21 WFMJ archives / July 18,  1984 | Two Warren lads developed a novel way of fishing in Packard Park 41 years ago. Ken Jack, 17, and Richard Coulter, 13, scattered pieces of bread on the water and scooped up their catch in a bucket.  It was a purely catch-and-release exercise.

July 17

2000: Youngstown Law Director Robert Bush Jr. says Youngstown Municipal Court is being overwhelmed by requests for jury trials. 

Warren firefighters are investigating the cause of a fire at 2330 Mahoning Ave. NW that killed Lisa Robinson, 35, and her son, Andrew, 8.

Peter Nalepa of Hubbard, a 17-year-old senior at Ursuline High School, scores a perfect 1,600 on his SAT exams. Educational Testing Services said that in 1985, 53,000 students took the test in Ohio, and 17 scored 1,600.

 

1985: Five Lawrence County employees are treated for exposure to chemical fumes after chemicals from hospital storage kits explode in a truck behind the Scottish Rite Cathedral, where hospital equipment has been stored in a Civil Defense shelter since 1962.

Bazetta Township trustees file suit to block Cortland's annexation of 90 acres of property at state Routes 305 and 46, site of a proposed development called Huntington Acres.

Members of the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology will hold a hearing at Youngstown State University to discuss the steel industry's use of new technology. 

 

1975: Two major shareholders of Ajax Magnethermic Corp. complete the sale of their stock to Guthrie Corp. Ltd. of England. John A. Logan and Bruce E. McArthur held 58 percent of the company's stock. 

The Youngstown Hospital Association says that unless the Ohio General Assembly passes a bill revamping medical Malpractice laws in the state, hospital room rates are likely to increase by $3 per day to cover higher insurance costs. 

Three Americans on an Apollo spacecraft dock with two Russians on a Soyuz craft, marking the beginning of a new era of international cooperation in space. 

 

1950: A page one Associated Press picture in The Vindicator shows Pvt. Joseph Manes of Youngstown hanging his clothes out to dry after "washing them in a river somewhere near the front line in Korea."

Thomas G. Kennedy, chief of Youngstown's fire prevention bureau, says that unless he's given free rein in supervising inspections and carrying out orders he has issued, he will resign. Chief Leroy Halstead sat silently while Kennedy aired his grievances at a city council meeting. 

The adventures of Hopalong Cassidy now appear daily and on Sundays in The Vindicator comic pages.