21 WFMJ archives / December 1997 | Music director Hilari Lipkin led the second-grade class of Akiva Academy in a song about Abraham during a Hannukah program at Temple El Emeth 37 years ago. The program, "Men in the Bible," was a takeoff on the movie "Men in Black

January 2


2000: Hundreds of young and old people found something to love at Canfield's First Night celebration. 

Russia's acting president, Vladimir Putin, makes an overnight trip to Chechnya to boost the morale of Russian troops there, handing out medals and engraved knives. 

"The Longest Raid of the Civil War" by Lester Horwitz of Cincinnati is released chronicling Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan's 1,000-mile raid through Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio that ended with Morgan's surrender in July 1863 just south of Lisbon in Columbiana County. 
  
1985: Youngstown 1,100 teachers ratify a contract providing a 4 percent pay raise in 1985 and 7 percent in 1986, averting a threatened strike. 

The 11 th District Court of Appeals upholds the conviction of Fred Joseph Jr. for the 1982 murder of Niles Detective John Utlak. 

Jacqueline Marie Travis was the first baby born in Youngstown in the New Year, and James Darin Cavanaugh was Warren's first baby in 1985.

1975: No cause has been determined for leaks in water lines that have left Washingtonville residents with barely a dribble from their faucets. 

A federal jury finds three of President Nixon's most powerful aides -- John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman -- guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury in the Watergate scandal. 

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Grimm of Austintown is Youngstown's first baby of 1975, arriving at St. Elizabeth Hospital at 2:24 a.m. on New Year's Day. 

1950: Youngstown public schools had a busy year in 1949 with construction beginning on two new schools, Williamson and Elm Street elementaries. The maximum salary for teachers with a master's degree was increased to $4,150.

Sheriff Paul J. Langley raids a barbut game at E. Boardman Street and South Avenue, confiscating cards, dice and money and arresting one man. The sheriff was driving by when he saw the game in full swing through a window. 

John J. Gillespie is named district supervisor for the 1950 decennial census in the 19 th Congressional District, which includes Mahoning, Trumbull and Ashtabula counties.