21 WFMJ  archives / Feb. 11, 1983 | During a visit to Youngstown State University 43 years ago, Gov. Richard F. Celeste told a crowd of 300 at the Arts and Sciences Building that a 90 percent increase in the state income tax, which ranged from 0.5 percent to 3.5 percent depending on income, was necessary. Celeste said the state was facing a $1 billion deficit that would require spending cuts across all levels of education.

February 13

2001: A North Lima man who fired more than a dozen shotgun shots into an Armstrong Cable building on Woodworth Road is hospitalized with multiple wounds after he opened fire on a responding Beaver Township police cruiser. 

A voice vote by members of United Steelworkers of America Local 2243 is unanimous in favor of conducting a feasibility study of an employee buyout of CSC Ltd., the operator of the former Copperweld Steel plant in Warren, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 

A Mahoning County Republican Party committee will interview six candidates who are seeking appointment by Gov. Bob Taft to the unexpired term of Juvenile Court Judge James McNally, who died Jan. 4. 

 

1986: Youngstown City Council wants the Ohio General Assembly to re-appropriate money from a proposed reservoir in Green Township to needed repairs to the Lake Milton dam.

Trumbull County commissioners vote to place a 2-mill, five-year levy on the ballot for the Trumbull County Children Services Board.

Youngstown Atty. Andrew Polovischak Jr. files to run against state Sen. Harry Meshel in the Democratic primary. 

 

1976: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter affirms the firings of five employees who were involved in a strike by the Associated Trades and Crafts union.  Twenty others were retired and disciplined. 

Andrew May, 76, of Tremble Avenue, Campbell, was found beaten to death in the basement of his bungalow. His dog was standing guard over him, and the police killed the dog to get to the body. 

Actor Sal Mineo, known as the "Switchblade Kid" for his many roles as a teenage tough, is stabbed to death outside his Hollywood apartment building.

 

1951: Joe DiCarlo, deposed Youngstown rackets king, is selling his palatial home at 1950 Volney Road and, according to sources, at a big sacrifice. 

Atty. Leda Cossack Hartwell is suspended from practice for one year after a hearing before Common Pleas Judge Clifford Belt of Belmont County. 

The Youngstown Board of Education votes to remodel the Wood Street School for $150,000, to be used as an industrial arts and adult education center.