21 WFMJ archives / October 4, 1958 | Volunteers were busy working on the Youngstown Community Chest Drive 67 years ago.  Packing campaign kits were Mrs. Ed J. Kaufman Jr. and Miss Clara Repasky.

October 6

2000: A second hospitalized patient dies after becoming ill during dialysis at a Youngstown dialysis center in August. 

Two groups are battling for control of the Salem Humane Society, which is beset by allegations that it is failing to care for the animals under its control adequately. 

The new 538-foot Bridge Street Bridge, now named the Korean Veterans War Memorial Bridge, was opened in Struthers. 

 

1985: The Mahoning County Children's Services Board says cases of sexual abuse of children have increased dramatically in five years, with 39 cases investigated in 1980 and 116 so far in 1985.

A feud between Girard Mayor Joseph Melfi and the Girard Homecoming Committee has prompted festival organizers to seek a site outside the city for the 1986 Homecoming celebration. The dispute involves the committee's failure to pay a $726 bill for police overtime for the July parade. 

An FBI agent wounded during a shootout with a robber in Phoenix becomes the first female agent killed in the line of duty. 

 

1975: Youngstown police capture a burglary suspect outside the Jacobs Road Superette after they see him walking out the front door at 1 a.m. carrying two boxes of Saltines. 

A Youngstown nurse dies, and her companion, a prominent Youngstown physician, is injured when their motorcycle collides with a car in Sharon. Dead is Janice Hassey; injured is Dr. Arthur V. Wittaker. 

Girard City Council approves spending $250,000 on the Tod Park recreation project. 

 

1950: Boy Scouts are distributing 1,900 Community Chest campaign posters to all parts of the city for display in businesses and on main arteries. 

A 34-year-old Chalmers Avenue man is charged with assault with intent to kill Thomas Hatcher, who was thrown from the Route 18 bridge into Lake Milton. The assault occurred during a dispute over jurisdiction between the United Mineworkers and the Structural Iron Workers on the project. 

The United Steelworkers CIO plans to accept no less than a 20-cent-an-hour increase for its 1 million members and will strike if necessary.