December 30

2000: Competition from cheap foreign steel and a general downturn in the economy are putting a pinch on two of the Mahoning Valley's largest steel producers, CSC Ltd., a steel bar maker in Warren, and WCI Steel Corp, the only area plant still making steel from scratch. 

Husband and wife Steve Roberts, a National Public Radio commentator, and Cokie Roberts, an ABC TV reporter, will speak at the Timken Physical Education Building at Mount Union College. 

Mahoning County Sheriff Randall Wellington launches a drug-testing program in his department by submitting to a test first. 

 

1985: Myra Benedikt is elected president of the Jewish Community Center for 1986.

A skiplane owned by Richard Flemming of Kinsman is salvaged from Conneaut Lake in Crawford County, Pa., after it broke through the ice during a landing. 

Basketball player Marcell Driver, 17, of Detroit, who enrolled at Boardman Schools, has been ruled ineligible to play by the Ohio High School Athletic Association. 

 

1975: Two men are being held in the shooting death of one clerk and the wounding of another at the Austin Beverage store in the Austin Plaza in Warren. Dead is Dominic Chiarella, 51. Frederick Piersol, 23, is in St. Joseph Hospital. 

Jack Sulligan, chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party for more than 25 years, was pronounced dead at St. Elizabeth Hospital after suffering a heart attack at his home. 

An explosion rips through the baggage area of LaGuardia Airport in New York, killing at least 11 people and injuring 50.

 

1950: Nick Bolkovac, former Wilson High athlete and star tackle for Pitt, plays in the Shrine East-West All-Star game in San Francisco. 

Joe DiCarlo and Frank Cammarata, Youngstown district underworld figures, are subpoenaed to testify before a United States Senate committee investigating organized crime. 

Advertisement:  Dance tonight at The Elms to drummer Gene Krupa and his orchestra. Admission, $1.25 in advance, $1.50 at the door.