21 WFMJ archives / June 21, 1976 | Mahoning Bank employees in Youngstown were getting into the Bicentennial spirit 49 years ago, modeling the colonial era costumes they would be wearing Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during the two weeks leading up to the Fourth of July. From left, Brinks guard Kenny Hall, in 20th-century attire, and bank employees Mindy Mincher, Sue Haggerty, and Florence Meyer.

June 22

2000: CiviGenics Inc. of Boston, Mass., which operates the Columbiana County Jail, informs commissioners that they'll have to remove 100 inmates from the facility because the county has failed to demonstrate that it can continue to pay for their incarceration. 

The state fire marshal is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for a June 3 fire in East Palestine that killed Christine McKay, 37,  in her second-floor apartment at 79 W. Main St.

Mahoning County commissioners vote to pay an outstanding $412,000 debt to Trumbull County for the county's share of a matching federal grant received in 1998 for the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport.

 

1985: President Ronald Reagan is at Andrews Air Force Base to receive the bodies of four off-duty Marines killed along with seven civilians when guerrillas opened fire on an outdoor cafe in San Salvador. Among the Marines killed was Sgt. Thomas Handwork, a 1979 graduate of Boardman High School, worked at the U.S. Embassy.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, says President Reagan should use military force to free 40 American hostages being held in Beirut.

The Rev.  Richard M. Reis, former national director of the World Wide Marriage Encounter, is appointed pastor of St. Charles Church in Boardman. The Rev. George Giannaris is named pastor of St. John Greek Orthodox Church in Boardman.

 

1975: A $2.8 million increase in Youngstown State University's operating budget for 1975-76 will require a tuition increase -- the first in two years -- of about $10 per quarter for full-time students.

YSU's new $6 million library will be named for the late William F. Maag Jr.,  editor and publisher of The Vindicator for 40 years.

A 13-year-old Warren boy, Learthon Adamson, drowns while swimming in Lake Ann behind the Kent State University  Branch Campus.

 

1950: A tour of the Mahoning County Jail by a group of city inspectors ends abruptly when Sheriff Paul Langley orders out Building Inspector Robert L. Findlay and Fire Chief Leroy Halstead.

A cavity as big as a room and 13 feet deep is discovered under the intersection of Belmont Avenue and W. Rayen Avenue, forcing the rerouting of buses and other heavy traffic.

The Ohio Supreme Court agrees to rule on the legality of Youngstown's "suspicious persons" ordinance under which Jasper "Fats" Aeillo, petty racketeer, was convicted in 1949.