21 WFMJ archives / October 10, 1948 | Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. managers posed for this photo 77 years ago. From left, Frank Roberts, assistant to the general manager; R. Elliott Lewis, assistant to the district manager; J.S. Stanier, general superintendent of flat rolled and tubular mills; H.E. Engelbaugh, district manager; W. H. Yeakley, general superintendent, Campbell steel plant, blast furnaces and Struthers Works; Donald W. Lloyd, general superintendent, Brier Hill plant.

October  11

2000: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, says he will split from his party and vote for Republican Dennis Hastert to retain his job as speaker of the House, even if his is the deciding vote. 

The Youngstown-Warren Chamber of Commerce is seeking tenants for vacant spaces in the three downtown Warren office buildings it has purchased, as it begins a new venture as a property owner. 

Negotiators are cautiously optimistic that an agreement can be reached to end a two-week strike by Champion Local School District teachers. 

 

1985: Jetstream International Airlines, with facilities at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, will launch  Peidmont Commuter service between Youngstown and Baltimore-Washington International Airport on Nov. 1. 

Jane W. Beilby, executive director of Planned Parenthood of the Mahoning Valley, was presented with the Kathryn Challis Pollock Award for her outstanding contributions to the organization over 20 years. 

Orson Welles, a radio and film legend who stunned the film world with the release of "Citizen Kane" at the age of 25, died in Los Angeles of a heart attack at the age of 70.

 

1975:  Five federal prisoners, including a former Salem man, escape from a maximum-security federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill.,  after one of the convicts built a remote-control device to open a cell door. 

The opening of the Salem Jaycees haunted house is jammed by hundreds of young and young-at-heart who fill the sidewalk on S. Elsworth Avenue. Cleveland TV personalities Hoolihan and Big Chuck were on hand.

Advertisement: Strouss $250,000 fur sale, three days only at Southern Park Mall. Full-length natural mink coats, $1,390 to $3,490; stroller length, $790 to $1,490.

 

1950: Youngstown police arrest two West Side youths, 15 and 17 years old, who are suspected of being the gum-chewing bandits who held up two gas stations within an hour. 

More than 40,000 Youngstowners signed scrolls affirming their faith in democracy within the first three hours after the Freedom Bell arrived in the city.