21 WFMJ archives  / June 11, 1999 | The last day of school is a fun day, and educational assistant Arnita Dukes was helping to make it so for her kindergarten class 25 years ago at Mary Haddow Elementary in Youngstown.

June 15


1999: General Motors has extended the life of the Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire by at least two years to 2004. 


U.S. drug czar Barry McCaffrey designated Mahoning County as a High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area in an effort to keep drug traffickers from zipping through Youngstown on their way to New York or Chicago. 


The 24-foot bar, five aquariums, dining room, and kitchen equipment from the Ohio Brewing Co. in Niles, operated by former state Rep. Michael Verich and his brother, are being sold at auction to pay off the company's debts, including back taxes. 




1984: Anchor Motor Freight Co. revives plans to build a terminal in Lordstown between the Space Center industrial park and Lyntz Road. 


After a two-year wait, Helen Tomko, 23, of Coitsville, receives a liver transplant at Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh, making her the first liver transplant patient from the Youngstown area. 


A charge of selling a lottery ticket to a minor filed by police against a clerk at Southway News is dismissed by Judge Leo Morley, who said a policewoman's use of her 11-year-old son to buy two 50-cent lottery tickets amounted to entrapment.




1974: Bishop James Malone of Youngstown ordained the Rev. Mr. Thomas Eisweirth at St. William Church in Champion. He is a graduate of St. John High School in Ashtabula and will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving at his home parish of St. Mary in Conneaut.  


While reminding the United States of its vulnerability to the loss of Arab oil, King Faisal tells President Nixon there can be no peace in the Middle East until an Arab flag flies over Jerusalem. 




1949: Wide-open gambling games are operating at a carnival at the N. Meridian Road showgrounds, in full view of Mahoning County Sheriff Paul Langley's men. 


About 40 Communists and Red proselytes meet at a Thornhill Road home to hear Rockwell Kent, famous artist and president of the International Workers Order, which is listed as subversive by the Justice Department. A few of the men brand a reporter as a "stool pigeon" and give him a verbal hard time.