21 WFMJ archives / August 19,  1984 | The Howland High School Marching Band, the largest in Trumbull County 41 years ago with 230 members, was practicing in August for the opening of the band night season, and for the football season that follows. 

August 18

2000: Local delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles say their candidate, Al Gore, must campaign in the Mahoning Valley sooner rather than later. "He can't win without the Mahoning Valley, and he has to put up or shut up now," says Sherman Brown.

For the first time in its history, Mahoning County picked a pool of potential jurors with the stroke of a computer key rather than pulling cards out of a barrel.

Two-term Mahoning County Prosecutor James Philomena is moved from a federal prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base to the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Alabama, to serve a four-year sentence for taking bribes. 

 

1985: Statistics tell the story of the decline of the steel industry in the Mahoning Valley. In 1973, the metropolitan area had 93,000 manufacturing jobs, 47,000 in metal fabricating, and 30,100 in steel production. Eighteen years later, there are 53,000 manufacturing jobs, 20,500 in primary metals and 7,300 in basic steel. 

A study for the Ohio Historic Preservation Office shows as many as 35 downtown-area buildings in Youngstown could be nominated for the National Register of Historic Places. 

Vicki McMichael, 13, a Protestant, and Gary Loughran, 14, a Catholic, are both from Northern Ireland and are spending the summer with the James Fallon family in Poland as part of a program to bridge the gap between Irish Catholics and Protestants. 

 

1975: There is a tense peace in Sebring after two days of violence, which brought 50 arrests. A second night of tavern disturbances followed a decision by village officials to rescind an order to close all bars over the weekend. 

Patrick Mango joins the Salem police department as a member of the Sergeant's. Ray Easterly's rotating team. He succeeds Ray Johnson, who resigned. 

Although the calendar declares it is still summer, the Youngstown area's purple martins have left their nests and begun their migration to South America. 

 

1950: About 125 inactive Marine Corps reservists in Youngstown are expected to be called to active duty status. 

A serious tie-up in Youngstown District steel production and passenger transportation looms as 2,000 employees of the P&LE Railroad announce plans for a five-day strike. 

Joe DiCarlo and Joseph J. "Fats" Aeillo are named in a report by the Kefauver Commission as Youngstown racketeers who spend their winters in Miami in the company of questionable characters.