21 WFMJ archives  / August 14, 1949 | This aerial photo was published in The Vindicator two days after state liquor agents raided the notorious gambling den, the Jungle Inn, in Liberty Township 75 years ago. (A) shows a state highway patrol car on Applegate Road; (B) shows the tavern and restaurant, which had race wire services on the second floor; and (C) shows the bingo and casino area from which 100 slot machines were eventually confiscated.

August 14


1999: The jobs of three employees hired by former Mahoning County Sheriff Phil Chance for $145,000 a year are eliminated. 


About 60 police officers, firefighters, educators, and community leaders from Columbiana and Jefferson counties attend a daylong seminar at the East Liverpool Motor Lodge to discuss school safety. Randel Henderson with the National Public Safety Training Institute says that until the Littleton, Colo., massacre, school violence was seen as a big-city problem. 


For the second time in two years, nurses at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown have declined to join a union, the Ohio Nurses Association. 


1984: The Warren-Trumbull Community Improvement Corp. approves a $2 million bond issue for the construction of a warehouse at United States Can Co. in Hubbard, formerly Sherwin Williams Container Corp. Warren Tool Corp. applied for a $1.2 million bond to restore the original architecture of the former Strouss store in downtown Warren. 


A bronze plaque will be dedicated in Stevens Park in Niles to honor Harry Stevens, a former Niles man who gained worldwide fame as the man who popularized the hot dog.


Ohio Senate President Harry Meshel announced the release of more than $10 million from the state controlling board to renovate Ward Beecher Hall at Youngstown State University. 


1974: George Trombitas, a 21-year high school teacher and principal, is named superintendent of Leetonia Schools by the Board of Education. 


The 55 mph speed limit mandated by the federal government appears to be conserving lives and fuel in the Youngstown district. The state Highway Patrol shows 45 traffic fatalities in Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana counties so far this year, compared to 64 a year earlier.


A 39-year-old man who was fired as a bus driver and driver education teacher by the Austintown School District is fined $100 and sentenced to three years probation for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was accused of keeping several juveniles out of school, furnishing them beer, wine, and vodka, and taking them to an apartment in Youngstown.

1949: The Firestone Homestead in Columbiana County is the headquarters for the Ohio State Potato Field Day. More than 1,000 people, half of them growers, see demonstrations of the latest farming and harvesting equipment. 


Reinforced by more than 100 hired thugs, Jungle Inn owners make a final show of defiance against state agents and attack two men assigned by Gov. Frank Lausche to photograph the gambling den. Eventually, state agents execute a state order to confiscate 100 slot machines and other gambling equipment. 

A representative of the Pennsylvania Historical Society is expected to arrive in Sharpsville to examine the bones of an Indian believed to be 200 years old and various artifacts that Stanley Stewart dug up on a farm near Clarksville.