21 WFMJ archives / May 13,  1981 | Representatives of five area industries presented gifts totaling $64,000 to the Children's Rehabilitation Center's $300,000 expansion fund 44 years ago. Looking over the blueprints were committee chairman Paul Watson, Gerry Seikel of Republic Steel, John Daugherty of U.S. Gypsum, Duane Myers of Standard Oil, Edward Toth of RMI, and Donald Dedow of Packard Electric.

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2000: Paul  Marcone, chief of staff for U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant, acknowledges that he was called to testify before a federal grand jury in Cleveland that is investigating the eight-term congressman. His only comment to the press is that he testified truthfully.

Municipal Court Judge Robert Douglas sentences Willie J. Oliver, 24, to three days in jail as the first person sentenced for violating the city's new anti-noise ordinance. Oliver was charged with blaring music from his car at Market Street and Dewey.

At the opening of the murder trial of Scott Burrows, 19, for the murders of of Charles London, 75, and Dorothy London, 74, in their  Hubbard Township home, prosecutor describe Burrows as a cold-blooded killer who ordered his victims to shut up, while the defense says he wasn't even at the murder scene. 

1985: Youngstown City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting the drawing of poker machines in the city. 

At the urging of Police Chief John Ross, Niles City Council rejects a plan to establish a reserve police unit. 

Area educators tell a State Board Advisory Committee meeting in Canfield that proposed competency testing and stricter academic requirements would do more harm than good. 

1975: Some 200 members of the Youngstown Diocesan Confederation of Teachers agree to a one-year contract offer from the Diocesan Board of Education that provides a starting salary of $7,400.

The prosecution in an ecclesiastical court of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio during a trial in Akron calls for the defrocking of the Rev. L. Peter Beebe of Oberlin, who allowed two women to function as priests in the celebration of communion in his church. 

1950: A Chicago consultant tells the Youngstown City Council that master plans are very expensive and that there is no guarantee that they will receive the approval of state or federal agencies that allocate funds. A plan for Youngstown would cost $50,000.

President Harry Truman's special train passes through Youngstown at about 7:30 a.m. and stops in New Castle to refuel. The president was asleep.