Vindicator file photo / May 25, 1974 | Valedictorians of Youngstown’s eight high schools were honored at the annual Downtown Kiwanis Club’s luncheon for outstanding scholars at the YMCA 48 years ago. From left, front, Michael Malkin, Rayen;  Susan Thomas, North;  Nancy Baltes, East, and  John Sladen, Kenneth Oakley and Karen Bode,  all of Chaney; back row, Matthew Sanders, Ursuline; John Roman, Mooney  Stephen Motosko,  Paula Marrle and Dominic Dannessa, all of Wilson, and Radames Santiago Jr., South. Not pictured, Jody Grenga of Mooney.
 
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1997: Ohio Division of Wildlife technicians visit a four-year-old eagle's nest at the Meander Reservoir where they band three eaglets. The nest is one of 38 eagle's nests now known in Ohio, where 18 years ago there were only four. 
 
The state commission overseeing Youngstown City Schools wants to cut 120 teaching positions by the start of the new school year. John Senzarin, president of the teachers' union, says the deadline for nonrenewal of teacher contracts has already passed. 
 
Campbell city officials say that because Campbell is a chartered city it should be able to claim for its own parks the taxes city residents pay to the Mill Creek Metropolitan Park District. 
 
1982: Camp Kiwatani, the 180-acre resident camp in Ellsworth Township owned by the Mahoning Valley Camp Fire Council, reopens after a three-year hiatus.
 
Woodrow Wilson High School students host 435 senior citizens, serving a chicken dinner and giving a special performance of the class play, "Shenandoah," all for $2 a person. 
 
Hotel Ohio, once a place of gracious hotel living in downtown Youngstown, is dedicated as the Chester A. Amedia Plaza, home for nearly 200 senior citizens. 
 
1972: William E. Howze, 24, formerly of Youngstown, serving a life sentence for the death of a service station attendant in 1969, is stabbed to death in the Ohio Penitentiary during a fight with another inmate. 
 
The Youngstown district will get $8 million of $206 million approved in the Ohio House capital improvements budget. Of that, $5.4 million will go toward a steam plant at Youngstown State University. 
 
Some 5,000 Mahoning County homeowners 65 and over have applied for a reduction in their 1972 property tax bill under the state's homestead exemption. No reduction is available to those with income exceeding $8,000 a year. 
 
1947: When two of Ohio's largest strip mine operators argue with Gov. Herbert Thomas against regulation of their operations, he asks them if they have ever seen the mines from an airplane. When they answer "no," he takes them from the Ohio House chambers to a nearby airport and flies them over Eastern Ohio's biggest mines to show them why regulation is necessary. 
 
Four disabled veterans will man Warren's police radio operations under a pact between the city and the Veterans Administration. 
 
Fred B. King, chairman of the Youngstown district cancer drive, announces that the drive raised $1,000 more than its $25,000 goal.