21 WFMJ archives / August 1982 | About 160 people took part 43 years ago at the second annual Guilford Lake Sail Clinic at Guilford Lake State Park in Columbiana County. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Watercraft Division provided the sailboats, which were donated for use at the clinic. 

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2000: General Motors will provide potential hires at the Lordstown complex with up to four days of training before they take an employment test. 

Youngstown Police Chief Richard Lewis has ordered police officers of both sexes not to wear earrings while on duty in civilian clothes. Officers have always been prohibited from wearing earrings while in uniform. 

Herbert F. Schuler Sr., president of General Extrusions in Boardman, tells graduates of Youngstown State University that they'll have to take risks to be successful. 

 

1985: Carhaulers at Anchor Motor Freight in Lordstown join other Teamsters in ending their three-week nationwide strike. Drivers at Lordstown, where there is a 12,000-car backlog, are already on the road. 

Socrates Kolitsos is re-elected president of the board of directors of the National Management Association.

After getting two hits in the Cincinnati Reds' victory over the Houston Astros,  Pete Rose is 15 hits short of beating Ty Cobb's all-time hit record. 

 

1975: Youngstown city officials travel to Chicago in hopes of winning a $2.4 million economic development grant that would finance Federal Plaza East. 

A pay raise bill signed by President Ford assures federal judges of retirement at full pay with guaranteed cost-of-living increases. 

Concern about natural gas allotments has Salem Superintendent of Schools Robert Pond considering the conversion of the boiler at Salem High School back to fuel oil. 

 

1950: Mobilization of the armed forces prompts the Associated Services for the armed forces, successor of the USO, to add $4,213 to its original request of funds from the Youngstown Community Chest. The organization is seeking $12,266.

A series of spectacular electrical storms, accompanied by a "million-dollar rain," sweeps through the Youngstown district, perking up parched pastures, gardens, fields, and lawns.

Atty. Mayor Charles Henderson names Theodore Cubbison Jr. to the newly created post of assistant to Youngstown police prosecutor Henry J. Fugett.