21 WFMJ archives / July 14,  1957 | Crews were working through the summer 68 years ago on the Mankato stone exterior of St. Columba Cathedral  in Youngstown.  General contractor Charles Shutrump and Co. planned to get the building under roof before winter. 

July 15

2000: Visiting judge Ronald Rice of Brookfield, sitting in Youngstown Municipal Court, sentences a Youngstown man to two six-month terms in jail for assaulting a police dog and resisting arrest. He rejected a plea deal that had called for any jail time to run concurrently with an earlier 11-month sentence on drug charges.

Singer Ray Charles gives $2 million to Wilberforce University, the nation's oldest private black liberal arts university, to establish a scholarship fund and the Ray Charles Chair in Music and the Arts. 

A 41-year-old Youngstown man is the first graduate of the Warren City Rescue Mission's six-month Christian-based program to get men with alcohol or drug problems back on track. 

 

1985: Some 100 residents of Kermont Heights, an upscale neighborhood in northern Hubbard Township, are demanding that the vacant Kerr mansion, from which the development got its name, be razed after suffering heavy damage from the May 31 tornado. 

Gov. Richard F. Celeste releases a 40-page report outlining Ohio's strategy for the future and calling for tighter controls on hazardous waste, air and water pollution, and research into how to remove sulfur from Ohio coal, making it more environmentally friendly. 

The area's stormy summer continues as thunderstorms and nearly 3 inches of rain knocked out power to thousands of residents, primarily in Trumbull County. 

 

1975: Warren could have 11 hours of bus service from three buses every day except Sunday if the city agrees to a contract with the Western Reserve Transit Authority.

The Idora Park manager and a special-duty policeman fired nine shots at three thieves who grabbed $40 from a ticket booth. One juvenile was apprehended. 

Peter Carr of Massachusetts is barred from driving in New Hampshire for 60 days after Gov. Meldrim Thompson filed a complaint that while passing the governor's limousine, Carr gave him a hand signal that does not appear in any driver's manual. 

 

1950: Two Youngstown and two Warren companies received Army contracts totaling $1.2 million. Automatic Sprinkler, Ben Rudick Construction, Denman Tire, and Brianard Steel won the contracts.

J. Myron McCrone, postmaster in Poland for 16 years,  retires and is replaced by Mrs. Florence Needler. 

Pandel Savic, the Girard gridder who sparked Ohio State to a 17-16 Rose Bowl victory over California in 1950, signs as quarterback with the Green Bay Packers. Savic enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1943 and served in the South Pacific before enrolling at OSU.