21 WFMJ archives / October 3, 1956 | Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan was positioning his oxygen mask before getting a ride in a T33 jet trainer at Youngstown Municipal Airport 69 years ago.  The pilot was Col. Harley C. Vaugh, commander of the 79th Fighter Group at the airport. 

October 4

2000: Two burglary suspects are in Trumbull County Jail after neighbors dubbed them the over-the-hill gang, John Shaffer, 76, and Frank Volk, 65. They captured the 21- and 19-year-old burglars inside a home on Frederick Avenue in Niles. 

Six men are arrested in Youngstown by an undercover policewoman for soliciting prostitution, including an 80-year-old man who smiled when asked his age. 

The Giant Eagle LPGA Classic will return to Squaw Creek Country Club in 2001, after spending eight years at Avalon Lakes Golf Course in Howland. 

 

1985: Ohio and Pennsylvania communications officials are investigating why some area broadcasters did not activate the Emergency Broadcast System when the tornadoes swept through the area on May 31. 

The Warren-Trumbull Community Improvement Corp hears plans to add 54 rooms to the Avalon Inn in Howland. 

AmeriTrust Co. receives federal approval to establish a branch bank in Youngstown and expects to open offices in the Renaissance Square building (formerly the Realty Building) downtown. 

 

1975: Domestic car sales fall to a 5-year low for September, and the 1975 model year is the worst since 1962. Imports took an all-time high of 22 percent of the market in August.

Two high school football games, played in the shadow of a fight between East and Wilson fans a week earlier, go off without incident, police say. 

Three Lordstown-built 1975 Vega hatchbacks completed a grueling 60-day engine durability endurance run of over 60,000 miles across hot and desolate desert terrain. 

 

1950: A concert by Margaret Truman, daughter of the president, scheduled for Oct. 15 in Youngstown has been canceled. The Youngstown Symphony Society may cancel its entire season over disputes between the society and orchestra conductors. 

David B. Carson, vice president of Sharon Steel Corp., is going to Washington as head of the National Production Authority's steel division.