21 WFMJ archives / May 27,  1951 | The rapids below the Berlin Dam provided district residents with good fishing 74 years ago.  U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan was credited with seeing that the lake was well stocked with fish. 

May 26

2000: Herman Maass, manager of the General Motors Lordstown Assembly Plant, has been working to improve productivity and extend the plant's life since arriving in 1996. He says he will retire in two years. 

Atty. Martin Yavorcik says he quit his beloved job as an assistant city prosecutor because the officials he worked with refused to give inmates a probable cause hearing within 48 hours, as required by the Constitution. He and another lawyer are filing class-action suits against Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana counties on behalf of people arrested and held in jail more than 48 hours before being given a hearing. 

Former students of Tod Woods School in Girard get a nostalgic tour of the building, which will close at the end of the school year. 

1985: Cynthia Bronson, a native of Minnesota, becomes the first woman priest in the area when she assumes her duties as assistant rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Youngstown. Her appointment comes 10 years after the General Counsel of the Episcopal Church approved the ordination of women. 

The closing of LTV Steel's Alliquippa, Pa., Works raises a question of where the Campbell Works seamless mill will get its steel rounds.

While visiting Youngstown State University, Dr. Hatem Hussaini, a professor of international studies in North Carolina, says the United Nations must send a peacekeeping force into three refugee camps in Beirut to prevent the further massacre of Palestinian women and children by Lebanese forces. 

1975: Sparked by a 20-yard field goal by Ron Pentz, a junior from Austintown, the Reds run up 17 points in the final quarter to defeat the White squad, 23-7. at South Field in Youngstown State University's spring training finale. 

One of the oldest cars among 170 displayed at the 12th annual Poland Optimist Club  Antique Car Show is a 1903 Reo Runabout owned by Dr. W.D. Dodgson of Boardman. 

Martin Khoury, a senior at Cardinal Mooney, wins first place in original oratory at the National Catholic Forensic League Tournament in Philadelphia. Coach Denny Barrett's team places fourth.

1950: Jasper J "Fats" Aiello, Youngstown gambler, has a new job operating a string of cigarette vending machines for National Cigarette Service Co. 

Truscon Steel Co. will build a large warehouse on Willow Street south of its main plant, which will cost between $800,000 and $1 million. 

Thirty-three people die when a streetcar bursts into flames in Chicago after being struck by a gasoline truck.