May 27

 

1995: Mahoning County Coroner Dr. David Kennedy says he will hire Dr. Jessie Giles of Nashville, Tenn., a forensic pathologist, at a salary of $100,000, which will be less expensive than contracting with local hospitals for pathology work. 

Youngstown Detective Sgt. Charles Guzzy says "vultures" stripping houses in the city of aluminum siding is getting out of hand, and police will start targeting s crap dealers who are required by law to keep records of their transactions.

Youngstown State University President Leslie Cochran says as many as 52 of 189 retiring professors will not be replaced and 21 part-time teaching posts will be eliminated in a move that save $3 million.

Principal Marty Santillo makes good on a promise to students at Farmington Elementary School in Trumbull County that if they read 1,500 books, he would kiss a pig. Santillo gave a pig a smooch during a year-end assembly.

 

1980: Lt. Robert Shea Jr., professor of military science at Youngstown State University, is the speaker at Poland's Memorial Day service.

Youngstown State University Jazz Ensemble I win the top award and nine individual awards in competition with jazz groups from 10 universities at Ohio State University. Members are Bill Harrison, Jim Garber, Eddie Allen and Paul Hunt. The director is Tony Leonardi. 

Carol Davis, a graduate of Villa Maria High School and Kent State University and a former Vindicator staff writer, is awarded a H.W. Wilson $3,000 scholarship to pursue graduate studies at KSU's school of library science.

 

1970: The Youngstown Transit Co. will eliminate bus service on Sundays and holidays and observe shorter daily hours. Sam Winograd, the YTC's major stockholder, says the Sunday runs were big money losers.

Clare Mary Wick, the wife of Valley historian and industrialist James L. Wick, dies of a heart ailment at 85.

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson will address a $500-a-plate dinner in Washington honoring retiring House Speaker John McCormack and Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown. 
 
1945: Reproduced in full color on the front page of The Vindicator's rotogravure is "The Spirit of 1945," Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of Marines raising the Stars and Stripes on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

Youngstown war hero T/Sgt James Cannon is pictured l at the Stork Club in New York with screen star Anita Colby. He has rejected discharge, although he has been in the Army since 1941 and has twice the points needed for release from service.