21 WFMJ archives  / May  4, 1973 | William G. Bell, left, outgoing chairman of the Eastern Ohio Chapter of the Heart Association, passed the gavel to Dr. Charles A. Curtis, left, the newly elected president, 52 years ago.  Center is Charles B. Cushwa III, chairman of the board. 

May 3 

2000: Several slabs of black granite removed from the front of the former McKelvey department store before the building is demolished have been  used to frame the doors to the nearby renovated Powers Auditorium. 

General Motors has hired 60 workers for its Lordstown plant and may hire as many as 700 to fill openings caused by retirements. 

Youngstown Mayor George M. McKelvey says the city has received a $1 million federal loan and budgeted $8 million for neighborhood revitalization next year. 

 

1985: Youngstown Police Chief Randall Wellington says that police officers working off-duty in bars and nightclubs must carry $500,000 in liability insurance to protect themselves and the city from litigation. 

The 90-year-old former Tod School on W. Market Street in Warren is being demolished by L.T. Boccia Construction Co.

Atty. William Weimer is honored by the Youngstown Area United Way for two years as chairman of the United Way planning council. 

 

1975: Eight children who came from Jordan in 1972 join their father, Hassan Nasser, among 51 people from 21 countries to be welcomed as new citizens by Judge John J. Leskovyansky.

The Youngstown Board of Control leases for retail development the ground level of the Federal Plaza Parking Facility to Richard Mills, developer of City Centre One. 

The Navy is selecting a new twin jet by Northrup Aircraft as its new fighter. It will be known as the F-18.

 

1950: Eight Youngstown College fraternity pledges are rescued from a windswept breakwater 300 feet from the shore of Lake Erie near Ashtabula by Coast Guardsmen after a six-hour ordeal. The pledges of Phi Gamma fraternity were put on the breakwater as part of their initiation. 

Charles J. Carney, a staff representative of the United Steelworkers, defeated two Democratic veterans, Nicholas D. Bernard and Clingan Jackson, for the party nomination in the Ohio 23rd senatorial district.