boat "Marshal Mars" caught fire and exploded near Pearl Harbor.