Vindicator file photo / Nov. 19, 1976 | Dr. John McDonough, left, presents plagues to Dr. John J. Coffelt, center, president of Youngstown State University, and Charles O. Smith, vice president of Dollar Savings & Trust Co., whose new buildings were selected by the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce for civic improvement awards at the Chamber's 71 st anniversary banquet. The awards recognized the YSU College of Applied Sciences Building and the Dollar Bank Building.
 
 
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1995: A Vindicator analysis of Youngstown's overtime records show lax controls, instances of foremen making $10,000 and $20,000 more per year than their supervisors, and cases of employees assigning themselves overtime work.
 
Lordstown Village anticipates setting a record for income tax revenue in 1995 with about $3.6 million being collected. Since a starting point of $1.4 million 1978, income has increased almost every year.  
 
Bill Gates, billionaire chairman of Microsoft, predicts that people will be able to access movies at home, share photographs with faraway friends and relatives, give up paper currency and play bridge with distant opponents. 
 
1980: U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-19th, says the agreement between Community Steel Corp., Toro Enterprises Inc. and U.S. Steel Corp. to reopen the McDonald Mills is a step toward putting the Youngstown area back on its feet economically. 
 
The Trumbull County Fair Board plans for an Octoberfest, stock car races and snowmobiling at the Expo Center in Bazetta Township, and also exploring a lumberjack shown, circus and motorcycle races. 
 
Raymond C. Eddings, 21, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital of injuries received when he was struck by a car at Berkley Avenue and McGuffey Road as he and a friend were jogging. 
 
1970: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Clyde Osborne lets stand $335,000 in bonds for seven accused drug pushers. Atty. Don L. Hanni Jr. argued unsuccessfully that the bonds were too high. 
 
Public schools in Youngstown no longer have a uniform dress code and in some buildings, women teachers and students are wearing pants suits. 
Buckeye Football Coach Woody Hayes says his squad is ready for the coming clash with Big Ten rival Michigan. 
 
1945: The largest crowd ever to witness the American Broadcasting Co.'s "Quiz Kids" radio show filled Stambaugh Auditorium. Everyone in the audience had bought a war bond, raising $365,000.  Winner of the local Quiz Kid contest was Florence J. McNaughton, a sophomore at South High. 
 
Salem erects and Honor Roll board on the lawn of the Memorial Building listing 3,789 Salem residents who served in World War II.
 
Jane Knappenberger, head of volunteer services for the Trumbull Red Cross, is named Beta Sigma Phi's "First Lady of the Year" in Warren.