21 WFMJ archives  / December 8, 1978 | Among the schoolchildren touring the Arms Museum's Christmas display 46 years ago were these Canfield fourth graders admiring Mrs. John Hall's doll collection. From left: Kathy Chiu, Kevin Wissinger, Miriam Morse, and Tom Rankin. 

December 9


1999: Negotiators at the General Motors complex in Lordstown reach a tentative contract agreement that calls for the creation of 100 jobs and the investment of $1 million in the facility.  

A 12-year-old seventh grader at Hillman Middle School is in the juvenile detention center after a 25-caliber pistol was found in his jacket in a locker at the school. 

Boardman Township trustees Elaine Mancini and John Cox chose businessman Thomas Costello to fill the unexpired term on the board following the resignation of U.S. District Court Magistrate George Limbert. 


1984: The Youngstown State University Interfraternity Council votes to forbid alcohol at fraternity "rush" parties. 

Girard school officials are looking for a solution to the lack of participation in the high school band, which is down to 19 members. 

Dr. Suzanne Butcher, a pathologist at Trumbull Memorial Hospital, is the first woman to be elected president of the Trumbull County Medical Society. 


1974: The Jackson Milton School District's 1,640 students and 76 teachers are back in the classroom after settling a wage dispute between the board of education and the teachers union. 

Patrolman William Gregory, 28, of Washingtonville, a three-year officer at the Lisbon Post of the Ohio Highway Patrol, is hospitalized in fair condition after his cruiser was struck by a freight train in Leetonia. 

Alvin Millard is the new president of the Men's Garden Club of Youngstown, succeeding William Holliday. 
  
1949: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. installed the world's longest single-unit conveyor belt, 10,900 feet, between Weirton Steel Co.'s mine and a tipple on the Monongahela River. 

The Ohio Highway Department will relocate Route 224 through Poland Village because the present route makes a sharp curve at the school on the village's eastern limits. 

Nicholas J. Billock, 26,  of New Springfield, is killed when the tractor he was using to drag coal from a strip mine tips backward on a steep grade.