21 WFMJ archives  / April  19, 1985 | Phi Kappa Tau's singers captured top honors in the fraternity division of the 33rd annual Youngstown State University Greek Sing 40 years ago.  

April 19

2000: For the third year in a row, Mahoning Valley high school seniors posted improved scores on the state's 12th-grade proficiency tests.

Jim Tressel, Youngstown State University head football coach, speaks to inmates at the Trumbull County Jail, telling them some of the same things he tells his players, such as, "There will be bad breaks, people may mistreat you, things may not be fair, but you have to be ready to handle it."

Poland Mayor Ruth Wilkes says Poland Municipal Forest is being damaged by flooding from new developments in Boardman and by mountain bikers leaving the trails. 

 

1985: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, returns to Washington from a trip to Japan, where he failed to convince Mitsubishi Motors Corp. to consider the Mahoning Valley as the site of an auto plant.  

Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro urges the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support a revised plan for the construction of a $32 million Ronneburg Brewery in North Jackson. 

The volume of callers trying to win a $5,000 giveaway by Sharon radio station WYFM temporarily knocked out some telephone exchanges in northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania. 

 

1975: Youngstown area residential customers of East Ohio Gas Co. will be paying 7 percent more because of an increase in wholesale gas prices. 

A house fire at 77 Mistletoe Road, Niles, leaves a mother, her three children, and a city firefighter hospitalized. The monetary loss is estimated at $17,000.

A homemade pipe bomb explodes in the basement of a Canfield Township home, blowing off the left hand of a 15-year-old boy and injuring his right hand.

 

1950: One hundred slot machines and other gambling equipment taken from the Jungle Inn and valued at $15,000 are reduced to scrap value of less than 100 by a wrecking ball under a court order. 

Cleveland drops a 10-inning opening day game to Detroit, 7-6, before 55,744 fans in Cleveland. 

The Salem Historical Society reports this is the 100th anniversary of a women's rights convention in Salem that resulted in the formation of the Ohio Suffrage Association.