November 28

2000: Mahoning County commissioners will seek bids from vendors who would bill inmates in the county jail for time served and take a percentage of the proceeds. 

A fire destroys the 78-year-old James Funeral Home on Broad Street in Newton Falls, but owner Tom James vows to rebuild. Churches and a Niles funeral home have offered their facilities until James can rebuild. 

A nine-member task force of Youngstown State University administrators is charged with finding a solution to an enrollment slide that has seen YSU's numbers drop to 11,787, a 16 percent decline since 1994.

 

1985: Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, praises President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for the progress they made toward peace during their summit in Geneva.

Lou Holtz, a graduate of East Liverpool High School, succeeds Gerry Faust as head coach of the Notre Dame football team. 

Steel imports plunged nearly 49 percent in October to 1.3 million tons, resulting in a slight decline for the first 10 months of the year compared to 1984.

 

1975: Shiller's Drugs in Petersburg, a familiar name for 100 years, is destroyed in an early Thanksgiving Day fire of undetermined origin. 

The Old Log Cabin on Columbiana's Village Square was dedicated in ceremonies following a committee of residents' renovation and restoration of the structure. 

Roy J. "Rummy" DePaul, 75, one of Youngstown's all-time greats in football,  baseball, and golf, and a leading promoter of events to benefit youth, dies of cancer.

 

1950: The Youngstown district is slowly digging out of the most severe weather storm on record. The death toll stands at 11, and the monetary loss to the district is estimated at $20 million. 

Youngstown district industrial plants, which make about 11 percent of the nation's steel and other products, are slowly stirring to life, and 75,000 workers are being called back to the mills. 

Vindicator readers are urged not to pay premium prices for today's editions, the first to hit the streets in four days. There are reports of people hungry for news of the great blizzard paying $1 for a paper. There will be plenty available at the face value of 5 cents.