Vindicator file photo / November 5,  1954 | Mrs. Robert Pallo, a stenographer in the Allis-Chalmers offices in the Ohio Edison Building in downtown Youngstown handed contributions to the Community Chest to Atty. Albert J. Ortenzio for the campaign 68 years ago. Mrs. Pallo was in charge of talking to each employee in the office and collecting their money.
 
November 5
 
1997: Mahoning County voters defeat renewal of a sales tax that has been on the books since 1981.
 
A Massachusetts company that is poised to take over the operation of the Columbiana County Jail says more than enough applicants attended a job fair to fill about 70 jobs at the jail.
 
Atty. Matthew Mangino, a Democrat, unseats long-time Lawrence County district attorney William Panella.
 
1982: Leaders of Youngstown Area United Way say they will have to concentrate fund-raising efforts on the service sector and small businesses as the industrial companies and their employees on which past campaigns have relied shrink or disappear. 
 
The jobless rate in Mercer County, Pa., climbed nearly two percent in September, reaching 16.5 percent, the highest level since the Depression in the 1930s.
 
The jobless rate in Ohio is 13.5 percent, 3.4 percent above the national average, which is the highest since World War II. 
 
1972: Youngstown School Superintendent Robert Pegues will be the grand marshal of Youngstown's Veterans Day parade, the parade chairman, Vincent Doria, announces. 
 
Dollar Savings & Trust Co. of Youngstown contracts with the Bank Building Corp. of  St. Louis for a $5 million modernization of its 9-story building on Central Square.
 
A vice president of the company and an employee escaped injury or possible death when a dynamite bomb exploded at the rear of the Feldman Bros. Food Inc. warehouse on Hubbard Road.  It was the second time in a month that the former A&P warehouse was the target of a bomb.
 
1947: Republican Charles Henderson defeats Mayor Ralph O'Neill, 36,246 to 34,426. Other Mahoning Valley mayors elected included Anthony Pacella, Campbell; Harold C. Smith, Warren; Ray Hubbard, Niles; Joseph Baldine, Hubbard, and Robert R. Johnson, Salem.
 
Five Democrats and three Republicans are elected to Youngstown City Council.
 
Two Youngstown issues needing 65 percent margins are narrowly defeated the War Memorial stadium issue and a 0.5-mill Mill Creek Park levy.