21 WFMJ  archives / Feb. 28, 1986 | Firefighters worked from a bucket truck 40 years ago, pouring water on a fire that erupted in the paint department of Easco Aluminum in Girard. The fire was brought under control in about half an hour. Two of the 42 workers in the paint department were treated for smoke inhalation. The plant employed about 300.

February 28

2001: Dr. John Russo, a labor expert who led Youngstown State University's faculty labor union to an unprecedented strike 12 years ago, will return to the union presidency.

Youngstown will begin enforcing two hours of free daytime parking in the downtown area. Bags were placed over downtown parking meters in November, but the two-hour limit was not enforced.

Boardman veterinarian Donald Allen says that even domestic dogs will form packs if left out on their own for the day, which he said could explain an attack on a stray beagle puppy by a pack of as many as 10 dogs in Mill Creek Park. A passerby saved the pup, which is being treated by Angels for Animals. 

 

1986: Mayor Patrick Ungaro says the city will not accept a federal loan for repairs to Lake Milton Dam, estimated at $6 million. The city will only accept state or federal grants. 

Nine men and women are the first members of the board of the new Mahoning County Tourism and Travel Bureau. They are Dr. Dominic Bitonte, Betty DeLuca, Max Pelleski, Ralph Pesek, Lynn Squire, Celine Kovass, McCullough Williams, Geoffrey Pearce, and Tom Lyden. 

Thaddeus Woodman, founder of the Woodman Insurance Agency, is honored as the oldest member of the Rotary Club of Youngstown during its anniversary dinner at the Youngstown Club.  Woodman, 96,  joined the club Nov. 18, 1915.

 

1976: Robert and Diane McMasters win a contest to name an overdue-reminder mascot for the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County. Their suggestion: The Loan Remindeer.

Louise Dellone, who teaches Russian and English at Boardman High School, has a collection of 1,320 thimbles, including one of gold and one made from walrus hide. 

The Pentagon releases an artist's conception of the first Trident-missile-firing submarine, which will be built by General Dynamics in Groton, Conn., and christened the Ohio. 

 

1951: Mahoning County Prosecutor William A. Ambrose prepares to square off with Morris Engle, owner of Club 18, the gambling joint Ambrose ordered closed.

The U.S. Senate Kefauver crime committee charges that Arthur B. McBride, taxicab operator and owner of the Cleveland Browns,  is making a "gift" of $4,000 a week to the Capone mob in Chic

The Bryn Mawr Neighborhood Council, which built a playground in Scienceville, is now organizing a neighborhood civilian defense team.