21 WFMJ archives  /  December  1985 | Three-month-old Naquita Shade, held by her mother, Tanya, and Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro, was the city's New Year's baby 39 years ago. 

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2000: As the Mahoning Valley enters the 21st century, Ralph Zerbonia, general manager of Cboss Community Network, says residents here have only begun to see how new technology will change their lives. 

None of the doomsday scenarios once predicted when computers made the midnight switch from 1999 to 2000 came to pass. 

William H. Rehnquist, chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, urges Congress to provide more money to pay lawyers representing federal criminal defendants who cannot afford a lawyer.  

1985: Thirty-three people died on Mahoning County roads in 1984, 16 in accidents in Youngstown and 17 elsewhere in the county. 

About 400 people attended Warren's New Year's Eve ball at the Packard Music Hall, a fundraiser for the Trumbull Red Cross. 

The USC Trojans down the Ohio State Buckeyes before 102,594 fans in the Rose Bowl, 20-17.

1975: Traffic accidents in Mahoning County took 42 lives in 1974, five fewer than a year earlier. 

Public interest in gold on the first day of legal trading since 1933 ranges from mild interest to nil in Youngstown brokerage houses. 

David Furrie, 26, of Mineral Ridge, a Trumbull County deputy sheriff, is in critical condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital with gunshot wounds received during an armed robbery at a service station where he was working. 
 
1950: The steel industry will have a good year, not a stupendous one, in 1950, says Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. 

"The year 1949 was the warmest on record and was 5.2 inches below normal rainfall, one of the driest on record," says L.H. Copeland, veteran weather observer at Millport in Columbiana County. 

Walter S. Gifford, a legendary figure in the world of industry, retires after more than 45 years with American Telephone and Telegraph, the last 23 years as president of the company that operates 80 percent of the telephones in the United States.