21 WFMJ archives  / November 10, 1963 | Among those honored at the Curbstone Coaches Hall of Fame/Heart Fund banquet 61 years ago were, from left, former tennis star Thomas J. Lavern, amateur and collegiate boxing champion Jim Cannell and Walter "Farmer" Scholl, Volney Rogers recreational director. In the background was Dr. Frank Bellino, Curbstone president. Also among the 700 people at the Idora Ballroom for the event were Bob Prince, voice of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the toastmaster, MLB executive Bill Veeck, and Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League. 

November 13 

1999: Public officials in Mahoning County are being asked to sign an anti-corruption contract as part of ACTION's church-based effort to fight corruption and provide more government accountability.

Larry Wilcox, shop chairman of United Autoworkers Local 1112, says a tentative local agreement between the union and General Motors guarantees that the Lordstown plant will continue to produce Chevrolet Cavaliers and Pontiac Sunfires until 2005.

Michael J. LaCivita, occasional Vindicator columnist, recalls the rabbit hunting trips his father and uncle, both Italian immigrants, went on to put food on the table during the Great Depression.

1984: Congressman-elect James A. Traficant Jr. says  Atty. Henry A. DiBlasio, a Boardman lawyer, will oversee the four congressional offices in the 17th District and provide Traficant with legal advice.

Liberty Township Fire Chief Art Carnahan asks trustees to consider the feasibility of providing paramedic service to township residents through the fire department.

Salvatore Traficant, the chief weapons officer for the Youngstown Police Department, says officers will soon get new weaponry: electronic pulse devices that disable with a nonlethal electric shock. 

1974: Liberty Township plans to move its headquarters, fire department, and street department from its site on Belmont Avenue to a $260,000 building at Ravine Drive and Fifth Avenue.

Robert D. Rowland, president of Dollar Savings & Trust Co., says the bank's directors propose a 50 percent stock dividend.

Yassir Arafat, head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, arrives at the United Nations in New York under heavy guard and appeals to the General Assembly for support of a Palestinian state. 

1949: Nearly half of the 50,000 to 60,000 Youngstown district steelworkers idled by steel and coal strikes return to work.

The re-election of Youngstown Mayor Charles P. Henderson, a Republican, shows that voters want the Mahoning County Democratic Party to end its long association with local hoodlums, writes Clingan Jackson, Vindicator politics editor.

Trumbull County Probate Court is mulling a decision to allow the construction of a $700,000 Packard Music Hall in Warren from the $1.5 million trust fund left by W.D. Packard, automotive manufacturing pioneer.