Years Ago | May 10th
21 WFMJ archives / May 8, 1984 | Among the distinguished professors honored at Youngstown State University 41 years ago were, from left, Dr. Carol Gay, English Department; Dr. Leslie S. Domonkos, history; Dr. Irfan A. Khan, civil engineering; Dr. Yih Wu Liu, economics, and Dr. Thomas A. Shipka, philosophy.
May 10
2000: The city of Youngstown reports receiving $943,000 more in income tax revenue in the first four months of the year compared to a year earlier.
Linda Warino, first vice president of the Ohio Nurses Association, says payment restrictions imposed by insurance companies are causing nursing shortages at hospitals, specifically citing Forum Health hospitals' cutbacks in Youngstown.
Lordstown Elementary School closes so that students and teachers can attend the funeral of fourth grader Christa Keeley and her mother, Tina, who were killed by a hit-skip driver while riding their bicycles.
1985: The Ohio Department of Transportation plans to resurface a 20-mile stretch of Interstates 80 and 76 that started deteriorating within a year of being resurfaced. The cost is estimated at $5 million.
Youngstown boxer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini denies a New York Daily News report that he is retiring from the ring at 24.
The Dixie, a renovated 1937 stern-wheel tow boat, sank in the Ohio River offshore from Chester, W. Va.
1975: Chatty Armstrong and Belinda Brothers, both 15, may be the youngest businesswomen in Columbiana County after winning the rights to the concession stand at the Firestone Park pool with a $50 bid.
NVF Co., which owns 85 percent of Sharon Steel Corp., votes a two-for-one split of NVF common stock and an extra 25 percent dividend on the split shares.
The Rev. Gerald Krick, pastor of the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Oak Park, Ill., is celebrating non-Mothers Day at his church because he says women without children are made to feel inferior, and the world needs fewer children, not more mothers.
1950: Mary Ellen Kay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Keaggy of Hubbard, plays the role of the slave girl in "Tarzan and the Slave Girl," which opened at the Palace in downtown Youngstown. The film starred Lex Barker as Tarzan and Vanessa Brown as Jane.
Two mechanics, Mac F. Ingram and Joseph Righetti, were injured when a hoist chain snapped, dropping a station wagon on them at Mac's Garage, Wirt Street, and Catalina Avenue.
