21 WFMJ archives / November  12, 1980 | R.J. Wean Jr., left, president and CEO of Wean United Inc., was the speaker at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Warren Area Chamber of Commerce at the Avalon Inn 43 years ago. He issued a call for businessmen to seek "a time for industrial independence ... a time for re-creation." Before the dinner, he chatted with Jack W. Burtch, the chamber's 1980 president, and John B. Glinn, the 1981 president.

November 14

1998: Jim Graham, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112, says union officials have been told that General Motors will build the next generation of its small cars at either its Lansing, Mich., plant or the Lordstown complex. 

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Maureen Cronin says special prosecutor Robert Ruggieri must repay the county $1,100 of the $1,150 he was paid for 11 hours of work on Sept. 9, the day Cronin and another judge, Jack Durkin, found him guilty of contempt of court.

The trial of a Jacksonville, Fla., man accused of sexual abuse of two Slippery Rock, Pa., teenagers ends in a mistrial after a Lawrence County jury is inadvertently given an FBI file containing evidence that was compiled for a separate federal case brought against the man. 

1983: Striking teachers and aides are manning picket lines at the Leonard Kirtz School for the retarded in Austintown.

Elmer Reese, general chairman of the Trumbull County United Way campaign, and Otto Thomas, co-chairman, announce pledges of $2,337,283 for 1984, a record high, though just short of the $2.4 million goal. 

Members and friends of the Youngstown congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses constructed an addition to their meeting house at East Dewey Avenue and Market Street, doubling its size.  Hundreds of workers erected the frame and roof over the weekend. 

1973: Youngstown's East End Urban Renewal project will be the site of the new regional postal facility,  U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney announces. He had earlier said it would be built on N. Meridian Road. 

Don E. Westenberger will succeed R.B. "Rollie" Collins as director of the Industrial Information Institute. 

The U.S. Office of Emergency Preparedness is studying the feasibility of instituting World War II-style gasoline rationing in 1974 if the oil crisis continues. 

1948: Sam H. and Florence R. Miller purchase the Bus Arcade building, formerly the Hippodrome, in downtown Youngstown for $500,000 

The Hopley Commission, which is studying the nation's defense, says the Mahoning Valley would be vulnerable to atomic attack because, like Hiroshima, it has few protecting hills. 

Ten Youngstown men have been arrested in connection with robbery attacks on six North Side women in recent days.