21 WFMJ archives / April 10, 1995 | Barbara Ross, the librarian at Chaney High School in Youngstown, taught a class on investing to juniors and seniors 30 years ago. Here, they were checking the price of gold bullion on the world market. Seated, Mike Malloy, Ross, and Mark Sawicki. Standing from the left are Lori Amrich, Art Canning, Tiffany House, Mike Smith, and Tammy Dennis.

April 11 

2000: An FBI spokesman says suggestions by U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. that the local FBI "created a seedbed of corruption" in the Mahoning Valley or have him killed are outrageous. 

Ohio steelmakers produced 17.2 million tons in 1999, a 3.4 percent increase over 1998. 

The State Controlling Board releases $1.5 million to demolish the Higbee Building on Federal Plaza.

 

1985: Veteran stage and screen actress Celeste Holm gives two dramatic readings for the final Trumbull Town Hall lecture of the season at Packard Music Hall. 

Two state-chartered financial institutions, Mentor Savings Bank in Mentor and Federated Savings Bank in Cincinnati, reached purchase agreements with Chase Manhattan Corp. 

William B. Coulter, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, says Ohio can use higher education as a foundation to build its economy and urges state universities to vie for financial aid. 

 

1975: The Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency approved $360,000 in federal money for Project REWARD, which will repair up to 105 houses in Youngtown. 

The Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren recalls 370 furloughed workers. 

Larry Csonka, former Miami Dolphins star, and his brother Joe purchased $30,000 worth of farm machinery at Witmer Farm Equipment Co. in Columbiana for the Csonka Brothers Farm near Lisbon. 

 

1950: Four young Boy Scouts are found dead of exposure in their small raft 17 hours after it was blown miles from the Lake Erie shore.

A Reserve Officers Training Corps unit will be established at Youngstown College with the opening of the September term. 

Two school girls and a steelworker report seeing flying saucers in the sky over Youngstown.