January 4, 1977: GF Business Equipment Inc. expects to begin production in a Gallatin, Tenn., plant

January 4, 1977: GF Business Equipment Inc. expects to begin production in a Gallatin, Tenn., plant in July, producing lateral and vertical files now made in Youngstown, the company tells shareholders.
United Airlines launches a new one-plane Youngstown-Akron-Florida service that will leave Youngstown Municipal Airport at 8:15 a.m., stop in Akron and arrive in Miami at 12:20 p.m..
The trial of the two-year-old Youngstown school desegregation suit opens in U.S. District Court in Akron, with both sides predicting it will last about two weeks.
January 4, 1962: The Wick Drive-In Hotel and Motel, 777 Wick Ave., begins an 18-month expansion and renovation program that may eventually total $750,000, owner Leroy D. Kendis of Cleveland reveals.
A 1950 Buick owned by James Fetty of 117 W. Glenaven Ave. is the latest of 30 vehicles set ablaze by a pyromaniac who has been plaguing the South Side since Dec. 10. The vehicle had been converted into a snow plow by Fetty, who is unemployed and hoped to earn a livelihood through the winter.
A McKinley High School sophomore narrowly escapes injury when a bullet is fired into his Hartzell Ave. bedroom. Glenn Bender tells police he can think of no reason why anyone would fire at him. Police believe a sniper fired from the steps of Washington Junior High School, across the street.
January 4, 1952: A contract for building bachelor officers quarters at the new jet fighter base at Youngstown Municipal Airport likely will be let shortly to the Allegheny Building Co. of Pittsburgh, headed by Dan and Mike Parish.
The 1952 March of Dimes for funds to fight polio opens a month-long campaign in Mahoning County at a luncheon meeting in the YMCA attended by 100 workers.
Repairs on the Tod residence, 278 Broadway, which is being purchased by the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown from Mrs. Fred Tod for use as an old people's home will begin in the spring, says Coadjutor Bishop Emmet M. Walsh.
January 4, 1927: History repeats itself when Henry A. Butler is unanimously elected president of the Youngstown Board of Education at the conclusion of a meeting that threatened to be stormy but finally subsided into a calm.
James Hays, 23 W. Delason Ave., is in the Youngstown hospital suffering from severe burns received when a ladle at the Ohio Works plant of the Carnegie Steel Co. poured molten metal on his feet, hands and the front of his body.
Scientists at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago hope to cut through the clouds of Mars and Venus using infrared photography to see what's on the surface. Prof. E.B. Frost, directory of the observatory, says life in much more likely to exist on Venus than on Mars.
January 5, 1977: Youngstown City Council pares its 1977 deficit to $280,177, laying off personnel in some cases and leaving jobs vacant in others. Of the 45 jobs, 38 are in the police and fire departments, with 23 coming from layoffs.
On the second day of the Youngstown School District desegregation lawsuit in Akron, NAACP lawyers continue their claim that Youngstown is a segregated system that & quot;someone worked hard to make. & quot;
Salem City Council pushes through an emergency wage ordinance over the formal objections of the negotiating committees for the safety forces. It grants wage increases of about 6 percent in 1977 and 5 percent in 1978, but firemen and policemen say they're still bargaining with council on a package.
January 5, 1962: Youngstown's first traffic fatality of the new year is recorded when Mrs. Nellie McCabe Snyder, 78-year-old mother of 10, is struck and killed while crossing Albert St. near her home.
Three Boardman High School buses transporting 127 students are involved in a minor collision in Market St. Ext., a mile north of Route 224. One boy, Thomas Banner, 14, is treated at South Side Hospital after complaining of back pain.
Common Pleas Judge John W. Ford announces that he will not seek re-election and endorses Atty. Sidney Rigelhaupt as his successor.
January 5, 1952: Struthers Patrolman John Harkins is shot to death in a gun battle after breaking up a burglary at McIntee Motors south of the recently opened Youngstown-Poland Road Shopping Center. Two Youngstown brothers, 20 and 22, are in Struthers Jail charged with first degree murder. Harkins, 35, and the father of two children, was one of Struthers most popular patrolmen.
Dr. H.E. McClenahan, retired Youngstown physician, dies at North Side Hospital of cancer. He was 67 and had been in practice in Youngstown for 32 years.
Attorney Paul W. Brown, delegate to the 1948 Republican convention pledged to Harold Stassen for president, announces that he will support Senator Robert A. Taft for the Republican presidential nomination this year.
January 5, 1927: David J. Scott , former safety director of Youngstown, is convicted on a charge of obtaining $100 by false pretenses. He was accused of conspiring with Constable Ray Irwin in the collection of $300 from a ma accused of a liquor violation in Squire James Gibson's court.
A "gang" of Campbell juveniles conduct a raid on sledders in the vicinity of Jackson Street, taking 17 sleds. Police Chief Frank Cunningham caught the marauders nearby, using the stolen property and orders the sleds returned to their owners. "We just wanted to show these uptown kids we know a thing or two about sled riding," the leader of the gang tells the chief.
George Sebring, 68, of the famous Sebring brothers, manufacturers of chinaware, dies suddenly in Sebring, Florida, after suffering an attack of indigestion. Sebring, Ohio, and Sebring, Florida, are named for the Sebring family.
January 6, 1977: Nearly 56 of every 100 new U.S.-built cars sold carried the name of a General Motors division in 1976 as the No. 1 automaker captures a record share of the domestic market, industry sales figures show. GM produced 4.8 million of 8.6 million American cars sold.
Eleven townships in Columbiana County join 15 others in Mahoning and Trumbull counties in a suit against the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio claiming that Ohio Edison Co. charges township residents more for electricity than inhabitants of adjoining cities.
A group of physicians incorporated as Austintown Ambulatory/Surgical Center will open a center for ambulatory and surgical care in Austintown that will offer services at lower cost than those available at area hospitals.
January 6, 1962: Burglars burn open a safe at the Bare Farm Machinery Inc., Route 45, Ellsworth, escaping with $1,000.
Existing buildings in Mahoning County suitable for use as fallout shelters will be marked and stocks with food and water soon under a new Civil Defense program. Robert S. Hay is Mahoning County CD director.
President Kennedy flies to Columbus to attend one of the gaudiest birthday celebrations ever planned in the Buckeye State, the bash marking Gov. Michael DiSalle's 54th birthday.
Patrolman Jesse Gunn, 37, assumes a detective's position on the New Castle police force, the first Negro ever appointed to the bureau. His father-in-law, William & quot;Sonny & quot; Walls, was the first Negro ever to serve on the force.
January 6, 1952: Struthers police are questioning the father and a younger brother of two Youngstown brothers charges who have been charged in the shooting death of a Struthers patrolman who broke up a burglary. Police say they're suspicious of the alibis of the father and brother. Meanwhile, at least four separate drives have been launched in the Mahoning Valley to raise money for the family of officer John Harkins.
Nick Rajkovich, 31, of Struthers is killed instantly while walking in S. Meridian Road, the second traffic fatality of 1952 in Mahoning County.
The Ku Klux Klan is recruiting new members in south Florida where night-riding terrorists have struck at Negroes, Jews and Catholics with bombings that have left two Negroes dead. The U.S. Attorney General has listed some Klan organizations as subversive groups, along with Communists and their fellow travelers.
January 6, 1927: Youngstown police begin a crackdown on motorists driving cars with 1926 license plates. Elmer Walsh of Holmes St. is the first arrested, followed by 22 others. Thousands of auto owners in the city are believed to be without new tags.
All lawyers in Mahoning County will be held personally and professionally responsible for the misdeeds of those in their employ, says Judge David G. Jenkins. The warning comes after it is found that an affidavit was filed by Joseph Wald, a notary public, without administer an oath to the affiant in a civil case.
The $53 million estate inherited by 15-year-old Doris Duke includes 1,082 quarts and 1,606 pints of choice champagne valued at $3 to $9 a unit, with a total value conservatively estimated at $17,421.