December 14

2000: The D.D. and Velma Davis Education and Visitor Center opens at Fellows Riverside Gardens, the newest attraction in Mill Creek MetroParks. 

The Columbiana Board of Education is considering a contract with Scholastic Sponsorship Consultants, Inc., of California, that would place corporate sponsor names throughout school facilities. 

A multimillion-dollar gas-fired electric generation plant that could create 50 jobs is being proposed for Salem Township. 

 

1985: Friday afternoon rush hour traffic in downtown Youngstown slowed to a crawl with two inches of late-afternoon snow falling on the area. 

Detroit automakers are shaken by an announcement that Japanese car companies, which increased their imports to the United States by 24 percent in 1985, plan to eliminate quotas in 1986.  

Canadian investigators say wing ice may have caused the crash of an Arrow Air DC-8 during takeoff in Newfoundland, which killed 248 American soldiers headed home from overseas deployment.    

 

1975: Four youths being held on suspicion of breaking after the burglary victims forced three of the suspects from a Westlawn SW  home in Warren are taken by police to the scene, where they confess. 

A 57-year record topples as the mercury in downtown Youngstown climbs to 64 degrees under sunny skies, making it hard to believe that winter is only a week away. 

 

1950: Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric Co., will be the nation's war production chief.  He was executive vice president of the War Production Board during World War II. 

Clerks and salaried employees of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. receive 11 percent pay raises, representing a minimum of $22 a month. Those earning more than $10,000 will have their salaries adjusted on an individual basis. 

Frank Cammarata, 52, of Warren, a one-time member of the Detroit Purple Gang, is in the city jail awaiting extradition to Michigan on a charge of parole violation.