Vindicator file photo /  January   16,  1947 | About 50 women attended an installation dinner for new officers of the Youngstown Girl Scout Council at the YWCA 75 years ago. The new officers, seated from left, were Mrs. William L. Powers, Mrs. Jerold Meyer, and Mrs. Robert Manchester; standing, Mrs. Myron Goodwin, Mrs. R.C. Shepherd, and Mrs. W.J. Watkins.
 
January 16
 
1997: Youngstown City Council hires William Carter, executive director of the Youngstown Area Development Corp., as an affirmative action officer to monitor CCA's employment and contracting practices for the private prison. 
 
Boardman police have the vehicle and a suspected driver in the hit-skip death of 15-year-old Boardman Sophomore Jennifer Tornello, who was struck and killed while walking home on Meadowbrook Avenue. 
 
The last remnant of Cleveland Stadium is Gate D as demolition nears the former home of the Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians. 
 
1982: Ohio Presbyterian Homes Inc. purchases the Park V apartment building on Fifth Avenue, across from Wick Park and adjacent to  Park Vista, a housing development for some 250 senior citizens.
 
A cold front is sweeping into the Mahoning Valley, bringing anticipated temperatures as low as -15.
 
The Rev. David A. Bliss, a former pastor of St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Streetsboro, is installed as co-pastor of Zion Lutheran Church on Canfield Road. 
 
1972: Power failures in Liberty and Vienna delay two flights at Youngstown Municipal Airport, interrupt two high school basketball games, and leave shoppers in the dark at Liberty Plaza. 
 
Louis DeLuca, operator of the Backstage Lounge in downtown Youngstown, speculates that a bomb dumped in front of the bar was put there by "several long-haired undesirables" he had thrown out of the bar days earlier. 
 
1947: The Federal Public Housing Authority has lopped 24 units off the total of 130 apartments for veterans that had been planned for erection on Schenley Avenue. 
 
A juvenile court judge will decide whether two South High juniors will face juvenile charges or be bound over to the grand jury as adults in the murder of an Ashtabula man.