Vindicator file photo / November 15,  1984 | Don Tucker, right, Youngstown Area United Way campaign chairman, present an award cup to Karen Feiler of Home Savings and Loan. James H. Sisek of Dollar Savings and Trust Co. left, and Wilford Kemp of the Youngstown Hospital Association was also recognized for their roles in a successful campaign.
 
November 19
 
1996: Delphi Packard Electric Systems will shut down its Cortland plant and transfer its 700 workers to other plants. Wiring harness work for the Oldsmobile Aurora and Buick Riviera will be shifted to Mexico.
 
About 30 members of the junior class at Hermitage High School attend a school board meeting to protest the pulling of the book "Watchers" by Dean Koontz from the supplemental reading list. Some parents supporting the students criticized the seven of eight board members who supported pulling the book without having read it. 
 
Commercial Intertech Corp. of Youngstown purchases Ultra Hydraulics Limited, an English manufacturer of high-end hydraulic pumps. 
 
1981: Former U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney, D-Youngstown, testifies that when he came to Congress in 1970 he "checked out" federal law and decided it was legal for him to keep and use a gasoline credit card given to him by a Youngstown oil distributor. Carney is charged with violating the Gratuities Act.
 
General Motors accelerates its austerity program, announcing it will shut down the Lordstown car assembly plant two weeks sooner than expected, idling 6,000 workers. 
 
Anthony Bruno, 20, of Girard is killed when he was thrown from his car, which burst into flames after crashing into a pole during a high-speed drag race on Salt Spring Road. The driver of the other car was uninjured after he went out of control and struck a house at 1716 Salt Spring Road.
 
1971: The Western Reserve Transit Authority revives 25 cent bus fares for the holiday shopping season. 
 
Bids totaling $10.6  million are received for the construction of a six-story addition to South Side Hospital. 
 
A 3-hour search for Matthew Gallagher, a Boardman 3-year-old who wandered away from his Pine Hill Drive home, ends when searchers in an airplane spot him and his puppy behind the Schmidt Nursery, two miles from his home. 
  
1946: James DiCenso, 15, of Warren dies in a hunting accident in Wyandot County, the first district fatality of the four-day-old hunting season. 
 
Eighteen Youngstown Elks and their friends leave the lodge on Boardman Street by bus for a trip to Crile General Hospital, where they put on three variety shows for hospitalized veterans.