21 WFMJ archives / July 9,  1984 | Don Schreckengost, center, executive design director of Summitville Tile, and Pete Johnson Sr., chairman of the company, watched as Eugene Sabatino spread a bonding agent in preparation to attaching tiles for a mosaic on the wall of the company's new Boardman store 41 years ago. The mural depicts the history of the steel industry in the Mahoning Valley.

July 10

2000: McKay Logistics says it is moving its trucking operations from Chicago to North Jackson and expects to have 80 office workers and 400 drivers working out of the site when it is up to full operations. 

Despite a rain delay, Forte on the 50 brings to a close YSU's second Summer Festival of the Arts with performances by the Dana All-Star Band, the Youngstown Connection, Phil Dirt and the Dozers, and fireworks by Phantom Fireworks. 

A three-mile nature walk through Yellow Creek Park in Struthers will give walkers a look at the Hopewell Furnace, the first blast furnace west of the Allegheny Mountains, which was abandoned when workers left to fight in the War of 1812.

 

1985: A 14-year effort by the Ohio Board of Education to consolidate four northern Trumbull County school districts -- Bloomfield-Mesopotamia, Bristol, Southington, and Farmington -- ends with the state renewing a charter for Bloomfield-Mespo that was revoked in 1971.

About 120 people pack a muggy, smoke-filled room in the Wheatland municipal building to protest plans for a 100-acre industrial park that they say would limit the ability of people who lost their homes to the May 31 tornado from rebuilding.

Neil K. Gordon, 85, a World War I veteran who fought in Mexico with General Pershing before being sent to Europe and who was later chief of police in Struthers for 13 years, dies in the Ron Joy Nursing Home a day after his arrival. 

 

1975: The refurbished fountain is dedicated in Warren's Courthouse Park to mark the 175th anniversary of Warren's recognition as the capital of the Western Reserve. 

A fire of suspicious origin destroys the Exit Bar at 114 S. Bridge St. in Struthers. 

Bell Telephone Co.'s operators' office in New Castle will close in 1977, with the work being transferred to Ohio Bell's office in Youngstown.

 

1950: Two known Youngstown Communist Party members and a third person are questioned by police after they circulated petitions demanding the outlawing of atomic weapons as "instruments of murder."

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan is identified as the Washington official accused by Youngstown Police Chief Edward Allen of protecting a Purple Gang racketeer. Kirwan tells U.S. Sen Estes Kefauver that he attempted to stay the deportation of an alien in his district, but dropped the case after receiving an unfavorable report on the man from immigration officials. 

Three Farrell men are injured when a brick wall collapses while they were razing the A.M.E. Zion Church on Darr Avenue.