Vindicator file photo / October 16, 1980 | The crowd at Harbor Community Center in New Castle, Pa., applauded the arrival of U.S. Sen Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., for a campaign event 42 years ago.

October 17 

1997: Time Warner Cable Co. is introducing high-speed online services to residential and business customers over fiber optic cable. 

Three Trumbull County fishermen, Andrew and Charles Shoenfeld of Girard and Anthony Sabella of Hubbard described spending 27 hours adrift on Lake Erie before a Coast Guard helicopter from Detroit spotted their boat near Erie, Pa.  

Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro says the Ohio Department of Development is giving the city $2 million to redevelop two former steel mill sites at Division Street on the Mahoning River. One site was a Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. mill, and the other was a U.S. Steel mill. 

1982: U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-19th, announces a $10.9 million House allocation for the construction of a U.S. courthouse in downtown Youngstown. 

A decline in enrollments sparks "turf wars" between local colleges.  

Monty Crivella, associate director of the Family Planning Council of Western Pennsylvania, says a new federal regulation requiring clinics to notify the parents if any services, including birth control, provided to minors will increase teen pregnancies.

1972: Salem High School drama students are rehearsing a performance of Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible," based on the Salem, Mass., witch trials. 

George  H. Brownlee, 20, captain of the Boardman High basketball team that was state runner-up two years ago, dies of a brain tumor in South Side Hospital a week after becoming ill at the University of Cincinnati. 

Youngstown's income tax division plans to issue more warrants for the arrest of tax delinquents but is delaying because of a vacancy on the municipal court bench caused by the elevation of Judge Joseph Donofrio to the 7th District Court of Appeals. 

1947: Rep. Michael J. Kirwan has been traveling around Germany on what had been Adolph Hitler's private railroad car. 

East Ohio Gas Co. officials go to Washington to argue against a Federal Power Commission allocation of natural gas that they say will cause a serious gas shortage in the Youngstown industrial district. 

Youngstown College students have elected their class presidents: Lawrence Blazina, senior; John Maluso, junior; John Melnick, sophomore and Pete Angelides, freshman.