21 WFMJ archives / May 24,  1984 | Attending the 35 th annual meeting of the Eastern Ohio Chapter of the American Heart Association 41 years ago were, from left, Nick Julian, heart transplant recipient; Michael Fitas, Mahoning County engineer and chairman of the board; Joseph Mistovich, who received an award for responding to his father's medical emergency; Dr. Angelo Riberi, outgoing Eastern Ohio Chapter president; Daniel Becker; Randee West, Heart Sweetheart, and Eunice Smith, accepting an award for the Canfield Community CPR.

May 24

2000: A speeding tractor-trailer rams into the toll booth at the Westgate of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and bursts into flames, killing the driver and sending two toll collectors to a Pittsburgh hospital with serious burns. 

United Airlines' parent company is buying US Airways in a $4.3 million cash deal. The sale is not expected to affect five US Airways Express flights from the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport.  

Martin Sheen, star of NBC's "The West Wing," advises inmates at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown to emulate South Africa's Nelson Mandela and not hold on to anger and resentment after their release. 

 

1985: Mary Ward, 80, tells Youngstown police her home on South Garland Avenue has been burglarized three times in a week, twice when she was home. 

Gary Meier, superintendent of United Local School District, is the new chairman of the Eastern Ohio  Chapter of the American Heart Association. 

The Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren will hire fifty new skilled tradesmen, the largest influx of new journeymen at the Warren site in recent years. 

 

1975: The East Palestine Athletic Booster Club is working to improve Reid Stadium by more than doubling its seating capacity and improving lighting. 

Members of the Champion Classroom Teachers Association ended their two-week strike, accepting a new base pay of $8,150, an increase of $775.  Top pay with a master's degree and 14 years of experience will be $14,500.

Maryland transportation officials are analyzing bids for $27 million worth of steel tunnel liners for Baltimore's rapid transit system to see if they can award the contract to Commercial Shearing Corp. of Youngstown rather than a Japanese firm that submitted a lower bid. 

 

1950: Slot machines in Ellsworth Township are not conducive to good citizenship, the Rev. Louis J. Raymond, pastor of the Federated Church of North Jackson, declares during a commencement address at  Ellsworth High School. 

John Lee Keenan, a 40-year-old ex-convict sought by Pittsburgh police in connection with a fatal hold-up, was captured by Youngstown detectives as he sat in a car at Commerce and Phelps streets two blocks from the police station.

The Youngstown Heart Association presents an electrocardiograph to the Mahoning County Sanatorium.