June 13 

2000: Frankie Aguusta Smith celebrates her 106th birthday at Ridgecrest Care Center in Warren and says she has seen many amazing things in her lifetime,  but also remembers what it was like growing up as a young black woman in the South. She graduated from the University of Alabama at Huntsville. 

The revised plan to improve Youngstown city school buildings has grown to $163 million with the addition of a new West Side elementary building. 

William M. Carter, executive director of the Youngstown Area Development Corp., says a Buffalo contractor hired to demolish the Higbee building has not met its required minority hiring targets. 

 

1985: Democratic Party Chairman Don Hanni Jr. is charged with three traffic counts after his car smashed through the front window of the Youngstown Regional Post Office on Walnut Street.

Youngstown City Council earmarks $400,000 for a minority economic development program. 

Youngstown's Jeff Lampkin scores a 10-round unanimous decision against Jack Johnson at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City. 

 

1975: Indictments for stealing or aiding and abetting in the stealing of more than $106,000 in Girard city funds are returned by a  Trumbull County grand jury against the superintendent of the city sewage treatment plant. 

Stocks similar to those used to punish miscreants in pioneer days are installed on Federal Plaza as part of the coming Bicentennial observance. 

Atty. Robert Manchester II of Canfield is elected president of Rotary International for 1976-77 at the worldwide convention held in Montreal, Quebec.

 

1950: The question of whether the owners of the once-notorious Jungle Inn must tear down both buildings in compliance with a state order branding them firetraps appears headed to the Ohio Supreme Court. 

Six Columbia Broadcasting television shows are cancelled when more than 400 technicians walk out in a contract dispute. 

Trumbull Manufacturing Co., the oldest industrial plant in Trumbull County, marks its 100th year in operation.