21 WFMJ archives  / November 19, 1954 | Downtown Youngstown crowds were ordered to take shelter during a Civil Defense Air Raid drill 70 years ago. Patrolman Vincent Ianazone ordered pedestrians at W. Federal and Phelps Streets who were ignoring sirens to go inside to avoid contamination from a theoretical "A-Bomb."

November 21


1999: The Youngstown-based 7th District Court of Appeals resolved 518 cases in 1998, far fewer than any other Ohio appeals court. Other appeals judges averaged 183 cases; Judges Edward Cox, Gene Donofrio, Joseph Vukovich, and Cheryl Waite averaged 130.


Sharon Boy Scout Ben Tishman's Eagle Scout project is a memorial to victims of the Holocaust that was erected at Temple Beth Israel in Sharon.

The Rev. William J. Witt, pastor emeritus of St. Brendan Church, leads about 20 pickets at Tinseltown at the Southern Park Mall to protest the showing of "Dogma," a film that critics say is blasphemous and obscene. 


1984: The Youngstown Civil Service Commission overturns the Board of Health's firing of Neil Altman as health commissioner. Altman says he's ready to return to work. 


Salem City Council votes 6-1 to give the former Crane Co. Deming Division property to Swinmore Co., which says it wants to develop the 3.5-acre parcel on the city's South Side to create jobs. 


A tentative agreement between the International Union of Electrical Workers and the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren provides lifetime job and income security for the present workforce of 8,400 while allowing the hiring of new workers at lower wage scales. 


1974: The AP Parts Division of Questor Corp. is closing its muffler manufacturing plant, formerly MacKenzie Muffler Co., at 400 N. Meridian Road. The plant employs 300 hourly and 50 salaried employees. 


The Justice Department goes against AT&T to strip the Bell System of its 60-year-old grip on the nation's telephone industry. 


Stripper Fannie Foxe, who has been billing herself as the "Washington Tidal Basin Bombshell" since taking a dip in October with Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas, is coming to the Park Theater in Youngstown on Dec. 30.


1949: Long-haul operations at about 25 Youngstown district trucking firms are halted as over 7,000 Ohio truck drivers strike. 


The notorious Monte Carlo Club, which operated openly in "dry" Smith Township on the edge of Alliance, is raided twice in an hour by state liquor agents.