21 WFMJ archives  / March  7, 1948 | An addition to the rear of the Strouss Hirshberg department store building in downtown Youngstown was nearing completion 77 years ago.

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2000: Youngstown firefighters worked for hours to control wind-fueled brush fires off Jacobs Road on the city's East Side from reaching any homes. 

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. is credited with persuading some Republicans to support a bill raising the minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.15 an hour when he told a meeting of conservative Republicans that they risked losing their majority if they defeated the bill. 

Youngstown State University trustees renamed the school's scholarship program the Leslie H. Cochran University Scholars Program to recognize the outgoing president. 


1985: Child sexual abuse cases in Trumbull County skyrocketed from 74 in 1983 to 280 in 1984, partially due to national reporting that brought more attention to the issue.

Lawrence and Mercer counties are among seven northwestern Pennsylvania counties where unemployment is projected to increase through 1990. By then, the number of people holding jobs will have slipped from 180,676 in 1980 to 176,075.

Jane Zerbi, a senior at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, returns from Washington, D.C., where she was one of two Ohio delegates to a week-long conference sponsored by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. She met President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush, and U.S. Senators Howard Metzenbaum and John Glenn.

 
1975: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter and Police Chief Donald Baker are subpoenaed as defense witnesses by Atty. Don Hanni Jr. in the trial of a man charged with attempting to kidnap or murder a Lake Milton man.

Mike Hearn, a Cardinal Mooney High and Ohio University graduate, is named sales director for the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League.

The Ohio Department of Liquor Control ordered the Happy Hour Lounge on Market Street to close for 70 days for possessing liquor without a permit.

1950: Gov. Frank Lausche asks the attorney general to put the Mounds Club, a  Lake County gambling resort, out of business by revoking its corporate charter.

Robert  Stromick, 8, of New Springfield Road, drowns when he slips and falls into the Ohio Water Service Co. reservoir in Springfield Township while walking home from school.   

Youngstown Ursuline was surprised in the Northeast Ohio Sectional "A" basketball tournament, upsetting third-seeded Canton McKinley, 51-41, in the semi-finals.