21 WFMJ  Archives / January  1978 | Even a grader used to clear the road wasn't immune to getting stuck in a snowbank during the blizzard of 1978. A neighborhood boy observed the deliberations as State troopers and members of the Ohio National Guard discussed how to extricate this machine from the ditch on State Route 534 in Newton Falls. 

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2001: Butch Davis resigns as head coach of the Miami Hurricanes to take the job of leading the Cleveland Browns. 

Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul Gains tells 400 students at Austintown Fitch High School that the best weapon against organized crime is the right and responsibility to vote. 

Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey questions how two magistrates in Youngstown Municipal Court cashed out a total of $29,268 in accumulated sick leave when they are part-time employees who shouldn't be getting fringe benefits. 

 

1986: Two men were killed, and a mother-daughter suffered smoke inhalation after a fire of undetermined cause swept through a house at 155 W. Dewey Ave. The bodies of Carl Nolan, 24, and Allen D. Sims, 29, were found by a fireman. 

Three men who suffered burns in a fire at the General Motors van plant in Lordstown in July have filed a $10.5 million lawsuit against General Motors and an equipment manufacturing company. 

Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says city employees will no longer be paid for vacation time not taken during their careers, saving thousands of dollars a year. 

 

1976: More than 400 industrial executives pay tribute to Thomas Cleary Jr. for his achievement in climbing from a job as a steel mill laborer to executive vice president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. 

Dr. William Renstrom, 51, formerly of Struthers, who was blind for 31 years after a World War II injury, has had his sight restored in one eye. He is a gospel soloist with evangelist Bill Rice. 

Two thieves, one of them armed, get away with the day's receipts from the A&P store in the McGuffey Mall after a security guard is disarmed.

 

1951: Vernon J. Wilson, president of Union National Bank, one of the Mahoning Valley's business and civic leaders for more than 20 years, dies at his home of a heart attack. He was 59.

Despite a charter provision that all Youngstown City Council or its committees be open to the public, Mayor Charles P. Henderson bars the press from a meeting called to discuss the strategy for challenging a $100,000 cut in the city's share of state sales tax receipts. 

William Swager of Youngstown, a 1949 polio victim, is now playing basketball at Boardman High School. He underwent surgery and therapy at Warm Springs Foundation in Warm Springs, Ga., thanks to the Mahoning County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.