21 WFMJ archives / June 6, 1984 | Debra McCoy of Leetonia and Jeanette Brownfield of Lisbon took a tour of the Cherry Valley Arboretum 41 years ago, not long after much work went into cleaning up the area that housed the historic beehive ovens used for decades to make coke for Youngstown steel plants.

June 7

2000: About a dozen students and parents picketed the Warren Board of Education to protest a policy that prohibits students who have not passed all mandatory state proficiency tests from participating in commencement exercises. 

Boardman police say year-end celebrations are getting out of hand, with vans loaded with students throwing eggs and raw meat at each other. Some bystanders have been hit as well. 

More than 3,000 historical medical items collected by Dr. John Melnick, including a 1950s iron lung used to assist polio patients in breathing, have been installed in the old ITT building on Wick Avenue in preparation for its dedication as the Rose Melnick Medical Museum. 

1985: The Red Cross estimates it will spend $2  million in emergency relief for victims of the May 31 tornadoes. 

A black bear that had been seen wandering Trumbull County for two weeks is chased by neighborhood kids into a Packard Electric warehouse on Paige NE in Warren. The bear was tranquilized and will likely be turned over to a zoo because it appears to be too tame to be released into the wild. 

Thorn Pendleton, an industrialist, community leader, and member of a Trumbull County pioneer family, dies at 77. His family was involved in the Trumbull Manufacturing Co., which, at one time, produced the Trumbull and Pendleton cars. 

1975: East Liverpool Mayor Norman R. Bucher wins the Democratic Party's nomination with a coin toss that broke a 1,018 tie with challenger James R. Walker. 

A westbound Penn Central freight train slams into the rear of another westbound train, killing fireman Richard A. Radzevich, 29, of  Braddock, Pa. 

The NAACP requests that the U.S. District Court enjoin the Youngstown Board of Education from disposing of the Bancroft School property, as the building may be needed in a desegregation plan. 

1950: A $3 million fire races through the University of Michigan's historic Haven Hall, destroying hundreds of priceless documents and research notes. 

Rear Admiral George J. McMillin, a pre-war governor of Guam and a wartime prisoner of war of Japan, will receive a long-awaited Rayen School diploma at Rayen's annual reunion.  McMillin left Rayen in his junior year, 1907, to enter the Naval Academy. 

A capacity crowd is expected at the South High Field House when Youngstown College graduates its largest class in history, comprising 648 men and women, of whom 464 are veterans.