21 WFMJ archives  / December 18, 1998 | Terry Martin, president of the Packard Museum, and Ted Hirt, treasurer, look over a 1925 Sterling Knight car 26 years ago in front of the old pool house at Packard Park in Warren that the museum group hoped to take over to house Packard cars. 

December 17

1999: Dorothy London, 72, is found slain in her Hubbard home, and her husband, Charles, is missing. A 19-year-old neighbor was arrested at an Ashtabula rest stop driving a car owned by the Londons.

A new four-year contract is approved at the Lordstown General Motors complex by 67 percent of the production workers and 62 percent of the skilled trades.

The Mahoning River Corridor of Opportunity is one of 15 community groups nationwide to be recognized at the White House by the Joint Center for Sustainable Communities in Washington, D.C. Accepting the award were William DeCicco, Daniel C. Mamula, Jeff Chagnot, Ed Reese, Mike Kusalaba and Sarah Cart.   

1984: After accompanying Gov. Richard F. Celeste on a 12-day trade mission to Japan, Taiwan, and Korea, two Republican legislators, Rep. Robert L. Corbin of Dayton and Sen. David L. Hobson of Springfield, have nothing by praise for the Democratic governor.

The gavel will fall on the area's dreams for the Commuter Aircraft Corp. plant at Youngstown Municipal Airport when the empty 300,000-square foot plant and 93 acres of land are auctioned, with a starting bid of $3.2 million.

Robert Maynard, director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, says companies thinking about locating or expanding in Ohio want to be assured of nearby licensed and well-run landfills to take their industrial waste. 

1974: J. Phillip Richley, director of the Ohio Department of Transportation under Gov. John Gilligan, says he is considering a run for Youngstown Mayor in the Democratic primary.

A dynamite explosion at Sill's Tailors and Tuxedo Rental, across from the Southern Park Mall, rocked the area, breaking windows in neighboring shops and homes.

Eugene T. Altiere, a 1963 graduate of Ursuline High School, graduates summa cum laude from the Ohio State University College of Dentistry. 

1949: The Youngstown Democratic Party demands an apology from Victor Harding, executive director of the Democratic National Committee. Harding recently told President Truman that "the Democratic city organization in Youngstown does not command popular respect."

Youngstown police urge public support in fighting a wave of pocket-pickings and purse snatchings among shoppers in crowded downtown stores.

The Rev. John Sinnott Martin, editor of the Catholic Review, the official organ of the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., archdiocese, writes in an editorial that Santa Claus is an "unholy fraud."