June 8, 1975: Liberty Township policemen begin calling off with the "blue flu" after last-minute

June 8, 1975: Liberty Township policemen begin calling off with the "blue flu" after last-minute negotiations with township trustees fail to reach an agreement on a new contract.
Women's lib and new anti-bias laws are prying open the grates for new production jobs for women in Youngstown District industry that has traditionally been dominated by male workers.
Despite rising gasoline prices, which may soon go to 70 cents a gallon, Youngstowners aren't abandoning their cars for the bus, which is confounding the Western Reserve Transit Authority.
June 8, 1960: Carol Ann Sosnowchik of Campbell is eliminated from the national spelling bee by the word "myrmidons." Forty-eight girls in starched summer frocks and 25 boys in sport coats took the stage in Washington, D.C., for the 33rd annual bee.
American Demolition Co. of Pittsburgh is given the contract to raze all structures in the West Federal slum clearance area. The company submitted the low bid of $48,400.
The Rev. John H. Burt, former rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, will receive an honorary doctorate of divinity from his alma mater, Amherst College.
June 8, 1950: A $75,000 fire destroys half a business block in Water Street, Lowellville's main street and drives 14 people form living quarters in two buildings. The Boland Drug Store and Meme's Dry Cleaning are gutted.
One of the most mysterious political careers in modern oriental history appears to be at an end as Ho Chi Minh is removed as chief of the Viet Minh government in Indo-China.
Sixty members of the Mahoning County Trustees and Clerks Association say Sheriff Paul Langley has "one more chance" to clamp down on vice in the county before they ask the state to step in and clean up.
June 8, 1925: Many Youngstown residents see the giant Navy dirigible "Los Angeles & quot; as it sails over the city twice. The airship is 656 feet long with a helium capacity of 2.5 million cubic feet.
Police have the student body of Louisiana State University under close surveillance after Prof. Oscar B. Turner is found in a classroom, slain with a fire ax. It is believed he came upon a student rifling through examination papers.
Youngstown is free of smallpox cases for the first time since August, 1923, according to Edward C. Schroeder, chief of sanitary police.June 9, 1975: Chester H. McPhee, 78, Chaney High School football coach for 28 years and a former president of the Youngstown Board of Education, dies in South Side Hospital.
Warren police are continuing their investigation into the shooting death of a prominent Cortland insurance man, C. Howard Hector, outside the El Rio restaurant.
Dr. Donald B. Swegan, formerly of Girard, is named vice president for college relations and program development at Ashland College.
June 9, 1960: Youngstown City Council trims $150,000 from the city engineer's street resurfacing fund to bring it in line with available street repair funds of $230,000.
Youngstown city council approves 2-tone blue uniforms for city police officers as the official summer dress.
Carol Smith, 16, slips while hiking along Mill Creek above Lanterman Falls, breaking her ankle. It took an hour for crews to rescue her from the creek and bring her up the 100- foot embankment.
June 9, 1950: Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. announces that it is building a large addition to its electric weld pipe mmill near Girard and appoints to new executive assistants to the vice president, Dr. Karl L. Fetters and William H. Yeckley.
Sheriff Paul Langley says criticism of his department by township trustees and clerks is unfair and that he stands ready to clean up any slot machines that can be found in Mahoning County.
County Engineer Samuel Gould Jr. proposes a special 1-mill tax levy on residents of Boardman and Austintown for the construction of storm sewers.
June 9, 1925: The Ohio Supreme Court upholds a Youngstown ordinance that limits jitney buses from central square. The court rules that a city has the right to regulate traffic on its streets.
Youngstown's street lighting bill will be about 50 percent more over the next 10 years than it was over the past 10. P & amp;O Power and Light submits a bid of $90,000 a year.
Lillian Desmonde returns to Youngstown with her players for their annual performance at Idora Park. The play: Ann Nichol's Broadway success, "Just Married. & quot;June 10, 1975: Liberty township police end three days of "blue flu & quot; following six hours of mediation by Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge David McClain. Contract Negotiations will continue.
A large contingent of business and civic leaders appear at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in Youngstown oppose abandonment of the Erie Lackawanna Railway's Niles-Lisbon line.
City Center One and the Mahoning County Courthouse are without water after a 12-inch feeder line in front of the Legal Arts Center ruptures. Jurors are sent home and county offices run with skeleton crews.
June 10, 1960: The officials 2960 population of Ohio is 9,636,234, according to the Census Bureau, a 20 percent increase from the 1950 census.
A day after Ray Hetrick graduates from Austintown Fitch High School, a jury awards him $80,000 for injuries suffered in a two-car crash on Oct. 16, 1958.
Guion Osborn, district commercial manager of Ohio Bell Telephone Co., is elected president of Junior Achievement of the Youngstown Area.
June 10, 1950: City Hall elevator operator Charles Llewellyn and a woman passenger are stranded for 20 minutes when the elevator stops between the first and second floor.
John Garziani, 34, a New Castle truck driver, is penned in is cab for more than an hour after his truck tears down a "hot & quot; trolley wire in Campbell.
The Mahoning Valley's three main reservoirs, which have a combined capacity of 75 billion gallons, are more than two- thirds full.
June 10, 1925: James Dorsey, 19, of East Youngstown drowns while swimming at the dam in Lake Glacier. Two life guards fail to resuscitate him after two hours work.
John Ambler of the Tod Post, Youngstown, is elected commander of the Ohio Grand Army of the Republic during the GAR encampment at Mt. Vernon.
Ancient Masonic rites are followed at the laying of the cornerstone for the $1.5 million Scottish Rite cathedral on Lincoln Ave. in New Castle. More than 10,000 Masons from Ohio and Pennsylvania attend.