November 27

2000: More than a century of birth and death certificates retained by the Youngstown Health Department will be transferred to the  Youngstown Museum of Science and Industry and will be converted to microfilm and a computer database within a matter of years.

A ten-foot bronze cherub will be moved from the entrance of the Veterans Walkway on  W. State Street in Sharon and replaced with three flagpoles. The cherub will be moved across the street at city expense. 

Resistance is building among teachers, particularly in urban areas, to a state mandate requiring fourth-grade students to pass a standardized reading test before advancing to fifth grade. 

 

1985: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. wants to know why a federal grand jury did not investigate information provided to the FBI on the involvement of Jimmy Prato and Little Joey Naples in the disappearance and assumed murder of Youngstown mobster Charles Carabbia. 

The Rev. George Pappas, president of the local Eastern Orthodox Clergy Association, asks that Boardman High School reschedule its prom from May 3, which falls on the Greek Orthodox Easter weekend. 

Some 750 needy people enjoy free Thanksgiving meals at First Presbyterian Church at Wick Avenue and Wood Street. 

 

1975: A robber described as pimply and between 14 and 16 years old pulls a blue steel handgun on a teller at the Potters Savings and Loan branch in St. Clair Plaza in East Liverpool, escaping with $3,793 in a paper bag. 

Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music captures the highest number of awards at the regional competition of the National Association of Teachers of Singing at Bowling Green State University. 

The Youngstown Rotary Club hosts 68 senior citizens from the Metro Plaza apartments at the club's annual Thanksgiving luncheon at the Hotel Ohio. 

 

1950: The  Vindicator misses publication for a third day as the Mahoning Valley remains in the grip of a historic blizzard. 

 The Vindicator of the Air continues on WFMJ radio, reporting on ongoing school, industrial, and store closings. 

Temperatures are beginning to rise, and National Guard troops are arriving to help police patrol the streets on foot. 

Six drivers for the Sanitary Milk Company battle impassable roads for six hours to deliver milk to North Side Hospital.