21 WFMJ Archives / Jan. 15, 2003 | Children's author Sanda Philipeon brought her dogs, Annie and Max, who were the subjects of her books, when she spoke to students at Campbell Elementary School 23 years ago. 

January 16

 

2001: Greg Slemons, treasurer of the Warren City School District, says the district has lost $246,120 in state funding since the Life Skills Center charter school opened in the fall. 

A group of Mahoning Valley residents who attended a United Nations conference on corruption in Sicily in 1985 is the keynote speaker at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance at First United Presbyterian Church, titled "Countering the Influence of Corruption." Edna Pincham says, "The first thing we must do is break the code of silence."

Charles Petzinger, president of Pan Atlas Travel in Youngstown, jokes that he'll probably have most of the Republicans in Mahoning County on his bus tour to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President George W. Bush. 

   

1986: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17 th, wins the support of Ohio Gov. Dick Celeste for Traficant's campaign to build a canal linking Lake Erie and the Ohio River.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. joins a dozen other Congress members in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Gramm-Rudman budget-deficit-reduction law. The law triggers automatic budget cuts if Congress and the president don't reach an agreement, which Traficant and the others say violates the constitutional separation of powers among the three branches. 

Warren Municipal Court Judge Charles Young issues a bench warrant for the arrest of City Police Chief Rudy Galgozy after  Galgozy had the judge's car towed from the Municipal Building parking lot. The judge's car was blocking a municipal bucket truck that had been removing Christmas decorations. The car was towed after the judge refused to move it. 

 

1976: Mayor Jack C. Hunter of Youngstown, speaking before the National Gambling Commission in Cleveland, says he does not champion the legalization of wagering, but he is aware that it might have the potential to declaw organized crime. 

A Youngstown City Council committee investigating accusations of police brutality may consider a citizens' review board as a way of smoothing relations between the police and the city's minorities. 

Mahoning County Republican Chairman Elton W. Luckhart announces his resignation, leaving Timothy Marks, first vice chairman, as the new presiding officer of the GOP central and executive committees. 

 

1951: James R. Murrow, 42, of Youngstown, is killed when his car, traveling at high speed, breaks through a railroad gate at Westlake Crossing. 

Girard police arrived within minutes and arrested burglars who had stolen a safe containing $3,700 from Nichols Bakery at 420 N. State St. 

More than 200 elderly people are feted at the eighth annual interracial Senior Citizens Banquet sponsored by the Buckeye Elks Lodge 73 and its auxiliary, Naomi Temple 124.