21 WFMJ archives / March 22, 1960, | Lustig's opened its enlarged and remodeled store just in time for Easter 65 years ago. The store at 2622 Market Street in the Uptown section expanded into what had been an auto parts store. 

March 24 

2000: MCI WorldCom holds a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its Niles call center on Youngstown-Warren Road, which employs 1,100 people. 

Residents of Greene Township, Trumbull County, were evacuated after titanium tetrachloride began leaking from a truck on state Route 11 near Davis-Peck Road. 

Selected to the Inter-County League girls basketball all-star team, Julie Vivo, Springfield; Leanna Shuster, South Range; Nettie Gonzalez, Lowellville; Rachel Feher, Jackson-Milton; Whitney Felger, Springfield and Tracie Logar, McDonald. 

 

1985: House Bill 1 includes $4 billion to expand the Pennsylvania Turnpike system, including funds for a 16-mile link in the Beaver Valley Expressway. 

Leaders of five unions representing workers in the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department say they helped elect Sheriff James A. Traficant and want him to appoint a liaison officer to work with the unions. 

Sofia Roth of Youngstown and John Gal of Boardman are honored as  "Lady and Man of the Year" at the ninth annual goulash dinner at the Saxon Club. 

 

1975: The body of an unidentified man is found in the rubble of the Sew and Sound building at 4175 Mahoning Avenue about four hours after an explosion and fire ripped through the building. 

On the fourth day of a "Blue Flu" epidemic in the Warren Police Department, "some progress" was reported. 

Howard H. Heins, 90, of 22 Clifton Drive, was killed when the rear wheels of a semi-tractor loaded with coal ran over him at Market Street and Indianola Avenue.

 

1950: Several residents of the New Castle area report flying saucers that roared like diesel engines over the city. 

The four-day strike began when 100 Austintown Fitch students walked out over the school board's failure to rehire football coach Matthew A. Fein and ended when the last 20 students returned to class. 

Olivia de Havilland, the love-starved Victorian in "The Heiress," and Broderick Crawford, ruthless politico in "All the King's Men,"  win Hollywood's highest honor, the Academy Awards.