21 WFMJ archives / June 9, 1947 | A destructive and deadly tornado swept through Vienna Township in Trumbull County and into western Pennsylvania 78 years ago. This aerial shot shows Dock Street in Sharon, one of the areas hardest hit.

June 8 

2000: Youngstown City Council asks Mahoning County Sheriff Randall Wellington to coordinate with Police Chief Richard Lewis in assigning deputies to patrol in the city to crack down on crime. 

Todd A. Butler is sentenced to two life sentences without parole after pleading guilty to murder in the deaths of two Columbiana County women, Clairenda Collins, 21, and Loretta Haines, 18, on May 25. 1999.

Trumbull County communities with a stake in Mosquito Lake are attempting to raise funds to challenge a Bureau of Land Management plan that would permit slant drilling for gas and oil under the lake. 

 

1985: General Motors Corp. pledges $1 million to match other donations to the Trumbull County Red Cross. 

A study shows that a convocation center in Youngstown could lose between $750,000 and $1 million a year, but it should still be considered an investment in downtown. 

Teamsters are picketing four area bakeries and distribution centers: Schwebel Bakery Co., Continental Baking Co., Keystone Bakery in Youngstown, and Nickles Bakery Inc. in Girard. 

The first Party on the Plaza of 1985 drew about 500 people to Youngstown's Federal Plaza.  

 

1975: Liberty Township policemen begin calling off with "blue flu" after last-minute negotiations with township trustees fail to reach a new contract. 

Women's lib and new anti-bias laws are prying open the gates for new production jobs for women in Youngstown district industries that have traditionally been open only to men.

Despite rising gasoline prices, which may soon reach 70 cents a gallon, Youngstowners still aren't abandoning their cars for the bus, which confounds the Western Reserve Transit Authority. 

 

1950: A $75,000 fire destroys half a business block on Water Street in Lowellville and drives 14 people from apartments above stores. The Boland Drug Store and Meme's Dry Cleaning are gutted. 

One of the most mysterious political careers in modern Oriental history appears to be at an end, as Ho Chi Minh was removed as chief of the Viet Minh government in Indochina. 

Sixty members of the Mahoning County Trustees and Clerks Association say Sheriff Paul Langley has "one more chance" to clamp down on vice before they call for the state to step in.