Vindicator file photo/April 14, 1994 | Working on a school quilt at Maplewood East Elementary  School in Trumbull County  26 years ago were, from left, Eric Carlson, 4th grader; Robin Mermer, parent volunteer; Lindsay Dagan, 5th grader; Joyce Barzak, 5th grade teacher; Kay Alderdice, 4th grade teacher,  and Stacey Malys, 5th grader
 

April 15
 
1995: Ronnie C. Gayheart, 26, wanted in Dayton on charges of murder, shoots himself in the head when confronted by Canfield police and Mahoning County deputies on Talsman Drive. Local police had been alerted that Gayheart was staying with a friend on Hilltop Boulevard.

Residents in the downtown Warren area are alarmed by a chemical smell coming from the sewers after a construction crew at the new Trumbull County Jail punctured a 55-gallon drum of solvent and the contents poured into a nearby drain. Authorities briefly considered evacuating 100 prisoners from the nearby county jail.

Josephine Weinberger, 82, a New York-trained beautician who founded Lewis, Weinberger and Hill Academy of Cosmetology, dies at her Boardman home.
 
1980: U.S. District Judge Thomas Lambros deals a blow to 3,500 Mahoning Valley Steelworkers by dismissing a steelworkers anti-trust suit against U.S. Steel Corp. 

Robert E. Hagan, former Trumbull County commissioner, is named director of the Hunger Task Force operated by the Greater Cleveland Interchurch Council. 

Rose Lint, a 63-year-old widow, who may have surprised a burglar in the gun shop behind her Cameron Avenue home, is found by a neighbor with her throat slashed.
 
1970: Dr. Donald W. Robinson, assistant dean at the Southern Illinois University College of Education,  is named dean of education at Youngstown State University  by Dr. Albert Pugsley. He succeeds Joseph Swartz. 
 
The Youngstown Transit Co. rejects a plan to lease its facilities to the Mahoning Valley Regional Mass Transit Authority announces it will increase fares by a dime to 50 cents in the city and 55 cents outside. 

Over the objections of Gary Thompson, Trumbull County Commissioners Lamar Young and Robert Hagan approve a half-percent countywide sales tax.
 
1945: Pews of St. John's Church are packed with 750 men, women and children for a community memorial service for President Roosevelt.  Women wiped tears away, men kept their heads bowed and many young girls wept openly. 

Second Lt. Alfred L. Scali, 25, former guard on the All-City scholastic football team, is reported killed in action in Germany. Radio Electrician John J. Datko Jr., 30, is reported lost when the escort carrier Bismarck Sea was sunk by the Japanese off Iwo Jima on Feb. 21. 

Mrs. Alverna Babbs., 26, of Sharon, legless since a street car accident when she was 13 months old, gets her pilot's license and plans a cross-country flight.