Vindicator file photo by Lloyd Jones/ Aug. 11, 1980 | Four Youngstown area delegates pledged to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy sit on the floor of Madison Square Garden during the opening of the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York 40 years ago. Frank Lombardo of Austintown, Joyce Kale of Youngstown, Anna Biggins of McDonald, and Marvin Weinstock of Youngstown were all pledged to U. S. Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Kennedy’s challenge to incumbent President Jimmy Carter failed.
 
August 12
 
1995: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. and officials of Superior Beverage Co. announce a tentative agreement on a five-year contract between the company and Teamsters Local 377 that ends a 10-week strike by about 60 drivers and salesmen. 
 
The Lawrence County Historical Society schedules two fund-raising events hoping to raise $2,000 needed to restore the 91-year-old monument to the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment that fought in the Civil War. 
 
Youngstown State University President Leslie Cochran writes a letter to Gov. George Voinovich personally thanking him for signing a budget bill that assures YSU of at least 3 percent more in state funding. 
 
1980: Sen. Edward Kennedy's withdrawal from consideration handed the Democratic nomination to President Jimmy Carter and angered Kennedy's Ohio delegates to the national convention in New York. Joyce Kale, a delegate from the 19th Congressional District, said, "I'm very disappointed because we worked so hard for so long for what was right and fair."
 
The first set of triplets born in 12 years in St. Elizabeth Hospital are the sons of Art and Becky Bastin of Hubbard. The boys are Justin, Jason, and Jonathan. 
 
The team of Dick Lucarell, Art Cohen, Dr. Abe Malkoff, and Tom Howlett win the second annual American Cancer Society Invitational Golf Tournament at Tippecanoe Country Club. 
 
1970: St. Jude Parish in Columbiana dedicates its new church, built at a cost of $173,500.
 
Atty. Nathaniel Jones, New York regional counsel for the NAACP, says 10 neighbors in Liberty Township have agreed to drop their suit in Trumbull Common Pleas Court that sought to block the construction of a home for Orosby Willingham. The neighbors claimed that the use of prefabricated roof trusses violated plat restrictions. Jones said the suit was an excuse for racial discrimination. 
 
Playing at Loew's Theater in the Eastwood Mall and at the Southern Park Cinema: "Patton," starring George C. Scott and Karl Malden. 
 
1945: Youngstown district plants are anticipating cutbacks that will come within hours of an official end to the war. 
 
A federal judge in Kentucky dismisses a suit by the federal government that sought to cancel steel processing patents worth millions a year that are held by Cold Metal Process Co. of Youngstown and Abraham P. Steckel. 
 
U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown just returned from a trip to Alaska, thinks there should be further study before pursuing statehood for the territory.