21 WFMJ archives  / December 12, 1956 | Products produced by students in the Junior Achievement program were on display 68 years ago during a week-long open house at the JA Business Center, 211 N. Champion St., downtown.  Members of the Alfico Co. were, from left, Rosemary Colburn, Dorothy Kundracik, Dave Scott, adviser J.T. McGovern, and Frank Price. They are pictured here with some of the planters they made and sold.

December 13

1999: Communities in Mahoning County are mulling over how to spend millions of dollars in development funds they will receive over five years from the county's half-cent sales tax. Some, such as  Campbell and Struthers, are joining forces to pursue bigger goals, such as the redevelopment of former steel mill property along the river.

Trumbull County receives an $85,000 state grant to fund a mental health clinic in northern Trumbull County that will primarily serve the Amish community. After a weekend of interviews in Cleveland, the Youngstown State University presidential search committee has narrowed the candidates to five to succeed Dr. Leslie Cochran: Drs. Samuel Kirkpatrick, Roy Saigo, Charles Sorenson, James Scanlon and David Sweet. 

1984: Manfred Guhl, president of a German brewery involved with local interests in developing the proposed Ronneburg Brewery in Youngstown Commerce Park, questions the size of the market for the "super-premium" German beer the plant would produce. 

The Union Township, Pa., zoning board of appeals rejected American Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s proposal to build a 100-foot communications tower on Fowler Lane. 

Construction workers in Lisbon unearthed a wooden water line near the courthouse, buried about three feet deep and dating to the Civil War era. The line was constructed of a cedar log with a 4-inch hole bored into its center. 

1974: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter says that if East Ohio Gas Co. curtails natural gas to the area by as much as 20 percent as has been suggested,  there will be cutbacks in city services and layoffs of municipal employees. 

Dr. Michael A. Samuels, a 1957 graduate of Rayen School, is nominated by President Ford as ambassador to Sierra Leone, West Africa. 

The Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren announces that 1,000 more production workers are being laid off because of the slump in auto sales, 

1949: A syndicate of five high school students distributed 500 football betting slips in Youngstown each week in October; a 17-year-old student testifies during the trial of a Youngstown printer charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. 

Youngstown Mayor Charles P. Henderson suggests to city council an amendment to the income tax law that would increase the rate from 3 mills to 5 mills. 

Assistant Fire Chief Frank Quinn and 16 other firemen are overcome by fumes while fighting a blaze at the Blue Ribbon Grill, 15 East Federal Street.