Years Ago | May 6th

21 WFMJ archives / May 4, 1953 | Youngstown Junior Chamber of Commerce members joined city officials in polishing the entrance to City Hall 72 years ago to publicize the Jaycees Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up week. Jaycees on left, from top, William Dunlap, David Gundry, William P. Lyons, and Frank P. Mayer Jr. Right, from top, Councilmen George Stowe, Stephen J. Olenick, Frank X. Kryzan, Mayor Charles P. Henderson, and Eugene Crowe, commissioner of city buildings. Note that the soot-covered brick and stone are not uncommon for the day.
May 6
2000: Abdul Lateef, a 17-year-old student at Watkins Christian Academy, is credited with leading Ezell Peete, 61, and his daughter, Delores, 20, from a smoky fire that heavily damaged their High Street home in Youngstown.
The Federal Bureau of Land Management will take bids in June for slant drilling to reach oil and gas deposits beneath Mosquito Lake.
Several pupils in Boardman's program for the gifted will collect samples and data from Lake Erie and use their computer skills to analyze pollution and erosion.
1985: Don L. Hanni Jr., chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, announces that he will not seek a fifth term.
Speaking to about 900 at Congregation Rodef Sholom, Nazi hunter Elie Wiesel says Jews have survived through 2,000 years of suffering because they have remembered both their oppression and their traditions. He was the first Berkowitz Lecturer, a program established to honor Dr. Sidney Berkowitz, the late rabbi.
Youngstown Army reservist Staff Sgt. Charles Yeaton, critically burned when his parachute became entangled in power lines during a jump over the Ravenna Arsenal, gets a one-day release from the Akron Children's burn unit for a visit to his E. Philadelphia Avenue home.
1975: Youngstown has paid six parking enforcement agents over $7,000 for the last eight weeks and continues to pay them, although none have issued a parking citation because the city council has not decided what enforcement powers the workers should have.
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, former primate of the Hungarian Catholic Church and a one-time major figure in the East-West political conflict, died in Vienna at the age of 83.
1950: Mahoning County Sheriff Paul J. Langley has not commented on a wide-open bookie joint known as Club 18 in Wickliffe.
Mayor Charles P. Henderson says Youngstown voters could be sold on increasing the municipal income tax if they knew what they were getting for their money and if the city council stood solidly behind the increase.
Sandra Foster, a 7th grader at Washington School, won the 17th annual Vindicator Spelling Bee before an audience of 1,000 at South High School.