21 WFMJ archives  / August 13, 1949 | Ohio Liquor Enforcement agents take measurements of the Jungle Inn after a standoff with hoodlums at the gambling den during a raid 75 years ago.  Note the gun turret. State liquor chief Anthony Rutkowski said that at one point, an enraged part-owner, John Farah, yelled, "Kill him, Jock, kill him" to a man in the turret.

August 13

1999: During a tour of the Ohio State Fair, U.S. Sen. George Voinovich says his Republican colleagues should work on reducing the $5.6 trillion national debt before cutting taxes.

The Sharon Regional Health System announces that its Heart Center will provide open heart surgery within a year, a first in Mercer County.

A 55-foot Lebanon cedar tree is moved in Mill Creek Park's Fellows Riverside Garden to make way for the construction of a new education and visitors center.

1984: About 300 first-time home buyers, some of whom had camped out for days, rush through the doors of 11 Youngstown area banks to apply for 30-year mortgages at a bargain 11.8 rate.

Commercial Shearing Inc. announces adding a $1 million pre-heating system to its Logan Avenue foundry in Youngstown.

The 23rd Olympic Games come to a close in Los Angeles with a ceremony attended by 92,000 people at the Coliseum. 

1974: For the second time in two years, the Church of the Nazarene in Columbiana is broken into and suffers extensive vandalism.

Charges will not be filed against deputies or inmates involved in sexual activities and parties in the county jail. One deputy has resigned.

The badly decomposed body of a man who had been shot three times at close range is found on the edge of the Meander Reservoir. 

1949: State Liquor Enforcement agents raid the Jungle Inn, a notorious gambling den on Applegate Road in Liberty Township, resulting in armed hoodlums taking the agents hostage and roughing up three Vindicator men. After three hours, Trumbull County Sheriff Ralph Millikin arrived to defuse the situation.

The executive committee of the Greater Youngstown Area Foundation votes to proceed with an overhead parking project to be constructed over the Erie Railroad.

A 13-year-old Buckhannon, W. Va., boy shoots and kills his father to get $60 to buy a bicycle.