July 1, 1975: Ann Landers, 57, syndicated columnist and problem-solver for millions of American

July 1, 1975: Ann Landers, 57, syndicated columnist and problem-solver for millions of American newspaper readers, says she and her husband of 36 years age getting a divorce.
Social Security checks in July will reflect an 8 percent cost-of-living increase. The average couple over 65 will receive $314 a month.
Four youths, ranging from 11 to 14 years old, are apprehended by a West Farmington marshal during a break-in at Farmington School.
July 1, 1960: East Palestine police are attempting to determine whether Max C. Merrill, a 54-year-old barber, was shot by a prowler or accidentally shot by someone who thought he was a prowler. His body was found in his backyard on Koch St.
A proposed $50 million urban renewal project is stalled in Youngstown City Council when it fails to get the support needed to pass it as an emergency measure.
Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro seizes Esso Standard and Shell Oil installations and refineries in Cuba after they refuse token shipments of state-owned Russian crude oil.
July 1, 1950: Club 18, the notorious Wickliffe joint just 500 feet west of the Youngstown limits, is operating wide open despite pleas by township trustees to Sheriff Paul J. Langley to clean up gambling in rural areas.
Atty. Edward A. Roberts, executive secretary of the Youngstown Education Association, tells the board of education that teachers need an immediate increase in salary. The present maximum is $4,150 for a master's degree.
Sam Richards, a member of the Struthers Fire Department since 1938, is named fire chief by Mayor Thomas H. Needham.
July 1, 1925: Sgt. William Englehardt and Youngstown's "clean-up squad" raid eight liquor cheat spots and arrest 23 persons.
Two boys drowned in the Mahoning River near Bridge St. are identified as David E. Williams, 13, and Ernest Wargo, 10.
More than 10,000 Masons and their families enjoy the annual Masonic outing at Idora Park.July 2, 1975: Community Corporation's executive committee approves a United Appeal of Youngstown fall campaign goal of $2,025,000, an increase of 5 percent over the 1974 goal.
Joey Naples, Youngstown's rackets kingpin, will be at his Carlotta Drive home on Independence Day and maybe many holidays to come after winning a stay of execution from his five-year prison sentence for probation violation.
Columbiana County Common Pleas Judges J. Warren Bettis and Richard D. Kennedy are pursing state and federal funding to have the courthouse air conditioned so that trials may be held in summer months.
July 2, 1960: Poland's Cathy Justice, a striking ashen blonde who won the Miss Ohio title, has been disqualified because she is only 17. Corrine Huff, 19, of Youngstown will take her place in the Miss Universe contest in Miami.
Advertisement: Memberships being accepted for Leffingwell Hills Country Club, $162 per year on the family plan.
CBS reports that there is new evidence that Amelia Earhart, pioneer aviatrix who disappeared 23 years ago, was executed by the Japanese after crash landing near Saipan.
July 2, 1950: The Shenango Pottery Co. in New Castle, founded in 1909, produces 5,000 styles and 12,000 different patterns in cooking and dinnerware. It recently completed a gold-embossed set for Haile Selassie and the state dinnerware for Israel.
Dusting by airplanes, machine spraying and broadcast mixtures are being utilized in a battle against millions of small gray worms littering corn, wheat and alfalfa fields in Mahoning County.
A 45-year-old Williams Street man survives a suicide dive from the Market Street Bridge into the Mahoning River.
July 2, 1925: Following a trail of 150 electronic beacons, two squadrons of air mail planes will begin flying a 774-mile route between New York and Chicago. One of the beacons is in Hartford, about 15 miles north of Youngstown.
The Rev. William Parker Hollister, pastor of Canfield Presbyterian Church, dies at his residence at the age of 38. He had been ill for some time.
The United States is morally obligated to join the World Court and failure to do so would brand the nation as "deceitful, perfidious and false," writes former Supreme Court Judge John H. Clarke of Youngstown in the League of Nations News.
July 3, 1975: The Western Reserve Transit Authority receives an operating assistance grant from the federal government in the amount of $778,000.
President Ford's energy advisers say there will be no gasoline shortage this summer by the Midwest and Northeast may face natural gas shortages come winter.
State police are holding a 20-year-old unidentified man in connection with the theft of an airplane from a grass landing strip near West Middlesex. The plane buzzed several neighborhoods before landing at Greenville airport.
July 3, 1960: The Rockwell Springs Trout Club on 100 placid acres near Castalia in northwestern Ohio has many prominent Youngstowners among its members. Among them: Mr. and Mrs. Keith B. Montizambert, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Andrews, Victor T. Bartholomy and Ralston B. Collins.
Weather observers at Youngstown Municipal Airport report that June weather was close to normal, a good sign for Youngstown district farmers.
Robert J. Fithian, concrete burial vault manufacturer, takes office as president of the 300-member Rotary Club of Youngstown, making him one of the youngest Rotary presidents in the nation.
July 3, 1950: The Senate interstate and foreign commerce committee releases the names of 10 Youngstown district subscribers to Western Union's racing news wires.
Mustang fighter planes with Australian pilots at the controls accidentally strafe American ground troops on the Korean front.
Bob Feller gains his 200th Major League victory as the Indians and Tigers split a double header. Feller is the only active pitcher in the league with 200 wins.
July 3, 1925: Niles and Youngstown city councilmen meet in a star chamber session, after which some Niles officials announce their intention to pursue independently the building of a dam on Meander Creek to provide a reservoir for the city.
Attorney Clarence Darrow asks that jurisdiction in the Scopes Monkey Trial be moved from Dayton, Tenn., courts into the federal court system.
The Victor Talking Machine Co. board of directors announces that the dividend customarily due July 15 will be omitted to allow the company to make important improvements to the product. The company had been paying $8 a share.