21 WFMJ archives / November, mid-1980s | Mahoning Valley Pearl Harbor survivors and the color guard from the Polish Legion of American Veterans were greeted with salutes by those on the reviewing stand at the Mahoning County Courthouse on Veterans Day about 40 years ago.

November 11 

2000: Joseph Pavlov Jr., 75, of Youngstown, has played taps at the funerals of more than 8,000 area veterans in recent years, most of them on the trumpet he got at Struthers High. He played taps at the Veterans Day observance at the Mahoning County Courthouse, using a government-issued bugle that was recently saved from a New Castle scrapyard by a friend who knew Pavlov had been searching for one. 

State Rep.-elect Kenneth Carano says his new job and his present job as Austintown Township trustee are both part-time, so he should be able to keep both. 

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge William Bodoh says architect renderings of a new $10 million federal courthouse to be built at Wick Avenue and Commerce Street show a unique structure that will be a downtown jewel.  

 

1985: In a rare accident, a light bulb exploded, igniting gas that was escaping from a drilling rig near Damascus, damaging the rig and sending four people to the hospital. 

Leo J. Linberger, 92, and Anthony J. Schaefer, 88, the last two survivors of 24 World War II veterans who bought a bottle of champagne in 1941,  open the bottle and share a toast. The bottle was supposed to be opened by the last man standing, but Linberger and Schaefer decided to make it a two-man celebration rather than a one-man wake. 

Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, says he expects an upcoming worldwide synod of Catholic leaders to reinforce the sometimes-controversial liberal changes introduced over the past 20 years since the Second Vatican Council.

 

1975: An oil slick and two empty lifeboats are spotted on Lake Superior near where the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald is believed to have sunk with 29 crewmen aboard. 

Youngstown vice squad officers arrest two men and seize more than 2,000 football pool sheets in a raid on a McCartney Road home. 

A visiting common pleas court judge orders Youngstown and Mahoning County to negotiate an increase in the surcharge the city has for suburban water customers. The city increased the surcharge from 25% to 40%. Mayor Jack C. Hunter says he now wishes the city had gone to 75 percent. 

 

1950: If the Republican Party wants Ohio Sen. Robert A. Taft as its presidential nominee, it will have to draft him. He declares that he will not seek the nomination. 

Rayen upsets Ursuline 19-0, and East wallops Niles, 33-0, in exciting area high school football action. 

Yugoslavia closes and seals the Albanian legation in Belgrade on the orders of Premier Marshal Tito in a move just short of breaking diplomatic relations between the two states.