21 WFMJ archives / November 1954 | Squeezing the most cars into the smallest space in downtown Youngstown was the job of Pigeon Hole parking 70 years ago. The first two hours are 35 cents; each additional hour is 15 cents. 

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1999: Four months after Mahoning County common pleas judges signed a journal entry authorizing $73,000 in severance pay for former magistrate Joseph Bryan, the judges order commissioners and auditor George Tablack to a meeting where they will be expected to explain why Bryan hasn't been paid.  

Herman Maass, manager of the Lordstown General Motors complex, says that workers' rejection of a local contract has damaged the plant's long-term survival. 

Youngstown State University recorded fewer crimes on campus in 1998 than any other four-year university in Ohio. 

1984: A defective weld is blamed for the leakage of titanium tetrachloride from a tanker truck on state Route 11 that caused the evacuation of about 350  people in Liberty Township and Girard. 

While being transported from Superior National Forest in Minnesota to Washington, D.C, the nation's Christmas tree, a 75-year-old white spruce, spent one night in the parking lot of Ohio Alloy Steels, 825 W. Federal St., while driver David Knobloch took a required break. 

Congressman-elect James A. Traficant Jr. will serve as president of the incoming class of 13 House Democrats during the second year of the 99th Congress. Albert Bustamante of Texas will be president for the first year.  

1974: Youngstown will hire 39 employees, including some policemen, with a $250,000 federal grant to offset unemployment. 

Garbage collected in Montgomery County, Md., will be shipped by rail to a Smith Township landfill under an agreement negotiated by Browning-Ferris Industries.

Harold J. Mills, who is marking his 25th year as manager of the Warren Chamber of Commerce, is "optimistic about the development of downtown Warren."

1949: Youngstown Mayor Charles Henderson tells 200 mayors from around the nation during a conference in Cleveland that a municipal income tax is the only way for a city to cope with declining support from the state. 

A 62-year-old West Federal Street man is arrested for shooting in the city limits after he shot several rabbits within 100 feet of Buckeye Playground, where several children were playing. 

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan announced that 1,535 low-cost public housing units will be built in Youngstown over two years. Warren will also receive some units.