21 WFMJ archives / June 10,  1958 | Nearly 1,000 people were at the Idora Park Ballroom 67 years ago to pay tribute to comedian Danny Thomas and his fund-raising efforts for St. Jude Hospital for leukemia-stricken children. From left, Mayor Frank X. Kryzan,  the Rev. Peter Eid, pastor of St. Maron Maronite Rite Church, and Thomas. 

June 12 

2000:  Youngstown police issue 15 loud-music citations to motorists over the weekend, including one to Willie J. Oliver, 24, who already had four citations, including one that cost him three days in jail. 

The body of Nancy Jane Huffman, 50, was found in her Raglan Drive home in Howland. She had been stabbed to death with a kitchen knife.

Area owners of trucking companies are fighting proposed U.S. Department of Transportation rules that would reduce the number of driving hours allowed within 24 hours from 16 to 12. The rules, adopted in the 1940s, permit a driver to be at the wheel for 10 hours straight, then resume driving after 8 hours of rest, and continue driving until reaching a total of 16 hours in 24 hours. 

 

1985: An 8-year-old East Side Youngstown boy is in guarded condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital with a gunshot wound to the head he suffered while he and a 9-year-old friend were examining a 22-caliber rifle at a home on Stacey Street. 

Warren Mayor Daniel Sferra appoints a three-member commission of private businessmen to review the pay scale of city administrators. Harry Vanderbach, corporate director of personnel at Ajax Magnethermic; Anthony Bizzarri,  an engineer at Syro Steel, and Thomas Sudimack, a personnel officer for Packard Electric, were recommended by the Warren Chamber of Commerce. 

Advertisement: The world's most prestigious pen, the Monte Blanc stainless steel ballpoint, at Cowell & Hubbard in the Southern Park Mall, $79.50

 

1975: Work on a $ 3.5 million runway rehabilitation project at the Youngstown Municipal Airport is halted because of a ripple effect that has developed in the paving surface. 

Don R. Gosney, chairman of the Columbiana County Democratic Party, wants the government to create a public works administration similar to the one established during the Roosevelt administration, which combated Depression-era unemployment. 

Republic Steel Corp. will spend $20 million to increase production of electrical steel at its Mahoning Valley District plant in Warren. 

 

1950: Mayor Michael Nevant of Farrell, PA, protests the 1950 Census results, which show the city lost 349 residents between 1940 and 1950.

Playing at the State Theater, "The Jackie Robinson Story" starring the Pride of Brooklyn himself.