21 WFMJ archives / October 23, 1981| Students helped get more than 100 trophies that had been stored in the attic of Poland Junior High School ready for pick up by anyone who had won one, either team or individual, 44 years ago. The trophies dated to 1935 and included several basketball championships and a real football that had been plated to commemorate Poland’s 1941 6-man football county championship. Pictured, from left, are Anne Peterson, Lisa Modarelli, Mary Meloy, Julie Hoffmaster, and Principal Tom Shook.

October 24

2000: A state lab says strychnine pellets that are available at farm supply stores are what killed 22 dogs at the Western Reserve  Road home of Marge Kotzbacher. The dogs were being boarded while the Salem Area Humane Society shelter was closed. 

Gene Jones is the new principal of Lowellville High School. 

Abdul Lateef, 17, a straight-A student who wants to become a neurologist, receives the youth award from the Mayor's Task Force on Crime and Violence Prevention.  He ignored smoke and flames pouring from a High Street home to guide two people to safety. 

 

1985: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. pounces on a rumor that General Motors has run into problems with Spring Hill, Tenn., as the site of its Saturn plant and tells G.M. Chairman Roger Smith that the Mahoning Valley would welcome the plant with open arms. 

Sparks fly during a Warren City Council meeting when Freshman councilman Daniel Polivka faces off against his colleagues over guests who were not permitted to speak against a proposal to rent office space in a city-owned building to Planned Parenthood of the Mahoning Valley.

Youngstown City Council approves applying for federal grants to purchase land for a riverfront project on the downtown Mahoning River. 

 

1975: A federal judge in Pittsburgh lifts a temporary restraining order that had stopped a French company from buying Copperweld Steel. 

Because the area's pollution index has reached 157, considered poor, the Mahoning-Trumbull Air Pollution Control Agency warns residents that burning leaves is illegal and that burners are subject to fines. 

Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., who gained fame as chairman of the Watergate committee, tells an audience at Powers Auditorium that "the fight between tyranny and freedom goes on forever."  He is the first in a series of lectures funded by the Leonard Skeggs Foundation. 

 

1950: A 25-year-old South Side woman who gave birth to a baby on Oct. 14 is in St. Elizabeth Hospital with polio. Her daughter is reported to be fine. 

Church bells, factory whistles, and auto horns will be synchronized to sound in Youngstown with the ringing of the Freedom Bell marking the fifth anniversary of the United Nations.