Vindicator file photo / December 7, 1982 | Narrator Mark Dohn welcomes those attending the Boar’s Head Christmas Festival at Warren G. Harding High School 40 years ago. The recreation of a 13th-century festival was presented by the Harding Vocal Music Department.  

December 7

1997: Youngstown’s newest Municipal Court Judge, Robert Douglas, is sworn in to fill the term of Louis Levy, who retired. For the fourth time in seven years, Coach Jim Tressel's Youngstown State University Penguins upset the No. 1  team in the NCAA 1-AA playoffs, defeating Villanova, 37-34. They advance to the semi-finals, one game away from playing for the national championship.

As sales lag for the Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire, the General Motors Lordstown assembly line will be shut down for 22 days, beginning Dec. 20.

1982: Warren Patrolmen Gerald Platt and Larry Salvato suffer minor injuries when their cruiser is rammed by a car driven by a 32-year-old Warren man who had led city police and state patrol cruisers on a chase from Warren to Lordstown. 

The father of an elementary school student appeals to the Badger Board of Education for more discipline on school buses after his daughter and two other students were threatened at knifepoint by an older elementary student.

Trooper Paul D. Andrews is selected by fellow officers as the 1982 Trooper of the Year at the Canfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

1972: Youngstown City Council authorizes advertisements for construction bids on a proposed $8.4 million terminal at Youngstown Municipal Airport. 

Sharon Steel Corp. increases its cash dividend to an annual rate of 55 cents a share. 

With winter still officially two weeks away, the Youngstown district is hit with a wintry blast that dropped the temperature to 20 degrees.

1947: One-room schoolhouses are becoming a thing of the past, with only seven left in Mahoning County: North Benton, Beech Ridge, Boswell, Garfield, Patmos, Meadowbrook, and Hickory. 

The booming Youngstown district, enjoying the biggest volume of peacetime business in its history, has an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 jobs available in its industrial plants, railroads, and offices. At the same time, it has the same number of people out of work. A.E. McCully, manager of the state employment service, says it's the old problem of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. 

Vindicator columnist Esther Hamilton's 17th annual Alias Santa Claus Show plays to a packed house in Stambaugh Auditorium, with candy butchers collecting a record $10,150 for the needy.