21 WFMJ archives / April 7, 1960 | A new addition to Masury's General American Transportation Corp. plant 65 years ago was part of a $300,000 expansion. This building would allow the company to plate the interior of four railroad tank cars a day. 

April 7

2000: Youngstown joins Project HomeSafe, a national gunlock program to encourage safe handling and secure storage of firearms. The Youngstown Police Department has 1,000 locks to give away and expects to get 2,000 more from the National Shooting Sports Foundation over the next couple of months. 

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. predicts that the House and Senate will authorize $35 million for a downtown Youngstown convocation center after the House approved a Republican-sponsored amendment to include the Youngstown project in the proposed budget.

Hourly workers at North Star Steel reject representation by the United Steelworkers of America for the fifth time in five years by a vote of 195-141.

 

1985: Officials of Shenango Valley municipalities say they would be hard hit if President Reagan eliminates General Revenue Sharing. 

Boxer Jimmy Paul knocks defending champion Harry Arroyo down four times and takes the International Boxing Federation's lightweight title from the Youngstown fighter in a 15-round unanimous decision in Atlantic City. 

Mahoning County Republican Party Chairman William Binning says Youngstown elections are out of date, and he's pushing sweeping changes, including making the mayor's term four years instead of two and declaring the mayoral race nonpartisan. Democratic Party Chairman Don Hanni Jr. says Binning's proposals are wishful thinking. 

 

1975: Leroy Howell, 35, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital after being shot by a Campbell police officer during a robbery at the Amoco service station on Wilson Avenue. 

Catesby Cannon Jr., assistant managing editor of The Vindicator, is elected president of the Associated Press of Ohio during a convention in Columbus. 

Some 1,700 children are airlifted from Southeast Asia to the United States and other nations as part of Operation Baby Lift. 

 

1950: Charles "Cadillac Charlie" Cavallero, 48, of 164 Roslyn Drive, and three associates are arrested in a vice squad investigation of revived horse betting in Youngstown.

Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen asks Ohio Bell Telephone Co. to discontinue the phone at the E. Avondale Avenue address of a small-time "bug man" on the grounds that it is being used for gambling purposes.