21 WFMJ archives / June 15,  1954 | A  storm 71 years ago produced flood waters that washed out a bridge owned by George Panik at 2447 Cherry Hill, Youngstown. The bridge surface was washed from its railroad rail foundation, damaging the adjoining bridge on which Mrs. Charles White was shown sitting.  Lightning sparked 23 fires, contributing to an area-wide loss of $150,000.

June 15 

2000: The Columbiana Board of Education rejects a bid of $50,000 from Heartland Christian for the old Columbiana High School building, hoping to get payment closer to the building's appraised value of $400,000.

The Columbian County Sheriff's Department is seeking a $350,000 federal grant to place police officers in three county school districts, Beaver, Southern, and the Career Center near Lisbon. 

More than 20,000 people line the streets of New Castle to greet the History Channel's "Great Race," a 14-day caravan of vintage cars traveling from Boston to Sacramento. 

 

1985: Strouss department stores donate $50,000 to the Red Cross to aid victims of the tornadoes in Trumbull, Mahoning, and Columbiana counties. 

The Ohio Chapter of the American Parks Association presents its History and Heritage Award to Mill Creek Park for its restoration of Lanterman's Mill. 

Dr. John M. Duggan, president of St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ind., a Catholic college for women, tells Youngstown State's graduating class that education involves learning to ask questions, to express oneself, and to discern the good from the bad. Margaret Cushwa of Youngstown, who was presented an honorary doctor of law degree from YSU for her service to the community and the university, was a graduate of St. Mary's.

 

1975: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter and Development Director Robert Machuga go to Washington, D.C., seeking support for an urban homesteading program in the city. 

Susan K. Banks, a 22-year-old Miss Warren, is crowned Miss Ohio during the state pageant at Mansfield. She sang an aria from "La Traviata" as part of her talent presentation. 

Plans to develop a 22-acre city park and school athletics center behind Western Reserve High School on Warren's West Side died quietly with the expiration of a federal grant that would have paid half the cost. 

 

1950: The chief of the U.S. Secret Service tells Congress that New York and Chicago gangs are printing counterfeit money worth $100,000.

Mahoning County deputies are searching for two prisoners who escaped from the county jail by prying the bars away from a second-floor window and dropping 25 feet to the street. They were on the lam for about three hours before being missed. 

Warren's population increased from 6,837 to 49,674 between the 1940 and 1950 censuses. Niles gained 500 to 16,773, and Girard went from 9,805 to 10,068.