21 WFMJ archives / October 25, 1990 | Two members of the Boardman Kiwanis Club helped wire 1,500 carved pumpkins for display at Boardman Park’s 13th annual “Witch Walk” 35 years ago. From left, Horace Yates and Jim Markovski.

October 30

2000: Thomas Steel Strip in Warren, which Dutch investors bought, is expected by its new owners to increase profits following an investment of $120 million. 

A youth quilting class is being offered by Debbi Calderone at the Boardman JoAnn Fabrics store for kids ages 8  to 11.

Youngstown Schools Superintendent Ben McGee and Sherri Morgan, president of the Youngstown Education Association, returned from  Colorado, where they visited schools managed by Edison Schools. This for-profit company operates 113 schools nationwide and guarantees an increase in scores. 

 

1985: Arguing that the "disgraceful" U.S. homicide rate could be reduced if access to guns were controlled, U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th,  urges a House subcommittee to support his legislation requiring all states to implement registration of all firearms. 

Bishop James W. Malone of the Youngstown Catholic Diocese and president of the National Conference of Bishops, says the United Nations has done little to end the nuclear arms race, which he called "one of the greatest curses of the human race."

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio rules that Ohio Edison must wait until the Perry Nuclear Power Plant begins generating electricity before it can start charging customers for the plant's construction costs.

 

1975: Youngstown City Council votes 6-1 to help pay the legal fees of Patrolman John Tomaino, who had to fight what some say was an unjust suspension in the wake of a departmental investigation into a burglary ring in 1974.

By a 4-3 vote, the City Council approved a resolution endorsing the Plaza East Industrial Development program, which will cost $2.4 million. 

Two explosions are set off in New Castle. One destroys a truck in a South Side parking lo,t and the other damages Lloyd Jewelry at 228 W. Washington Street. 

 

1950: The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce announces its support for a 7.6-mill operating levy for Youngstown schools and a .65-mill levy for the Mahoning County Tuberculosis Sanatorium. 

The New York Central Railroad will soon make a complete switch from coal-burning locomotives to diesel-electric power at a cost of $6 million. 

The nation's steel industry is undertaking an expansion program that will increase its production capacity by 25 percent to approximately 125 million tons over the next two decades.